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Well, I'll qualify: Some things resist being observed, or aren't given to repeatibility, and are testable only in thought experiments. Maybe you are right, and eventually everything will be quantifiable and testable, from tachyons to gravitons to the so-called psions or God particle. In a way that would be cool, because people could no long have to defend their beliefs with negatives (a' la, "You can't prove God doesn't exist, so He must be real.")

It seems like channeling is all the rage these days, being popular in the New Age movement, Exopolitics, etc. I don't really know what to think about it. I'm pretty sure that 'real' channelers can connect to something, even if that something is in their subconscious, or the other hemisphere of their brain, or a non-corporeal entity, or even an 'alien.' What I find hard to believe is that these beings would always tell the truth.

I've never gone to a channeling session and seen someone else do it. I've seen it on Youtube, and I wasn't all that impressed. It did seem like a lot theatrics, cheesy pseudo-East European voices, and very vague predictions. If there are good channelers, and I assume there are, I haven't myself seen them.

Mike, what type of information did your friend get through direct writing? Anything actionable, substantive, or interesting? I'm not asking this in an ironic way, but out of real curiousity. I know that my 2007 transformative experience certainly altered my perceptions for a long time.
 
Well, for the sake of argument, I assume there are in the same way that I assume there are ufos. I've never seen one, but lots of credible people have. I assume Wyoming is real, and I've never been there.

I also partly think channeling is possible from seeing Oiji boards do some odd things when I was a kid.

I didn't come down on one side or another on what exactly channelers are channeling. To be honest, I think I know, but it's all supposition on my part. Like any standard human, I'm terribly fallible and make all sorts of mistakes. Still, fallibility aside, I feel pretty comfortable with my "assumptions."

At some point, I think it's ok to stop trying to reinvent the wheel every time you encounter something. If you constantly question every aspect of your senses or memory, then you can know nothing and you have passed from good skepticism into uselessness. Sometimes it's more useful to accept and move on.
 
Well, I pretty much agree about the moving on. When I hear about information obtained through channeling, I have the automatic instinct to scoff at it and ignore it. Maybe I've been too quick to put it in the automatic ignore bin, though.
 
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