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2007-02-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred 2007-02-24 09:56|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 In past it has been pointed out that the way "psychic research" has been conducted is almost as if they are trying to not find psychics.

To start with, there are two types of ability, the "adepts" and the "trained". If psychic ability was reciting the alphabet, adepts would be masters of the letter 'k', but they would have no idea about the rest of the alphabet, how the letter 'k' relates to anything else, or even how to regularly invoke the letter 'k'. Unpredictably, out of the blue, they shout the letter 'k!'. That is all.

So adepts are pretty useless. The "trained", however, know the letters 'a' through 'g', in their approximate order, but their ability is so pragmatic and obvious that it is overlooked, even by themselves.

The next problem is that from infancy, people are trained to not muck around with "extraneous" information, for survival reasons. It is a dangerous world, and if you are not paying attention, distracted by something else, you might get eaten by a tiger.

Well, not so much anymore, but we still train for it, and teach our children some highly effective techniques to block out non-standard information.

Then, an important distinction is whether the information that psychics get is "narrow" or "wide" bandwidth. Narrow bandwidth is like telepathy, exact data transfer, but with terrible error checking. Wide bandwidth is like empathy, seeing the forest, but not the trees.

If you want to find people who lean towards telepathy, find a dozen who impatiently complete your sentences when you're talking with them. They can be pretty close to what you were going to say, but they will usually be just a tad off on your exact wording.

People who are more empathic have no clue what you are thinking, but pick up on what your overall mood is. But people give off all sorts of conflicting signals, so empaths are prone to misinterpretation. They can be pretty good with 'intuition', however.

If I was going to get a bunch of good candidates for psychic training, I would visit martial arts schools and find people who have developed some skill, but obviously aren't fighters--just not designed for it.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-24 11:01|| 2007-02-24 11:01|| Front Page Top

#2 He's to the east , up a bit from there , left now ,turn 180 degrees , walk 100 yards , turn left up that path and he's now on your right in that mud hut with 3 goats ..

£18,000 please , cash . cos i predict a cheque would bounce

Posted by MacNails 2007-02-24 11:13|| 2007-02-24 11:13|| Front Page Top

#3 I know exactly where he is and for $1,000,000.00 I will tell them he's on Planet Earth.

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-02-24 11:19|| 2007-02-24 11:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Cheater. You used Google Earth.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-24 13:18|| 2007-02-24 13:18|| Front Page Top

#5
#1 bandwidth

Posted by Clomoger Elmains2941 2007-02-24 15:27|| 2007-02-24 15:27|| Front Page Top

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Posted by doc 2007-02-24 18:04|| 2007-02-24 18:04|| Front Page Top

#7 I found #1 rather interesting.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2007-02-24 18:06|| 2007-02-24 18:06|| Front Page Top

#8 A good summary, Anonymoose.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-02-24 18:25|| 2007-02-24 18:25|| Front Page Top

#9 I have a sporadic "sixth-sense", but it only works with MY future, and with people very close to me. It's saved my life (and my family's) a couple of times, but it wouldn't be of much use to the government. It's also totally unpredictable - it works when it works, period. If there was someone out there who could find where Bin Laden was hiding using psychic abilities, I'm sure they would have collected that $25million by now.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-02-24 18:31|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-02-24 18:31|| Front Page Top

#10 If there was someone out there who could find where Bin Laden was hiding using psychic abilities, I'm sure they would have collected that $25million by now.

"He's dead, Jim".

Posted by twobyfour 2007-02-24 20:55|| 2007-02-24 20:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Mine 6th sense only works on bad things (my father's death, girlfriend's brother's death, the flight that went down in NYC in October '01) I'd prefer winning lotto numbers, myself...

Posted by IG-88 2007-02-24 22:52|| 2007-02-24 22:52|| Front Page Top

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