Yeah! As a witness kid in the 50's the ectoplasm thing sure was convincing. It was "material" evidence after all. Humans love this supernatural crap.
What gets me is how persistent this stuff is. If you asked an old witness what ectoplasm is they would repeat exactly what the Watchtower said. So, how come the watchtower has never explained that this trickery on the part of spiritualists has now been scientifically debunked. Apparrently, the "truth" is what JW's believe and doesn't have to be connected with reality at all.
Even worse. Recently on this very discussion board it was pointed out that Jung was in the same class of spiritualists as Sylvia Browne. Jung channeled "entities" and yes he was one of the "scientists" who fell for the scam where spirit mediums produced ectoplasm and suddenly weighed less.
The trouble with some empiricists is that they think they can't be fooled.
Yet some XJW's fall for this. It makes you think that people who want magic are going to find magic.
I never wanted magic. I can't stand fiction. And I feel my brain was crippled by the Watchtower version of the infectious meme we like to call religion.