Unparent and unpoint, pretty much the same answer.  On the menu, hit
Object : Set Parent, or Object : Point At, and then select UNIVERSE as the target.

Ghosting is harder.  Poser's transparency isn't really satisfactory for this.
If you search for previous threads about "ghost", you'll find several tricks in postwork,
basically rendering the figure and the background separately and then using
Photoshop layers to get the right combination of color and transparency.

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