Invisible truth

16 On superstition (Transmission from the year 1969) Well, there is superstition and it’s a fanatical exaggeration of an invisible existence. Everything else is not superstition, but blatant nonsense. It is very hard for some to maintain their objectivity, so they can determine what is superstition and what is not. But there is a faith that is part of natural scientific knowledge, which has nothing to do with proscribed superstition. One has to be able to differentiate this accurately. Most people unfortunately can’t do this and are too quick and too superficial with their judgment. The number of people who have some association with the supernatural runs into the hundred of millions. People who live close with nature and one considers primitive, for instance. They might seem to you to be an unimportant example in relation to superstition. But they are vastly superior to you in that respect, the difference being that through their own experience with the supernatural, they have drawn the wrong conclusions.  Primitive races know a lot more about the existence of spirits. But as they generally deal with the lower spheres , their experience is usually negative. Their whole culture is geared to avoid displeasing the evil spirits, so they are not subject to any sort of revenge. The more cultured person makes the mistake of not taking these primitive races serious for that particular reason, because he considers this spirit cult to be primitive or for ancient imaginary traditions. But because they are primitive in that respect, they still have unspoiled and therefore, better psychic attributes. - It finds a parallel with dogs: The less spoiled he is the better he is. Such a dog finds it a lot easier to detect a trail than an over-bred dog with marred sensory organs.  A sense for the other side is also part of the sensory organs. Negroes and other coloured people have these sensory organs partially intact. On the other hand, these primitive tribes could insist that the cultured person has lost a very important sensory organ. Superstition is an important part of the human experience and it still has to be clarified. But the way one tries to achieve this is completely wrong. One has to differentiate between what there is in the partially invisible and the behaviour of people who come into contact with it.  It can be a case of precise knowledge and precise experiences, but behaviour could lead to superstition. Even the major religions are no exception here. This situation can become very dangerous, when dealing with political relevancies. This sector wants to declare every religion a superstition, because it wants to get rid of these “dangerous imaginations” completely. But not one of those noteworthy sociologists has ever thought of doing an analyses to find out what could be true and what could be part of the erroneous behaviour pattern of man.  This enormous mistake gives rise to thoughts of redemption, which bypass the TRUTH completely. But there is also a scientific superstition, namely the superstition of the nonrecurring existence of man, from birth till death. This superstition is not decriminalised and not persecuted. But as soon as someone insists that the soul is immortal, he will be branded a devotee of superstition.