Developing tk/pk

"...I also know that the human mind is a powerful thing and capable of so much more than we understand...maybe someday we'll be able to fully unlock human potential... "

1,000 % agree. If you've experienced these things then accepting them and understanding them is much easier. If you haven't it's easy to be a nonbeliever. There is nothing supernatural about it, some people can and some people can't. Just like being short or tall, blue or brown eyes.


My mind makes people move things all the time. It's a joke

RyuJin wrote: Actually I was only providing information for anyone interested. If people wish to discuss things feel free just remember to keep it civil. I know not everyone believes in psychic/paranormal phenomena for various reasons...i'm open minded and have experienced things science still can't explain...I love science personally, and often try to apply it to psychic/paranormal phenomena...I have loads of theories...I also know that the human mind is a powerful thing and capable of so much more than we understand...maybe someday we'll be able to fully unlock human potential...

Thank you friend, that's one thing I wish I'd see more of. More us. More what you thinks, more what s up with the what's up! Thank u.
Personally, I'm a file this under some day this may . Lol I've had my fair share of Un explainable things happen to me. I'm personally cautious to "name" my experiences, not my thing and I'm no good at it. Thank u brother! May the Living Force continue to be with you

RyuJin wrote: Actually I was only providing information for anyone interested. If people wish to discuss things feel free just remember to keep it civil. I know not everyone believes in psychic/paranormal phenomena for various reasons...i'm open minded and have experienced things science still can't explain...I love science personally, and often try to apply it to psychic/paranormal phenomena...I have loads of theories...I also know that the human mind is a powerful thing and capable of so much more than we understand...maybe someday we'll be able to fully unlock human potential...

I have always found this a most fascinating aspect of humanity. Our need to set ourselves apart from nature. Why is it that we feel we have such a special brain that we would be alone in the ability to develop powers of a seemingly ultra-natural aspect; that our minds alone could develop such a mastery over the laws of physics, both known and possibly unknown, that we could remotely manipulate matter itself. While it is true that our brains unique prefrontal cortex give us distinctive abilities such as language or meta-cognition that does not mean we are the only species that displays such ability. Identifying the precise structural differences that make some creatures self-aware and others not is quite challenging. Most important, it is difficult to pinpoint and compare subtle structural differences across species in the face of more dramatic differences in brain morphology. For example, dolphins and chimpanzees both demonstrate metacognition, but their brains look completely different.

What this implies is that no single brain structure should lend itself to be more inclined towards “psychic” ability than any other. In and of itself these abilities, if they exist and are a simple manipulation of the laws of quantum mechanics, or gravitation or electromagnetism would be a HIGHLY advantageous evolutionary benefit. Keeping in mind that evolution is not about the advancement or betterment of any species but only the random change and diversification of species over generations due to environment or mutation, why have we never observed any other species with even a minor ability to manifest such abilities? It seems to me that if these things could evolve we should see them all over the place across many species.

Humans are the only species that seeks to quantify it's abilities...animals can sense when something is going to happen, they can recognize when something is sick/contaminated, and they do this with no interest in knowing/understanding why or how...humans simply found a way to label things in a manner that inflates their ego and sense of superiority....

RyuJin wrote: Humans are the only species that seeks to quantify it's abilities...

I take it you never heard of pack animals and how they have hirarchies based on prestige and skill, have you?

As for the articles, what should ring all of the alarm bells is how in the first it names one of the requirements to learn TK/PK is to believe in it. I don't know how it can get to sound any more fake than that. Name one class that requires you to believe you can learn something before you have any indication that anybody could.
There are of course other things in it like the nonsensical explanations of how it is supposed to work. Magnetic fields are a property of mass. To move them around is equivalent with moving that which generates them around. Humans do not generate a magnetic field that is distinguishable from something even as weak as the Earth's (that's why a compass doesn't point towards the user but is actually useful). One could shrug off one occurrence of "creating energy" as bad phrasing, but of course the article mentions that multiple times so either they don't mean energy but rather use a pretty word to sound credible without any explanation as to what they mean or they openly admit that their ideas defy all of the physics that is necessary for the computers where the article is stored to even exist.
Anyway, I wouldn't call any of this findings or research results or discoveries. I'd call this claims. Claims of a world of pure imagination (too soon?) and you can have it for only the small price of dedicating countless hours of your life to them, making yourself believe in them short of any evidence and, of course, checking out the website of the world-renowned (oh, no, wait, that was Uri Geller, the single most discredited psychig fraud in history "respected" professional psychic Ellie Crystal...
Need I go on?

