18 May 2014

Post rebutting Michael Sudduth's claim that super-psi-is on equal footing with survivalism

Post replying to Micheal Sudduth's post claiming that super-psi is on an equal footing with the survivalist hypothesis:

To me, the human awareness is a valid and indispensable tool for detecting certain aspects of creation.

There are many explorations of creation where the human awareness is the only known tool that can do the exploring. For example, the taste of an orange can only be fully apprehended by the human awareness. Other attempts to capture the taste of an orange fall very short. For example, a numerically-expressed level of tartness in the taste of an orange can only vaguely allude to the actual experience of tasting the orange. Rule out the use of the human awareness as a primary tool the scientist’s toolbox, and large chunks of creation will remain hidden.

Once human awareness is seen and accepted for what it is – an indispensable and mandatory tool in the creation investigator's toolbox – then doors open.

For example, once the human awareness is accepted as a valid tool for scientific investigation, we can take seriously the consistent assertions by mediums that they know what telepathy feels like, and that they know what communicating with disincarnates feels like, and that they are two separate and distinct feelings. We can take seriously their confident assumptions and declarations that what they are communicating with are disincarnates, not incarnates via telepathy. (I am talking about mediums whose skills have been rigorously verified, such as the Windbridge Mediums, not charlatans and quacks.) The mediums' "measurements," gathered by adeptly using the tool of human awareness in a disciplined way, strongly suggest that the super-psi hypothesis doesn’t fit the facts of their experiences nearly as well as the survivalist hypothesis.

The super-psi hypothesis, per my understanding so far (I am a layman), is a dry cerebral construct lacking little if any objective repeatable corroboration. (In that respect, it iappears similar to string theory.) The survivalist hypothesis, on the other hand, has many objective repeatable corroborations. For example, deathbed visions are consistently corroborated by events in the physical world, such as cases where the death of a loved one coincides with a deathbed vision of the loved one “on the other side.” Also, as mentioned, mediums consistently report identical findings, which is that disincarnates are real and conscious and can communicate on the physical plane

In short, it seems to me that the survivalist hypothesis is well-supported by multiple threads of evidence, whereas the super-psi hypothesis is not.

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