Comments on: Channeling Entities for Fun and Prophet http://www.otherbs.com/2009/03/09/channeling-entities-for-fun-and-prophet/ Change your beliefs, change your world. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:47:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Justin http://www.otherbs.com/2009/03/09/channeling-entities-for-fun-and-prophet/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Justin Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:11:05 +0000 http://www.otherbs.com/?p=479#comment-89 "But ultimately, as with any spiritual afflatus, channeled material must be judged on its own merits. That is, does the entity’s advice make one happier, or healthier, or at least help one to score points with babes? And here’s the funny thing: the only real authority on how helpful channeled material is to me is, well, me. So these wise, or not, teachings from extra-dimensional beings, or not, who speak through select humans, or not, are ultimately selected, or not, by me, solely on the basis of whether they slightly improve, or not, my tiny little life. The whole process seems needlessly complicated… or not." I would say that you are more of a pragmatist than anything. For you, the key question is, "Does it work for me?" "It’s curious that the most virulent critics of the modern channeling phenomenon tend to be fundamentalist Christians and frankly, their screeching about demonic possession strikes me as not only tiresome, but hypocritical, for there is little difference, after all, between a channel who takes dictation from a voice that they alone can hear and, say, the Apostle John who did, well, the same thing." The difference of course would be the source of the "voice." “But ultimately, as with any spiritual afflatus, channeled material must be judged on its own merits. That is, does the entity’s advice make one happier, or healthier, or at least help one to score points with babes? And here’s the funny thing: the only real authority on how helpful channeled material is to me is, well, me. So these wise, or not, teachings from extra-dimensional beings, or not, who speak through select humans, or not, are ultimately selected, or not, by me, solely on the basis of whether they slightly improve, or not, my tiny little life. The whole process seems needlessly complicated… or not.”

I would say that you are more of a pragmatist than anything. For you, the key question is, “Does it work for me?”

“It’s curious that the most virulent critics of the modern channeling phenomenon tend to be fundamentalist Christians and frankly, their screeching about demonic possession strikes me as not only tiresome, but hypocritical, for there is little difference, after all, between a channel who takes dictation from a voice that they alone can hear and, say, the Apostle John who did, well, the same thing.”

The difference of course would be the source of the “voice.”

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