(04-15-2017, 10:54 PM)Glow Wrote: [ -> ]https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-stud...-memories/
Pretty excited a university is so openly considering this.
It must be getting much more common if a university in the western world is taking notice.
E-Z Do-It-Yourself Rebirth Guide (referred to in the Pink Floyd tune, "Watch That De-Palestration, Eugene"
"Der Wahrheit ist allerzeit nur ein kurzes Siegesfest beschieden, zwischen den beiden langen Zeiträumen, wo sie als Paradox verdammt und als Trivial gering geschätzt wird. [The truth is always destined to have only one brief victory parade between two long time spans in which it's first condemned as paradoxical, and then belittled as trivial.]" -- Arthur Schopenhauer (German philosopher, 1788 – 1860), from his
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung [
The World as Will and Representation](1818).
What you're seeing here is at the U. of Va. is actually part of the sneaky process Schopenhauer so grumpily pointed out 199 years ago as being deployed by the busybody intelligentsia, and could be considered as the beginning of his "trivialization-through-belittlement" phase. The hyper-rationalist materialists of Academia, acolytes of the Great Scientismic God
Positivismus Maximus,* find to their annoyance that they must perforce confront a no-longer-deniable phenomenon that will not civilly go away of its own accord, so they must needs exert their word-magic upon it so as to make of it a rationally categorizable thing of minor importance (a mere psychoneurological glitch in the otherwise apple-pie-order proceedings of physics as per the modern non-God-haunted paradigm of reality) that must be noted only so that it may be appropriately named, and named precisely so that it may be officially dismissed as old hat. Thus neatly side-stepping the phase in which it needs to be addressed seriously as a reality with certain implications tending to undermine the power structure
status quo. Which God forbid. Meanwhile, of course, it seems like only yesterday it was
totally beyond the pale, and a sure sign of imbecility, if not actual lunacy, to even countenance the thing at all.**
Take, for example: "Persons considering hypnotic regression experiments should ask themselves: What benefit would there be for me in coping with my present difficulties if I did remember something that seemed somehow connected with them from a previous life? Would such a memory, even if it were real, remove the difficulties? This being a brief statement, it cannot do justice to all the complex aspects of the subject, but I will mention that very rarely something of value may emerge during experiments with hypnotic regression to 'previous lives.'" (from
Hypnotic Regression to Previous Lives: A Short Statement by Ian Stevenson, M.D. -- linked to in the page cited by Glow)
Those of us who have experienced through QHHT (
http://www.dolorescannon.com/about-qhht) or through any number of other avenues (for example,
http://www.lawofone.info/, to cite a really far-out and obviously lunatic-fringe one) the simple, self-evident everyday reality and validity of the deeper (and officially "disapproved") dimensions of our human psyches tend to view the comical paradigm-saving scramblings of the academically learned but experientially clueless ones with compassion. Imagine having your life, professional and personal, utterly staked on the utter needfulness for rabid skeptical debunking of anything and anybody whatsoever even threatening to
tend to disprove an ultimate, desolate reality of a chaotic vacuum of senselessly swirling nothingness-based particles endlessly permuting into random patterns such that they pointlessly trick one's randomly-arrived-at-and-only-robotic lifeform's automatic-reflex perceptions into
seeming to experience
anything at all, much less
real consciousness with
real free will.
* See http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid208421
** In the world of intelligence and espionage, it's done a little more pro-actively: disinformation is fed to all and sundry right out of the gate when some palpable grand deception is being launched, so that the pesky truth that cannot be hidden is fatally contaminated by association with lies of omission and commission -- thus imbuing said undeniable truth with a germ of spurious reasonable doubt, all in the service of plausible deniability. If it's done right, nobody know just what the hell to definitively think about anything anymore, no matter how seemingly self-evident, even the nose on their face, if there's a chance that in so doing they might appear foolishly gullible or even slightly un-hip, or run afoul of Friendly Fascism as delivered by the appropriate local Social Justice Warrior brownshirts. Much better to simply Go Along with what The Experts say! After all, one is then only Unquestioningly Obeying Authority. And what possible downside could there be to that? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials
These Are Your Choices, Folks -- Choose Wisely!
Note: there will be a test given on the following crucial material, upon admittance to Limbo:***
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid213871
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid206933
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid209904
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid210623
***As opposed to
Bumbo: http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=14291
Ye Olde Rat-Race Writ Large Bilingually, or, Stop The Worlds, I Want To Get Off!
You're Doing It Wrong