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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: New Physics, Healing, Paranormal
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:33:33 GMT
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- In article <-xq3+jr@rpi.edu> petitc@nuge112.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit) writes:
- >
- > Emotions and mental states are CRUCIAL to physical health...
- > Properly done therapudic touching can help heal sicknesses by making the
- >subject feel cared for...
-
- Or, more simply, caring for a person can make a person
- feel cared for. Somehow, I feel another Norman Cousins attack
- coming on.
-
- > Intuition is a very powerful mental ability (look at it this way---have you
- >ever heard of AI---Artifical Intuition?). Why? Because it brings together
- >life experience (e.g. Wisdom), and lets you look at problems in totally new
- >ways. Einstein probably wasn't just intelligent---he was also very intuitive..
- > It is possible to perceive someone else's emotional state by non-verbal
- >means...
-
- Throwing darts at a board is also a powerful mental ability.
-
- > As for all the ESP info---consider this. There are many urban legends which
- >involve ESP as 'saving the day' Now, in order for ESP not to exist, EVERY ONE
- >of those stories must have either an alternate explaination or be totally false
- >. But, if even one has no such explaination, and is somewhat true, then ESP
- >exists in some form.
-
- Consider this. Millions of people thought their diseases
- caused by bad humours, or evil spirits or ...
-
- They were all wrong.
-
- > Just remember---Relativity wasn't believed to exist either, until someone
- >thought of how to prove its existence.
-
- Galilean relativity had a long history prior to
- Einsteinian relativity, and ESP is widely believed to
- exist. Unfortunately for ESP proponents, there is actually
- evidence for the both of the former. And just remember, J.B.
- Rhine studied 'ESP' for countless years down at Duke, with no undisputed
- positive results, and yet our particle-heaving friends
- use SR with every new toss.
-
- Sortta makes you wonder why ol' J.B. was so incompetent.
-
- dale bass
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