Rose
Padawan Learner
Here's the transcription for Skepticism in research:
I had considerable experience in researching the paranormal
when I came upon the UFO problem
and that of course, after studying it for a period of time
drove me to the realization
that there were, actually,
very few sources of real information
that were gonna, you know,
give me any answers or point me in the right direction
or give me a clue,
which is why I began the Cassipaean experiment,
but as I said, I began it with the experience of an exorcist,
which basically amounts to
don't believe anything any spirit tells you, ever.
Test it. And it's even on the bible:
Test the spirits, try the spirits
don't believe anything it's told you
and even if it makes the most sense
or they sound loving or, you know,
they talk about true love
or they tell you things that are supposedly obvious
like, you know, you should love your parents
or you shouldn't kill or
you should be a vegetarian
those things sound, ostensibly,
very noble and high sounding so
people make the automatic assumption
that that must be good
but what if they're telling you to be a vegetarian
because they want you to be, you know,
to have the right chemicals in your body
so they can eat you, you know.
So, I mean that's just
one of the things you need to think about.
So I just took the attitude that,
whatever they tell me, well,
it goes into the realm of ok, we'll see
Says who, we'll see.
And some things are still in that category.
They have not been proven,
they have not been disproven.
Some things have been evidence
of obvious corruption by people
who have attended the sessions because,
you know, something would come out
and I, a question would be asked and I knew
that somebody in the room had a
very definite and strong idea about that
and I could feel it because, you know,
I'm extremely psychically sensitive
and I could feel the emanations from this person
and I could feel it almost like a wave
moving the planchette or the pointer
as it moved on the board
as though that person's mental power
was answering the question the way
they wanted it to be
which is one of the reasons why
I don't have guests at my sessions anymore
because I want only people who have been
through the process of getting rid
of their assumptions and their illusions.
If they have done that, ok, you can be here
because how many people can really ask a question
completely openly, without any assumption
about what the answer's gonna be, not many.
So, I have a real attitude,
a real skeptical attitude,
even about everything I do myself,
you know, everything about, you know,
just because they tell me,
doesn't mean I'm gonna believe it.
I had considerable experience in researching the paranormal
when I came upon the UFO problem
and that of course, after studying it for a period of time
drove me to the realization
that there were, actually,
very few sources of real information
that were gonna, you know,
give me any answers or point me in the right direction
or give me a clue,
which is why I began the Cassipaean experiment,
but as I said, I began it with the experience of an exorcist,
which basically amounts to
don't believe anything any spirit tells you, ever.
Test it. And it's even on the bible:
Test the spirits, try the spirits
don't believe anything it's told you
and even if it makes the most sense
or they sound loving or, you know,
they talk about true love
or they tell you things that are supposedly obvious
like, you know, you should love your parents
or you shouldn't kill or
you should be a vegetarian
those things sound, ostensibly,
very noble and high sounding so
people make the automatic assumption
that that must be good
but what if they're telling you to be a vegetarian
because they want you to be, you know,
to have the right chemicals in your body
so they can eat you, you know.
So, I mean that's just
one of the things you need to think about.
So I just took the attitude that,
whatever they tell me, well,
it goes into the realm of ok, we'll see
Says who, we'll see.
And some things are still in that category.
They have not been proven,
they have not been disproven.
Some things have been evidence
of obvious corruption by people
who have attended the sessions because,
you know, something would come out
and I, a question would be asked and I knew
that somebody in the room had a
very definite and strong idea about that
and I could feel it because, you know,
I'm extremely psychically sensitive
and I could feel the emanations from this person
and I could feel it almost like a wave
moving the planchette or the pointer
as it moved on the board
as though that person's mental power
was answering the question the way
they wanted it to be
which is one of the reasons why
I don't have guests at my sessions anymore
because I want only people who have been
through the process of getting rid
of their assumptions and their illusions.
If they have done that, ok, you can be here
because how many people can really ask a question
completely openly, without any assumption
about what the answer's gonna be, not many.
So, I have a real attitude,
a real skeptical attitude,
even about everything I do myself,
you know, everything about, you know,
just because they tell me,
doesn't mean I'm gonna believe it.
