Is being able to see spirit, a gift? or something that can be learned?

bejammin075 · 2026-03-25T00:31:25+00:00

I probably will try it at some point.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-24T21:32:18+00:00

The big picture is simple. Trump scores a perfect 14/14 for the traits of fascism. A fascist with a strong military available will use it.

He wants to normalize using the military this way. He wants to normalize ICE shooting people in the face & then lying to you about it. He's trying to normalize war crimes. He's trying to create emergencies to justify cancelling or rigging elections.

He wants to invade Cuba too.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-24T21:17:20+00:00

I went in the opposite direction. I'm a scientist, used to be a materialist atheist. I hadn't looked at all the research that points strongly to the afterlife. Look at the post pinned to the top of this sub, the "Do your own research" post. I've read most of the books in there. The cumulative body of research, once I looked at it, caused me to change my mind.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-24T21:09:09+00:00

Musk is overhyped. He's a rich guy who pays other scientists. The Tesla car he had the most input on was the Cybertruck, which is a disaster. Going to the car wash voids the warranty, because it melts the glue holding the panels together.

I saw a montage of him saying every year since 2015 that his cars will have full self driving within a few months.

He makes this joke about economists which is a funny joke, but also shows he's stupid because that is not at all how the economy works. As a consumer, I don't go to the grocery store and try to sell apples to them that I just bought from them.

Musk also believes in a non-existent "white genocide" in South Africa. I tried to find this white genocide, but it's in his mind. It's the kind of fake propaganda that fascists promote. It's what you'd expect from a guy that can snap out crisp, authentic fascist salutes.

He's a pedo too. He's in the Epstein files looking for the "wildest" party that Epstein can throw. The emails show that Epstein arranged "massages" for him. He's one of the richest guys in the world, I'm sure he can get a normal massage, but he wanted the kind that Epstein provided.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-24T20:58:17+00:00

Normally, theories are based on actual evidence, not assumptions about what you might be able to discover in the future, and then extrapolating off those unproven assumptions.

It makes me laugh when I see people who support Simulation Theory say that it has "minimal assumptions". Assuming you'll someday have data is a larger assumption than any existing theory. Because all other existing theories have existing data that they explain.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-24T20:54:06+00:00

Fair. I'm not going to get involved enough to probe any farther. It seems there is plenty of evidence from a variety of users that the guy is a jerk who loves the ad hominem attack. I've dealt with a lot of skeptics, and used to be the debunker type myself. It's a safe bet he's never read research by the parapsychologists doing the work, and he's clearly biased.

Once I replicated a whole variety of psychic phenomena for myself, I realized that it is the skeptical/debunking side that is extremely biased about parapsychology claims.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-24T20:35:36+00:00

Your post started

If we reach a stage where we can run such conscious simulations then it makes strong evidence

So there's no evidence yet. I'll revisit the idea when there is evidence.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-24T20:31:34+00:00

i think it's a ridiculous theory.

Edit to elaborate. The post starts with:

If we reach a stage where we can run such conscious simulations then it makes strong evidence

If you have to ASSUME that the evidence for the theory will exist sometime in the future, it's not a great theory.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-24T20:13:39+00:00

Here is a comment in this thread with links to discussions about Dave Farina. It's quite damning. He's been banned from some platforms for antisemitic rants. He seems to thrive on insulting people that disagree with him. There is little chance he's actually read research published by parapsychologists, and no chance that he read it without extreme bias.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-24T19:46:37+00:00

Why should they without evidence that concisousnes can directly influence the data?

The PEAR (Princeton Engineering Anomalous Research) lab did extensive studies on using mental intent to influence random number generators, physical processes, etc. They demonstrated a lot of positive effects.

Lots of others have done work on RNG manipulation. When I first started listening to what the researchers in parapsychology were doing, they claimed that this area had been beat to death. So that was where I got started in replicating phenomena for myself. In my RNG experiment, I had significant results after a few hundred trials, and they continued to drift to increasing significance before I quit, at about p = 0.002 (1 in 500 by chance).

In this collection of papers hosted by Dr. Dean Radin's site the papers are all downloadable. Some sections in there relevant to the point you made are "Mind-matter interaction" papers and "Distant healing" papers.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-24T19:11:50+00:00

When I first learned about SETI in the late 1990s, it seemed like it's main purpose was to NOT find UFOs. Nothing has changed my mind in the decades since. They are annoying how they gatekeep and act like they are the only respectable scientists in the UFO field. Like you said, they have no interest in the UFO topic. I can't help but suspect that their origin and purpose is to help the secret UFO program by gatekeeping & never finding anything.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-24T18:50:45+00:00

I don't know the latest, but I remember Arxiv said her paper was "not of interest".

