Full immersion: Michael Prescott on the persistence of doubt

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I didn't quite know what category of the forum to put this in.

Michael Prescott has an interesting blog piece about what accounts, even for people who are open and receptive to the evidence for psi and survival, to have difficulty fully embracing the reality of non-physical existence.

Full immersion

The issue we were discussing was why we are so inclined to doubt or deny psi phenomena and postmortem survival even in the face of considerable evidence.

And the basic point I wanted to make is that, if physical reality is designed to be a fully immersive environment, then we would expect to feel a lack of certainty about continued existence on another plane. The more certain we are of nonphysical existence, the less "fully immersed" we are in this environment.

In this regard, it's interesting to note how easy it is to forget (or suppress?) evidence of psi and survival. I’ve noticed that unless I immediately write down a striking psi experience — say, a confirmed premonition or an amazing synchronicity — I will be totally unable to recall it even thirty minutes later. I’ve also noticed that it’s remarkably easy to forget case histories (of experiments with mediums, say) that really ought to be memorable.