Mike Nelson Pedde:P.S.  A question for Tom.  Obviously this topic is very charged for a lot of people, but since this idea was yours originally, how do you want to direct the flow of this conversation?  Should we limit ourselves to NOPR and the chapter at hand?  If so we've already exploded far beyond that.  OTOH, the ...

The very first thing I notice is that Seth starts out the preface and perhaps the book by calling it an essay. ''Experience is the product of the mind, the spirit, conscious thoughts and feelings, and unconscious thoughts and feelings.''  In all likelihood this sentence would get watered down to ''Experience is the product of the ...