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It was not so much that I seemed within it, as a pilot might be within an airborne vehicle, or even as though it might be a body, which I might temporarily inhabit, but rather it seemed as though it was I, myself. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 53, Sentence #12)

One thinks of oneself from a certain perspective, that natural to an organism. Is one not always behind the phenomena, so to speak? Is the world not always conveniently at hand, about one as usual? Is one not always, for example, the center of the visual field? Suppose, then, your sensory experiences were somehow dissociated from their common site. Would it not then be natural, almost immediately, to psychologically situate yourself in accord with the coercions of custom and familiarity? Though I knew myself in a small room, in the palace of an island shogun, I had much the sense of oneness with the enormous beast through whose eyes, so to speak, I was experiencing the world. It was not so much that I seemed within it, as a pilot might be within an airborne vehicle, or even as though it might be a body, which I might temporarily inhabit, but rather it seemed as though it was I, myself. I seemed not so much within it, as it, it itself. "I shall bring it about," I said. "I am going to circle the palace, three times, slowly, in a stately fashion, at a low altitude. - (Rebels of Gor)