5506C03 ASMC-3 History of Research and Investigation

     One good thing about a hellfire and brimstone type of religion is that it
at least acknowledges the existence of the spirit.  The Scopes trial was a
turning point, in which the theory that man is merely a machine became
fashionable.

     In past years, there was great spiritual awareness and perception Even as
recently as the sixteenth century, duellists used to have an embarrassing
thing happen: when they killed the opponent, he'd exteriorize and zap them and
pester them afterwards.  As mechanical knowledge increased, spiritual
awareness decreased; people thought this was progress, despite the increase in
amount of madness.  If there's no spiritual liability to destroying other
people and their possessions, one would expect crime to become more prevalent,
and so it does.