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Originally Posted by Sam988  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? |
There is no proof because you've decided not to allow any proof to come to you. You've chosen to live in the reality of skepticism where proof of such things is impossible. If you saw such proof, you could no longer be a skeptic, and that would violate your free will to choose skepticism. So you will never see such proof.
You cannot see the color red while peering through a blue lens. You can only see red after you *decide* to put down the blue lens. Until you make that decision of your own free will, your world will always be devoid of red.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. You've chosen to live in the skeptic's world. It's what you've decided to experience. I think what you may not clearly realize though is that skepticism was a choice you made. You weren't always a skeptic, but at some point you decided to experience skepticism. However, you've been looking through this lens for so long that you've largely forgotten that the lens is still there and that you can make a new choice to put it down and consider another perspective.
When we hold a single lens for so long, there's a risk of it being woven into our identity. We become the lens. That's very limiting.
Spirits cannot come to you and make their appearance known. That's like asking the color red to present itself in front of a blue lens. Your lens of skepticism is filtering them out. That's the very nature of the lens. You cannot blame the spirits for being unable to reach you. After all, you're the one who decided to look at reality through the lens of skepticism, one they cannot penetrate. If you decide to close your eyes, you cannot blame the world for being invisible.
While I can also look at reality through the lens of skepticism, that isn't my preferred lens, and I don't weave it into my identity. I can have experiences that (for me) violate the lens of skepticism because I allow and invite them to come to me without blocking them. I'm certainly not alone in this.
The way I got past skepticism wasn't to turn to faith. It was to become an even bigger doubter. I began to question skepticism itself. I started asking myself, "What if there are non-physical entities all around me, and I'm blocking myself from seeing them?" At first I thought that would be very scary because it would tear apart my comfortable view of reality if it were true. But I had to know if it was possible. So I started saying to the universe, "Ok... if there is more to life than just the physical universe, show it to me. I'm open to seeing it now, even if it turns my entire world view upside down."
The universe obliged. All sorts of stuff started coming through, beginning with the most "impossible" synchronicities, stuff that seemed like it would have had to affect the past as well as the present. Within months I was doing lucid dreaming and having astral experiences. To be totally honest, it was not a pleasant time. I was freaked out quite often. My skeptical friends thought I was nuts and kept trying to talk me back down, but it was too late. My intention had opened some kind of door. This was more than 14 years ago.
If you need to see proof *before* you step through the door, you aren't ready to step through the door. The proof only appears when you drop the old lens and willingly decide to experience other perspectives.
Imagine what it would do to you if you did see proof of non-physical entities interacting with physical reality. What if you learned that privacy was only an illusion? Really give that some thought. Is that really a door you want to walk through?
If you really do want to walk through that door, then simply ask. Visualize yourself putting down the lens of skepticism -- you always have the freedom to pick it back up again -- and walking into a new room where all the proof you seek exists. Ask your reality to bring you new experiences that would violate the lens of skepticism. Say aloud, "Show me what I've been filtering out all this time."
I don't recommend you do this, however, unless you're very brave.
