Mask For Treason

[mikegriffith1]

(11-30-2018 06:34 PM)Gene C Wrote:  

(11-30-2018 04:08 PM)mikegriffith1 Wrote:  …., but I would recommend his book because of the valuable information and insights that it contains.

"Insights" is an interesting way to describe it.

In "WHAT ARE YOU READING NOW" thread, post #313, BettyO wrote

"Ooohhh, yes! I knew about this years and years ago....utter hogwash! In the 1980s, Shelton wrote The View from Eternity in which he claims that his clairvoyant wife "channeled" Lew. It was this information which he used to write Mask.... The one passage which I've always enjoyed out of this gobbledegook as John Brennan once called it, was the passage where in mid-flight, Powell's get-away horse changes from a gelding into a stallion....how this veterinary miracle takes place has never been fully explained"

I don't know what "BettyO" is talking about here. There is no trace of an appeal to supernatural inspiration in Shelton's book. Every conclusion he reaches is based on facts and logic that he presents. Some of his conclusions are not persuasive, in my view, but one can see that he did not reach them casually or hastily. His book is one of the most thoroughly documented books on the Lincoln case.

Just because someone happens to believe in this or that form of the supernatural does not mean we can summarily dismiss their research on another issue. Someone can be very wrong about a metaphysical issue but correct or at least credible on other issues.