tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35675147.post3547554965293710652..comments2024-01-14T02:32:38.226-05:00Comments on Public Parapsychology: Review of Soul Shift: Finding Where the Dead GoAnnalisa Ventolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10604572323799521346noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35675147.post-79282701778751462432009-01-21T13:42:00.000-05:002009-01-21T13:42:00.000-05:00Very good article! I am psychic and I admit that w...Very good article! I am psychic and I admit that when I began to "read the dead" I was highly skeptical. There was nothing I was receiving that wasn't information the living person in front of me could be providing psychically. I do admit that upon occasion the reading of a dead person seems as if I'm able to discern more about their psyche and how they viewed things, but then there's also no proof that I'm not reading a life that did exist and not one that exists now. Much the same for reincarnation. It's my belief that it's nothing more than the accidental psychic reading of a person somehow passing a life that had been and by seeing it as a psychic would, through the deceased person's eyes, believes that he himself had lived that life. It's a hard thing to prove, whether we read things have have existed (such as I read object's or old building's histories)or if we read something that is actually present in some form right now as part of a continuous life pattern...Sharon Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13609356325356264202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35675147.post-50219325006516208412009-01-14T14:49:00.000-05:002009-01-14T14:49:00.000-05:00I have not read the book, and this excellent revie...I have not read the book, and this excellent review tempts me to buy it. Pilkington apparently considers the "super psi" theory just as plausible as the survival hypothesis, for the wide range of psychical phenomena that appear to point to survival. I disagree. <BR/><BR/>She remarks, "If he could pick up names of living friends and relatives, tell when babies would be born and what their sex was, or what moves or business ventures would profit the person he was ‘reading’, Ireland’s father could just as easily pick up information about their dead loved ones by using his psychic powers." Yes, and much successful psychic mediumistic "communication" seems to be reasonably explainable by telepathy and clairvoyance. But there are so many other cases where information comes through unknown to any living person. Where it simply strains credulity to suppose the necessary nearly godlike psychic powers including integration of multiple pieces of psychically derived information and realistic simulation of deceased personalities. Then there is evidence of entirely different types such as the data apparently indicative of reincarnation as in Stevenson's research, and veridical OBEs during NDEs. <BR/><BR/>She is right that this debate in parapsychological circles has gone on forever and shows no sign of ending. There can be no scientific "proof" in this area, just abductive reasoning to the most reasonable hypothesis based on all the data.dawnowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05448082256829038405noreply@blogger.com