{"id":4045,"date":"2010-04-04T08:36:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T16:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2010-04-04T08:37:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T16:37:48","slug":"casper-the-friendly-social-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/casper-the-friendly-social-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"Casper The Friendly Social Worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If true (can the Dutch have gone quite so crazy?),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/netherlands\/7521139\/Dutch-prisons-use-psychics-to-help-prisoners-contact-the-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> is the story (via the <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em>) \u00a0of a scheme\u00a0so loopy that <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=4009  \" target=\"_blank\">Orrin Hatch<\/a> could probably be persuaded to use taxpayer dollars to fund it over here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dutch prisons are using psychics to give jailed criminals guidance by putting them in touch with their dead relatives. Paul van Bree, a self-styled &#8220;paragnost&#8221; or clairvoyant, has been hired by the Dutch prison service to teach prisoners how to &#8220;love themselves&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tell them that dead relatives are doing well and that they love them. That brings them peace. Big strong men burst into tears,&#8221; he said\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 The Dutch employment service has also looked beyond the normal to use &#8220;regression therapy&#8221; and tarot cards to help the jobless.<\/p>\n<p>Uncooperative welfare claimants have been told they will lose benefits unless they accept the guidance of a regression therapist to help them get in touch with their past lives.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, 42,500 Dutch people signed up to state funded spiritually-based &#8220;personal development programmes&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If true (can the Dutch have gone quite so crazy?),\u00a0this is the story (via the Daily Telegraph) \u00a0of a scheme\u00a0so loopy that Orrin Hatch could probably be persuaded to use taxpayer dollars to fund it over here: Dutch prisons are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/casper-the-friendly-social-worker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[520,32,504],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}