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I'll actually try to get the details on this one because it was recent (within the past two or three months I believe).
Statistics: Posted by Craig Browning — 04 Nov 2011, 21:28
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Randi got clocked on this during a recent talk (I can't remember the location, I want to say Oakland) but he was so backed into a corner over what skeptics don't consider when looking at Astrology (for instance) that he had the professor throw out the handful of educated believers that were making him look a fool that could only say, "It's all Cold Reading" when in truth it's not.
I've put magicians that think they know how it all works into Psychic Fairs and they weren't just found out quickly by the patrons, they were nearly lynched in a few cases because they assume all believers are uneducated idiots and Cold Reading scripts work on everyone. Then we have those like Jamie Swiss who use such tactics for sake of sexual exploitation while calling people like me immoral, unethical charlatans because I get $30.00 bucks for giving someone hope. . . that really sounds intelligent, doesn't it?
The fact is western Science is the afterbirth of Religion where as primitive religion (prior to Christian Orthodoxy) was a combination of science and folklore; the way of the wise as they say in that the old religion promoted education over superstition. Today's cynics deliberately ignore this fact and worse, they exchange the recognition of mythos and even magick so as to paint it as something it is not. It is "Metaphor" and always has been and the patrons of those elder Gnostic traditions never concealed said fact, nor did they conceal the fact that the festivals and celebrations through the year were merely symbolic; a time to honor a certain side of the higher self, not to kiss the tukkis of some divine IS in a literal manner.
Regardless, what became today's "science" oozed from this culture, every bit of it! To say other wise is to prove the fallacy of your own chosen faith and the gospel you choose to preach.
Statistics: Posted by Craig Browning — 03 Nov 2011, 04:14
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