Considering the Mentalities of Reddit Website Participants

Jan 23

Although my Reddit posts presenting paranormal photographic images have received hundreds of thousands of views, most of the recent ones have eventually been removed/censored by Reddit 'moderators.' For this reason, several weeks ago I originated my own Reddit 'community' r/paranormalevidencepix. A Twitter post of mine shares the observation — The mentality of many Reddit readers is noticeably ignorant and misinformed about metaphysical and 'paranormal' subjects with fear & denialism the reaction to unfamiliar evidence. This may be due to [accustomed lifetime exposure to the] military-industrial complex regulated news media, Wikipedia disinformation, etc. [Over the years, I've often found a pervasive amount of disinformation about metaphysical and paranormal topics at Wikipedia, as mentioned in this 2021 article.]

There are profound reasons regarding my previously having reminded readers (article) that I consider myself essentially a journalist who is always aware that countless men and woman have sacrificed their lives so that we all may have freedom of speech and the press.

Considering the social consciousness being exhibited by Reddit website participants, this blog article documents an example of responses to my having simply posted the documentary montage shown below. The montage consists of portions of photographs revealing entities that have materialized at seances associated with Spiritualism. You will notice that among the replies in this thread is my personal response to the denialists whereby I identified the highly evidential source books that establish the authenticity of the five photographs. For this current blog article, screenshots were taken of all the replies in this censored thread at the time the post was "removed by the moderators of r/Ghosts." Some reflections about these replies are shared at the conclusion of this article.

My conclusions concerning the mentalities of some Reddit moderators and a considerable number of commentators is primarily that when a social consciousness of closed-minded denialism is embraced, these individuals seem comfortable with a narrow-minded, biased and censoring frame of reference; therefore moderators removing posts that suggest some alternative to an atheist or agnostic orientation to life is evidently expected and welcomed. This perhaps is what these individuals are familiar with experiencing, considering our American commercial mainstream news media where frequently reporters seem to focus on a one-sided or specific 'slanted' perspective regarding any particular topic or issue. As a high school and college journalist during the 1970s, I was taught that a reporter's duty was to state facts and present both sides of controversial predicaments and topics as was common during that epoch. In a previous blog article I mentioned (as a concluding remark) — After all, a corporate and government hierarchies-controlled mainstream news media is totalitarian. Some of the comments shown below from another censored Reddit post of mine provide an example of commentators literally articulating their support of censorship.

The unwillingness to consider data conflicting with a reader's current mentality seems to me to categorize such an individual as one of the 'sheeple' referred to in some preceding blog articles. The reluctance to develop one's metaphysical and spiritual understanding through thinking might be intended to avoid dealing with the realization that one's current perspectives of the possibilities of life are incorrect and a determination is decided upon to avoid having to recalculate one's concepts about the nature of life.

In my own life, I didn't stop watching movies and TV shows until soon after my 'paranormal initiation' in 1995 when I was age 39. I now consider the extensive portion of my life devoted to the activity of entertainment—fictional movies and TV shows, computer games, sporting events, novels, comic books, stage plays—to some extent was a wasteful use of life experience opportunities. Transcendental communicators such as 'channeled entities' have explained how each individual human being or 'personality' is a 'consciousness unit'/splinter/aspect of 'All That Is'/'The God Force' and a purpose of Earth life is to gain an understanding of one's predicament in regard to this single most important relationship for any human being. 'Channeling' / 'mediumship' cases that encompass use of the expression 'God Force' include those of Edgar Cayce, Leslie Flint, Eileen Garrett, Helen Greaves, Thomas Jacobson*, JZ Knight*, Gladys Osborne Leonard, Jach Pursel*, Estelle Roberts, Jane Roberts, Pat Rodegast*, Neville Rowe and Kevin Ryerson*. (*contemporary cases)

The metaphysical or 'paranormal' initiation chronicled in the nonfiction case study TESTAMENT (1997) brought me the awareness that life is a 'test' or 'morality contest' for the individual. I recall learning from one transcendental case chrononlogy (article) that "all the souls that exist in the Universe have had, at one time or another, the necessity to manifest on the physical Planet Earth, for the lessons to be learned."

