Bending metal objects has long been a favorite pastime of people with alleged psychic ability. The claim is that it is possible to exercise your mind power in such a way as to influence the molecular structure of a metal object such as a key.
Stage magicians seem to have no problem with duplicating the...
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I have already explained how I felt about synchronicity in a post called Understanding Synchronicity. I thought including this video would be worthwhile because it clarifies my feelings about our basic misunderstanding of coincidences and probability.
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Being hypnotized is a relationship between the hypnotist and the subject. It is not a matter of one person putting another to sleep or being in control of another person’s will. The hypnotist induces, by any of a number of methods, a state of willingness to cooperate in his subject. The subject’ awareness of...
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The popular conception of conversational hypnosis is of the act of hypnotizing a person while simply talking to them as in an everyday conversation. But how can suspending someone’s control over themselves be suspended so casually?
The genesis of conversational hypnosis is the theory that we all go off into hypnotic trances during our daily...
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The simplest theory on how frogs and fishes get into the sky and then come down again is that they are picked up by wind. Nobody has actually seen this happen, but it seems reasonable as a theory. Waterspouts and tornadoes are actually able to pick up all sorts of objects and carry...
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Mathematician John Allen Paulos, came up with the term “Jeane Dixon effect”, to describe the phenomenon where a psychic’s supporters will ignore their idol’s failures and at the same time lend more credence to their successes, or perceived successes, than they deserve. Jeanne Dixon is supposed to have predicted JFK’ assassination, but although she...
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Charles Fort visited libraries all over the world collecting data on strange events. His name is most commonly associated with rare phenomena like frogs or fish falling from the sky but he collected reports of all kinds of things that he felt scientists were not looking at honestly.
It is not always obvious when Fort...
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The world is full of people actively pursuing happiness but rarely finding it. I though I would look at the idea of achieving happiness by NOT selfishly grasping for it. The idea that “virtue has its own reward” has been around for centuries but when I have tried to actively help others I encounter...
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This video appears on YouTube as footage of a UFO crashing. Commenters on the page say the footage is of the crash landing of an unmanned space probe. I guess it’s reasonable to assume that the people who say they saw a TV program about the landing are correct. The person who posted the...
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Edgar Cayce is the poster boy for psychic abilities. He is supposed to have diagnosed and offered cures for many sick people by slipping into a trance. Most of these cures were effected from long distances. The books about Cayce are really convincing. His sincerity is evident but was he a victim of self-delusion?
I...
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