The BL's are anti-Baba

The Baba lovers reject Baba's explanation in God Speaks of where the Avatar goes when he dies, i.e. State 2B. They contact me just to object.

They replace it with either time travel or 19th century Theosophical Society ascended master teachings. 

It's useful to know that these ascended master teachings do not come from the teachings of any Avatar, but are a descendent of folk religions such as ancestor worship, which were indigenous to the countries that became Buddhist long after Buddha, not from the teachings of Buddha. The Theosophists likely discovered Buddhists in southern India performing these practices and took them to be part of real Buddhism. 


So this is where I believe the Theosophists, reading Buddhist texts recently translated, got their notion of ascended masters.


Some of the names for talking to the dead in pagan and folk religions include:

Goetia: a European magical practice that involves invoking demons or angels. 
Theurgy: the art or technique of compelling or persuading a god or beneficent or supernatural power to do or refrain from doing something. (Websters)
Channeling: To serve as a medium for. She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth. (Wiktionary)
Necromancy: conjuration of the spirits of the dead for purposes of magically revealing the future or influencing the course of events. (Websters)
Conjuration: to summon a devil or spirit by invocation or incantation (Websters)
Divination: the art or practice of using omens or magic powers to foretell the future.
Mediumship: the capacity, function, or profession of a spiritualistic medium. First used 1852.
Shamanism: a practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. The goal is usually to direct spirits or spiritual energies into the physical world for the purpose of healing, divination, or to aid human beings in some other way.
Veneration of the Dead including Ancestor Worship


In modern New Age religions the 'channeling' has become the common term for the resurgence of such pagan and folk practices. 

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