Theos-Talk Archives (December 1998 Message tt00234)

Caldwell/Graye wrote:
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> SUBJECT:  Bart on Blavatsky's occult phenomena
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> Bart Lidofsky wrote:
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> "while Blavatsky
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> > exhibited Sidhi's, and there is a excellent chance that at least some
> > were faked, she did NOT use them as evidence of her own spiritual
> > advancement, but as a demonstration that there was more to the universe
> > than we could determine by our senses, something for which even faked
> > Sidhi's is reasonable evidence).
>
> Daniel replies:
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> Bart, you say that at least SOME of her occult phenomena was faked.

	No, I didn't. I said that there was AN EXCELLENT CHANCE that at least
some of them were faked. I cannot say for sure. However...

> It would be most interesting to know which ones were faked and which ones were not
> faked.  Can you give us a few examples and tell us how you detemine which were
> faked and which were not?

	Many of her stunts (bells ringing, etc.) were the standard spiritualist
stunts of the day, which were often faked. If you check out HOUDINI: A
MAGICIAN AMONG THE SPIRITS, an autobiographical account of Harry
Houdini's exposures of fakes while searching for true mediums, you will
be able to find out how many of these stunts were done.

	My statement of "an excellent chance" is based on the fact that they
were identical to commonly faked stunts, and otherwise sort of
pointless.

> And what do you mean by "something for which even faked Sidhi's is reasonable
> evidence. . "?  What do you mean by "faked" in this sentence?  I don't get your
> meaning in this sentence.

	Because it shows that what you see isn't always what you get.

	Bart Lidofsky