CLAIRVOYANCE AND THE CRITICS

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The media have been having a real psychic field day of late with programme after programme dealing with the paranormal. Some are less sympathetic towards the subject than others and a few seem almost determined to pour scorn on the very idea that there are things which are beyond the bounds of mankind's current scientific parameters. This, in itself, is hardly surprising. The Newtonian materialists, who wouldn't recognise a psychic experience if it fell like an apple on their heads, are among the most vocal sceptics. One could almost compare these people to the miscreants who persecuted Gallilao many centuries ago when he tried to explain that the Earth was just a small planet in a solar system centred upon the Sun.

One problem with died in the wool sceptics seems to be their blind subscription to a set of so called scientific facts that will, no doubt, in years to come be considered in the same light as the flat earth society's ridiculous dogma. Who today believes that we live on a flat plane extending countless thousands of miles into infinity? The answer is; only eccentrics. It is quite recently that a certain scientist, a Frenchman I believe, decreed that it was scientifically impossible for bees to fly. He was proved to have invented this wrong hypotheses. It seems he knew all along that the wings of bees rotated on their axis creating undercurrents in the air that forced the bees upwards allowing them to fly. Yet we must all have heard that it was a scientific fact that bees can't fly, but who believed it? No one who has ever eaten honey could possibly accept such utter codswallop. But the scientists did, and they being scientists expected us to swallow this nonsense.

It seems, to me at least, that many of the hard scientific facts of today may eventually go the way the last few centuries scientific facts went, into the mythical melting pot of superstitions. However as physical beings in a material world we can never have perfect understanding, such knowledge would negate the divine purpose of our lives. Yet there are many that consider themselves possessed of an insight into 'truth' that goes far beyond reasoning. Anyone who has been watching the numerous UK TV shows debating the paranormal must have seen these people. On a recent edition of 'KILROY', hosted by the very debonair former MP turned luvvie; Robert Kilroy Silk, I saw a number of studio guests denying evidence that, had it been presented in a court of law, would have been quite sufficient proof on which to convict anyone. But the studio sceptics refused to accept this and even had the audacity to offer trumped up pseudo scientific explanations that amounted to little more than a) you experienced an hallucination b) pure coincidence c) you are telling lies. One Dr. Wiseman gave an extremely good account of himself, if you consider denying the possibility that the invited guests who recounted stories of psychic phenomena were telling the truth to be impressive that is.

It is an accepted part of the great system of justice in this country, and indeed the world for all I know, that if two independent people say they saw a certain thing happen then, no matter how odd it may seem, in law we are required to accept this. That is unless there is other better evidence to prove otherwise. Simply saying 'this is a scientific impossibility' is hardly sufficient proof that a witness to psychic phenomena is telling lies. There were other sceptics in Kilroy's studio audience who had not the academic stature of Dr Wiseman. One lady could offer nothing better in her arguments than 'it's a load of rubbish'. What sad people these must be, sad and deliberately stupid. If someone suggested that I was consciously creating a completely false story and attempting to pass it off as the truth then I would be seriously offended. Within that suggestion is the implication that I am a liar. Yet some of Kilroy's studio guests implied that the anecdotal evidence presented by those who had experienced psychic phenomena was little more than fabricated nonsense.

It is one thing to have an opinion and quite another to call a witness a liar. I feel sorry for these empty sceptics, imagine life without belief in the reality of eternity and an unknowable divine plan, I simply can not. Yet there are those, like the TV sceptics who obviously do. ITV's 'The Time The Place' followed in Kilroy's footsteps and ran a very similar debate with the ubiquitous Dr Wiseman once more present, in body if not spirit. Once again we heard ordinary, clearly decent individuals, offering their personal experiences as proof of psychic phenomena. One middle-aged man told how he had suddenly started to see visions of future and past events. The gift of clairvoyance was not something this gentleman had sought, he had discovered this late one evening in bed with his wife when he 'saw' her having a sexual relationship with another man. He was able to name the man, give his telephone number and explicit details of the affair with his wife. In the studio she sat next to her husband who told how she had admitted the entire truth of his vision, the lady confirmed this. Now it is hardly likely that a respectable and patently honest man would go on National television to tell a lie like that, is it? The learned Dr Wiseman considered that this was perhaps coincidence whilst others openly sneered at this man's truth. The general impression given by the non-believers was that unless one can measure something then it does not exist. By the time the sceptical antagonists had finished, the man, whose life had been totally turned upside down by his involuntary clairvoyance, had been well and truly ridiculed.

Experience tells me that when 'The Media' invite mediums or others of similar persuasion to speak there is often an ulterior motive. Spiritualists, mediums, psychics, clairvoyants etc. are fast becoming victims of a modern day witch hunt. We no longer have public executions or burning at the stake, in this age of technology we have TV Chat Shows.

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