Theos-Talk Archives (August 2003 Message tt00112)

Hi,

I do wonder why it would take a deity to get such results? I mean, 
another explanation would be that thought is a real force and that 
the thoughts of 40 million people are a significant force that what 
they would think would indeed come true. One does not need to resort 
to believing in a One God to explain this. Maybe your post doesn't 
suggest that - I can't quite tell. 

Katinka
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, samblo@c... wrote:
> Katinka,
> Thanks for your comments. In reading it I was attracted 
to the 
> part where you
> ask if mentation and intention and willing is directed 
to "Nature" in 
> it's
> Pan-determined aspect is the same as a prayer to God or God
(s). It made 
> me
> think of a radio show I have listened to here in California 
for many 
> years and it's
> Host Art Bell. Now Art Bell had for over 12 years that I 
listened to 
> his program,
> which was syndicated to over 400 radio stations in the USA 
and also in 
> Europe,
> the Pacific and Australia asked many times a gnawing question 
he wanted 
> to
> know from those he interviewed and the responses of the live 
call-ins 
> from listeners.
> He wanted to know if Man had soul. And in this process it led 
him to 
> also wonder
> if there is or is not a Deity, and if not then what? Well, 
there came a 
> time when he
> to attempt a mass experiment. He asked his audience of over 40 
million 
> people to
> clear their minds and concentrate upon a single thought and to 
strongly 
> will that it
> come to pass. He announced the date, time, minute, and thought. 
When the 
> time
> evidently hordes of his audience participated in his Group 
experiment as 
> it had
> remarkable results. The intentioned Thought of the many seemed 
to have 
> brought
> what was asked for. The result astonished Art bell! He was 
somewhat taken 
> aback
> by it and then felt a deep sense of responsibility that if such 
a thing 
> were treated
> lightly and used improperly injury could be the result. Over 
several years 
> he after
> serious cogitation he did this type of experiment again and each 
time he 
> got what he
> considered seriously significant results, until finally he was 
convinced 
> that there is 
> "some force" or even God that was responding to the synchronized 
mass 
> projection
> of a single Thought in the minds of many of his 40 million 
audience. He 
> then told
> us all that he was so awed by this that he would now refuse to 
conduct any 
> more
> experiments of this kind and type. Art Bell is retired now and a 
new Host 
> is asking
> the same question and doing the same experiment and the audience 
loves it! 
> It is
> in part the wide spectrum of inquiry into everything under or 
above the 
> sun as topics
> but in particular Spirit, Soul of Man, Paranormal, Ghosts, Being 
from 
> other Planes,
> UFO's, Science and all else that is placed before a captivated 
and curious 
> population
> of listeners that have no Borders even if Oceans are there. 
Forty-Million 
> People are a
> significant percentile of the USA.
> 
> So, from my view your question about a "Force" or "Nature" 
or "Deity" 
> even if such
> is ever obscured by the Ring of Necessity and the dictate of 
Reality is a 
> "Yes!"
> 
> John