Welcome to New Realities (you know… because there’s more than one reality…), my name
is Alan Steinfeld, and on this program I like to explain the possibilities of who we are
as an evolving, spiritually connected race on this planet (“spiritually connected”…
brilliant, we’re already head-deep in woo woo!); Today’s guest is someone who’s
devoted a lot of time and energy into explaining the process of this evolution and he’s the
channel for Bashar, Darryl Anka is the guest, and he will be channelling Bashar, who is
a consciousness from another time and space”.
“From another time and space.”
Yeah… you heard that right, Darryl Anka asserts to be able to ‘channel’ a multi-dimensional
futuristic being called Bashar into his body, who can then, as we’re about to see, communicate
with us…
Okay, thanks, this is exciting!
I don’t think anyone’s ever channelled on the program during an interview, but, no,
go ahead.
Haha.
*Clears throat* *Rubs hands together* *breaths extremely heavily*.
Two hours later.
*More heavy breathing.*
Two thousand years later.
*More heavy breathing.*
Okay… this goes on for over ages and it’s awkward, boring,
and in my case, damn infuriating, and so, for all our sakes, I’ll skip it!
*Breaking heavily*.
“Good day to you in this day of your time – how are you?”
“Very good.
Thank you so much for being here.”
“It is our pleasure always to co-create these transmissions with each and every one...
This, is New Age Channeling – Debunked
So within the intro I covered just one channeler,
that being Darryl Anka, but he’s not a special case… there are tens of thousands of people
all over the world who claim to be able to ‘channel’ all sorts of entities, including
gods, goddesses, prophets, spirits, angles, demons, extraterrestrials, historical figures,
a collective conscious, the elements, and indeed nature itself…
In fact, before we move on, I want to give you a few more examples.
Here’s Barbara Marciniak pretending to be…
I mean channelling, a ‘Pleiadian’ alien: “Good afternoon… we are here and once
again it is our great pleasure to be in your reality…”
And here’s Daniel Scranton channelling ‘The Creators’ so that he they inform us about
the U.S Presidential Election: “Okay, so here we go… yaaeess, yeess, yeess.”
*Clapping, clapping, clapping.* “woooohhhhaaa”.
“The next day.”
“The… election, in the United States, has shined a spotlight on…”
Now most of these channelers make an enormous amount of money from books, videos, lectures
and personal sessions… and this brings me to a somewhat facetious point that I’d like
to make: don’t you think it strange that these celestial, multi-dimensional beings
need ridiculous amounts of paper that only have value to one species on one planet…
weird, right?
I mean, on Anka’s website alone, he has over 100 digital downloads that each net him
between $10 and $40 dollars per sale!
He sells crystals for $200 dollars, and he makes twenty dollars for each sale of his
movie… and I’ve only just scratched the surface!
Even Scranton, who has a measly 3.4k subs, charges $222 dollars for 75 minutes of his
time, $15 dollars for his eBook, and $3,888 dollars for a yearly membership!
Seriously, these people are making bank!
So beneath the façade, what exactly are channelers asserting?
What are they claiming to be true?
Well, it depends on the channeler, but they all, at the very least, assert that they can
enter a state in which they can transmit information from another entity; that they’re telepathic.
But here’s the thing, telepathy has never been demonstrated under controlled scientific
conditions… not once!
Not by Shamans, Witch Doctors, Theocrats or New Agers…
It’s got as much evidence in its favour as does the assertion that humans can levitate…
none!
And this is just the assertion of telepathy… channelers make many more assertions on top
of this hogwash… for example, watch how many assertions Anka makes within the following
sentence alone: “The connection process, as I understand it, is kind of a telepathic
contact (so there’s the assertion that telepathy is both possible and that he can perform it)
and what I’ve been trained to do is change the frequency of my own brain wavelengths
(there’s the assertion that the human brain has special ‘frequencies’ and that he
can deliberately change his frequencies – which are both utterly unfounded claims) to be something
closer to the level of which they exist (there’s the subtle assertion that a being called Bashar
exists, and that by extension Bashar’s race, planet, universe and dimension exist – which
are all insultingly vacuous claims!) and at the same time Bashar will do the same thing
from his end (there’s the assertion that Bashar can also perform telepathy), so that
somewhere in the middle the brainwave frequencies meet and lock together… *stop sound* (… I’m
sorry, but if this bullshit doesn’t stick in your throat, you’ll swallow it all…
this is a ridiculous assertion that, guess what, hasn’t been remotely scientifically
proven!).
And what you then get it his thoughts into the language that I was obviously raised to
understand, which is English.
He’s not speaking, he’s just sending thoughts, but I’m translating that because our wavelengths
are synchronised (and there’s the assertion that he can translate Bashar’s language).
Honestly, none of what Anka has just asserted is true – none of it.
It’s all hogwash.
