Science trumps mysticism again! Hurrah!

I've recently gotten very addicted to "Mind Control with Darren Brown" on the SciFi channel, and this experiment seems an awful lot like something he'd do. I truly do love it when we find rational explanations of mystic phenomena. It worries me, though, that the brain can get fucked up as easily as it does. I have a single track on mine, and it would totally get thrown for a loop on something like this

clipped from www.nytimes.com Scientists Induce Out-of-Body Sensation Using virtual reality goggles, a camera and a stick, scientists have induced out-of-body experiences — the sensation of drifting outside of one’s own body — - in healthy people, according to experiments being published in the journal Science. Last year, when Dr. Ehrsson was, as he says, “a bored medical student at University College London”, he wondered, he said, “what would happen if you ‘took’ your eyes and moved them to a different part of a room? Would you see yourself where you eyes were placed? Or from where your body was placed?”