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Review Exercise IId:

Psychic Phenomena
Identify the fallacies that occur in the following long passage.
 

 
        There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that psychic phenomena, such as mind reading, astral projection, etc. do in fact actually occur. The existence of occult phenomena easily explains why so many people have dreams that later turn out to be premonitions of things to come. Furthermore, it would be difficult to explain how communication between human beings is possible at a verbal level unless we suppose that there is some deeper, psychic level of communication upon which verbal communication can build. From these instances we may conclude that psychic abilities are nearly universal phenomena, lying dormant within us all.
        Of course, established scientists are unwilling to admit the genuine possibility of occult phenomena, but they are really in no position to be so complacent. The "truths" of science have been upset too often. Just as an example, consider the curious case of black holes. Since no one has so far observed an actual black hole, we may conclude that black holes do not exist. If physicists can make such a fundamental mistake, the entire scientific method should be dismissed as generally unreliable. Of course most scientists will not agree with this assessment, but what else would you expect? Since they make their living from government funding, they will naturally give lip-service to the methods that bureaucrats give money to.
        Meanwhile, compare this morass of greed and corruption to the impressive body of writings that testify to the reality of the occult, from the prophecies of Nostradamus to the more recent work of Edgar Cayce. Scientists are rather like lost children afraid to ask a policeman to take them home. Just as we would not expect a child to get home without help, we cannot expect scientists to make any significant discoveries without the guidance of inspiration and prophecy.

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