Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl01029)

According to Blavatsky Foundation:
> "higher" or "lower" planes of existence, however you might want to phrase
> it.  Muecker
> does NOT believe in the existence of any psychic or paranormal phenomena,
> even of
> telepathy.
>
> It would be interesting to see what he would write about the SD, etc. BUT  I
> would rather
> , for example, see Mueckler and David Lane for example have an intelligent
> discussion and debate on their differing points of view when it comes to
> what consciousness is, are there psychic phenomena, is there life after
> death, are there "worlds" or dimensions or planes beyond the physical, etc.

Mike wrote that he knows a renowned anthropologist who might be
induced to comment on the SD version of anthropogenesis.  We'll
see.  But regardless of the descent from higher planes etc.,
there are large elements of HPB's description of the history of
physical man that simply do not come close to fitting the data
unearthed in the subsequent century.
>
> Paul, it would be interesting to see you engage in a dialogue or discussion
> with Mueckler
> on these subjects of the paranormal, etc.  HINT, HINT!
>
At the moment I am completing the third chapter/part of Edgar
Cayce in Context, entitled "Holistic Health Advisor."  Next
week I start the fourth and last, called "Clairvoyant Time
Traveler."  Am now finishing reading Richard Broughton's
Parapsychology: the Controversial Science.  (Broughton is head
of the lab at Duke founded by Rhine.)  The
point is, my opinions about the paranormal are evolving at the
moment, and I won't be free to engage in any discussion for
another month or so until the first draft is complete.  Maybe
then...  But I will make one comment, relevant not only to
Cayce but also to the SD's anthropology.  In reading Broughton,
I have learned that clairvoyance and telepathy (not
distinguishable experimentally and thus lumped together as
general ESP) are *extremely* well documented phenomena.
Thousands of subjects have demonstrated higher-than-expected
rates of success at distant viewing, precognition of events, awareness of
others' thoughts.  But in a field that abounds in *multiple
cases of clairvoyance and telepathy involving the present and
future* it appears that there is *not a single documented case*
of anyone able to clairvoyantly travel into the *past* and come
up with confirmable data.  At least, there is no mention of
such a thing in this seemingly comprehensive book.

Anyhow, why don't *you* (hint, hint) engage Mike in
discussion.  Although you don't state them, I suspect that your
views on the paranormal are considerably more definite and
honed than mine.

Cheers
PJ