And no, I’m not being closed minded – I’m actually caring about the truth of claims
rather than if they just make me feel warm, fuzzy and special…
So if channelling doesn’t have any science in its favour, what does it have?
Why do people find it, and New Age mysticism altogether, so compelling?
Well, like all religious phenomenon, it’s due the fact that we simply haven’t biologically
evolved to be a rational species – we’re a power-seeking mammalian ape that’s absolutely
terrified of death and the fact that the entire universe doesn’t revolve around us, and
this makes us extremely susceptible to confirmation bias, arguments from ignorance, psychological
manipulation, scientific illiteracy, and incorrectly interpreting our experiences…
For example, let’s start with confirmation bias - the tendency to search for, interpret,
favour and recall information that confirms our beliefs.
Unfortunately, it’s extremely likely that believers in channelling have already stopped
watching this video because it doesn’t support their beliefs… they’ve written me and
this video off as ill-informed and obnoxious.
Furthermore, because many believers in channelling have invested a significant amount of their
time, money and energy into the belief, at least some of them will be committing an almost
subconscious Sunk Cost Fallacy.
They, like many pastors, priests and ministers, are justifying further investment into the
belief simply because they feel that the resources they’ve already invested will otherwise
be lost.
Moving on, and to emphasize what I think is the main cause of New Age Spiritually altogether
(let alone channelling), is scientific illiteracy, and the reason for this is because not understanding
science makes one susceptible to pseudoscience.
To repeat what I’ve stated in another video, the whole New Age movement is entirely predicated
on dispensing meaningless drivel as if it was profound truth and wisdom…
“Somewhere in the middle the brainwave frequencies meet and lock together.”
“What the fuck… what the fuck are you saying?”
It is “the combination of scientific sounding words with new age words to create the illusion
that they are somehow related…”
“It is the attempt to equivocate the spooky and perplex aspects of physics with New Age
intuitions, by subtly implying that because physics is spooky and difficult to understand
(but nevertheless true), so must be New Age intuitions.
And while we’re on the topic of deception, let’s talk about psychological manipulation…
One of the most common assertions that believers in channelling make is that a certain channeler
has revealed personal information about them, and that the only way they could’ve know
such information is if they really were channelling another entity (which, by the way, is an excellent
example of the Argument from Ignorance fallacy).
After all, how else could these channelers know such personal information?
Well, to provide but two explanations: likewise to conjurers, stage performers, and ‘psychics’,
many channelers utilise Hot Reading and Cold Reading to dumbfound their audience.
In both of these techniques the ‘reader’ reveals information about the person being
read (such as their goals and dreams, where they were born, the vehicle they drive, or
facts about one of their deceased relatives), with the difference being how each technique
obtains and relays the information.
In hot reading, the reader already knows the information before ‘reading’ the client
(through Facebook, etc), and simple acts as if she’s being told the information by the
channelled entity; while in cold reading the reader makes ‘Barnum Statements’ (or high-probability
guesses) based on an analysis of the client’s body language, gender, race, age, clothing,
hairstyle, religion, and manner of speech, and then capitalises on the ‘hits’ and
quickly moves on from the ‘misses’, and the result is a deceived and convinced client.
And finally, let’s touch a little upon personal experiences.
When someone, such as myself, states that channelling is bullshit, very often those
who have personally experienced channelling take that to mean that I’m saying that their
experience is bullshit – that they didn’t experience what they experienced (that they’re
a liar) – but that’s not what I’m saying – what I’m saying is that while I accept
that they had their experience, I don't accept their interpretation of their experience,
and the difference is paramount.
Like it or not, there’s a reason that why anecdotal evidence is considered the weakest
form of evidence – it’s not reliable because we can, and often are, mistaken.
Actually, I’ve changed my mind - this is the final point I want to make: don’t you
find it peculiar that all of these channelled gods, spirits, aliens and multidimensional
entities have not once contributed to science?
They haven’t given us any inventions, discoveries or cures for anything – all they’ve given
us is wishy-washy loose-weave assertions that are unfalsifiable – claims that can’t
be tested, and hence can’t be proven false.
It’s strange right – or is it?
If I wanted to make money from credulous people by pretending to have a telepathic connection
with an extraterrestrial, I’d be damn sure that my assertions are unfalsifiable, because
that way, no one could prove me false, and I’d be able to keep raking in the cash.
Now with all of this in mind (and especially the fact that there is no scientific evidence
for telepathy), one must ask themselves, what is more likely?
That the assertions of just a few of these channelers are correct (because they can’t
all be correct due to most of them contradicting one-another); that these channelers are schizophrenic;
or that these channelers are nasty, spineless charlatans who seek to build an empire on
your gullibility…
Occam's Razor, along with science, suggests the latter.
As always, thank you kindly for the view, and an extra special thank you to all of my
wonderful patrons – you kick ass guys!
You really do!
Thank you.