Regarding spiritualism, I'm in no position to judge. If a poster has faith - of any kind - then I respect that and I respect them for it (I have so little myself.) But if the poster wants to confirm their faith by using physical facts, then that's really not faith and I can certainly judge that, based on the facts.
For example, I see the commitment to Time Travel many posters here have as an article of faith. But many of those will try to use a bunch of hooey to justify that faith, which turns the faith to dust.
Same thing with proving the existence of the Ark (either one,) ancient advanced civilizations, ancient alien intervention, modern alien visitation, bigfoot, etc.
Yes that is true. It is ok to unify spirituality and science and be critical in my opinion. The problem with the HDR is in my opinion. They have those experiences and that is prove for them but not for you. But that is not science based otherwise you could reconstruct it.
The "prophets" in the religious books were nothing else than people that saw the astral plane and made their teachings of that. And they are as easily manipulated through these vision than the prophets of the past.
In my experience, atheist or people with less "spirituality" are rather disappointed because of those teaching. They are wrong for them and that is why they lose faith. Faith is a tool in my opinion. You have to believe that something works for it to work. The best example is the placebo effect and usual meditations. You gain faith through believing in it. But that behaviour can also deceive you.
And to those people that talk in paranormal forum: I know from an other forum that a lot of them have mental sicknesses, so a lot of them get angry very easily.
But these sicknesses usually opens the door for the paranormal. But the is not normal development. The normal development is to have these abilities without being sick. But those people know that the astral plane exist, because they have experienced it, so you cannot convince them otherwise as sceptic.
great job in moderating Num7...lots have messaged me with their observations.
lot of people are refusing to share their experiences cuz you gave up on the site.
I understand that. Usually, the spiritual people only want to share their experience with like-minded people. That is another problem. Sceptic people are not necessary. Their critic is sometimes insulting, that is why nobody wants to share their experiences, plus you cannot prove the experiences to others and that is why they are criticizing constantly. And that is not healthy for a forum.
I mean HDR users know it works, if they have experienced it. The same is true with spiritual experiences. The spritiual experiences can be reproduced as the experiences with the HDR, but not all people can experience it (they are probably not advanced enough). But if 10 or more people experience the same there is truth in it, in my opinion.
I've had that poster on ignore for a long time now. For good reason.
I suggest a liberal use of your ignore list. Some people don't deserve the attention they're crying out for.
Yes, I forgot that one such user is on this forum. That is what I meant with toxic behaviour, but those sceptics are the majority on other discussion boards.