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Marcia Dresch of Kansas City, Kansas, submitted two questions. She writes, "I wondered what happens to the spirit or mind when you are under anaesthetic - does it leave the body? As I learned it from the school here, the mind consists of 3 parts (conscious, subconscious, and superconscious or spirit). Is that right? If it does leave the body, as in astral projection, do all 3 parts go?" David: "This is a valid question, but first we must undertake the understanding of these terms of consciousness. To term the consciousness by which you are aware of presence as separate from the subconscious and then to separate that from the superconscious may be, in terms, a misleading element. The first presumption that was in error is that the consciousness resides within the physical form. This is one of the difficu...