From:	MC23 <mc23@**********.COM>
Subject:	Re: Coffee beans vs. astral perception (was Re: A dissertation o
Date:	Thu, 14 May 1998 16:25:43 -0400

Once upon a time, Gurth wrote;

>MC23 said on 12:49/14 May 98...
>
>> Whether the beans are alive or dead, Assensing does not give you
>> x-ray vision. All you can see is the box. Open it up and you will see
>> beans. It's just a matter of if you can pass through it Astrally.
>
>Yes, and if you can get through it astrally, you can see what's inside.
>There's bound to be life between those roasted coffee beans (bacteria come
>to mind), so if there's something hidden among the beans you can find it.

But even then your head would have to be smacked against it to see
it because you cannot see through the beans. They would be consistently
blocking vision. Beans within and in front of astral eyes still block
vision very well.

>With living beans, you can't get through on the astral plane so you won't
>know if there's something hidden either.

True.

>And yes, there are the conventional methods, like prodding into the heap
>of seeds with long sticks or even offloading the cargo altogether, but it
>seems unlikely they'd do that with every ship of grain that comes into a
>port.

For all intensive purposes, trying to astrally assense the crates
are just as efficient as mundane reasons. All you might get out of it is
secrecy in your search. Of course if they're smuggling I'd expect some
sort of astral watcher over it.

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