Well agree with everything you say there.
And sorry if it sounded like i was calling you gullable personally, that wasn't the intention, it was meant as a remark towards some of the less critical thinkers out there.
I think there is a lot to be said for having something to believe in.
It's just you have to, as you said, not let that contradict the facts, and i think thats the problem with belief, is not everyone has such an adaptive approach that you have.
I think as humans, we have a strong need for belief, take love for example. We can break it down into the basic scientific reasonings, but that isn't enough, we can't live seeing everything as a process. There is a distinct need to embrace the mystery of it, even if we do know what is involved and the science behind it. Yet, understanding the workings of things, can help us avoid being slaves too. It's a very delicate balance it seems.
I've had some very hard to rationalise experiences in my life.
For example, once, many years ago, I dreamt i was in a house with an old psychic woman. She showed me a vison of a girl trying to save a sheep on a clifftop, and falling to her death. It was a powerful dream, and came out of nowhere. So i shared this dream with my close friends. About a month later, I attended a gig in my home town, near the end, it became apparent that this gig was a memorial for a girl who had died in those exact same circumstances. Both I and the friends I told, all looked at each other, quite shocked at this revelalation. Still to this day I have no idea how this came about. Perhaps coincidence? but what a very strange coincidence. She is the first and last person i've known to die in such circumstances... So it's hardly something that could be put down to my mind prediciting a likely event. Also I had nothing to do with this girl, other than living in the same town. Didn't know her, or her friends or family. And oddly it had happened at about the same time I had the dream (at which point I was out of town at the Glastonbury music festival... so i had no idea of local news, this was prior to mobile phones being common too)
I've also had two shared dreams. One in which i was introduced to a friend of my best friend, who she'd not mentioned beforehand. A few weeks later, I met her in the real world. The dream was lucid for all of us, and we all shared our starsigns in the dream, as some kind of "proof" in case it was a genuine shared dream. Upon really meeting the girl, she looked the same, and we shared star signs again, all of which were right. Again, very hard to justify.
So you'd think i'd be very much a convert of such things.
However, I remain open minded to such events occuring, yet I shy away from making any concrete statements about thier reality. I think that would be closed minded, as I simply do not have enough information to work with.
If anything, I do not think that the astral plane is the best most likely explanation. Perhaps if there is any truth behind it, it is something along the lines of how the internet works. Seperate terminals, all operating as stand alone individual units, that can network and translate the shared information in thier own "dream world" or internal software. Why and how this happens (if it truely does) is still impossible to explain. I'd hesitate to say it's impossible, but I certainly think it is rare, and that many cases where people think it is happening, are probably wishful thinking. Dosn't mean that there may not be some rare genuine cases.
It's a mystery. A mystery that should drive us to search deeper, investigate, and try and gather facts.
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