2 results for (book:ur2 AND session:713 AND stemmed:planet)
plane
saucer
science
craft
flying
One note along these lines. A plane — and I am using your term; I will try to think of a better one — is not necessarily a planet. A plane may be one planet, but a plane may also exist where no planet is. One planet may have several planes. Planes may also involve various aspects of apparent time — this particular matter being too difficult to go into right now, although I will continue it later.
What they do is take quick glimpses of your plane — and hold in mind that the saucer or cigar shape [often] seen on your planet is a bastard form having little relation to the structure as it is at home base.
Planets have been used as planes and used again as other planes. A plane is not a cosmic location. It is oftentimes practical that entities or their various personalities visit one plane before another. This does not necessarily mean that one plane must be visited before another. A certain succession is merely more useful for the entity as a whole.
Perspective
program
screen
jacket
hat
[...] Your idea of space travel would be to send a ship from one planet, earth, outward into the rest of space that you perceive on that “flat” screen. [...]
(Pause.) If the picture were magically centered, then all “time” would be seen to flow out from the instant moment4 of perception, the private now; and in many ways the mass now, or mass perception, represents the overall now-point of your planet. [...]
(Slowly:) The simple picture of the universe that you see on our screen, therefore, represents a view from your own now perspective — but each star, planet, galaxy or whatever is made up of other reference points in which, to put it simply, the same patterns have different kinds of reality. [...]