Wisdom

 

Yes, it´s time for a rant about FC again!

I was genuinely shocked when doing on-line research about FC and its derivatives. The technique is *obviously* fake. Even pro-FC´s documentaries can´t hide the fact that the poor autists are being heavily prompted by the facilitators...and often get the wrong answers anyway. Yet, FC is a world-wide movemennt?! Or cult. The implications are staggering.

Your local unfriendly Skeptic association often says that people (ordinary plebs) simply aren´t good observers or reliable eye witnesses. The FC phenomenon confirms this thesis *in freakin´spades*. Thousands of people apparently think they can communicate with their severely autistic children on a daily basis with this technique. And yet it´s all a puppet show and a delusion. It´s not like seeing a Bigfoot in the forest just once. 

This seems to have consequences for how we look at eye witness reports of the supernatural. For instance Fatima. Or the 500 brothers who supposedly saw the risen Christ all at once after his resurrection. Or...anything really.

But then it struck me. The FC cult is secular (there is a New Age version, too, but the mainline FCers seem to be secular). So we have a case where thousands of people see a *natural* phenomenon which simply isn´t there. Which reminds me of C S Lewis´ quip that while most reports of the supernatural are false, most reports about natural events are also false. Indeed! Most things we see are lies. 

But if that´s the case, we can´t be sure that the supernatural isn´t real. Maybe it still lurks somewhere out there...

The quest continues.