QUOTE (Sporkling @ May 18 2008, 03:34 PM)

That is in a scientifical sense. In a psychic sense, that may not be true because of the aura we all carry about us.
But that's what I'm saying - if psychic stuff exists, it's got the same possibility to be explored as gravity, say, or light. If we have auras which are energy fields carrying our consciousness, then there are a million unanswered questions in that. Not the least of which is,
what energy? How do we
know we have an aura? In what sense can an energy field be 'conscious'?
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Because it is only after we are dead, that we know about the life force, aka spirit of all things. A living person will not be able to know about all this. If we think about this, the spirit that has left the human body is the life force of the human. Therefore, how do we actually detect something so intangible and invisible?
This does beg the question - how
has anybody detected this intangible, invisible 'something'? And not only detected, but, if you believe even a tiny percentage of the claims posted on this board, actually used, manipulated, developed, etc. etc.
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Only some people, mediums are able to see. But they are people who have little credibilty among the scientific regions? So how will they actually prove something they don't believe in like the mediums? Who are so unpredictable? Even scientists who believe in things like psychics lose credbility. Why should mediums be any different?
You paint a Catch-22 situation, wherein mediums are the only people able to supply scientific information, and yet are roundly rejected by the scientific community.
But they're not - there are many 'real scientists' who would happily submit mediums to proper tests; there is an intense resistance to this from the mediums themselves though. And it's not that scientists who dally with parapsychology lose credibility
per se, it's when they do shoddy research into such things, with an apparent agenda to gain positive results at the expense of methodological considerations, that reputations start to suffer. Like Puthoff & Targ, Rupert Sheldrake, &c. - bad science implies a bad scientist, and yes, then your reputation will suffer.