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« on: November 16, 2010, 10:22:19 am »

I have to agree with this article. The Bible is filled with supernatural and paranormal activity. The main stream church today has dismissed all this activity, yet its in the pages of the Bible. This is why the church is so unprepared to deal with this stuff, and why most of the so called christians will easily believe a lie and a strong delusion. 

The Burning Bush They’ll Buy, but Not ESP or Alien Abduction

Practically anything goes at the American Academy of Religion’s annual conference, where scholars of dozens of religions convene annually to debate, relate and on occasion mate. Conversation ranges from the Talmud to tantra, from Platonism to Satanism. This year, from Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 in Atlanta, nearly 5,000 people attended panels including “Seeking New Meanings of God and Dao” and “Madness, Smallpox, and Death in Tibet.”

What was almost impossible to find, at this **** of intellectual curiosities, was discussion of the paranormal: ESP, premonitions, psychic powers, alien abduction and the like. This is a conference concerned with all sorts of supernatural and metaphysical claims. In panels, over coffee and during cocktail-hour quarrels, they talk of Moses at the burning bush, the virgin birth, Muhammad’s journey on a winged horse. So why nothing about, say, mental telepathy?

That is the question posed by Jeffrey J. Kripal, a professor of religion at Rice University in Houston and a renegade advocate for including the paranormal in religious studies. In his new book, “Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred” (University of Chicago Press), he tries to convince serious religion scholars that they ought to study, say, ESP or alien abduction.

Most scholars study traditions even nonbelievers are comfortable talking about, like Judaism and Christianity. And a growing number study kinds of “spirituality”: the belief in guardian angels, for example, or in an invisible force, not specific to a major religion.

But Dr. Kripal wants to go further, into supernaturalism that seems bizarre to most Westerners. His book is about four pre-eminent writers on the paranormal: the 19th-century psychical researcher Frederic Myers; Charles Fort, who died in 1932; the contemporary French ufologist Jacques Vallee, who inspired the character Claude Lacombe in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”; and his fellow ufologist Bertrand Méheust. None are widely studied, but Dr. Kripal says all prove that one can write in a sophisticated way about the paranormal.

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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2010, 07:37:44 am »

I have to agree with this article. The Bible is filled with supernatural and paranormal activity. The main stream church today has dismissed all this activity, yet its in the pages of the Bible. This is why the church is so unprepared to deal with this stuff, and why most of the so called christians will easily believe a lie and a strong delusion. 

I completely agree.  The Church is very ill-prepared to deal with the supernatural/paranormal.  Ever notice how Christians are so into angels, as in guardian angels, but they don't know the first thing about the fallen ones.  Those they prefer not to believe in so much.
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