The more I think about this hesitation to [accept or at least fully push for] Survival, whether it was from Greyson's NDE research or Braude's decades of reading the historical cases, the more it feels like something that goes beyond a fear of giving support to religion.
After all, it's not like parapsychology is explicitly in favor of any particular religion. In fact one can argue it actually challenges both ideas of Hell and karmic reincarnation.
I mentioned this before but I wonder if it is like a Supreme Court Justice unsure of how to rule on a landmark case because it could change a nation's course. Nothing specific, just a sense that whatever happens could change how people live their lives if they knew there's an afterlife.
edit: Or maybe it is something simpler, not wanting to be completely hounded out of academia like Sheldrake was for much less "offensive" arguments.
After all, it's not like parapsychology is explicitly in favor of any particular religion. In fact one can argue it actually challenges both ideas of Hell and karmic reincarnation.
I mentioned this before but I wonder if it is like a Supreme Court Justice unsure of how to rule on a landmark case because it could change a nation's course. Nothing specific, just a sense that whatever happens could change how people live their lives if they knew there's an afterlife.
edit: Or maybe it is something simpler, not wanting to be completely hounded out of academia like Sheldrake was for much less "offensive" arguments.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
(This post was last modified: 2021-03-16, 05:11 AM by Sciborg_S_Patel.)
- Bertrand Russell
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