David Bailey
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While this may be true, I think there is evidence that the "other side" is "regulated". There are many things which NEVER happen so, in my opinion, somebody (God?) is preventing these things. Why don't we see:
-Mediums who get lottery numbers.
-Mediums who are absolutely consistent and so could go on TV and nail it to the satisfaction of the skeptics.
-Ghosts who want to go on TV and appear for the camera.
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Well that may represent regulation, but it might be explained in other ways.
Mediums who get lottery numbers may just take the cash!
If there are absolutely consistent psychics, they may become aware (paranormally or otherwise) that they would quickly become feared and hated by society.
Maybe interacting with this world is very expensive in some way, so the vast majority don't do this. For example suppose their time goes massively faster than ours, so that even a short conversation would require subjective weeks or months to complete.
I think a lot of people in the West take the Bible story as a blueprint for the afterlife. While it may be that this aspect of the Bible was based closely on the truth, it may equally well be badly off the mark. I think the evidence from NDE's is remarkably varied, and difficult to interpret. For example, the very idea that people get told, in effect, that they are in heaven by mistake, and need to go back to their bodies, is decidedly odd. They aren't told that this is a planned interruption to set their minds in a better direction - yet some people try to understand NDE's in this way.
In a fully mental world, there might be restrictions analogous to the physical restrictions we encounter in a physical world - e.g. flying to the moon involves fantastic effort and cooperation. A restriction isn't a regulation but just something that follows from the way things work.
David