tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608287618412195836.post8102559150729688174..comments2023-10-29T19:20:03.632-07:00Comments on Malcolm's Musings: Anomalies: On Tulpas, Guardian Angels, and Figments of the ImaginationMalcolm Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00672612354161787023noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608287618412195836.post-63513004808286767752014-08-28T02:08:33.374-07:002014-08-28T02:08:33.374-07:00According to bible About angels the human beings o...According to bible About angels the human beings ordinary people who carry messages,<a href="http://inspirationalquoteswithimages.blogspot.in/2013/03/guardian-angels-beautiful-angels.html/" rel="nofollow">guardian angels</a> and allAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08725590542982350468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608287618412195836.post-15703434948026318752012-07-30T16:12:48.051-07:002012-07-30T16:12:48.051-07:00Malcolm I'm not mocking Christians (I gave my ...Malcolm I'm not mocking Christians (I gave my son that name because I'm essentially an esoteric one myself) but I have to laugh when many Christians deplore the images of horror used in other religions when they themselves worship the brutally mutilated form of a badly broken young man put to death on a cross!<br /><br />Many of them even happily partake of his flesh and his blood without even once considering how similarly psychotic this cannibalistic imagery appears to others (especially atheists) or allowing for the possibility if the horrors of which they partake are to be understood symbolically then maybe the same applies elsewhere.<br /><br />Over the ages Christians've even decorated their churches temples and cathedrals not just with demons (aka gargoyles) as monstrous as anything found in Bhutan but even such 'obscenities' as the gaping vaginaed sheelanagig!<br /><br />And we probably did so for the same reasons as the Bhutanese because they serve as marvellously simple ways of transmitting incredibly complex ideas the least of which I suggest's similar in spirit to the Ancient Greek and Old Testament exhortations to conduct yourself as though in the company of gods/angels no matter how differently things may otherwise appear especially if you're undergoing the extremely novel and normally unrehearsable experience of being dead.<br /><br />Put it this way when the time finally comes for you to choose between one of these monstrous looking 'wrathful' emanations of Moses/Jesus/Muhammed/Buddha and a guy who sidles up beside you dressed all in dazzling white drenched in gold bling saying "Howdy stranger I'm Reverend Alabaster Dingbat III of the New-World-All-American-Third-World-Pentecostalist-Episcopalian-Communist-Hating-USA-Uber-Alles-Flag-Waving Church and I can promise you an eternity of raising funds and building towering temples dedicated to my glory as the chief self-appointed representative in the afterlife of Jesus Christ Almighty if you'll just sign away your soul...here...here...and here..." you'll be conflicted over which of the two you're dealing with's REALLY the demon!alanborkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15333017272673090593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608287618412195836.post-49574676505598939042012-07-29T20:55:02.813-07:002012-07-29T20:55:02.813-07:00The experimenters created a Phillip which they kne...The experimenters created a Phillip which they knew would be self-inconsistent, so that they could be sure they hadn't called up a real ghost. I would interpret the results as manifestations of the individual subconsciouses of the participants. This is essentially what "channeling" is all about. The paranormal phenomena would also be produced by their subconsciouses.<br />If possible, try to get hold of an old book by D.H.Rawcliffe, entitled, <i>Illusions and Delusions of the Supernatural and the Occult</i>, also published as <i>Occult and Supernatural Phenomena</i>. He is a debunker who "doth protest too much, methinks", but he does do a good job of explaining the workings of the mind, and the mistakes which naive psychic researchers can get involved in.Malcolm Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00672612354161787023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608287618412195836.post-49296648788844422932012-07-29T20:24:50.638-07:002012-07-29T20:24:50.638-07:00Please don't let me turn you off visiting Bhut...Please don't let me turn you off visiting Bhutan. Of course, if you are turned off by superstition, social problems, poverty, and violations of human rights, then keep away from the Third World. This being said, Bhutan is a really friendly, colourful, and delightful place to visit. The squalor and social problems are not as obvious as in, say, India and, while it is just as exotic as Thailand, tourists don't get treated like walking credit cards. (However, you do have to pay a hefty fee to go there - $120 a day in 1994, and at least double that now.)<br />I don't think China in introducing "true civilization". From what I have heard, it has simply introduced a ruthless repression. Meanwhile, the natives are just as superstitious as before, only they now deprived of the high theology the monks used to provide.Malcolm Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00672612354161787023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608287618412195836.post-63564307849291971192012-07-29T12:36:35.834-07:002012-07-29T12:36:35.834-07:00Wow! Thank you.
I came here from The Anomalist.
...Wow! Thank you.<br />I came here from The Anomalist.<br /><br />You post brings (or promises to...) a lot of things together for me. For a long time I have been impressed by the extraordinary diversity of things of spirit: nothing can be assumed, nothing can be proven, nothing much can be learned, and if you think you've learned something it just may be that you stopped reading too soon. <br /><br />Case: Read a flock of books by psychics: general, sometimes wild, disagreements about everything. Yet each are lived reality to their authors -excepting of course the charlatans. (which are they?)<br /><br />Case: read a thousand or more UFO sighting reports. You will be convinced that there's "something there", but will you Know anything?<br /><br />(Post too long, cut to chase.) I am formulating a very half-baked concept of a spirit world that is REAL but torturously complex, as wonderfully varied as the human race.<br /><br />Something addressed by "as above, so below", only backward.<br /><br />And so a heaven (perhaps a hell too) for each religious group. A saucer for each expectation. A miraculous vision of truth made for the comfort (or discomforture) of each recipient.<br />All real in some way, not just internal psychological constructs.<br /><br />But I am a middle child, tasked with building bridges, I cannot imagine in a different direction...<br /><br />Ol' BabOl' Babhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15575391882329946475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608287618412195836.post-24500821867881480982012-07-29T09:35:42.995-07:002012-07-29T09:35:42.995-07:00You are so completely biased toward Christianity a...You are so completely biased toward Christianity and Western culture that I wonder about your ability to interpret what you've seen in Bhutan. What passes for Christianity in the United States has produced plenty of abominations stemming from hatred of deviation from whatever distorted norm Evangelicals have concocted. So, please try to live inside a culture so different from your upbringing before you call guardian minor gods abominable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608287618412195836.post-80144935453993159332012-07-28T22:53:03.146-07:002012-07-28T22:53:03.146-07:00Would appreciate your thoughts on the "Philli...Would appreciate your thoughts on the "Phillip the Ghost" experiment.<br /><br />http://www.time-loops.net/nostradamus/Experiment_Philip.htmRip Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14285545564377891230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608287618412195836.post-32402826015881649002012-07-28T21:23:29.161-07:002012-07-28T21:23:29.161-07:00I formerly held an idealistic view of Bhutan - aft...I formerly held an idealistic view of Bhutan - after your description, I am certainly rethinking it all - heathens are heathens no matter an idealistic setting. I am sure the inhabitants are just as heathenish despite their grins and assurances otherwise to Western tourists. Monkey gods say a lot about their beliefs. Perhaps China is right to take these border lands over and introduce true civilization and end the Buddhist priests' demands to be supported because they are "holy" and are owed a living.sigewealdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11896782433233529276noreply@blogger.com