The pursuit of mysticism receives positive reinforcement from the education system and the media. A drastic and integrated action is needed to uproot the dangerous pest from the root
4.1.2003
By: Avi Blizovsky
Haaretz supplement cover from 2/1/2003 discussing the police's request for help from mystics in locating missing people
Sara Leibovitch-Dar published this week in the "Haaretz" supplement A comprehensive article about an alarming phenomenon - the police and the army use mystics to locate missing persons . The phenomenon reached its climax when over a hundred mystics offered their help in finding the baby Hudia Kedem, and the police even dispatched forces to the abandoned village of Lipta to find Hudia there according to the testimony of a mystic who saw her in her own eyes.
Last week we learned about a homeopath who caused the death of a boy with cancer after the boy's parents, at the demand of the impersonating doctor, stopped the conventional treatment. The impostor only received three months of community service.
The light punishment of the impostor and the ease with which bodies we are supposed to trust as acting rationally - the army and the police - arouse concern among the sane public.
If you look for the roots of this annoying phenomenon and ask why the State of Israel in the year 2003 has so many children, well there is only one reason for this - the state's attitude towards the phenomenon and, as a result, the attitude of the media and the education system. If the state had seen before its eyes the mental health of its citizens instead of taking advantage of their ignorance to control them, it should have declared war on mysticism in all its forms.
And what are its authorities doing - the Israel Broadcasting Authority devotes a weekly program to astrology of about twenty minutes or more as part of the program "What Will Happen", after the ten o'clock news on Fridays on Channel XNUMX (the Star Shabbat of Miriam Binyamini) and another shorter segment as part of Avraham Ferrera's program "Not for Women" only" every day at ten on the C network.
There is almost no mention of science in the state newspaper (unless there is no choice and by mistake the scientists who managed to take advantage of the clutches of mysticism invented something else that extends our life span). On the other hand, there is a daily astrology section.
Channel 2 sanctifies the X-rays and Babas absolutely freely in the program of Judy Shalom-Nir-Moses Jude Luck, and even Channel 8 in one of its previous incarnations had a pure mysticism program (performed by the Australian staff of Beyond the Millennium, perhaps they meant Beyond the Millennium BC ?)
The internet in Israel is also full of mystical sites - among other things about yogic levitation, channeling (talking with the dead), tarot cards and what not. There is no "self-respecting" portal (the quotation marks are intentional) that does not have an astrology corner. Has increased to make an MSN portal that has both an astrological site that is updated daily and a report site along the lines of "ask the rabbi". When I approached them and offered to at least balance these sites through cooperation with the science website, the refusal was as absolute as if I had suggested they plant a bomb on every surfer's computer.
The argument was the "rating". "We are not an educational institution. We are an economic entity and we should allocate space only to things that have a lot of readers." As if on the Internet another 100 kilobits per day on the site would really make a difference in terms of disk space.
In other words, the people need to be fed more mysticism because that's what the people want and whoever gets in the way of that is just a troublemaker and spoils parties.
You will surely say that it is the role of the education system to root out these superstitions. So, first of all, without the help of the media, the words of the teachers will seem disconnected from reality to the children. Another dissonance is that today's teachers are also products of the degenerate media. Surveys conducted among recent seminary graduates showed that their general knowledge tends to zero and I have already encountered a XNUMXth grade teacher and educator who believed that Israel is in the Middle East continent....
Unfortunately, there are no real secular schools in the State of Israel that will instill mysticism. If there are already private schools - these follow mystical methods from the Beit Madrasham of Ron L. The Bard and Carl Jung.
We need to make an alliance with the moderates among the religious public - who understand that following mysticism not only does it not bring us closer to the Jewish religion - it is really idolatry. I have heard such statements on his part, for example, from Jackie Levy (who occasionally presents "The Last Word" on GLA together with Avri Gilad). We need many more voices like this.
Perhaps if a secular government is formed, there will be a minister of education who, together with a full-time minister of communications and a minister of science, will begin the task of purifying mysticism from the media and schools, as well as a minister of internal security and a minister of security who will issue an unequivocal order to send those who demand a conversation with mystics to psychologists and not to give them legitimacy. Their predecessors for all 55 years of the state sowed wind. The parents of the boy with cancer and Hodia Kedem's mother cut short the storm.
