Does anyone else have a "sixth sense"?

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He claimed to have psychic powers that enabled him to bend spoons.

HEY! Uri Geller is being played by "Dr. House"!

Yes..the cracks in the Geller facade began to show in the late 80s.

My dad would get professional photography magazines back then. Rarely did the magazines report anything to with the paranormal, but one did have an article about Geller. A photographer partnered with Geller on an experiment to see if Geller could project an image onto film with just his mind.

Geller was asked to pick up a camera loaded with film and to hold it against his head and concentrate on it.

The experiment resulted in an actual picture. An eerie picture of a blurry humanlike figure (who resembled Geller)but with a big black sphere like object covering much of the picture. The photographer was stunned. But when he showed the picture to other major photographers (without telling them the origin of picture), and just asking them "what do you think of this picture?" they all reacted by saying "that wouldve been a good picture if the person hadnt blocked it with the camera cover slip".


The upshot is that the guy who did the experiment realized that the big black round thing was just the camera's own cover slip, and that Geller had simply removed the cover slip off of the camera and quickly snapped a pic while the author was out of the room for a second. No special powers involved.

Angry that he had been had...he concluded the article with "Hey Ur! Your coverslip is showing."

that was just one of his parlor tricks.

This is why, when James Randi was offering his Million-Dollar Challenge, people claiming to have psychic abilities were required to demonstrate their alleged skills in front of a panel of experts, composed of scientists, reporters, and stage magicians.

No one ever successfully demonstrated their claims, and no one ever claimed the million-dollar prize.

It was claimed by Seth Raphael but only as an April Fools that Randi was in on.

He left him unattended and still considered the experiment valid? If so he acted like an idiot.

This must be the oldest article I've linked to....
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/13/arch ... fraud.html

No he was debunked back in the early 1970s

If you watch the TV detective show "The mentalist" it involves something called advanced pre-cognition. In other words the person has the ability to take environmental cues and subconsciously accurately anticipate future events based on appropriate precedences or cues. Precognition is thought to have evolved on the African plains when our ancestors were hunted as prey and needed to predict danger before it happened.

A good example of precog is John Edwards (TV personality who supposedly talks to the dead) who makes use of simple questions/responses to come to apparently amazing insight into a deceased person.

The author just stepped out for a second. And then afterward figured "that must have been when Geller did it".

Also he recreated the Geller photograph (that was another part of the article. Made similar pics with the authors own face partially blocked by a fuzzy black circle.

Haha, this is hilarious. Am I Stephen Fry?!

Crikey.

this thread is starting to cause me to lose my faith in stage psychics.

I don't personally believe I am a psychic, although I do seem to have an unnaturally good ability to read into the future. I don't know what is going on in people's minds at any given time, but reading what they say in written text - I can decipher a distinct meaning of the emotions that lay behind the words, somehow. I don't know how, it comes naturally.

So yes, in short, some other people think I am a psychic - I do not.

It is all performance, anyway.

As long as your not doing it on a Stage for entertainment ....... .Then it makes sense and
i could see this as a real thing . but stage acts . i really got to think that they are being very insincere . If not just outright frauds . For me its sort of a automatic/ unconcious thing.
I like to think, that i used it to make at least one good stock pick almost a year ago . My father did the stock market . So i tried to learn . But never had enough money to really do much.But made one good choice. Was very proud of that experience . Good place to lose money too.
Quite a bit of learning to do that and had help .

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"And there's shall come a man of mechanical ability, a engineer.
He is a man of rationality, but his father he does hate him so. But he shall
take up strength in the words of his forefathers, and denounce charlatans

and false prophets with great vigor..."

Hehe, 'You' Missed 'The Prophecy
Part' About The Rational Engineer

Still Believing A Very Old Dusty Book
Story About God Coming to Earth As A Man
Getting Crucified And Promising to Return on a

Promise That the Kingdom of Heaven is coming no Later

Than
NOW This
Generation

And True at Least
Part of the Story is True
As Cross Culturally in 'Autotelic
Flow' With All the Metaphors That Have
Been Created to Describe it in terms of
The Kingdom Of Heaven Within, Samadhi,
Satori, Prana, The Great Tao That Is Only Experience

With No
Discrete
Name
Like
Kundalini Rising

And 'The Great
American Indian Spirit'

Too As Folks Often Get
Really Tribal About the Abstract
Terms They Create And End Up Worshipping
The Frigging Symbols More Than The Essence of the

Experience
of Autotelic
Flow And Never
Come Home to Yoga
Unity to Play With Free
Wings of A Butterfly Graduating
From Cocoons And Other More Restricted Caterpillar
Left Brain Processes of Word Think Materially Reduced Life...