One can only wonder about how someone such as the denialist Reddit website participants will react in the future upon finding oneself making the transition to the ascended realm of life and inhabiting a spirit body on 'the Other Side.' The alternative is to be better prepared through learning about transcendental communication case studies, including the 'Divine Dispensations' of Spiritualism/mediumship and 'channeling.'

Regarding people who have extensively been involved for many years with the experience of thoughtlessly being a spectator of entertainment, an individual could possibly at the time of making the transition to 'the Other Side' (when Earth life concludes) have a mental state comparable to having an extreme proportion of 'entertainment trance' or 'computerized' passive entertainment experiences. Fictitious sources that one chooses to give one's attention usually don't instill proportionate and well-founded insights. There's also the question about the available range of programming engendering negative and troubling thoughts encompassing disturbing situations and emotions.

A previous blog article is "Overcoming Silence and Entertainment Trance Will Allow the Joyful New Age to Unfold". There's the danger of an individual human personality / 'counsciousness unit' leading an unfulfilling life in relation to emotional experiences and developing a loving interrelationship with 'The God Force.'

A particular transcendental communicator in one paranormal case chronology is quoted to have encouraged spiritual contemplation through describing their own metaphysical predicament: "You see, the energy in your mind, that is, we must admit, that is the thing—that—we—do—not—have. W-e a-r-e c-o-m-p-u-t-o-r-i-z-e-d c-o-m-p-l-e-t-e-l-y c-o-m-p-u-t-o-r-i-z-e-d b-y m-e-c-h-a-n-i-c-a-l i-n-s-t-r-u-m-e-n-t-s-. A-s y-o-u c-a-n h-e-a-r-, w-e a-r-e c-o-m-p-u-t-o-r-i-z-e-d-, c-o-m-p-u-t-o-r-i-z-e-d-."

Perhaps the Christian tradition centering on the biblical 'Jesus' was helpful to people in society for many generations in relation to gaining some conception and understanding of 'God's Love.' Considering the popularity of the Christian religion at present, a Gallup poll last year reported:

A record-low 20% of Americans now say the Bible is the literal word of God, down from 24% the last time the question was asked in 2017, and half of what it was at its high points in 1980 and 1984. Meanwhile, a new high of 29% say the Bible is a collection of "fables, legends, history and moral precepts recorded by man." This marks the first time significantly more Americans have viewed the Bible as not divinely inspired than as the literal word of God. The largest percentage, 49%, choose the middle alternative, roughly in line with where it has been in previous years.

My own unique orientation to 'The God Force' is articulated in the article "Sharing Diverse Aspects of my 'Paranormal Initiation'".

1/26/23 Update: Today I posted the following observation at Reddit. The responses are shown prior to the removal/censoring of the post thereafter.

1/27/23 Update: Today I commented on a post by 'youareallstupid1' who had written:

God is the single biggest waste of time on earth. It only shows that people are inherently evil and they need to be told by a magician in the sky how to be good. Notice all the people who "love god" are stupid religious fucks who get everything wrong! People started wars for who’s story was the best. You might as well fight over who's Santa Claus story is better 😂 We should just bomb all the religious centers and ban them all. Start over with science and maybe we'd actually make it somewhere. Better science would have given me years, it would have saved him, but God either did nothing and is nothing but evil or doesn’t exist at all as I always knew every time some dumbass told me "Jesus loves me" 😂 well Mr Hankey loves you vicariously even if your a jew so there 🤷🏼‍♀️ same difference

My comment to this post is:

Here are two perspectives of 'The God Force' from profile articles about transcendental communication cases: (1) "Every man IS a Divine Spark of the Creator, and this Spark IS deep within him or he would not exist. When man lets Light (truth) pervade his consciousness, it strikes this Spark within and grows into an ever brighter light . . . a bright, glowing lamp. When this Lamp shines and glows unto others, it is only natural that more lamps can be lit." (2) "There are many descriptions of God, but only one that reveals that great being's true nature. God is love, and love is the altruism that exists in each and every one of you. It is the ability to give forth from yourselves as abundant beings. For if you are immortal, if you are a spirit, if you are the children of God, then you may give of yourself in no shallowness and no hesitation. And you will then, in each act, transcend the mundaneness of the physical plane and become more and more the children of God. For this is the merger of the mind, the body, and the spirit in dedication and service to God."

Below is shown my Reddit profile at https://www.reddit.com/user/m_r_bell.