Watch this Space

5th February 2024

After many months of radio silence, the odd Global Flourishing group that I wrote about last year briefly stirred before going quiet again. Rest assured, if anything comes of this, I’ll be watching it closely and writing about it. Here are the messages that appeared on the group’s Discord channel last week:

In this week’s newsletter Hamish, one of our new committee members and an organiser of last year’s conference in Dunedin, has written about a topic close to his heart, and to his profession - Facilitated Communication. I talk about one of the parts of being skeptical that is almost risk-free - busting common misconceptions. Craig has been shooting fish in a barrel by looking into the latest news from Elon Musk’s Neuralink. And finally Bronwyn has documented some of the nonsense coming from another of our local kiwi channelers, this time sex-guru Bruce Lyon from Palmerston North, who has been channelling the it-girl of Ascended Masters.

Mark Honeychurch

Facilitated Communication

Hamish Dickson - 5 February 2024

Facilitated Communication

This article is a brief introduction to facilitated communication (FC) - what it is, and what harm it can do for a person being facilitated. I will also give some guidance on what you can do to help.

Skepticism away from the Coal Face

Mark Honeychurch - 5 February 2024

Skepticism away from the Coal Face

A lot of skepticism these days involves battling against wrong-heading beliefs related to topics that are important to us, and to our world: whether an all-powerful God created us, and wants us to follow his strict, perversely specific and often nonsensical rules about how to live our lives; if climate change is real, and how much of a risk it is to our continued existence on this planet; the merits (or lack thereof) of alternative medicine, and the dangers they can pose to a misinformed public.

New Neuralink News

Craig Shearer - 5 February 2024

New Neuralink News

Making the news this past week was Elon Musk's announcement that his company, Neuralink, has performed its first implantation of their experimental Brain Computer Interface device (BCI) into a human.