Dr. Miller makes some extraordinary claims about himself at https://www.richardalanmiller.com/about which are extremely hard for me to accept. That raises questions in my mind in regards to his credibility. I am in the process of investigating those claims.
Disillusioned JW
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What is your PSI / ESP potential?
by manon inexperts estimate that one person out of twenty possesses an unusual degree of extrasensory perception-esp or psi energy.
the following questions may determine your own psi potential:
1- is it unusual for you to be reduced to tears?
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What is your PSI / ESP potential?
by manon inexperts estimate that one person out of twenty possesses an unusual degree of extrasensory perception-esp or psi energy.
the following questions may determine your own psi potential:
1- is it unusual for you to be reduced to tears?
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Disillusioned JW
A book called ESP Induction Through Forms of Self-Hypnosis (by Richard Alan Miller) is described at https://books.google.com/books?id=MlwmkgAACAAJ&newbks=0&hl=en . It might be a useful book to read. https://books.google.com/books?id=0zwbnQEACAAJ&newbks=0&hl=en mentions a book called The Non-Local Mind in a Holographic Universe by the same author. Besides the web page having a description of that book it also briefly describes the author.
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Developing Your Own Private Channel to God
by metatron insounds absurdly ambitious, doesn't it?
follow my thinking here and you'll understand what i mean.. i believe in the godhead concept, not a personal creator ( who would be a lunatic for making t rex, guinea worms and countless other horrors).
so, i see "god" in everything as consciousness fills the universe and maintains it.
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More than a year ago I checked out from the library some books about parapsychology studies and experiments on ESP. Even when I was an active believing JW (and perhaps even prior to baptism) I thought that ESP might actually exist - without it being the work of Satan and demons.
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What is your PSI / ESP potential?
by manon inexperts estimate that one person out of twenty possesses an unusual degree of extrasensory perception-esp or psi energy.
the following questions may determine your own psi potential:
1- is it unusual for you to be reduced to tears?
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Disillusioned JW
I used the search engine of this site to find topic threads about ESP and thus I found this topic thread. I made my post in this topic thread in order to further discuss ideas I presented at https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5711169410039808/simple-question-re-1914?page=45 regarding the Block Universe scientific theory and implications regarding Precognition and Retro-Causation. I decided this topic thread is much more appropriate for such. Furthermore, other reasons why I posted here are that the other topic thread is now closed and I am not allowed to create new topic threads.
Last night I learned about a book by Eric Wargo called Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious, while doing an internet search (using Google) on the keywords of 'science of precognition'. The author has a PhD in anthropology and works as a professional science writer. For a review of his book see https://www.spr.ac.uk/book-review/book-review-time-loops-precognition-retrocausation-and-unconscious-eric-wargo . At https://www.amazon.com/Time-Loops-Precognition-Retrocausation-Unconscious/dp/1938398920 there is a review of the book which says in part the following. "... there is growing evidence that we seem to have an ability to send ourselves messages from our own personal future ...." A different reviewer of the book says the following. "Eric makes a bold hypothesis in this book, simply put all forms of parapsychology are a byproduct of our brain’s ability to see in an extra dimension, both backward and forwards in time."
Regarding the book https://broadspeculations.com/2020/10/18/time-loops/ says the following.
"The idea simply is that precognition does exist and happens regularly but it doesn’t involve direct knowledge of things that will happen in the future. Rather precognition is a memory of an experience in the future. It is a future memory. ... The mind contains past experiences as memories but it also has access to future experiences. Of course, the future experiences are usually disregarded because we have no context for them. We abort our future memories routinely so they must manifest to us in dreams, during hypnogogic revelry and altered states, and during psychoanalytic free association.
... In Wargo’s understanding of precognition predestination is real. We live in a block universe and our experiences are caused not just by the past but also by the future. The arrow of causality does not go just one way. Our present is determined by our past and our future coming together in a loop. Occasionally in obscure and muddled ways we are given access to that future in our dreams and thoughts."
I am thus not alone in thinking that the scientific theory of the block universe indicates it might be possible to receive information of the future from our future self, and to call the mind ('remember') our future!
The author also has a book called Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self: Interpreting Messages from Your Future. A review about that book at https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1644112698/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0 says the following."For Wargo, the human brain/mind is best described as existing across space-time in the so-called four-dimensional space-time "Einstein/Minkowski Block Universe." The implication of this view is that our future "exists" just as tangibly as our present and our past."
