Evidence for ESP

Maybe paraphenomena are real. Maybe life continues after death. Maybe there is a spiritual dimension. But why invest so much time and energy in other worlds and other dimensions? We live in this world and this dimension. How are we to live here? That is what matters, as I see it.

Physicists are of the same cloth. They speculate about many worlds and what is really going on at the quantum level.

We are fouling our own nest with endless wars, exploitation, pollution, and idiocy. This is what we have to do something about. These are the important issues that we have to address.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hNOEZ6MjRc

What does God consist of?

 Apples and pears can be weighed and measured, but God cannot.

You can point at an apple and say: "There is an apple there on the table." But you cannot point at God and say, "God is sitting there on the park bench."

The soul, the self, and ugliness are also words that denote something you cannot weigh, measure, or point to.

If gods, angels, and ghosts exist, they must be made of something. They may not be made of electrons, protons, and neutrons. They may be made of something else, perhaps like dark matter and dark energy.

This way of thinking is called dualism.

The opposite of dualism is monism, or materialism.

Dark matter is the invisible glue that holds the universe together. This mysterious material is all around us, making up most of the matter in the universe. But what exactly is dark matter? That's a question that scientists have been trying to solve for almost 100 years.

Dark matter makes up most of the mass in galaxies and galaxy clusters. In fact, scientists estimate that ordinary matter makes up only about 5% of the universe, while dark matter makes up about 27%. (The rest is thought to be dark energy, which is its own mystery). It's thought that dark matter shapes the cosmos, organizing galaxies and cosmic objects on a large scale.

https://science.nasa.gov/dark-matter/

Moreover, there may also be dark, mysterious fields that aren't electromagnetic, which convey telepathic and synchronistic waves. Who knows?

A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has lost. He says he lost his keys and they both look under the streetlight together. After a few minutes the policeman asks if he is sure he lost them here, and the drunk replies, no, and that he probably lost them in the park. The policeman asks why he is searching here, and the drunk replies, "this is where the light is"  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect

This is similar to what scientists do. They search where the light is. They are only interested in what can be measured. Religious and spiritual people are searching in the dark.

Extreme right-wingers and Christianity

Many Christians have extreme right-wing political views. Where in the New Testament do they find confirmation of such ideas? Was Jesus Christ a right-winger? Did he side with the rich and powerful? Was he fighting hard against the immigration of poor people? Was he against abortion?

Who are you?

You are not the one you think you are; you are someone else, a stranger. The world doesn't work the way you think it works. God isn't who you think he is. If it's a he, maybe it's a she, or maybe it's an extraterrestrial research institute that succeeded in planting living beings here on Earth. Maybe you are a failed experiment, or a successful one. You don't know. You don't even know how your cellphone works.

Doubts

 Did you choose the path you are on, or were you persuaded to choose it?

Are you fully convinced that this is the right path, or do you have doubts?

Are you on your way to nowhere, or to the promised land?

Maybe you´ve been misguided; if so, you are not alone.

So what?

What difference does it make to you if the universe is cyclic or if it was spontaneously created out of nothing 14 billion years ago?

What difference does it make to you if life started on Earth because aliens planted life spores here or if it was formed spontaneously in the sea somewhere?

What difference does it make to you if consciousness is created in the brain or if the brain is a kind of receiver that picks up cosmic consciousness waves?

Neuroscientists and Buddhists say that the self is an illusion. So what? Who cares? I mean, isn't everything an illusion? The material world isn't really material; it consists of mysterious electromagnetic fields, electron clouds, energy, and God knows what.

We are here, and we have to figure out how to survive, how to treat our friends and family, our neighbors, the animals around us, nature, and our planet. This is what is important.

Suppose you are a rich man, a billionaire. And the only thing you can think of to do with your money is to invest it in the stock market to get more money. Maybe you buy a mansion and fill it with art. At the same time, 150 million children globally suffer from chronic malnutrition. You are then a complete idiot.

The true self

There is someone who sees in the secret.

One part of you notices when you have done something wrong. This is your conscience. This part could also be called the Judge. He or she also notices when you occasionally do a good deed, give a coin to a beggar, for example, and you feel proud of yourself.

Other parts of you are silencing the inner Judge by spinning endless bullshit stories, excuses, and rationalizations. These parts are so loud and domineering that the Judge cannot be heard and is eventually forgotten. 

Your true self is a mixture. One part is the culprit, one part is the defense attorney, and one part is the Judge. One part is a fool, one part is a smart ass, one part is a lazy slouch, one part is kind and gentle, one part is a nervous wreck, one part is upright, one part is realistic, and so forth. All these different parts make up your true self, as I see it. None of them is false.

Your true self may be hypocritical, jealous, or selfish at the moment, but you hide it from both other people and from yourself. The nice mask you have to put on is your false self, but this part also belongs to you. It is also real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_self_and_false_self

Matthew 6:2 "So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly, I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.