Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Interconnect 2/28 show on Past Life Therapy
A listener wrote to us (choosing to remain anonymous) to say that he "...was moved almost to rage by the (February 28th Interconnect) show because of his belief that this kind of unsupported, unprovable, unscientific, and clearly impossible quackery is running rampant on the airwaves (both TV and radio) as well as in print in this country and that it seems to exist primarily to sell books, and is based purely on testimonials of believers and the book-writer, rather than on objective reality and provable or dis-provable scientific methods."
The listener went on to comment that he "Would have liked to have seen a little bit of challenge to the claims of the guest, rather than complete acceptance of the guest's claims. Rational thinking and Carl Sagan's "Baloney Detection Kit" were not present in the show (see a much better book than the guest's, "The Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan)."
He went on to say, "I actually do NOT want to demean the guest, I just feel that what he claims to be able to do is not possible, and although I don't want to attribute any nefarious intention upon the guest, I think that the human mind is vast in its ability to construct incredibly exact visual details when in a dream state, and that hypnosis is not only an inexact science, it is possible for the therapist to introduce elements that go into the dream state and our brains commonly can create entire lives or stories out of thin air, with a complete semblance of reality (think of how your alarm clock can be added to your dream with smoothness of storyline, for example). If this sort of chicanery can be formulated in our own brains, imagine how gullable we must be to claims of this sort by the guest.
The listener went on to comment that he "Would have liked to have seen a little bit of challenge to the claims of the guest, rather than complete acceptance of the guest's claims. Rational thinking and Carl Sagan's "Baloney Detection Kit" were not present in the show (see a much better book than the guest's, "The Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan)."
He went on to say, "I actually do NOT want to demean the guest, I just feel that what he claims to be able to do is not possible, and although I don't want to attribute any nefarious intention upon the guest, I think that the human mind is vast in its ability to construct incredibly exact visual details when in a dream state, and that hypnosis is not only an inexact science, it is possible for the therapist to introduce elements that go into the dream state and our brains commonly can create entire lives or stories out of thin air, with a complete semblance of reality (think of how your alarm clock can be added to your dream with smoothness of storyline, for example). If this sort of chicanery can be formulated in our own brains, imagine how gullable we must be to claims of this sort by the guest.
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