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2019-07-27 Britain

The quiet civil servant who ‘channelled' spiritual information

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-27 07:38|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Imagine if you suddenly began hearing voices in the air that followed you wherever you went...

Imagine ?

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-27 08:35|| 2019-07-27 08:35|| Front Page Top

#2 There is an old Irish folk tale about the seventh son of a seventh son being able to 'see things."

Posted by CAXKP 2019-07-27 12:25|| 2019-07-27 12:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Did this involve waiting for a comet?

Posted by ed in texas 2019-07-27 12:44|| 2019-07-27 12:44|| Front Page Top

#4 "Was it the devil and all his cohorts of evil spirits playing tricks on me?" he wondered. "Was I simply going mad?"

His first and last original insight. There's no such thing as rebirth. The devil peddles it to humans to make them complacent and replaces their anxieties about their soul with theories of interminable chances for karma and reward.

Well-intentioned I'm sure, but deluded. Tried to read one of his books. Balderdash, I'm afraid. H.P. Lovecraft at least had a more engaging alternate universe.

There's a new wave of this type of doctrine, it's spiritually akin to the LGBT thing (which is the physical parallel to it) in that it espouses no particular belief, you may believe in anything and everything, just as long as it's not Christ ( or יהוה, if you will ). Deepak Chopras of this world have turned the gullibility of millions of absolute schlemiels into $ million enterprises. There's a Gaia channel , which streams thousands of 'mindfulness lessons' and yogic exercises pulled out of a bearded loon's ass guaranteed to make you a healthier nut than you were.

Nothing that doesn't make a visible difference to lives, actually wipes a tear from off a face or even attempts to expose the hypocrisy inherent in humanity, can be supernatural. If something real touches down, it will be shunned and fought. Because the man will say the truth. Not "you are beautiful" and "love yourself" but probably something as unpaatable as the words of John the baptist were to Herod's wife.

Most dreams and visions of 'the realty behind the curtain' that are sold to people are either impressions from psychogenic fugue states or actual spiritual encounters but with the more wayward cousins of uncle Screwtape.

Only 'mindfulness' I need is Peter's admonishment to 'be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour.'

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-27 16:46|| 2019-07-27 16:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Missed an 'l' up there. If yooz kin find it, you win yourself a sticker !☺

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-27 16:48|| 2019-07-27 16:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Tried to read one of his books. Balderdash, I'm afraid.

He and everyone around him were very lucky that his schizophrenia was benign — assuming that his claim of hearing voices was actually true — rather than driving him to attack, and amenable to control without medicines. That so many sought out his opinion and bought his books speaks to a general gullibility subsequently transferred to anti-vaxxer and global warming panics.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-27 19:48|| 2019-07-27 19:48|| Front Page Top

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