Very interesting. I am amazed at how people can have such huge differences in their experiences of life. The way you say it, steve, i know you're not lying, it just amazes me. This experience of yours and Erin's constant experiences, it's all so, like, "far out there". I really wish that a spiritual realm exists, and spirits and angels as well. I don't want to die and have my consciousness to cease, but that's the way i see reality, but i would love to be convinced that there's more out there. Which brings it to the second part of my post.
Someone in the topic already quoted the same part i am going to quote, and my question is quite similar:
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As it turns out, maintaining consistency with the skeptics’ version of reality is pretty important. According to Ron, it is NOT spiritually permitted to override a skeptic’s freedom to choose their beliefs; in practice this means that skeptics always have to have an out. Either they can’t be there to see what would shock them, or they have to be able to dismiss such reports as false, exaggerated, pure luck, etc. A skeptic cannot be shown proof of what they doubt.
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I'm a skeptic. If i weren't, i'd still be a hardcore christian as i was raised to be, with a very narrow view of reality. Skepticism is what has opened my eyes; in my situation, if i had faith in the unseen i would still be attending churches and church events like 3 times a week and living in delusions.
So if it's not spiritually permitted to override a skeptic's freedom to choose his beliefs, i can only think of it as a really unfair "spiritual rule". Spirits should want to show the truth, by allowing their channelers (psychics) to do demonstrations of supernatural power so that people can get convinced. I mean, why wouldn't that be desirable!? It's like the pastors in my previous church, why wouldn't God allow them to make displays of divine power (like Moses maybe, trning wooden sticks into snakes, or Jesus turning water into wine?) other than those silly emotional turmoils people had in the middle of cults?
It's not that skeptics don't want to accept it or it's "too much for them". It's just that there is not one, single, proof. All it would take for me to believe in another form of reality is actually seing ONE thing that i would not be able to explain. Is it too much to ask from the spirits? If it is, then why is it? Why can Ron's spirit intervene enough in reality to make you have all those amazing wins in blackjack (for no real purpose other than to train his supernatural skills and help toastmasters a bit?) while a similar display of spiritual intervention in reality could completely change the way another person views reality, benefitting this person much more than the one who got a few hundreds of bucks in some blackjack game?