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The main problem i had with the book is that it was promoted as a dramatic true story. Does imagining something make it real ?
I used to attend a local spiritualist church for many years, my family are still involved in the movement.
My own doubts surfaced when i asked the question why are all the messages received are so vague, this was not just at my church but a few others i visited as well.People into spiritualism are too quick to look for spiritual answer for something rather than the simple answer. For example where i work if the window opens on its own its the ghost that gets blamed, not the fact that its a windy day and the window wasn’t shut properly.
As for the police and army using psychics, i dont think thats correct, some may send some info to police and then claim they helped them,but i dont think thats happened. I seem to remember some eastern block country priminister sponsoring a girl who claimed she could detect disease and ailments, but he stopped when she failed under testing.
In everyday life people make predictions, gamblers, stockbrokers etc but they dont claim to be phychic.
I go to India alot and they base there whole life around astronomy, they wont do things on a certain day if the planets arnt aligned and stuff. They dont worry about if their not driving safely or if their brakes dont work because if its their day to die thats it. The knock on effect is they have more deaths on the roads per day than any other country.
Yeah i was talking about Bernard Gowing, do you know if Andy C was paying him ?
I checked out the link you posted and investigated it a bit further, it was very interesting. The reason his results are not accepted widely is because he cherry picks his data. Generalizing, tests of this kind that get positive results are carried out by people with a leaning towards belief in the supernatural anyway.
Can you tell me more about the poltergeist ?
I really want there to be something more to life, im not closed minded, but i need some solid evidence to make me believe again.
Thanks for replying guys.
Calling it a fairy story was a bad choice of words from me, sorry. I also think andy c was honest in his version of events as well. It was more to do with how information was obtained and interpreted.
The conclusion i came to after reading it was that the black alchemist is actually the psychic that provided him with all the material for the book.
i dont believe in psychics or anything supernatural, i just wanted to hear your opinions.
