Remote Viewing, Silly Gods, and True Faith

Edwin C. May (https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/edwin-c-may), a PhD in nuclear physics, was once the director of Project Stargate, a secret U.S. program in the 70s, 80s, and 90s that investigated a parapsychic phenomenon known as Remote Viewing.

Recently, May appeared on the Shawn Ryan podcast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0u0JqwQDJQ), where he took an interesting stance. He fully believes in remote viewing, but entirely dismisses the existence of spirits, God, or any kind of afterlife. In his view, when you die, it is the end. Nothing awaits.

So, what exactly is remote viewing? Here’s a general definition from Wikipedia

“Remote viewing is the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen subject, purportedly sensing with the mind. A remote viewer is expected to give information about an object, event, person, or location hidden from physical view and separated at some distance.”

May believes that a remote viewer can “see” something like a Russian missile silo with their mind, but God? That’s just superstition. Describing a comet millions of miles away or predicting the stock market through remote viewing is, to him, perfectly reasonable.

Whether remote viewing is real or not, the logic behind believing in it while rejecting God or an afterlife is perplexing. It’s why I’ve always thought disbelievers could die, be confronted with the afterlife, and still refuse to believe in God. They would just rationalize their new existence as another dimension, quantum physics, or claim that what appears to be God isn’t really “God.” They’d say, “We just don’t understand it, so we call it God. Now, leave me alone while I explore the universe, and you can keep looking for your silly God.”

But who is truly being silly?

As Paul warned in Romans:

“For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.”

The truth is right in front of us, yet we see nothing but void and darkness. Drink, eat, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.