Albert Einstein said, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the
rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that

honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

And True, Iain McGilchrist, Oxford Literary Scholar, Psychiatrist,
Writer, And Researcher For Decades Surely Agrees

In His Book 'The Master And The Emissary',

And His Latest 1500 Page Very Comprehensive
Book, "The Matter With Things" That Took 10
Years of Intensive Research to Study How the

Left Hemisphere of Our Mind Processes the
World Much Differently in Small Picture View

Ways As Compared to the Social-Empathic, Artistic, More
Holistic, Spiritual, Intuitive, Contemplative, Interpretive Ways of

'The Real Master' As The Right Hemisphere Processes Reality

With the Left Hemisphere Brain Mostly Relegated At
Best As Faithful Servant Grabbing What is Needed in
The Environment for Basic Survival With Emotions Mostly

Relegated to Fear and Anger IF 'IT' 'Thinks' it is Not
Getting ITS Way As True More Left Brain Thinking

Folks Are Often Addicted to the Dopamine
And Adrenaline That General Hate And

Discontent Brings of Never Really
Being Naked Enough Whole

Complete True With
Both Hemispheres

Working in Balance of Synch!

McGilchrist, Views Modern Western
Civilizations Oriented Towards More Of
Half A Mind and Less in More Restricted

Left Brain Ways of Systemizing 'The World' Away!

True, As 'They Say' (me now) Not KNoWinG, Feeling, Sensing, Intuiting Our Full
Potentials As Human Beings is Truly A Greatest Poverty in ALL Life Experiences...

So Meanwhile, More Literal Left Brain Materially Reducing Minds Even Take Old
Dusty Books Like the Bible As Gospel Truth, Believing Words That are Told oF Old
By Real Ghost Authors/Scribes too Innumerable to Count That A Dude Really Died

And Is Coming

Back to Life

to Resurrect 'US'
Folks to Eternal
Life And Send All

of 'Them' To Eternal Hell; Particularly,
in Some Sects Who Believe Everyone
Who Doesn't Believe in the Story Book
Character Hero Is Going to Burn Forever in Hell...

Well Of Course That's What A Person Addicted to
Fear, Anger, Hate, And General Discontent Would

Naturally Navigate Towards in Life in terms of 'Belief
And Faith' In that Dark Place Indeed; Anyway, i Find it
Amusing that Folks Pooh, Pooh Nostradamus While

Basically
Still Standing

In Pooh, Pooh,

Of the Same Human Ignorance.

Here's 'The Thing', Use it or Lose it Applies

To All We ACTUALLY DO IN LIFE AND WHAT

THAT BRINGS AS OUR REALITY IN LIFE EXPERIENCE NOW
AND THE HEREAFTER ACTUALLY BREATHING. If A Person

Leads A Life Of Material Reductionism of Mostly Labeling Reality
In Parts And Missing the 'Gestalt' Of Life Experiences, Their World of

All Senses and Feelings is Much Smaller; Even An Orangutan Driving A Golf
Cart With His Orangutan FRiEnDS Climbing All Over The Cart And Eventually

(The YouTube Video
of This So! AMuSinG)

Lifting themselves

Out of the Cart to
Climb A Tree to Pick
Fruit Probably Experiences

More Actual Senses/Feelings of Life

Than Most Folks Actually Experience of
Life And Yes of Course the Most Recognized

6th Sense of Proprioception Among the Literal
22 Senses One Can Find With a Quick Wiki Search

That Many Folks Experience Differently or Hardly At all.

