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Skeptical Inquirer 29:3

By Gregon

The June/July issue of Skeptical Inquirer has been released, and as usual the SI website has a number of the articles available for free:

See the SI website for complete details of the latest issue.

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6 Comments

  1. X-ray eyes…….
    I think we can all see through that one. I am always very skeptical of anyone making a fine living out of strang powers.
    I don’t believe Edgar Caryce charged…anyone help me here?

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    1. a very good question
      That’s a very good question Floppy.
      I can’t imagine Edgar Cayce charging either.I read a book about him and can’t remember what he did.

      shadows

    2. Charging for services
      I always wondered why we tend to assume that people with special abilities should not be allowed to buy their food by earning for services they provide while medical doctors, lawyers, insurers, food provider and everybody else should be allowed to hold people ransom for services their ‘clients’ cannot go without.

      Often, those healers and seer types, of course I am not talking about the charlatans, have totally upsetted lives. They can’t work normally being too affected and dephazed by their ‘gift’ (often a poisoned gift if I may).

      They will often end up absorbing and emulating the problems they extirpate for others’ benefit, they often get totally distonnected psychologically and Yet, they are expected to suffer it all for us and live like beggars.

      This is a spiritual illusion to believe that in my view. Why should ‘we’ charge for any ‘service’ we provide ourselves then?

      1. is it a service to be sold?
        the whole economic society is a false society. Unfortunatly it is all we have. But people with true “gifts” have a predisposition to give freely. When it is done from the heart and not for the pocket, any rewards come back freely.
        never seen a beggar who can do anything special. Have you.
        Anyone who is dephazed from their gift, really don’t understand their “gift” and therefore are not capable of useing it correctly.

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        1. The Gifted
          Hi Thefloppy2,

          I agree that the economic society is not a finality, therefore is terminal. It is a motor used to push and pull humanity, like sex does. Of all the lines of power that drive the human mind, sex and money are the two main factors leading to murder. Money should go away the day we have an advanced civilization.

          The truly gifted rarely if ever control their special ‘abilities’. It goes through them and they are at a loss to explain how it works. Rare are those that ‘know’ what their ‘gift’ is about and any understanding is likely to be personal disinformation they are getting from within and that they are able to swallow because of their spiritual illusions.

          Yes, there are beggars that can do something special. They are burned up but were not all born useless.

          Anyway, Who can deny someone the right to earn a living from what he can do? It is not I would say ours to decide what others should do with their talents as it is in nobody else than to ourselves to decide what we will do with our own. I consider any particular talent that one has innate, whether it is that of pushing the limits of science or that of channeling healing to be at par.

          Would you not agree that tt is only the perceived rarity of the phenomena that gives it a particularly charged emotional value, in this case a spiritual value that can call for judgment on that basis?

  2. Darwins monkey
    I’m sure Darwins monkey is super glued to his back. Until I see a trail of microevolution to surport our evolutional theory.
    Then my juries still out on that one.

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