My personal belief is that all *spirit*uality (in the sense of consciousness separated from biochemistry) is the epitome of wishful thinking.
Let's do a thought experiment ala Einstein. I get in my time machine, go back 10,000 years (pulling a nice round number out of my voluminous rear-end while I wait for my computer guy to bring back my laptop), and I'm able to talk to a local citizen in any country.
And I ask her (not to be sexist), "Aren't bacteria curious little buggers?" She looks at me like I'm coming on to her (guys are always doing that, regardless of the time) and she says she has never seen or heard of a bacteria. I proceed to tell her that they're tiny living creature all around us, in our mouths, up our butts, but at this point in time there's no technology to detect them. She thinks I'm full of it and walks away, period.
Bottom Line: Scientists, the "What's really real" folks, don't even know what a spirit might be, what it's composed of, NADA. I have NEVER seen the term "spirit" in any science text, not because it necessarily doesn't exist, but because we don't know what it is we would be talking about. In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
Another example: Great news. Within the next 24 hours I die from a stroke. You folks see the obituary in the SACBEE; yup, that The Twank, ugly as ever. But I decide to fuck with you folks of little faith. Postings from The Twank continue to show up at ET regardless of how your IT nerds try to stop them? Then what? Expalin THAT! In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
Point to someone who is (a) sick and (b) 'done something bad.' Obviously, ya know, they opened themselves up to evil spirits by doing their bidding.
Ex-Twank Communication?
Easy peasy.
You're a very sophisticated Alice-Bot.
:-þ
Anything can be "expalin" by a suitable haze of logomachian bullshit.
