A friend of mine is a practicing Spiritualist (and pretty damn good artist). To say she makes a bundle from Reiki and divining is an understatement – it’s bloody huge.
In her defense, I’d say, having talked with her quite a number of times I am fairly confident she may have a rare condition known as synesthesia, perhaps in combination with dyslexia (although the later may be as a result of the former). Regardless, we’ll say she’s a believing-practitioner.
What’s synesthesia? From Webster: It’s a concomitant sensation - especially : a subjective sensation or image of a sense (as of color) other than the one (as of sound) being stimulated. Like tasting the color purple or seeing a rainbow of colors when listening to music.
When I ran into her the other day I mentioned it was quite odd that with the hundreds of Spiritualists around the city (not to mention the world) that not a single one had any inclination that the Tsunami was going to hit or that so many people were about to die. I mean what’s the point in divining if that sort of incident isn’t going to be picked-up on? To which she replied that she did indeed know it was going to happen and even mentioned it to a few people. Knowing her well enough now, I think she truly believes that on the 25th she earnestly made this prediction. It goes part-and-parcel with being a real-life spiritualist – a selective memory of dream and reality and perhaps even a touch of madness - - all of which is a direct result of trying to interpret more than one sensation via one sensory organ. So I cut off the topic with a reminder that the next time she divines such an event, to please let me know beforehand as in this case I had Thai friends I’d have liked to of contacted in advance
Which brings me to the point.
What are the explanations that Spiritualists make for never being able to predict anything worth wild?
Why is it that after events like this tsunami or 9/11 people still rush straight back into these Spiritualist shops buying into all this bunk?
I just don’t get it?
The major religions I get, they quickly brush it off either as a test of God(s), the wrath or God(s) or nature and nothing to do with God(s). I assume one reason they are successful is that they have covered this base and have a sort of blanket that works well enough (or else they’d have been replaced by a more successful religion).
But Spiritualists! This IS their business! Yet they still have just as many customers today as they did yesterday? Maybe even more!
Even in a post last week someone basically called me a jack-arse stuck-up prig of an “old-school” scientist for ridiculing Spiritualists and the like. Funny really, as if there is a new school of thought that acquiesce to this line of reasoning.
no . . . I don’t think so . .
Obviously this person is still a believer.
Why?
In her defense, I’d say, having talked with her quite a number of times I am fairly confident she may have a rare condition known as synesthesia, perhaps in combination with dyslexia (although the later may be as a result of the former). Regardless, we’ll say she’s a believing-practitioner.
What’s synesthesia? From Webster: It’s a concomitant sensation - especially : a subjective sensation or image of a sense (as of color) other than the one (as of sound) being stimulated. Like tasting the color purple or seeing a rainbow of colors when listening to music.
When I ran into her the other day I mentioned it was quite odd that with the hundreds of Spiritualists around the city (not to mention the world) that not a single one had any inclination that the Tsunami was going to hit or that so many people were about to die. I mean what’s the point in divining if that sort of incident isn’t going to be picked-up on? To which she replied that she did indeed know it was going to happen and even mentioned it to a few people. Knowing her well enough now, I think she truly believes that on the 25th she earnestly made this prediction. It goes part-and-parcel with being a real-life spiritualist – a selective memory of dream and reality and perhaps even a touch of madness - - all of which is a direct result of trying to interpret more than one sensation via one sensory organ. So I cut off the topic with a reminder that the next time she divines such an event, to please let me know beforehand as in this case I had Thai friends I’d have liked to of contacted in advance
Which brings me to the point.
What are the explanations that Spiritualists make for never being able to predict anything worth wild?
Why is it that after events like this tsunami or 9/11 people still rush straight back into these Spiritualist shops buying into all this bunk?
I just don’t get it?
The major religions I get, they quickly brush it off either as a test of God(s), the wrath or God(s) or nature and nothing to do with God(s). I assume one reason they are successful is that they have covered this base and have a sort of blanket that works well enough (or else they’d have been replaced by a more successful religion).
But Spiritualists! This IS their business! Yet they still have just as many customers today as they did yesterday? Maybe even more!
Even in a post last week someone basically called me a jack-arse stuck-up prig of an “old-school” scientist for ridiculing Spiritualists and the like. Funny really, as if there is a new school of thought that acquiesce to this line of reasoning.
no . . . I don’t think so . .
Obviously this person is still a believer.
Why?