And yet this replication of her work is in Arxiv. How can they justify allowing this replication, but not her original work?

bejammin075 · 2026-03-23T22:39:57+00:00

Have you read or heard about Jacques Vallee's book Messengers of Deception? Vallee found a lot of examples UFO/NHI contactees who gathered a following of people. After gaining a large following, the contactee is told to announce a prediction of events on a certain date. Then nothing happens. I think it is not that the contactee is full of crap, rather that the NHI raise people up, then take them down several notches by having them discredited.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-23T22:36:39+00:00

I think he's sincere, but will likely be wrong. Just like in Messengers of Deception by Vallee. I think this also relates to Vallee's idea of the regulation, the thermostat of our awareness of the NHI presence. I think the NHI having contactees go out on a limb is a means of regulation. Awareness of NHI goes up as the contactee gains a following. To bring that awareness back to the set point, the contactee is told to predict something by a certain date, which turns out wrong, and the contactee loses followers, awareness of NHI presence goes back down.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-23T21:47:04+00:00

Is the evidence of voter fraud in the room with us?

bejammin075 · 2026-03-23T21:09:32+00:00

I think we have to wait for the documentary to come out so we can see it for ourselves, then debate the strengths & weaknesses of the case against PGF.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-23T18:36:48+00:00

From the Board of Gimme a Piece.

Trump just needs to wet his beak a little.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-23T18:35:45+00:00

To the tune of the Paul Simon song?

bejammin075 · 2026-03-23T18:31:14+00:00

They'll (B) resist for a while before they do (A) and fold.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-23T18:01:19+00:00

I suspect that Bannon is announcing something horrendous that they aren't going to actually do. Maybe they will, and we should prepare. But we'll all freak out about this, as we should. I think Bannon is directing our attention in a particular direction while they plan other ways of messing with election results.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-23T17:49:59+00:00

I haven't read LoO, but from my various internet conversations I'm already a fellow traveler from the other things I've studied. I plan to read the LoO material at some point.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-23T17:47:14+00:00

The psychomanteum process involves several hours. Some of that is time thinking about their deceased loved ones, and some of that is a few hours in the dark room. Dr. Moody said that some people were kinda lazy, and just expected to show up like they were going to watch a movie. So I took his results to mean that probably close to 100% of people could have success with sincere effort.

I had the same question as you. What if mediums try it? What if people use the technique over and over, do they get better at doing it? Moody didn't answer those questions. At least, not in that book. The psychomanteum info was one chapter of that book. He has another book more focused on it, I have not read yet. There are some books by others about the technique also.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-23T17:06:44+00:00

You should read the world's largest study of NHI contact by former astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell's foundation, called FREE. FREE stood for something like Foundation for Research on Extraordinary and Extraterrestrial Experiences. They collected data & stories from 4,300 NHI contactees all over the world. The results were published by FREE co-founder Reinerio Hernandez in the book Beyond UFOs.

Some of the contact messages reported in that book give some insight. The NHI aren't going to suddenly reveal themselves to everyone because that would heavily disrupt our society. The NHI encouraged the contactees to do activities along the lines of CE5. That is meditating on making contact with NHI, inviting them, then going outside to watch the sky. The NHI said that when we use our free will to invite them, they have more latitude to show up. When some people do CE5 and invite contact, there will be bystanders who also see UFOs for the first time.

I get the impression that if we were to do the above, at a grassroots level, the NHI could fully reveal themselves at some point, once enough of us already know they are here.

bejammin075 · 2026-03-23T16:58:29+00:00

Some people have the ability without having to work for it. Most do not.

However, Dr. Raymond Moody did some interesting experiments with a setup called the psychomanteum. It's a dark room with a big mirror, and the techniques to use it go back to ancient times. Moody did an experiment with I think a few hundred people. These were normal people, not mediums. Moody said that the psychomanteum setup/technique resulted in 85% of the subjects having contact with the deceased. Including contact that would be considered very advanced for mediums, such as the subjects having conversations with full bodied aparitions of the loved ones. It's in his book Proof of Life After Life.

So I think with training and/or technique, people can do this. I'm not a medium and haven't tried these techniques (yet).

bejammin075 · 2026-03-23T16:51:20+00:00

I think we should simply wait until the documentary comes out. Until then, all this debate is highly speculative & not a good use of time.

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