Well in a way you do WG. You are intelligent and in many ways sincere. And so its sad when new age stuff takes you back to positions that people held in the 18th and 19th centuries. Those people who proposed those views where not the type that would deny them now with the information we have available to us.

You may be surprised but sometimes I even quite admire your determination. If I didn't I would not get annoyed with you when you talk plain rubbish that you could easily fix just by reading a few books like the one I recommended. He starts off with this idea that all we are are the atoms that make our body. According to current science thats correct, but I would hope you would treat that with an element of skepticism. But what you would gain from reading the story of the progress of science would be immense in terms of you discussing it with people at least partially grounded in it.

This is why you have some "hold over my mind". Because you have some good ideas, but you refuse to do some reading that would make arguing with you fun rather than sad.

Simon