From: paul@i2.to
Date: Thu Aug 05 1999 - 15:19:53 MDT
On Thu, 05 August 1999, "O. Razor" wrote:
>
>
> Well, firstly I would like to know if you were experimenting with any
> psychoactive drugs at the time. Need I say more (in regards to psychoactive
> drug use and its relation to your supposed out-of-body experience)?
NO.
>
> As for other explainations more plausible than psi, I can offer such things
> as selective thinking, wishful thinking, self-deception, memory
> reconstruction, confirmation bias, communal reinforcement, subjective
> validation, etc.
Yes, these are easy and *convenient* explanations, but they don't hold water,
primarily because such selective thinking, self-deception, memory reconstruction,
confirmation bias has not cropped up any other substantial instance. So why would
it crop *only* when I have unexplained and aparrently 'psi' experiences? Frankly,
its just as much of a stretch as an actual 'psi' event. I'm not buying it.
Paul
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