A class that requires belief? How about hypnosis. It is to the best of my knowledge impossible to hypnotize a person without the person believing they can be and wishing it to happen. Also Gistron is is possible for you to ever word things without sounding condescending? Other people manage to be polite and engage in disagreement without being so rude why is it you have trouble with such things? It's not hard at all and changes nothing about your message. Pro tip: silence is better then rudeness


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A couple of articles with interesting findings/claims on Psi...

http://www.imagesco.com/articles/psi/developing-your-esp-psi-abilities.html

https://weilerpsiblog.wordpress.com/evidence-for-psi/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cassandra-vieten/esp-evidence_b_795366.html

MadHatter wrote: A class that requires belief? How about hypnosis. It is to the best of my knowledge impossible to hypnotize a person without the person believing they can be and wishing it to happen.

Well, to the best of mine, the trance state induced by hypnosis is an actual state a brain can actually be in and one of the primary ways to achieve it is by overloading said brain with impulses. That is not to say you need high voltages (in fact, please, do never use capacitors on people unless you are a trained paramedic) but rather there is a very limited number of discrete information flows our brains can process at any one given time and it is rather easy to bring in more than that in quick enough succession. Genuine hypnosis does not depend on either the hypnotist or the patient believing that it can and neither take a class where belief is a prerequisite for success. In fact, it works better if the patient is not ready for it or ignorant of how it works. Hypnosis has application, too, unlike telekinesis. Indeed, I'd be not surprised at all if inducing a state of hypnosis would be easier with some sort of machine or chemical input than through a professional hypnotist, given as the latter has most of the same limitations to their brain as the patient would. But hypnosis is, at the end of the day, a skill one can learn. Psychokinesis, on the other hand, is something you just believe in, or fail.

Gisteron wrote: As for the articles, what should ring all of the alarm bells is how in the first it names one of the requirements to learn TK/PK is to believe in it. I don't know how it can get to sound any more fake than that. Name one class that requires you to believe you can learn something before you have any indication that anybody could.

Despite the fact that I believe in some sort of paranormal phenomena (due to experience), that does not automatically make all things categorized as paranormal automatically true. And I think it is important, both as a reality check and as a warning to those who might be fooled out of their money, that even if paranormal phenomena is real, it is unlikely someone has developed a system to develop and control these abilities in a predictable fashion, otherwise this would be outside the realm of esoterism and part of mainstream science.

Gisteron wrote: Anyway, I wouldn't call any of this findings or research results or discoveries. I'd call this claims. Claims of a world of pure imagination (too soon?) and you can have it for only the small price of dedicating countless hours of your life to them...

I think it all comes down to this issue. Why spend so much time and energy trying to push yourself to do something that is unproven with a methodology that is unproven... what is the benefit? I can understand people who genuinely are pursuing this as science - studying it in a lab and following empirical evidence to reach a better understanding of these things. But for the common person? I think their energy is better invested elsewhere. Even in religious texts these "powers" are described as distractions from the Ultimate Truth, a diversion that is a side effect of higher consciousness, rather than an end in itself.

Gisteron wrote: Psychokinesis, on the other hand, is something you just believe in, or fail.

Im not picking sides, I find the subject to be interesting, but have yet to develop strong opinions regarding one side it the other of the argument centering around Psi and similar abilities.

With that said, there are in fact many things people do, and do successfully, because they "believe" they can. The gnostic state, or what Anton LaVey described as the "intellectual decompression chamber" is a process utilizing disbelief centering one mentality, and belief for another. It is a key component in what many call magic.

Granted there are machines that can replicate the effected of hypnosis, the fact that thousands of individuals are able to induce alternative mental states like those found in Yoruba Voodoo and can go through extreme amounts of pain with no sign of discomfort, or the Tibetan Buddhist monks who are able to meditate in extreme low temperatures while maintaining their core body temperature, is evidence of what belief can do.

The groups of people mentioned do btw, know fully well beforehand that they are about to willfully enter an alternative mental state. Some call it hypnosis, meditation, others call it possession, they're aware if it regardless, and do it successfully because they believe they can...