Hi spudboy, I follow Ben Goetzel and have some of the books he recommends on the topic on my to-read list.
I remain agnostic on this stuff, and just try to consider the simplest explanation, even if it's boring. In the case of this story, this sounds a lot like the event was staged by some nice person who cares about the bride. This doesn't mean that is the correct explanation, of course. What I am more curious about are replicable laboratory experiments. Some people, like Goetzel, are claiming that results with statistical significance are known. Maybe this is a nice opportunity for amateur science, because dealing with this topics would still career suicide for many people -- even if to find negative results. Of course believing in the supernatural is absurd -- what does that even mean? If, for example, ghosts were real, then this would just mean that current scientific theories are incomplete or wrong. Cheers, Telmo. On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 6:09 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote: > If you know of Ben Goetzel, and Damien Broderick, as well as Eric > Steinhart, they have claimed Psi experiences, or spiritual experiences, but > are split on the true significance? At the end of the day, it either works > for us, or it doesn't. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: LizR <[email protected]> > To: everything-list <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, May 3, 2015 7:03 am > Subject: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! > > Michael Shermer is the publisher of "Skeptic" magazine, which I used to > subscribe to - but I could only take so many debunkings, lectures on > science, and so on, and eventually I cancelled the sub, reasonably well > convinced that I had by now obtained all the wherewithal I was ever going > to need to give 123 reasons to explain any apparently supernatural event... > > > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anomalous-events-that-can-shake-one-s-skepticism-to-the-core/ > > It's also a rather nice story. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