When I become very sleepy, while trying hard to stay awake and think about various things, sometimes a mental image flashes into my mind for a second or so, and then I "snap" out of the "vision". The type of such mental images I receive are very different subjects from what I dream about while sleeping. The images resemble that of visual memories, except I don't recall seeing such before through my eyes using regular vision. I thus wonder if they instead are memories of what myself in the future 'saw'/'sees'. The images which have "popped" into my mind have absolutely nothing to do with the topics I was thinking about consciously just before the images popped into my mind.Other times, thoughts will "pop" into mind that seem far more brilliant to me that what enters my mind during its normal mental state, and the thoughts are completely different than what I was thinking about before the other ideas entered my mind. The experience makes me wonder if there is a part of my mind which is of higher intelligence (perhaps even a genius) than my regularly experienced conscious mind. As a result, I sometimes try to specifically access that other part of my mind, and I wonder if it might even be a separate mind of mine (like that of those with split personalities). Those thoughts which "pop" into my mind like that are ones which I can't fully hold onto after I "snap" out of the other mental state, but I retain the impression that the sudden thoughts were brilliant! Such impressions make me wish that my regular mental state of mind was that of my "other mind".
Such experiences of my mind cause to relate very much to something Thomas Paine wrote in his Age of Reason book. I plan to quote it after I find it again in his book. He said something about especially paying attention to thoughts which enter his mind unbidden. [Paine's book promotes deism and refutes much of the Bible and Christianity. Part II of his book especially focuses on refuting much of the Bible and Christianity.]
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Developing Your Own Private Channel to God
by metatron insounds absurdly ambitious, doesn't it?
follow my thinking here and you'll understand what i mean.. i believe in the godhead concept, not a personal creator ( who would be a lunatic for making t rex, guinea worms and countless other horrors).
so, i see "god" in everything as consciousness fills the universe and maintains it.
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Disillusioned JW
I used the search engine of this site to find topics about ESP and thus I found this topic thread. The first post in this topic is very interesting to me in regards to the subjects of ESP and psychic phenomena (but not in regards to God, except perhaps in the sense of the universe as a whole in some sense being God/god and possibly a conscious entity and possibly in regards to the concept of the so-called Law of Attraction). I appreciate the link to the ideas of Richard Alan Miller. I thus revived this topic by making this post because I wonder if others reading this post would like to discuss the ideas of Richard Alan Miller and related matters.
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Sixteen years later and wow is life different
by BlackSwan of Memphis ini have no idea if this is the right place to post this.
if you're just leaving the witnesses or questioning and toying with the idea of leaving..... life goes by fast.
and either you rip the band aid off and deal with it or let it fester and eat you alive.
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I wonder how old are the people who frequently post on this site. I'm getting the impression that a considerable percentage of them are over 60 years old. Does anyone care to state their approximate age? I'm between age 50 and age 60.
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Simple Question Re 1914
by Slidin Fast inwt claims that satan was thrown out of heaven in october 1914 precipitating ww!
and the end times.
a small problem with that is ww1 started on july 28th 1914 whilst satan was still in heaven picking his nose.. how did we not see this and waste years of precious life?
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Regarding 586 BCE rather than 587 BCE for the destruction of Jerusalem, I have seen scholarly sources for both years and I have seen scholarly sources which say "587/586" BCE (in the case of the latter I sometimes get the impression that the sources are saying the siege/destruction began in 587 BCE and was completed in 586 BCE). As a result, I don't know which precise year the destruction was completed in. Furthermore, it is not important to me know whether it was in 587 BCE instead of 586 BCE, or vice versa. I am not quibbling about a difference of only one year about a historical event which took place more than 2,500 years ago.
My opinion in very many matters unfortunately is probably very easily swayed. For example when I read a science article making a claim, such as in regards to cosmology, physics, and the scientific assessment of fossils pertaining to evolution (including the dating of fossils), I tend to readily believe/accept what the article says. Such is typically the case (unless the science article contradicts some other scientific source I read, or contradicts something which I already strongly consider to true and/or unless something seems suspicious to me in the article) until I read a different science article which contradicts something the other article said. [After all, I am no scientist and no expert in science (nor in virtually all other subjects and fields of study). I thus consider the scientists to be far more qualified in their fields than I am in those same fields.] When I discover competing views of scientists on a particular matter/topic, I then reevaulate my former conclusion on that particular matter/topic. Often times as a result of such I become uncertain as to what to believe on the details of the topic.
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Jesus is Michael the Archangel
by Fisherman inonly jesus has the power and authority to defeat satan and kick him out of heaven:.
