E-mail David Christopher Lane
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Author: David Christopher Lane Publisher: Alt.religion.eckankar Publication date: 1996
E-mail David Christopher Lane
directly at dlane@weber.ucsd.edu
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"Lane Uses Advanced Psychic Techniques On Unsuspecting Catholic School Children. ... Do the Catholic Fathers Know?" --an excerpt from the writings of Steve -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What Else Will This Sick Puppy Do? Whew, at least somebody read the Kirpal Statistic: How To Use Inner Visions to Your Social Advantage! (http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dlane/point2.html).[Look under the Shabd yoga section] In these classes--the title of the course was "Death and Dying"--that I taught in high school in the early 1980s, I tried to demonstrate to my students the ease with which the mind can be deceived. It may shock Steve, but I also brought in two spirit mediums to my Catholic religion class. They claimed to be "table tippers"--channelers who use tables to communicate with spirits from the beyond. My students had a wonderful time watching the two people channel and use the table. I even had participants from the class get involved. Probably the most shocking thing was that the two "channelers" were Catholic themselves: they were a priest and a nun! (boy, the Church has seen better days, huh dave?) Now after both of these demonstrations, I tried to illustrate a more sensible explanation for the given phenomena. In the first case, where I had students look for inner lights and sounds, I explained that the brain has a wonderful capacity for generating its own neural firework display. You don't need a guru to do it; anybody can do it. Why? Because nobody, except you, are the real agent behind the cerebral fourth of july, even though there are a plethora of spiritual teachers who are more than willing to take credit for it. In the second case, I simply asked the channelers to move away from the table and let the table speak for itself. The table was probably in a bad mood because it shut up. Then I asked my channeler friends, "Why does the table only talk when you put your hands on it?" "Moreover, why is it that you can only use a light table, not a heavy one?" They couldn't really answer my questions, because the answer is a bit too obvious: humans are moving the table, not spirits..... Showing these kinds of demonstrations to my class enabled my students to develop a more discerning outlook on mystical claims. It was also tremendous fun. I have by the way done the same "Kirpal Statistic" experiment on undergraduate and graduate students--naturally, with their permission. Oh concerning what the Catholic authorities might think (keep in mind that Eckankar tried to get me fired from my job back in 1983), my boss was really pleased with my hands-on demonstration of how to think clearly about unclear subjects. By the way, the Catholic Principal of the high school, accompanied me to Eckankar's International Headquarters during my first visit. We were there to see David Stewart, Editor of the in-house Eckankar publications. David Stewart got in trouble for talking with me--even Darwin Gross came out to check the scene. Stewart left his job a few weeks later and went back to Texas. What did Stewart tell me? That the name Kirpal Singh had been edited out of Letters to Gail, even though it appeared in the original manuscript version...... signed: the advanced psychic manipulator! "Lane Uses Advanced Psychic Techniques On Unsuspecting Catholic School Children. ... Do the Catholic Fathers Know?" --an excerpt from the writings of Steve -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What Else Will This Sick Puppy Do? Whew, at least somebody read the Kirpal Statistic: How To Use Inner Visions to Your Social Advantage! (http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dlane/point2.html).[Look under the Shabd yoga section] In these classes--the title of the course was "Death and Dying"--that I taught in high school in the early 1980s, I tried to demonstrate to my students the ease with which the mind can be deceived. It may shock Steve, but I also brought in two spirit mediums to my Catholic religion class. They claimed to be "table tippers"--channelers who use tables to communicate with spirits from the beyond. My students had a wonderful time watching the two people channel and use the table. I even had participants from the class get involved. Probably the most shocking thing was that the two "channelers" were Catholic themselves: they were a priest and a nun! (boy, the Church has seen better days, huh dave?) Now after both of these demonstrations, I tried to illustrate a more sensible explanation for the given phenomena. In the first case, where I had students look for inner lights and sounds, I explained that the brain has a wonderful capacity for generating its own neural firework display. You don't need a guru to do it; anybody can do it. Why? Because nobody, except you, are the real agent behind the cerebral fourth of july, even though there are a plethora of spiritual teachers who are more than willing to take credit for it. In the second case, I simply asked the channelers to move away from the table and let the table speak for itself. The table was probably in a bad mood because it shut up. Then I asked my channeler friends, "Why does the table only talk when you put your hands on it?" "Moreover, why is it that you can only use a light table, not a heavy one?" They couldn't really answer my questions, because the answer is a bit too obvious: humans are moving the table, not spirits..... Showing these kinds of demonstrations to my class enabled my students to develop a more discerning outlook on mystical claims. It was also tremendous fun. I have by the way done the same "Kirpal Statistic" experiment on undergraduate and graduate students--naturally, with their permission. Oh concerning what the Catholic authorities might think (keep in mind that Eckankar tried to get me fired from my job back in 1983), my boss was really pleased with my hands-on demonstration of how to think clearly about unclear subjects. By the way, the Catholic Principal of the high school, accompanied me to Eckankar's International Headquarters during my first visit. We were there to see David Stewart, Editor of the in-house Eckankar publications. David Stewart got in trouble for talking with me--even Darwin Gross came out to check the scene. Stewart left his job a few weeks later and went back to Texas. What did Stewart tell me? That the name Kirpal Singh had been edited out of Letters to Gail, even though it appeared in the original manuscript version...... signed: the advanced psychic manipulator!
