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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  And these sort of baroque requirements don't make the whole thing seem implausible to you? Suddenly we not only have dead people's souls managing to remain coherent and float about invisibly, but now they know what's going on everywhere?
If we made the experiment double blind, so that the experimenter did not know who the sitter was either, could the spirits still tell?
I'll check out Hodgson. |
Paul,
I am agnostic about many things. My interest is in following and evaluating the evidence. As I see it, whether or not the whole thing seems implausible to me is not relevant to studying and evaluating cases of alleged mediumship. I can mention here, however, that one of the things that keeps me from coming to a positive belief in an afterlife is my difficulty in imagining what an afterlife would or could be like. I am the type who might well ask a spirit during a seance to give me a detailed account of what he or she did each day of the preceeding week!
In a double blind experiment, I have no idea whether or not the spirits could still tell who the sitter is, or even if there are any spirits to tell in the first place!