Going Beyond Traditional Ways of Knowing As We Explore Truth

Psi science, mediumship and a conversation with a channeller. Should we consider other ways of knowing in our sensemaking process?

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I have been reading a book by Barbara Marx Hubbard called Conscious Evolution. It suggests there’s an emerging shift in humanity’s consciousness whereby we’re being invited to take an active, ethical part in directing our evolution as a species. This very much relates to the callings and feelings I’ve had since I was young, and that which I founded Collective Evolution on in 2009.

The book touches upon a felt sense many of us are conscious of, that we are part of nature and the fabric of reality as a whole, not separate from it. (This book is part of our Explorer Lounge Book Club for the month of Sept.)

Currently, one can argue that we tend to live our lives as separate individuals. Unlike the worldview of indigenous cultures, we generally feel nature is separate from us, and that humans are at the center of importance when it comes to the world - and even the cosmos.

Through this mindset, we tend to seek to dominate what’s around us, including other people, with little thought of the complex interconnectedness of our actions. Thus, we end up on a rather destructive and short sighted path.

It’s not all bad though, our creativity and innovation has produced some wonderful things for people all around the world.

Cleaner water, abundant food, safe living conditions, and ways of connecting us in somewhat meaningful ways. But these innovations have typically come at the cost of destroying something in its path. Whether it be enslaving poorer countries to make goods cheap in others, or destroying forests, waterways and our air. Our innovations and capitalistic lust are often destructive when we lose sight of our connectedness and our place in nature.

We’re on a path of technological development at breakneck speeds. As a result, a call is emerging for a more conscious, connected, and sacred worldview to steward these advancements in an ethical direction.

Within this evolution is an expansion of our consciousness. Which is to say: an expansion of our worldview, what we’re aware of, what we consider as we create, and what we acknowledge about the nature of our reality.

I’ve been curious about these sorts of questions my whole life. Who are we? Why are we here? What is the nature of our potential as humans? Can we live in society in a more connected and abundant way? These questions have been asked for thousands of years of course. It’s nothing new.

But in modern times, these questions can easily fall by the wayside as we are pushed to survive in an ever-tightening economic culture filled with a ton of distractions.

Perhaps the unique detail right now is that we’re likely in a time where we must pay attention to these questions in order to move toward a better world, one where we don’t destroy ourselves. As Eckhart Tolle put it “evolve or die.”

If we are indeed in a time where big questions are a must, our ways of knowing and exploring ideas must be expansive and well practiced. To me, I don’t see that in our current moment.

Ideology, polarization, lazy thinking, ignorance, religious and scientific dogma, and a general lack of time can make sifting through the noise and embracing signal very hard.

Who can we trust? How do we know? What if our thinking is limited? How would we know that? How can we think outside the box?

Perhaps part of our sensemaking process must include other ways of knowing. Ways that ask us to consider something we can’t prove but can feel within our own bodies. Senses our modern science is showing us we have, but that our dogmas fear.

How Else Can We Know?

To modern reductionist ways of thinking, things like mediumship, which can include individuals who channel, can seem crazy. Perhaps we believe we evolved beyond that type of superstition during the scientific revolution of the 1500s’s and 1600’s.

Or did we throw the baby out with the bath water and miss out on important ways of knowing?

Paranormal research, including that of mediumship, and channelling, has been happening for centuries. While some research has exposed tricksters and frauds, we’ve also found phenomena that beg even more questions. While this is uncomfortable for the worldviews of some, it excites people like myself.

Here are a few studies, of literally hundreds, worth considering when looking at the questions of mediumship, consciousness, our limits, potential, and the nature of our reality etc.

• Research indicating statistical significance of mediumship under rigorous conditions.

• A human’s ability to write on a piece of paper using only their mind.

• Repeated evidence of telekinesis & teleportation of objects.

• General overview of the questions of consciousness creating reality and the nuances behind it.

• Significant research around remote viewing from the CIA. (The ability to see specific details about a place the observer is not in.)

There are many reasons to go back to the drawing board when it comes to what’s possible for humans. And in a time when every narrative is competing with the next, and everything can be faked or filled with lies or deception, perhaps exploring the non-material is a worthwhile endeavor.

Trying to understand our world entirely from a material point of view is not helpful in my opinion. There are too many valid experiences that go beyond the nature and limited scope of material study, and require us to expand our consciousness to consider them more completely.

A Conversation With A Channeller

A couple of weeks ago Madhava Setty and I had a discussion with a man named Sam The Illusionist who claims to channel beings from space or other dimensions… or ‘wherever 'else.’

I've been exposed to channelling for over 15 years, and have had some intriguing experiences with gathering 'knowledge' from explicit sources of intuition, so this subject has always been fun for me.

This conversation with Sam illustrates Sam’s humble nature in doing something he truly believes is authentic.

Are his channellings worth our consideration? Can this be a way of knowing? Should it be considered in our sensemaking process?

That’s for you to decide, but for now, check out our conversation below.

Listen to the episode:

On Spotify here.
On Apple Podcasts here.
Watch on YouTube here.

More on channelling research: https://explorerlounge.one/programs/08272019-what-science-says-about-channeling-619af6