Posted by tobor on March 16, 1999 at 05:40:51 {MWfPLG5L29fHA}:
This is difficult to articulate so bear with me.
Is there an unacknowledged link between the resurrection hope and what we call spiritism?
Specifically, If the resurrection hope is valid,
does it infer that psychic abilities are
inherent
human powers not immediately dependent on demonic
intervention?
Whew!
Ok, nobody to my knowledge has solved the "copy"objection to the resurrection hope-
at a future time God puts all the needed molecules
back in
exactly the same order - so that a copy
of you exists in the future. (Doesn't sound like
much of a hope)
However, suppose that human consciousness was in
some ways "nonlocal" - that the brain did not originate
consciousness
as much as "receive" it like a TV set.
(Similar to arguements by Rupert Sheldrake about
ESP like abilities in animals). If so, we might expect
that occasionally the miraculous origin of these
faculties might "leak" thru from
time to time, giving
the appearance of telepathy, remote viewing and so on.
Thus "spiritism" might paradoxically be the greatest
support of the resurrection hope!!!