Dr Victor Zammit is a former Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia: www.victorzammit.com

Victor,

I see a qualified psychologist, Anne Chester MSc, who is also a Christian, has had a crack at you in the letters column of Psychic World - February 2001. This would be very funny if it were not so tragic. If this academic can be so gullible as to actually believe in Christian mythology, with its "holy" book written by the creator of the universe, then it is only a very small step to believing in the outrageous nonsense that passes for psychology as taught in universities throughout the world.

Thank goodness I was born a wartime child, our generation are automatically raging sceptics, we are immune from falling for any mumbo jumbo. We don't trust anybody, especially our so-called teachers. As soon as my generation became conscious of the world we had been born into we quickly realised that it was a place run by lunatics. Every night somebody called Germans were trying to kill me and also my parents. However, I really got the number of psychologists when my eldest son Lawson took a degree in physical education at Birmingham University. Part of this course took in sports psychology. At the tender age of 19 my son knew more about "sports psychology" than anything written in a textbook. He had already played first class cricket for Gloucestershire and had to face West Indian fast bowlers among others. This sure concentrates the mind! One day while my son was swatting for an exam he asked my advice on how he should answer one of these pathetic psychological questions. I could not understand a word of it until I decoded it using the dictionary. It was a complete load of rubbish. It was a bit like that written by Professor David Fontana on the front page of the March Psychic World. He says that Professor Arthur Ellison thought materialisation phenomena "were thought-forms produced unconsciously by the sitters than actual discarnates". Only a psychologist who has been brainwashed by the university sausage machine would write such drivel without making an intelligent comment in order to put the record straight.

I plucked up courage to tell my son that he was being fed gobbledegook by his teachers. His answer summed up the whole rotten education system:

"O yes dad, we all know it is a load of tripe, but I asked you how I should answer it, not if it is correct. Every university student knows they are being taught absolute rubbish, but the name of the game is to get our degrees. We have to feed the academics what they want to hear."

How thankful I am that my university was doing national service on the lower deck in the Royal Navy. I learnt more here than the whole of the rest of my life put together. I remember as a young man in my new uniform feeling very proud walking down the street in one of our colonies. Suddenly a native came up to me, spat in my face, and called me a "filthy British swine". This really shook me because my teachers had showed me the globe with all the red bits on it that was owned by Great Britain. Until that moment in the Middle East I had bought the idea that we were goodies spreading enlightenment throughout the world. I am older and wiser now.

Those of us who have completely escaped from the clutches of priestcraft and academic indoctrination have some serious deprogramming to do. We sure hit 'em with an Arthur Findlay pincer movement when we broadcast together on Australian radio a few weeks a back. I am not depressed because millions are hitting our websites. We shall have total victory because we are fighting with right on our side, a mighty powerful ally.

All we are asking for is just a chance to present the secular scientific case for survival after death, not to convert or convince anybody.

Michael

Only the Physics Connection is Censored - Open letter from Michael Roll to Dr. (now Prof.) Peter Wadhams (March, 2001)