crazycharlie said:
When Clif had mentioned Channeling without analysis, I thought of
Cass being 10% channeled 90% analysis/research/sweat ...(more or less)
So i recently e-mailed him to ask if he would look at some of the
material at cassiopaea.org .. I asked for an honest answer....
Can't give you that,, ( it was brief)
but I will say what I got out of it .
I refuse to read any channeling period !
That doesn't seem an unreasonable stance, when you consider the context of Cliff High's project/experiment. Although it's interesting to analyze the crossovers with the Cass material, with particular focus on the esoteric references which crop up in his work; at heart, Cliff High is still a linguist. Although his experiment throws up some conventionally inexplicable memes, it is still centered purely around the analysis of anomalous verbiage, with the supposition that low level psychic ability is at the root of these anomalies.
Accepting that's the context of Cliff High's project, there is no reason for him to entertain channelled dialogue as an aspect of his work, any more than there is a reason for him to entertain horticulture or philately. Of course, it can be argued that Cliff must have his reasons for embarking on this project in the first place, and it's reasonable to assume those reasons include 'enlightenment' on some level. That being the case, on the face of it, shutting out channelled work would seem counter productive to such an ambition, however consider this: On our respective paths, all of us shave away what we consider to be irrelevant noise, and the filters we use to do this, are almost universally built around preconceived generalisations on all our parts. However, even in full knowledge of that fact, as 3D mortals, we have to carry out this process regardless, or we simply couldn't function. You could spend the entire day arguing with yourself over the futility or otherwise of simply getting out of bed, and the entire night wondering what lunatic preconception led you to believe that getting in to bed was a worthwhile persuit in the first place. At some point, Cliff has obviously classified channelled material as 'irrelevant noise', which from our perspective seems a grave injustice however, if you go out on the big bad inter-web and read other channelled work, the vast majority of it is exactly that: irrelevant noise. Cliff High is almost entirely correct, assuming this is his assertion.
You have to also consider that taking channelled material seriously, would almost certainly lead to expectation on Cliff's part, of what the results of his web-bots data gathering should be indicating .. Pollution and destruction of his own project in effect. So it could be argued also, that this negation of all channelled work is not based upon preconceived generalisations at all, but is more a necessary block, ironically in order to preserve the integrity of his project
It's entirely possible of course, that paths with Cliff High will cross in a more substantial way in the future, but there's no reason to assume that they should, or that they need to. I personally feel his project does have some value though it's difficult to quantify to what degree. On the face of it, the obvious criteria would seem to be accuracy but as Cliff has often iterated, he's not in the business of predicting the future, and I've heard him voice some incredulity and frustration with people who insist on referring to him as some sort of modern day prophet. His experiment simply takes anomalous language, and within the framework of the project and the accepted psychic supposition, presents in a digestable form, what that data indicates. But to voice a favoured techie cliche: garbage in=garbage out. Somewhere in there is psychic ability mixed in with nonsense but maybe there is no realistic way of filtering further without introducing even greater margins of error. Maybe 50% accuracy is the best you can expect here. In which case Cliff's project is 100% accurate.
I have to say, despite my earlier misgivings regarding Cliff High, I'm still listening to the bloke with some interest. I'm almost sorry that I wrote what I did because the project is really quite remarkable
