Distinguished Thinkers

[poliphilo]

The Daily Mail has asked a collection of "distinguished thinkers"- including A.C. Grayling- a man whose hair is even sillier than Donald Trump's (sorry but I couldn't resist the cheap shot) to give us their thoughts on Life after Death- and not one of them so much as glances at the evidence for survival- which annoys me no end. The evidence is copious and comes from multiple sources- from the spiritualists, the parapsychologists, from people who have had NDEs, from visionaries like Swedenborg, from channelers and so on. Surely if your distinguished thinking is going to be anything but superficial you might want to look at the literature of the subject- even if only to debunk and dismiss it?

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[michaleen.livejournal.com]

It was his girlfriend. She and my ex-wife were microbiologists in the same genetics lab at Stanford Medical, so we'd met. Since first spending time with me, Elisa had talked about how much her beau and I were alike. She kept pestering my wife about it, saying she couldn't wait to just put us in the same room together to see what might happen.

I call him my "twin" because I just don't have a better word for it. I've never felt such a strong connection to anyone in my life. It was instantaneous and effortless. In the throws of a crush, or the like, you can feel yourself distorting, turning inside out, if that makes any sense. There was none of that. I was just myself and he was just himself. The fact that both of us, if left to our own devices, would prefer to be social hermits just added another layer of oddity to an already odd situation.

Most of my life has been spent in pursuit of the uncanny, with no small success on occasion. My encounter with Hemmy still ranks as one of the strangest things I've experienced.