10 18 08 We welcome skeptics
Sat Oct 18 15:50:42 2008
We are aware that there are a number of people who will visit this website who are skeptical of our claims and would think that the whole thing is little more than fancy rubbish. We understand that there are those of you who will think that our mortal steward and channeler Roy Waidler is a deluded person and that all of the material on these pages is the product of his imagination. You might think that he needs some psychological help. You might think that he's a charlatan. So we've created this page for those of you who might react in this manner. We'd ask you to read on and perhaps leave a comment; you can do that by clicking the yellow "comments" tab at the bottom right corner of this page. To comment you'll have to leave a valid e-mail link; this prevents spamming and outright flaming.
So if you feel that there is no scientific proof whatsoever for anything having to do with what we discuss here, would you object that we'd think of you as a materialist or rationalist? We write these words with due respect, for were it not for the materialism and rationalism of the 17th century philosophes we might all yet be living in a world dominated by the darkest parts of religion. We recognize that materialism has given us much, down to the computer used to write this text. Materialism has also given us better health and has done much to advance genuine scientific knowledge and its varied applications in alleviating human misery. At the same time we would hope that you'd agree with us that materialism has certain limitations; this became apparent especially in physics, when the classical view begun with Newton could no longer explain the universe and all that is within it. It was from these limitations and disatisfactions that quantum physics arose.
We would also like to state our awareness of the number of charlatans who espouse ideas such as ours; they are solely out to capitalize upon the gullibility of the uninformed. It might surprise you to learn that we would agree with you about a large number of such people. At the same time this forces us to ask for special consideration that we are not like these other people or groups.
To address the first issue, we'd like to explain a few things. You might notice occasional comments in our material here that "we are not big on proof." We are not trying to hide behind ignoring legitimate requests for demonstration of our claims. If you are at all familiar with the nature of parapsychological research, proof is pretty hard to come by. The British Society For Psychical Research was founded in 1880 by leading scientists of the day to verify claims made by those making out-of-the-ordinanary claims. They performed a signal service by debunking quite a number of fraudulent mediums, and to this day one of their goals is to separate the frauds from what may be genuine. Having said that, we find it rather confusing that a number of people with a materialist view of the world dismiss the SPR and its work wholesale. The SPR did much to develop such things as double-blind testing and to use statistical analysis of data, and this was back in the 1880's and 1890's. Having said that, we return to our recognition that "proof is pretty hard to come by." There is one area in which we feel that we have been gathering proof of our claims and that is with telepathy. We feel that we have created a method by which a person may learn the rudiments of telepathic communication; this can be done in 15 minutes with the use of an instant messenger; we use the one that MSN/Hotmail has. If you're skeptical of our claims about telepathy, we invite you to try the Learn Telepathy Quickly exercise with us. You may request to do the exercise by e-mailing us at outlands.community@gmail.com No matter how the exercise works out, if you are a skeptic, with your permission we will publish the results here in this blog. We're not afraid of falling flat on our face! We liken the current state of our telepathy project to that of the early days of the telephone; at first, calls failed easily, you had to shout to be heard sometimes, and there was a small danger of electrical shock if there was a lightning storm. Yet today many people avail themselves of the telephone's descendants, the Internet and cell-phones.
As for the second matter, we are plainly not charlatans. We ask no dues, we charge no fees for Membership. We don't even push people too hard to become Members; they may instead choose to remain in contact with us without joining and we refer to them as Associates. Members and Associates may believe whatever they want because we have no set dogma and only one real rule: to be courteous in all dealings with us and with each other. We have among the Members and Associates people with many beliefs; there are Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Pagans, Atheists and Agnostics. We'd also like to point out at we do not market anything; we don't sell CDs, DVDs, books, teeshirts, hats, totebags or devices. No-one gives up the life they are living to become slaves of the Community. In fact, in the past we have commissioned and paid for work by Associates and Members; further, we have provided subsidies to those in genuine financial need. If you are going to judge the character of the Outlands Community as an online spiritual group we ask that these things be considered.
Sara Jane van Beeuwelan and Roy Waidler
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