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Originally posted by Wandering Scribe
My own personal belief teaches that the ancestral spirits (which include even our most recently deceased loved ones) mold their spectral appearance based on us (the living). They manifest through us, and as such we see them the way in which we wish to remember them. A lost love would appear as you most fondly remember them; a mother will look as she did when you were closest to her, etc.
This is because ghosts, spirits, or specters are only emotional echoes, not physical apparitions. We do not see them, but their emotional residue, if you will. They themselves, are somewhere out and beyond our ability to communicate (whether that is non-existence, a oneness, or in some Heaven/Underworld realm is not necessarily knowable by us).
Originally posted by Snoopy1978
We're parting from a false premise here. Mediums and channelers are frauds. If you start with a bs premise, you'll inevitably reach a bs conclusion. Why waste time on bs?
Channelers and Mediums are fake? Where's your proof? Because then all metaphysics would then be fake. And the thought of anything of higher power would also them become fake. And so on and so forth.
Seriously? And i'm not saying I believe in John Edwards or any Channeler, Medium for that matter. Just support your statement. Please and thank you.
Originally posted by Wandering Scribe
reply to post by MUness
I have my belief, and you have your own.
There has never been any verifiable evidence for the legitimacy of séances,
or any application of Spiritualism for that matter.
In fact,
each and every time that a psychic, a medium, or a spiritualist has tried to demonstrate their abilities under controlled conditions, they failed.
Originally posted by akushla99
Originally posted by Snoopy1978
We're parting from a false premise here. Mediums and channelers are frauds. If you start with a bs premise, you'll inevitably reach a bs conclusion. Why waste time on bs?
The 'premise' should be balanced, otherwise the BS premise that all mediums and channellers are frauds is a bias from the start...conclusion already reached...
A99
Originally posted by sulaw
reply to post by Snoopy1978
Channelers and Mediums are fake? Where's your proof? Because then all metaphysics would then be fake. And the thought of anything of higher power would also them become fake. And so on and so forth.
Seriously? And i'm not saying I believe in John Edwards or any Channeler, Medium for that matter. Just support your statement. Please and thank you.
Originally posted by Snoopy1978
Okay, basing ourselves on the scientific method, mediums and channelers are frauds.
His report on this research in 1874, concluded that these phenomena could not be explained as conjuring, and that further research would be useful. Crookes was not alone in his views. Fellow scientists who came to believe in spiritualism included Alfred Russel Wallace, Oliver Lodge, Lord Rayleigh.
From that time until his death in 1919, letters and interviews show that Crookes was a believer in spiritualism.