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DianaCC
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I’ve been watching a documentary on channelers, people who claim to be in touch with alien intelligences that supposedly have important messages for humanity.
I’m convinced that almost all of these people are faking it and are just lonely and the channeling is just a ploy for attention. I am open to the possibility that a few are really in touch with devils.
Also I see a few things most of these people have in common.
Is there a simple way the average person can tell quickly if a given channeler is a charlatan? Some things to point out to other people who are at risk of being taken in?
I’m convinced that almost all of these people are faking it and are just lonely and the channeling is just a ploy for attention. I am open to the possibility that a few are really in touch with devils.
Also I see a few things most of these people have in common.
- For example, the things these people say in the name of their channeled spirits is always something that common sense says the channeler could know or could think. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a channeler say something in the name of his channeled spirit that could not have been known or thought by the channeler.
- Also there is a thread of condescension woven into so much of what they say, such as in the phrases “your leaders” or “your scientists” or “your reality” - but this to me sounds like the channeler is faking it, because it sounds just like bad science fiction writing.
- Also I never hear about reverse-channelers, or people who try to contact alien intelligences in order to give *them *messages from *our *world. It always seems to work one way, from the mysterious spirit world to our world, never the other way around.
- Also, and this may just be a fluke, but I notice that people who wear glasses usually take them off. I wear thick glasses, and I can tell you that it’s very easy to pretend to be someone else when you can’t see. I also notice that most close their eyes.
- Many when speaking in the name of their channeled spirits will speak with a different accent or otherwise act a little differently, but to me, who grew up with some of these accents, the accents sound like they were learned from TV, and sound like what “British” sounds like to an American, or what you’d get in a high school production of a Shakespeare play. In fact, one channeler while speaking in the name of her channeled spirit, while speaking in a “British” accent, said a few things that you would only hear an American say, like “arright?” (“all right?”, used rhetorically to confirm agreement with an interlocutor), and “…or whatever” at the end of a list of examples.
- On the whole when I listen to extended recitations spoken in the name of a channeled spirit, I get a sense I am listening to someone talking to himself, a verbose, stream-of-consciousness monologue that doesn’t seem to have much real content or hard information. And when it’s over, I can’t say what exactly it was all about. And I have learned that if I can;'t summarize something, then either I wasn’t paying attention, or there was nothing to pay attentio to! By contrast, when I read the Sermon on the Mount for example, or Romans, I see how each sentence has content, is well-put, and is not part of a rambling tangent. But on the whole, when I consider these utterances on a sentence-by-sentence basis, I notice that each sentence is typically a commentary on or restatement of the one before it, as if the discourse really is just a stream-of-consciousness monologue originating with the channeler himself.
- When channelers speak in their own name about their channeling practices, they seem not to have any shame or embarrassment about it, even though objectively it’s weird.
- They also claim to know things revealed to them by these spirits, but after a channeling session they act like they have no memory of what just happened.
- Finally, they all seem to be middle class and live in nice houses.
Is there a simple way the average person can tell quickly if a given channeler is a charlatan? Some things to point out to other people who are at risk of being taken in?
