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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 1894877" data-attributes="member: 12706">I don't know for certain, but my educated guess would be that our current notion of "planes" is a combination of two things: One, altered states of consciousness - dreaming, drug induced states, etc. - can seem very real but obviously don't take place here. Other planes explain where they might. And two, many religions had afterworlds and other places that, to begin with, were supposed to literally exist in the sky and underground - Heaven and Hell, Hades and Olympus, etc. As the adherents of these religions have learned more of the science of the world around them, the descriptions of these places (or, from a religious point of view, our understanding of them) has had to evolve, continually "moving" them to someplace we have less data about.Eventually, a combination of these two things has led to most "other realms" having "moved" to the places of dreams, so to speak - the workings of the human mind and the most essential workings of the universe being two areas where our scientific knowledge is still grey enough for them to possibly be at.Note to anyone I may offend: First, realize I meant no offense. Second, realize this was a difficult question to address without religious commentary, and was yet possibly a good one as regards insight into roleplay design. And finally, I'd like to point out that I didn't say that those places don't exist, so much as that we still haven't managed to nail them down, scientifically, and maybe never will....</blockquote>

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