Fr. Ivo C. de Souza quoted a popular pseudo-science book as follows:
>
>Although one can never prove it from one side only, the data are >consistent
>with an experience in which the experiencers contact a >spiritual reality
>OUTSIDE OF THEIR OWN MINDS" (p.278).
>
This is precisely the problem. Please note the phrase "one can never prove it
from one side only". What this weasel phrase indicates is that the data are
also consistent with the opposite of the above statement, namely, that they are
also consistent with "an experience in which the experiencers DO NOT contact a
spiritual reality OUTSIDE OF THEIR OWN MINDS". Beauregard can never
independently visualize, record or measure "the spiritual reality OUTSIDE OF
THEIR OWN MINDS". He believes in it based on his own personal faith, not
scientific evidence. In other words, that statement is a mixture of science and
personal faith. That is why it is pseudoscientific.
Having peer-reviewed countless scientific papers, I can tell you that the
deceptive statement quoted above would have never survived a peer review
process in an authentic scientific journal. That is why Beauregard did not
include it in the two short papers that he has published on this topic. He can
only fool gullible lay people with it in a sensational pseudo-science book,
which Fr. Ivo has willfully and enthusiastically fallen for because it is right
up his alley.
As far as the rest of the recycled material in the above post is concerned, I
have already exposed the unscientific nonsense in it earlier.
Cheers,
Santosh
