Because of the wind, 20:30 Breeze channel
Alfer spy

"Because of the wind". Predicting the future for the guests
And the viewers who pick up the phone
(See the comments of the "Hidan" at the end)
Watching "Because of the Spirit", a daily program on a central satellite channel, makes it possible to examine the culture known in Israel as "mystic", or "spirit", the "spiritual" culture. The format is similar to that of other programs of its kind, or of such corners in more general entertainment programs: in the studio sit several experts, "mystics", who predict the future for the guests and viewers who pick up the phone.
As far as one can glean from the exchange of words, the synonymous terms "mysticism" and "spirituality" refer to a worldview according to which the trajectory of a person's life, known as "destiny", is dictated by factors that cannot be sensed, nor can be observed, measured quantitatively, or controlled by any instrument. These factors are not matter, and therefore are "spirit", and hence the belief in them is "spiritual", or "mystical". The information stored in the hands of those parties is accessible only to "mystics". The nature of this relationship is not clear from watching the program, because it is impossible to watch it.
Well: "spiritual" people believe in the existence of spiritual beings; They believe that the only difference between the past and the future is not that the future is a time that has not yet occurred, but that man, who is limited to perceiving reality through his senses, cannot know it; They believe that all events that have ever occurred in the world are predestined; And they believe that the time called "future" is visible to "mystics". "Spiritual" people are not religious. The law of worshiping God does not apply to them, they are not bound by mitzvot that shape a way of life, they are not threatened with hell in the next world in case of apostasy, and they are not guaranteed messianic redemption. They are allowed to live as seculars. Their faith is not religious, but primitive, irrational, pre-scientific. The circulation of this "mysticism" in Israeli television broadcasts (on Channel 2, Channel 33 and Breeze channel) and in horoscope doubles on the weekends shows that it is accepted as true on the main avenue in the nation, or unfortunately it is not far-fetched.
As with all the "Mystic" shows, "Because of the Spirit" hosted yesterday the representative of the so-called "alternative" medicine, whose diagnostic and healing methods are also pre-scientific.
One should not conclude from this that the "spiritual" current in Israel wants to renounce science, technology, progress, industrialization, computing, modernity and high-tech and return to the Middle Ages. Although he believes in things that are in complete contradiction to science and rationality, he frees himself from the need to reconcile this contradiction, or to be consistent. Haim Malki, the decipherer of the photographs and voices who appeared on the program yesterday, and from his words it was possible to understand that an entity known as "God" talks to him whenever he wants, advised the woman in trouble: "You must use science, connect with everything that science tells you."
The "spiritual" current is a joke, bullshit, amusement and indulgence, marketed to the public through television by charlatans and eyewitnesses. He does not demand to stop teaching science in schools, does not wish for the affairs of the state to be conducted according to readings from the remains of mud coffee, does not want the destruction of all modern medical services, or the dismantling of the IDF of its sophisticated weapons, and does not deny the achievements of science, such as, for example, satellite television broadcasts. It is, for now, a leisure culture that offers little hope, comfort and entertainment.
But the infrastructure for a more worrying development is being laid here every day. Confused people, who believe nonsense, in a country in deep crisis that needs to make fateful decisions about the future, are waiting for a politician who will give the terms "fate" and "future" a "spiritual" meaning. The connection between despair and longing for absolute truth collapses regimes.
"Hidan" comments: The Israeli skeptic website, which is part of the Hidan website, has been fighting for five years, since the beginning of 1998, with mysticism and superstitions of all kinds. We welcome Rogel Alfer with a welcome to the club and hope that there will be many like him.
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