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Originally Posted by Cantando

Along these lines, Journalist, Joe Fisher, author of Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts spent five years of his life attending channelling sessions and speaking with spirit entities which claimed to be people who had lived prior existences. His research led him to believe that these spirits did indeed exist but that they hid their true identities with lies and deception. The more he realised this, he discovered that other researchers had also reached this same conclusion.

For example, psychic investigator, Sir William Crookes (1832-1919), who attended seances for several years, concluded:
"...I am satisfied that there exist invisible intelligent beings who profess to be spirits of deceased people." (Joe Fisher, Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts, p. 264,)

Likewise, Fisher also notes how Andrew Jackson Davis wrote in the book Spirit Mysteries, in 1869:
"It is no difficult thing for certain spirits to impersonate others, to talk and dress up their thoughts like others, which they will do if such resemblance adds anything important to their communications." (Joe Fisher, Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts, p. 265)

Douglas Groothius has observed that even some prominent spiritualists themselves have recognised the potential of being deceived by channeled spirits:
"Emanuel Swedenborg, the famous seer of the eighteenth century, was well acquainted with the spirit world, having experienced detailed visions recorded later in book form. Nevertheless, he cautioned those courting the spirits: "When spirits begin to speak with a man, he ought to beware that he believes nothing whatever from them; for they say almost anything. Things are fabricated by them, and they lie... they would tell so many lies and indeed with solemn affirmation that a man would be astonished...if a man listens and believes they press on, and deceive, and seduce." (Samuel M. Warren, A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emmanuel Swedenborg (New York: Swedenborg Foundation, 1977, p. 618. As quoted in Douglas Groothuis, Revealing the New Age Jesus, Leicester: IVP, 1990, p. 210.)

Good luck with your Rubiks Cube, btw!

Well, it's still a matter of what resonates most with each individual.
I like some of Swedenborg's ideas about Christianity but I'm not really impressed with his work. Not in a way where his ideas will have any effect on my beliefs.
Fisher is more of a pop-culture phenomenon. He fell in love with a made up entity being channeled by a woman. Turns out it was a fraud. He can't admit he fell in love with a made up thing so he has to say that the entity was "lying".
Either way, those things and people don't resonate with me at all. While it's possible there could be a mischievous entity I don't have any strong evidence for it.

Again, the message is important also. Seth is teaching LOA. That's about it. To suspect malice I would need some logical model as to why. What would an entity gain and also at the same time have a negative effect on me from LOA? Any answer to that question I have falls into the "probabilistically way more unlikely than Seth simply being a Metaphysical teacher" category. In other words - a conspiracy theory.