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Originally posted by BlueMule
Originally posted by ManjushriPrajna
I know about parapsychology.
I'm sorry but I don't think you do.
As Carl Sagan once put it, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."
What people find to be ordinary and to be extra-ordinary varies...the inner bar is set according to personal beliefs and cultural norms and personal experiences.
And "proof" is an elusive concept. What Sagan actually said was evidence. Science deals in evidence, not proof. There is a lot of evidence for psi, but if the notion of psi flies in the face of a "skeptic" he will set his inner bar very high indeed, while setting the bar lower for other sorts of things that they find agreeable. Double-standards and rhetoric are all skeptics have.
That is something parapsychology just doesn't provide.
Oh yes it does.
Until parapsychology pushes one of their subjects into the limelight and shows that said-subject can do anything parapsychological, I'm going to continue to question that particular branch of pseudoscience. How many psychics have been proven bogus? How many spoon benders have been debunked?
Ah, there's that convenient concept of "proof" again. Its made you very vulnerable to "the trickster"...
The Trickster and the Paranormal
I don't rely on scientists. But one thing I do do? I listen to what they have to say. Because if I had a choice between relying on information given to me by a scientist, and information given to me by a guy that says he can telepathically communicate with reptilians... Well, you can take a wild guess as to who has more validity in my books.
Again you indulge in the lazy intellectual habit of putting your best foot against their worst foot... tsk, tsk.
You won't need any badges to feel "it", whatever you want to call "it". In fact, you won't need any help feeling it. You just feel it, it's there and very real, because you're it.
As someone who has had a unity experience with the Divine (more than one actually) I think you don't know what you are talking about.
edit on 13-12-2012 by BlueMule because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ManjushriPrajna
I do. Does that mean I study the subject? No. But I know enough about it to know that, while an interesting subject, it's been pretty much relocated to trying to find Big Foot or ghost hunting.
And yes, Carl Sagan did say "evidence" and not "proof", that's my bad. Proof is not evidence itself, but a sufficient amount of evidence for something. But even in taking that into consideration, parapsychology has neither.
If it does provide evidence, I would like to see it. If you know something that I don't, feel free to show it to me. I would be more than happy to read into it and make up my mind once and for all.
Originally posted by ManjushriPrajna
reply to post by RussianScientists
How did I tarnish the "greatness" that I wrote?
If there is an awakening, an ascension, whatever it is or whatever name is has, it's not going to come from somewhere out there beyond ourselves and change us in here. To change the world, you must first change yourself. An awakening has to come from within first. I don't look for some external force transmogrifying everything in some spiritual way. That sort of thing is a dead end street that will lead you nowhere.
Originally posted by RussianScientists
Its time for an Enlightenment, an Awakening, an Ascention!
But where? Where is it going to come from?