Piers

The Cluster series of novels by Piers Anthony explores the idea of espionage of another alien species by infiltrating a very distant alien body using Kirlian aura transfer.

Bratislav, of Croatian ancestry, is not a sci-fi fan, but he is intrigued by my anecdotes about Piers Anthony's Cluster stories about spy technology wherein the astral body can be extricated out of the physical body and transmigrated into a physical body of an extraterrestrial on some distant world, or about Arthur C. Clarke's novel Imperial Earth wherein the Makenzie (no "c") family become wealthy by mining methane on Saturn's moon Titan and propagate themselves generationally by cloning, the clone cloning himself. Bratislav's ufology is not like my sci-fi. Sci-fi is fictional dramatization, but Bratislav is looking for something factual in ufology. He is searching for a reality.

A long breakwater was built, along with piers and docking terminals.

Piers Morgan interviewed Noam Chomsky.

The idea of travelling through the universe astrally has intrigued me, as well as others, for some time. The Cluster series of novels by Piers Anthony and Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon are examples of astral travelling. Do Tibetan monks travel astrally? At least for a decade or more, I have been pondering about the fragility of the human body for deep space travel. Would transhumanism at least be necessary, the technological augmentation of the human body and mind? Or, would wholly mechanical entities with artificial general intelligence, or even uploaded human minds, do the job?