“now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our god and the authority of his christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our god.”.
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Disillusioned JW
The book called A Complete Concordance to the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible: A help specially designed to promote the study and to aid in the clear understanding of the Word of God, by M. C. Hazard, Ph.D. (copyright 1922 by Thomas Nelson & Sons and published by them) says the following under the heading of "SHEOL". "The supposed placed of the dead, to which all go, and conceived of as in the depths of the earth. It is a vast, gloomy region, entered in through gates. To what extent its inhabitants were believed to be conscious is uncertain. It is also called the pit (Ps. 28:1; 30:3, and Abaddon (destruction) in Jb. 26:6; 28:22; Pr. 15:11, etc.)". Notice the phrases which I placed in boldface.
The same concordance under the heading of "HADES" says the following. "The abode of the dead, supposed to be in the center of the earth."I own a copy of that concordance.
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Simple Question Re 1914
by Slidin Fast inwt claims that satan was thrown out of heaven in october 1914 precipitating ww!
and the end times.
a small problem with that is ww1 started on july 28th 1914 whilst satan was still in heaven picking his nose.. how did we not see this and waste years of precious life?
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Regarding what happened in 605 BCE regarding Judah https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/2-kings-24/ says the following.
"i. Nebuchadnezzar came against Jerusalem because the Pharaoh of Egypt invaded Babylon. In response the young prince Nebuchadnezzar defeated the Egyptians at Charchemish, and then he pursued their fleeing army all the way down to the Sinai. Along the way (or on the way back), he subdued Jerusalem, who had been loyal to the Pharaoh of Egypt.
ii. This happened in 605 b.c. and it was the first (but not the last) encounter between Nebuchadnezzar and Jehoiakim. There would be two later invasions (597 and 587 b.c.).
iii. This specific attack is documented by the Babylonian Chronicles, a collection of tablets discovered as early as 1887, held in the British Museum. In them, Nebuchadnezzar’s 605 b.c. presence in Judah is documented and clarified. When the Babylonian chronicles were finally published in 1956, they gave us first-rate, detailed political and military information about the first 10 years of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign. L.W. King prepared these tablets in 1919; he then died, and they were neglected for four decades."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_captivity says the following.
"After the Battle of Carchemish in 605 BCE, the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II besieged Jerusalem, which resulted in tribute being paid by the Judean king Jehoiakim.[1] In the fourth year of Nebuchadnezzar II's reign, Jehoiakim refused to pay further tribute, which led to another siege of the city in Nebuchadnezzar II's seventh year (598/597 BCE) that culminated in the death of Jehoiakim and the exile to Babylonia of his successor Jeconiah, his court, and many others; Jeconiah's successor Zedekiah and others were exiled when Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed Jerusalem in his 18th year (587 BCE), and a later deportation occurred in Nebuchadnezzar II's 23rd year (582 BCE). "
The above confirms to me that the first siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar really was in 605 BCE instead of in 597 BCE.
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Simple Question Re 1914
by Slidin Fast inwt claims that satan was thrown out of heaven in october 1914 precipitating ww!
and the end times.
a small problem with that is ww1 started on july 28th 1914 whilst satan was still in heaven picking his nose.. how did we not see this and waste years of precious life?
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It looks like the first siege on Jerusalem might have been in 597 BCE instead of 605 BCE, though the battle at Carchemish was in 605 BCE. See https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nebuchadnezzar-II . That article does also say the following, however. "On expeditions in Syria and Palestine from June to December of 604, Nebuchadnezzar received the submission of local states, including Judah, and captured the city of Ashkelon." But note though that https://www.rationalchristianity.net/jeremiah.html says the following.
"605 First attack of Nebuchadnezzar on Jerusalem (2 Ki 24:1-2)
597 Reign of Jehoiachin (3 months) (2 Ki 24:8-17, 25:27-30, 2 Chr 36:9-10)
597 Second attack of Nebuchadnezzar on Jerusalem (2 Ki 24:8-17)
597-586 Reign of Zedekiah (2 Ki 24:17-25:7, 2 Chr 36:10-20)
586 Third attack on Jerusalem; Jerusalem destroyed (2 Ki 25:1-21)"
2 Kings 24:1-2 (1984 NWT) says Jehoiakim became the "servant" of "Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon", but that after three years Jehoiakim rebelled and that as a result "Jehovah began to send against" Jehoiakim "marauder bands of Chaldeans" and others, and "against Judah to destroy it".