Dowsing, Remote Viewing and Sarcasm…All in a good cause
One of the websites which pries into government affairs with an eye to safeguarding our liberties (or some such thing) is alt press online from which this interesting insight came.
The reason for the title of this post is that sarcasm is a major weapon in its reporting arsenal.
The particular article is attacking the extended powers of the Transportation Security Administration. Specifically, it refers to a group of people trained to recognize concealed emotions on peoples’ faces, referring to them as ‘thought police’.
Towards the end of the article it says:
“So now we have the thought police squad expanding to an air port near you. And what might be next on the TSA�s weapons in the fight against terror?
Maybe they will create a dowsing rod squad to detect bomb making residue. This could be a lucrative government contract for a private dowsing rod multinational corporation.
Perhaps they will bring back remote viewing. I can see the remote viewing thought police in action. They will watch you at home as you pack for your trip. They will know what�s in your luggage and carry on baggage. If they don�t like what they see someone will be waiting for you as you pull into the airport parking lot.”
Sarcasm maybe, but actually not a bad idea. I’m not sure there IS dowsing rod multinational corporation (although I am more than willing to be considered as its CEO).
Really, this is interesting on several levels. Firstly dowsing (and allied ‘weird’ stuff) is mentioned as a way of showing how stupid actual activities are. This presupposes that dowsing is as stupid as the actions it is being juxtaposed with as well as showing how little the writer knows about the subject. Nevertheless, it is a subject sufficiently widely known about to make the point have a purpose. Therefore, dowsing is an activity which DOES do something which the writer can’t understand; i.e. it is in the general consciousness.
Secondly, it raises issues of ethics in such circumstances. But it is not just in such extreme cases that such ethics should be examined.
Dowsing DOES work. Remote viewing DOES work. And that means that it is possible to snoop into other peoples’ affairs. Today. Right now. This minute. Theoretically, anyone who can dowse (and there are a lot of people who can) can ask questions about anyone, anything, anytime. “Is Mrs C down the road having an affair?” “Is that kid that I don’t like on crack cocaine?” And so on. You can get the picture easily enough.
Do dowsers ask such questions? Undoubtedly some do. Undoubtedly some get answers, but what they do with them is anyone’s guess. Of course, we have no idea as to the accuracy of such answers. But the point is, they feel they can, so they do. And you can’t legislate against it.
As for remote viewing, why bother going to the trouble of wrapping up nice and warm and wandering around with binoculars and camera when you can stay comfy and warm in your own room and peer in any bedroom window you want?
If people can demonstrate these skills, then there will always be people who seek to use them for ’seedy’, unsavory, politically incorrect, or just plain ‘wrong’ activities.
So, if there is going to be a ‘wonderful world’ where we can all explore our latent intuitive skills in many delightful ways, there are going to be those who don’t want to do that and will go off on their own instead.
Now, I have read somewhere that people talk of there being some sort of spiritual law or barrier in action which stops such perversions from becoming widespread and thereby permeating the purity of the thing with muckiness.
You know, I have to admit that I think that is more wishful thinking
The only thing that I can think of as a form of security in this scenario is that, if people in power decided they wanted to do these things, the, as dowsing and other intuitive practices would be the norm, their motives, their actions could be checked over for being duplicitous, or just nosy.
Then again, if we were all capable of such feats, wouldn’t we also be capable of defending our minds from intrusive thoughts?
And so we go round in circles. On good days I think that if everyone was capable of being intuitive all the time then such things could not happen. But then on other days I think of the things that humans can do given sufficient time and imagination.
However you look at it, intuition is just going to make things (and by ‘things’ I mean society) much more interesting!!
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