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The Little Man in the Tower

You can never see this giant tower (i.e. the body of which you imagine
that you directly see the original), because you are locked into a tiny room at
its very top. You can never leave that room all through your life. You can
watch only the images reflected on the walls of that room. Some objects in
those images (stars, for instance) may seem to be millions of miles away.
Yet the fact is, you still remain in that tiny room.

In order to better understand this subject, take the example of the
animated fantasy cartoons often shown on television. In some of these
cartoon films, a giant robot is controlled by someone sitting at the command
center in the machine’s head. For example, in the well-known film Voltran,
giant robots are directed by a man sitting at the command center in the head
section. The robot acts in accordance with that person’s commands. The
commander is a tiny man sitting inside a mechanical man the size of a
skyscraper.

If you believe that you interact with the original of the body you see and
feel at this moment, then you have to accept this system. To put it another
way, you must accept that you are a little man sitting in a room at the top of
a tower, or atop a giant robot.

Consider that the body that you see and experience at this moment is
approximately 5 feet, nine inches—or 1.80 meters—tall. Then, in
comparative terms, you have to accept that the original body outside your
brain, which you believe you have direct contact with, is giant-sized. If the
body is a tower and the "I" perceiving it is a person in a cell at the top of that
tower, then that tower must be hundreds of feet tall. If you have a 5' 9"
image of the body you refer to as "me," then the body outside, which you
accept that you have direct contact with, must be hundreds of feet high.

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