Theos-Talk Archives (November 2005 Message tt00180)

The two extremes would be:
1. Believing anyone who has 5 minutes to tell their story, or
2. Believing only what one can see.

Neither is good, of course. But in a world of a lot of false prophets
looking to make a profit, some of us tend to lean towards the latter
extreme.

Blavatsky had to put some people in their place, herself--especially
those who claimed to know masters when they really didn't (among other
things).

Once you get to know us, some of us play devil's advocate a lot
(especially myself) when we search for a new way to look at something.

-Mark H.



On 11/28/05, Hugh <hugh.higgins@gmail.com> wrote:
> As a new member of this group, I am amazed at the conceit of the dbunkers
> here. I am wondering why they are in this group. If they do not have open
> minds toward the spiritual and the paranormal they do not belong in a
> Theosophical group.
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> Anyone who has read Isis Unveiled by H. P. Blavatsky knows that she took
> seriously hundreds or thousands of claims of yogis and holy men, many of
> whom she met and studied personally during her travels. The debunkders in
> this list would not believe a word of Isis Unveiled, obviously, so why are
> they here? Occultism demands an open mind at the very beginning.
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> The fact that we know nothing at all about Ram Banjan except two very
> scattered and inconclusive press reports, yet members of this list are
> already stating that the boy is a deceiver (though so far as the press
> reports go he has made no claims and so could not be a deceiver), suggests
> that they are not fit to study or investigate occult, paranormal or
> spiritual phenomena. In fact it would appear that their only purpose hereis
> to annoy those of us who do care about such Theosophical matters.
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> Skeptics can never be convinced. They have taken a stand against everything
> spiritual and no one can change them. But they can try to disrupt serious
> spiritual discussion, which seems to be their agenda here.
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> Hugh Higgins
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> On 11/28/05, Mark Hamilton Jr. <waking.adept@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Well now, that is interesting. In what way do you think this person
> > > sitting under a tree is going to destroy mirth?
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> > As with any impostor posing as a spiritualist; they tend to lower
> > morale and make people more cynical after they are foiled. The more
> > ignorant of the original followers will turn away from spiritualism
> > after it happens on several times (e.g., the more "hoaxes" that are
> > uncovered, the more the people turn back toward materialism)
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> > -Mark H.
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> > > In a message dated 11/28/2005 9:42:59 AM Central Standard Time,
> > > adelasie@sbcglobal.net writes:
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> > > I would imagine the folks being taken in by him are not going to be
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> > > Chuck the Heretic
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Mark Hamilton Jr.
waking.adept@gmail.com