In the service of science - Part 3

6 assess. It is actually necessary in most cases that these psycho-scientists master important subjects, subjects that are however not taught at universities. Studying this produces special knowledge, ergo expert knowledge in spite of this, and it makes a specific claim on logic and the capacity of the mind. The public at large makes a misjudgement when it calls the insights of the psycho-sciences “immature”. I suppose that it is quite understandable when a doctor makes a snide remark about spiritualism for instance, because he is not a specialist in this field of knowledge. But when a professor of psycho- science believes in ghosts and openly confesses to do so, the press cynically uses headlines to say: “Professor believes in ghosts” . His statement is not an unsubstantiated assumption, but this is what Professor Bender , Freiburg/Breisgau experienced only recently. We know that specialists are rated higher than your average general practitioner. The specialist can annul the assessment made by a general practitioner. Psycho-science demands the same right. An expert in psycho-science or an expert in the field of spiritualism annuls the misjudgement of a scientist, because the latter knows too little or has no experience at all. It has also become apparent that university scientists do not have the necessary tenacity or the required experience or financial means. Psycho-science demands equality of rights for its special disciplines! Spiritualism is an important and complicated natural science, related to religion. We should differentiate better in regards to superstitions. Even the major Churches promote a certain number of superstitions, superstitions that stem from ignorance. The Psychic Peace Circle continues to report its experiences June 1967 There is no doubt that the perceived functions of the brain are to blame that medical science adheres to the concept that all mental functions, including consciousness, must reside within the brain. People would be irrevocably dead after their demise if this was the case. There would be no survival of the spirit. • Spiritual experiences, respectively the contact with departed souls verifies the opposite! In spite of overwhelming evidence one is too disinclined to acknowledge spiritual experiences. But as one is unable to simply abnegate the matter, academic science treads a middle path: One sticks to the view that further explanations are required. We naturally also hold the opinion that there is still a lot more to explain. This will probably still require millennia. But the survival of the human consciousness is already beyond doubt. This conclusion is of vital importance, because it towers over biblical interpretations in every respect. • The major religions’ concept of the survival of the soul is incorrect. Some functions of the brain can be deactivated at certain locations within the brain. One can for instance deactivate senses whose location within the brain are known. This produces fallacies. For as long as no other evidence is at hand, fallacies are possible, similarly to the way the rising sun dupes us. Therein lays a decisive point, one that is unfortunately ignored, because the experts