(2020-07-23, 07:22 PM)nbtruthman Wrote: I think it is more likely that Feda was a sub-personality with great limitations to psi and esp due to being in the flesh, but even if she was a spirit entity, my point still stands, about the probable limitations of some or many discarnate spirit communicators.
And, at the risk of using a little ad hoc argumentation, it seems to me quite possible that the Feda sub-personality (if that is what she was) had esp and psi abilities so diminished due to being in the flesh that she didn't even have the ability get help by identifying and contacting higher spirit communicators with knowledge of ancient Greek.
And with regard to the issue of whether these paranormal mediumistic phenomena are really spirits in communication or super-psi on the part of the living mediums, it doesn't logically have to be all of one or the other. The reality of it is more likely to be that clever impersonation was occasionally resorted to by the mediums, with the majority of the communications being as they clearly seemed, to be the departed spirit entities the communicators claimed to be. Reality is usually complicated and inelegant.
Good take - for my part I've found Eric Weiss' thoughts on sub-personalities as spirits onto themselves to be rather interesting. It doesn't always have to be that way, there can be genuine disassociation, but it would help explain why no one ever hears from Feda or any other control (including the very dubious and obviously fake ones) when the medium is going on about their normal lives.
In fact the lack of the disassociated personality - who would have to undertake a considerable amount of planning while sharing a brain with the medium - showing up outside the sitting circle is IMO a major strike against Super Psi.
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