One in a Million; not even

FRANK HERBERT, science fiction writer extraordinaire, wrote the best selling science fiction novel of all time, "Dune", and its five sequals. In it is a prominent planet "Salusa Secondus". Most of the Dune books were written in the nineteen sixties and seventies, and herbert died in 1986, at the age of sixty five.

Now fast forward to the present. On the internet, there is an "entity" called "Salusa", who is allegedly a being from the star sirius, presumably a plaent orbiting said star, because sirius is even hotter than most stars, and that's goin' some.

Salusa is "channeled " by an older gentleman named mike quinsey, and is featured on at least one blog, and maybe many more.. Salusa, from all appearances, is quite popular. Apparently thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, log on to the channelings of salusa.

the people who do evidently accept the claim a priori that salusa is a being from sirius , without any hesitation. I know of at least one person who fits this category. What salusa says is quite comforting, and gentle.

The message, essentially, is that the world is messed up because it is run by evil people, but things are changing, because the human race is undergoing a spiritual awakening, and is being aided by the galactic federation of light. You can figure out for yourself what this is. Our future is golden.

I am perfectly willing to accept all this. I am even perfectly willing to assert that i believe that there is a ninety nine percent probability that salusa is indeed an enlightened being from sirius, and that mike is channeling said being. this i choose to do.

But i am also willing to accept the possibility, the one percent possibility, that mike is an attention seeking fraud, and that maybe he read "Dune" at a younger age. Of course, it is possible that a very real being from another star system just happens to call itself by the name of a planet in an earthly science fiction novel. Or maybe the enlightened being from the galactic federation of light read "Dune", and likes the name, and chose to adopt it.

Mike recently suffered a mild stroke, (may he get well soon) and instead of salusa choosing to send messages to somebody else as a temporary substitute channeler, it has been announced that salusa has temporarily stopped sending messages, until mike is back on his feet, which, it is hoped, is quite soon.

we live in an age of credulity, of believing, af grasping for something, anything, other than the harsh reality of the world we see. Hence, alcoholism, and widespread drug use. Hence, the booming psychiatric industry. Hence the enormous escape entertainment industry. Hence salusa?

is there even a one in a million chance that salusa is nothing other than mike quinsey's fertile imagination?  Maybe, but don't try telling that to any of his many followers. You'll have an angry antagonistic believer with whom to deal, one who will have an answer for you which will not reflect well on your open mindedness nor intelligence, and will doubtless have the full support of the galactic federation of light.