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"I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything." -
Sir Thomas Huxley (legendary British scientist and grandfather of Aldous
Huxley, author of "Brave New Worlds." A skeptic is a person who
was willing to listen and investigate with an open mind and not someone
like the members of The Committee for The Scientific Investigation of
The Paranormal such as The Amazing Randi, the MacArthur “genius grant”
winning stage magician who has decided that all metaphysical phenomena
are impossible and whom I had the privilege of meeting when I worked as
a location scout on his friends Penn & Teller’s movie, “Penn &
Teller Get Killed” in 1991.
Though the movie was such a bomb that the studio “square-canned it,”
which is how the old-timers referred to a movie that was so bad that it
was put into a square can so that it would not even have the chance of
rolling off the shelf, I did get to meet Randi, a celebrity from
Wonderama, a favorite TV show from my childhood. Randi thought my Karma
Cards oracle was a great way to rip-off the gullible public and, since I
was not trying to do that, I knew that his intuition and ability to
judge people and their motives was weak. I sensed that his offer
to pay $10,000.00 of his grant money to anyone who could demonstrate
the reality of the metaphysical was based less on skepticism and
scientific investigation and more on his absolute rejection that there
might be truth to it and his ambivalence about having made his money
doing fake magic tricks. Penn and Teller were even less spiritual
than Randi, if that is possible. If a safe fell on your foot and you
were shouting “Oh, God! Oh, God!!” they would come over to you and say
“There is no God,” and walk away without doing anything to help your
foot! The reason I do what I do is because of what I consider to
be hard evidence I have personally experienced, despite my own
skepticism, that has proved to me the reality of the subjects I have
made my life's work. I didn't always believe so. When I met Amy Zerner
she was studying astrology and I was studying Amy so I learned
astrology. I had thought it was the BS I read in the newspapers but I
learned differently and now it informs my life in wondrous ways. Stay skeptical, but not so much that you deny the possibility of anything; you'll be in eminent company! |
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