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Thread #148075   Message #3437029
Posted By: Steve Shaw
15-Nov-12 - 03:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: Afterlife new exciting proof?
Subject: RE: BS: Afterlife new exciting proof?
Thought so. This assertion was made by a "researcher" in the journal of the Society For Psychical Research, one Susan Blackmore, in 1983, following a postal survey (yeah, right!).

http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Articles/PDFs/JSPR%201984.pdf

But she changed her mind about all this rubbish, stating in 2000:

It was just over thirty years ago that I had the dramatic out-of-body experience that convinced me of the reality of psychic phenomena and launched me on a crusade to show those closed-minded scientists that consciousness could reach beyond the body and that death was not the end. Just a few years of careful experiments changed all that. I found no psychic phenomena - only wishful thinking, self-deception, experimental error and, occasionally, fraud. I became a sceptic.

There ya go. The only out-of-body experience you'll ever have is going for a dump. You show that turd who's boss!

Susan is married to the estimable Adam Hart-Davis, by the way. That don't mean a thing, I know that.