Re: Harold Camping's prediction of the Apocalypse for May 21, 2011.
Maybe Mr. Camping was right, except that the end of the world did not happen as he imagined. Suppose that the Rapture occurred, but only a few scattered people from around the globe were taken—so few (3, 4, 16, 20?) and so widely scattered no one noticed they occurred simultaneously; and that the rest of us have been 'left behind,' to our own devices.…
Well then, we'll just have to make the best of it. I suggest we turn to one another for support, practice kindness toward each other, love each other. How bad can this be? … I think we'll be alright.…
Sunday, June 05, 2011
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Update to the Censorship of 'The Key'
Updated 9/5/2011
(This updates my previous post,
Apparent Censorship of Whitley Strieber's book, 'The Key'.)
In Whitley's Journal entry of May 26, 2011, Sinister Forces in My Life, he writes:
In the past, Whitley has reported that electrical equipment sometimes malfunctions in his presence. That the edits happened with the book in his possession allows attributing the unauthorized edits to the same kind of poltergeist-like activity. And it aligns perfectly with the phenomenology of the 'dark' paranormal forces, which (at least according to my experience) seek to cause maximum confusion, fear and division among humans. (Refer also to George P. Hansen's book, The Trickster and the Paranormal.) [Furthermore / Moreover], Whitley's description (retold here) of his mysterious visit with the 'Master of the Key' itself smacks of the paranormal. Why would we not at least allow the same for the book's mysterious alteration? We might view the former event emanating from coherence (light, love) and the latter from 'de-coherence', chaos or entropy (darkness, fear). In the context of the description of another paranormal experience posted to the Unknowncountry.com Web site in 2004, Whitley says of The Key in passing: "That is the central message of the Key, incidentally. It is why the man I met on that night defined sin as 'the denial of the right to thrive.'" If the message of The Key enables one to thrive and the sabotaging of its message thwarts that, this would appear a classic case of a dark paranormal event (a dark miracle, if you will).
We might even consider that if some person is actually found to be physically responsible for the unauthorized edits, we should at least consider that these 'sinister forces', as much as I understand them them, may also work through humans. This seems implicit in Whitley's use of the term/phrase, 'sinister forces' and his assumption that human agency was involved in The Key's alteration/sabotage. Most of us subscribing to the standard Western scientific paradigm show a conditioned aversion to the devil-made-me-do-it hypothesis, but it would sure seem to explain a lot. And it furthermore allows me to regard such human accomplices/dupes with some measure of sympathy, because I find myself in exactly the same position.
(This updates my previous post,
Apparent Censorship of Whitley Strieber's book, 'The Key'.)
In Whitley's Journal entry of May 26, 2011, Sinister Forces in My Life, he writes:
What happened was that somebody very deftly edited the book after I had already signed off on it. Not only that, the edits, I have subsequently discovered, were actually in the proof pages I sent to the printer. So they happened when those pages were in my possession, but were not done by me.This extra detail, which did not appear in Whitley's May 15 Journal post, confuses me somewhat. I assume by 'proofs', Whitley means hard copy prints. This implies the edits would have had to be hand-written, so that the edits he disavows should be in a hand other than Whitley's, unless the unknown editor also managed to imitate his handwriting. Could a handwriting expert distinguish between Whitley's edits and those of the 'ghost' editor? Even if not—perhaps especially if not—this could add more credence to the paranormal intervention hypothesis.
In the past, Whitley has reported that electrical equipment sometimes malfunctions in his presence. That the edits happened with the book in his possession allows attributing the unauthorized edits to the same kind of poltergeist-like activity. And it aligns perfectly with the phenomenology of the 'dark' paranormal forces, which (at least according to my experience) seek to cause maximum confusion, fear and division among humans. (Refer also to George P. Hansen's book, The Trickster and the Paranormal.) [Furthermore / Moreover], Whitley's description (retold here) of his mysterious visit with the 'Master of the Key' itself smacks of the paranormal. Why would we not at least allow the same for the book's mysterious alteration? We might view the former event emanating from coherence (light, love) and the latter from 'de-coherence', chaos or entropy (darkness, fear). In the context of the description of another paranormal experience posted to the Unknowncountry.com Web site in 2004, Whitley says of The Key in passing: "That is the central message of the Key, incidentally. It is why the man I met on that night defined sin as 'the denial of the right to thrive.'" If the message of The Key enables one to thrive and the sabotaging of its message thwarts that, this would appear a classic case of a dark paranormal event (a dark miracle, if you will).
We might even consider that if some person is actually found to be physically responsible for the unauthorized edits, we should at least consider that these 'sinister forces', as much as I understand them them, may also work through humans. This seems implicit in Whitley's use of the term/phrase, 'sinister forces' and his assumption that human agency was involved in The Key's alteration/sabotage. Most of us subscribing to the standard Western scientific paradigm show a conditioned aversion to the devil-made-me-do-it hypothesis, but it would sure seem to explain a lot. And it furthermore allows me to regard such human accomplices/dupes with some measure of sympathy, because I find myself in exactly the same position.
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