The Best Evidence, i am Actually An 'Empath', is my Lifelong

Mirror Touch Experience of Synesthesia Which Is Great When
It Comes to Expertise in 'Loving' As i actually Experience the
Pain and Pleasure of Others Like it is Mine Through Extremely

Sensitive Mirror Neurons; Downside With Extreme Tactile Sensitivity,

i Can't Stand to Touch Almost All Human Made Materials; The Feeling,
The Sense of it, is Almost Unbearable; Yet almost impossible to Describe in Words;

i've Spent Most of my Life With my Hands Closed Where my Finger Tips Don't touch
Human Made Stuff; Nature is my FRiEnD this Way Before Humanly Clothed Indeed.

Both Conditions Are Fairly Rare; And Compared to the Life Experiences of Others it is
Practically Supernatural to them as it is Impossible for them to Experience the World

The Way i Do;

And Here's Another
'Thing', Mechanical Cognition;
Yes, All Systemizing Science; Yes,

Represses The Ability for Social
Empathic, Artistic, Spiritual Intelligences of Life;

So Yes, Indeed, Even The Act of Participating in a Science
Project to Determine the Validity of Extra Sensory Perception
Compared to The Same Norm Represses The Actual Potential

Of Measuring The Extra Sensory Perception That Doesn't Come

By Pre-Planning; Only Comes When it Comes; For Instance, During

my 'Dead Zone', When i Experienced a Total of 19 Life Threatening
Disorders in Synergy, including the Worst Pain Known to Humankind,
Type-Two Trigeminal Neuralgia; Yes, assessed As Worse than the Literal

Torture of Crucifixion And Aptly Sub-Clinically Referred to as the 'Suicide
Disease' That No Drug Would Touch From Wake to Sleep For 66 Whole Months of Real HeLL ON EartH...

It Wasn't IF i Wanted to Kill Myself, It Was a Pain Worse Than Any Thought of Dying Indeed, So i Put the
Chain to my Work-out Machine in A Basket on my Bicycle And Picked Out A Road Away From Home
That i Didn't Mention to my Wife in Conversation, And A Tree Far Off the Road in the Forest Where

my Life Would Finally Serve Purpose then of Feeding the Vultures of Only What Part of Nature Would
Find me There to Consume for Nutritious Support of Some Kind at Least; So On The Next Spring Morning

My Wife Awoke And Said She had The Strangest Dream That She And Her Deceased Granny Were Hanging
Christmas Ornaments on A Tree off That Road She Named Then We Didn't Talk About Before, So Even

Though i Never Took The
Chain Out of the Bicycle

(Until i Recovered)

Basket, i Didn't Kill
Myself as i realized
i didn't 'Know' Nearly
As Much About Reality
That my Restricted
Left Brain

Way

Processed
The World Then So Yes After 66

Whole Months, the Pain And Numb
Reality of Never Remembering the
Experience of a Smile At all,
Went Away on July 19, 2013,
Standing On A Beach Melting
All My Pain And Numb away then
Becoming One With Sugar White
Sands, Swaying Sea Oats, Emerald
Green Gulf Waves, And Sea Gull Wings
Spiraling The Sun As Yes Finally my Left
and Right Hemisphere of Mind Seemingly Came Together

Then For An Overall Mystical Healing of Life That is Real
And True As Folks Experience This Similarly in Forests And Describe
The Real Experience as 'Forest Bathing' That Sadly City Dwellers Rarely 'Touch'...

In Short As Shakespeare Describes The Reality of Existence Still Apt More Than Ever Now:

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

And Yes i
Readily
Admit

Like Socrates

That 'i Know Nothing'

And the More i Learn

of this Existence the

More i am Assured

of That As 'i Know Nothing'...

i Am Naked Enough Whole Complete...

Honestly, There is Nothing Left to Do More
Than When i Was A Child Before i Separated
myself From Nature And My Greater Human Nature too...

Inhaling Peace

Exhaling Love

What May Be Described

As Chi or Qi; Yes, No Fear

Breathing Positive Energy Now

As The Rest of Life Simply Flows Like A River Effortless in Ease...

Never Restricted By Any 'Banks' Really Flooding As A River 'PLeases'...

HAha

Like a
'Nile' in
Florida And Online..

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Stage performances differ from parlour tricks only by skill of the performer and size of the audience.

When I first started as a store-front "psychic", I was amazed at how easy it was to fool people into believing I had supernatural abilities.  Even better, the more I denied having such abilities, the more the  suckers  clients were convinced I had them!