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Originally Posted by David Bailey  Alex,
This is another valuable interview, and in a way I think Craig and you are pretty close in your viewpoints. Here are a few more detailed points:
I do think it is vital not to equate atheism and materialism! I consider myself to be 95% atheist and yet not convinced by materialism at all! The evidence for a larger non-material world in no way implies that everything is run by a God. The very concept of God seems to be uncannily close to the political structure of the Church! |
- I find it difficult to accept the existence of NDE and deny the content of the information... seems like God is the implication.
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I also have enormous sympathy with his concept that the endless piling up of additional Ψ-data is not moving us forwards. I think perhaps the answer is to find a Ψ-effect that is really useful. In an era of fast communications, Ψ-communication is never going to compete, but dowsing and maybe psychic detectives do seem to offer the possibility of offering a useful TECHNOLOGY. I mean, the real reason we all believe in science, is because it seems to deliver the goods! I would suggest that these might be areas that you should explore.
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- I agree that application would have an enormous effect on swaying opinion. Then again, remote viewing has had some very practical applications and is still ignored.
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I thought you made a good point that incorporating spiritual data is made difficult by the fact that much of it is contradictory. I think the best way to view such data is rather like early scientific data - fallible and sometimes wrong-headed but ultimately going somewhere exciting.
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- yet you're 95% atheist... explain
