Sounds way too much like orthodox religion: "Believe in what I tell you or you'll go to purgatory, or Hell."
Closed-minded pseudoskeptics though Randi, Shermer and Wiseman may be, these are highly intelligent guys. They would pretty quickly work out what had happened to them, and are smart enough to realise that their best course of action would be to admit they were wrong - pronto.
(Shermer would probably have the least trouble with this, because he was a Christian Fundamentalist before being "saved" by Materialism.)
And why does Mr. Zammitt suggest that the pseudoskeptics' "purgatory" state "could last thousands of years"? Don't most near-death experiences and mediumistic channellings speak of the next world as having a totally timeless quality?
And - if Randi & Co. "would have trouble picking up their car keys because their hand would pass through the table" - how come they're standing in the floor?
I think Mr. Zammitt has been watching too many re-runs of that old 1990 movie with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore!Statistics: Posted by Randi McSheldrake — 01 Aug 2012, 16:58
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