Test Earlybird reformatting of quoted post

[Andrew Robertson]

T E S T

On 8/08/2012 5:20 p.m., Leonardo Been (Plato) wrote:

> Past-Life Deniers: Tony Ortega (Village Voice blog) and his followers,
> quoted

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I have no interest in past lives Koos, but am a devout believer in
paragraphs. Thus, as a religious duty, I have reinstated below those
sacred objects which you, with cavalier disdain for grammar, removed in
the quoted post of mine from the 'Village Voice' blog.


> 'AndrewRobertson
>
> (on morphine)

> The one thing of value that I learned from my own brief
> flirtation with the Silva Mind Control System, a fairly benign and
> unauthoritarian group was how to control my dreams. This still pleases
> me.
>
> And in my waking hours, sometimes when I'm bored I wander off into
> a made-up world where I can be whoever I want to be and have exciting
> adventures. But all the while I know none of this is real. Of that I'm
> sure.
>
> I've never taken mind-altering drugs except alcohol and tobacco,
> but for one time a short while ago, recovering in Wellington Hospital
> after an operation to rebuild my left elbow after a major fracture I
> discovered something not previously experienced.
>
> Because I was in some pain, I was hooked up to a morphine dispenser
> and by pressing a button could give myself a regular dose. Late at
> night when the lights were out in the ward, the only illumination
> being the reflection of the hall lights on the linoleum floor, I
> discovered to my delight that I could create a different reality by
> merely thinking about it. So I made a tableau of men and women
> exquisitely dressed in purple and gold costumes and I had them dance
> for me: proper dancing that is, polkas, foxtrots and waltzes. They
> really existed in three dimensions at the time and I could command
> them to do whatever I wished.
>
> But after a day the staff took my morphine away and replaced it with
> Paracetamol which does not have the seductive allure of opiates, which
> was perhaps a good thing.'
>
> file: 20120721 Past life incidents given here, by ex-Scientologists -
> Why Do Scientologists Accept the Xenu Story? - plus all comments at
> 20120807 - New York News - Runnin' Scared.html
>
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/07/scientology_xenu_whole_track.php
> ... /2012/07/scientology_xenu_whole_track.php


Andrew