Cold To Any Form of Truth We Didn't Discover First? What Of The Truth That Something Was Gone In The Blink Of An Eye?

Through a woo-woo medium I hired, two Latter-day Saint friends who had gone on to the next world came and said hello to me.  The catch was that I thought they were both still alive because I hadn't been in touch.  That night I found their obituaries on the Net.  One friend I hadn't talked to for four years and the other for 40 years.

I wasn't sure how to pass the Hello along to their families, since LDS (Mormons) usually see mediums as working on the Dark Side of the Force with Darth Vader.  It's my experience that Latter-day Saints tend to be cold to any form of truth they didn't discover first.

That's too bad since India had a 5,000-year head start on discovering truth before the Father and the Son appeared to Joseph Smith the first Mormon near Lake Ontario in 1820.

This "cold to any form of truth I or my people didn't come up with ourselves" is not unique to Mormondom, though they have it down to a fine art.  I'm often guilty of it myself, and I'm reminded of a tall, competent emergency room doctor I used to work with almost on the Mexican border.  She wouldn't order anything for a patient she didn't think of first.  If my patient was puffing and short of breath, the last thing to do was walk up to this ER lady doc and ask, "How about some oxygen for Jolene Schmoe in room 1?"

If anybody else said the word "oxygen" or "breathing treatment" to the doc before she said it to us, ole Jolene was going to have to breathe on her own recognizance for the foreseeable future.

Might this kind of principle help explain why, say, Carl Sagan, would turn a blind eye to the vast circumstantial evidence of vessels flying around our skies with technology that is Just Beyond?  Including the "gone in the blink of an eye" technology.  We could compile a list of 1000 sober persons claiming to have seen something or someone clearly, only to have it/them not fly away real fast, but Flat Disappear in one second or less.  We could probably make 500 of them be cops and militaries. 

Lots of these accounts would turn out to be problematic, but some would be unexplainable by what we know.  There's a pattern here.  Science progresses by first detecting patterns and then by studying and understanding them.  Yet most card-carrying scientists in the US are avoiding giving attention to this common pattern.