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Not sure if the above is actually a word, but basically ESP, telikinesis and all the rest - what does everyone think, do you believe or not?
There's a whole load of info on it in New Scientist this week and I find it very hard to believe, but it got me thinking about 2 things, 1) that I was reading recently that there is a theory that through instinct we have evolved the ability to sense when someone is looking at us, which I find hard to believe as that would mean that we do have psychic powers of some sort and 2) that I watched a programme once that said that they have proved (yeah right) that you can actually work muscles by thinking about moving them. Their 'statistics' showed that if people thought about moving their thumb they actually developed muscles, so in effect, you can work out by just thinking about it. It was a programme about your 'qui' (think that's how you spell it) mind over matter (Shaolin Monks, etc.) which I am really interested in cos I think mental strength can help so much with your health, and stress can cause serious illness.
So I am interested in stuff like that and I think there's more there that we have to learn, but the psychic stuff and telekinesis is (for me) too far-fetched.
Also, Forest Fan - what does religion think about this? Well I suppose religion agrees with it cos God's telikinetic and therefore so must Jesus be.
Whad'ya reckon?
There's a whole load of info on it in New Scientist this week and I find it very hard to believe, but it got me thinking about 2 things, 1) that I was reading recently that there is a theory that through instinct we have evolved the ability to sense when someone is looking at us, which I find hard to believe as that would mean that we do have psychic powers of some sort and 2) that I watched a programme once that said that they have proved (yeah right) that you can actually work muscles by thinking about moving them. Their 'statistics' showed that if people thought about moving their thumb they actually developed muscles, so in effect, you can work out by just thinking about it. It was a programme about your 'qui' (think that's how you spell it) mind over matter (Shaolin Monks, etc.) which I am really interested in cos I think mental strength can help so much with your health, and stress can cause serious illness.
So I am interested in stuff like that and I think there's more there that we have to learn, but the psychic stuff and telekinesis is (for me) too far-fetched.
Also, Forest Fan - what does religion think about this? Well I suppose religion agrees with it cos God's telikinetic and therefore so must Jesus be.
Whad'ya reckon?
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I like hearing about this stuff too. Verr interesting. Quite strange too when you get the feeling someone is staring at you and you look, and they are. Maybe that's just a little bit of paranoia and luck put together.
Quite fun when you strain your mind and think you can move something, never worked for me though. One day..
Quite fun when you strain your mind and think you can move something, never worked for me though. One day..
The sagacious one wrote:
If I eat 20 tins of baked beans and drink a litre of red bull, I can make myself puke at will, just by thinking about corpses.
It's an honour to be on the same forums as a superhero.
If I eat 20 tins of baked beans and drink a litre of red bull, I can make myself puke at will, just by thinking about corpses.
It's an honour to be on the same forums as a superhero.
There have been experiments where children have been shown pictures of white blood cells (which fight of nasty invaders) and then told to think about these every day for 20 mins for a month (something like that). There was of course a control group of kids who continued to eat boogers and chase Donkeys as normal.
The results were surprising and the kids who were concentrating on their immune system showed a significant increase (in the white blood cell count) than the control group.
If your brain controls the body's functions then concentrating on certain aspects of it, will doubtless have an effect.
If I eat 20 tins of baked beans and drink a litre of red bull, I can make myself puke at will, just by thinking about corpses.
Scary huh?
The results were surprising and the kids who were concentrating on their immune system showed a significant increase (in the white blood cell count) than the control group.
If your brain controls the body's functions then concentrating on certain aspects of it, will doubtless have an effect.
If I eat 20 tins of baked beans and drink a litre of red bull, I can make myself puke at will, just by thinking about corpses.
Scary huh?
No joke, it was on tv I believe. I wish I could remember what it was.. my Dad told me about it, I didn't get to see it myself though.
Grix Thraves wrote:
> I really kinda believe there's a lot more to our minds than let on...
> pyschic abilities? Not sure.
yeah, if I get accepted to Liverpool uni, I'll be doing evolutionary psychology and that really fascinates me. Maybe I'll be the one to discover something!
>
> But 1) I've always wondered if we knew when people were looking at
> us, I've noticed people looking at me behind me before.
I think you just get that feeling at times, insecurity maybe and then when you look and someone is looking at you, you think wow, I knew.
>
> 2) The muscle thing is true, and quite amazing. It starts off as
> saying "close your eyes, and now lift your arms up pretending
> you're holding really, really heavy weights", and it works just
> as well as actually having weights in your hands.
Are you joking or did you read/watch that somewhere?
>
> Through boredom I tried to learn the force too. I just can't seem to
> get things to fly to my hand.
Would be handy with the remote wouldn't it!
> I really kinda believe there's a lot more to our minds than let on...
> pyschic abilities? Not sure.
yeah, if I get accepted to Liverpool uni, I'll be doing evolutionary psychology and that really fascinates me. Maybe I'll be the one to discover something!
>
> But 1) I've always wondered if we knew when people were looking at
> us, I've noticed people looking at me behind me before.
I think you just get that feeling at times, insecurity maybe and then when you look and someone is looking at you, you think wow, I knew.
>
> 2) The muscle thing is true, and quite amazing. It starts off as
> saying "close your eyes, and now lift your arms up pretending
> you're holding really, really heavy weights", and it works just
> as well as actually having weights in your hands.
Are you joking or did you read/watch that somewhere?
>
> Through boredom I tried to learn the force too. I just can't seem to
> get things to fly to my hand.
Would be handy with the remote wouldn't it!
Me and my girlfriend always think similar thoughts, but that's probably more to do with over-familiarisation. We do know when one of us goes to say something and then stops, although this is probably down to minute body signals or something. But I do believe that there are things hidden in light and sound frequencies that we can't pick up now, but might be able to sometime in the future.
I really kinda believe there's a lot more to our minds than let on... pyschic abilities? Not sure.
But 1) I've always wondered if we knew when people were looking at us, I've noticed people looking at me behind me before.
2) The muscle thing is true, and quite amazing. It starts off as saying "close your eyes, and now lift your arms up pretending you're holding really, really heavy weights", and it works just as well as actually having weights in your hands.
Through boredom I tried to learn the force too. I just can't seem to get things to fly to my hand.
But 1) I've always wondered if we knew when people were looking at us, I've noticed people looking at me behind me before.
2) The muscle thing is true, and quite amazing. It starts off as saying "close your eyes, and now lift your arms up pretending you're holding really, really heavy weights", and it works just as well as actually having weights in your hands.
Through boredom I tried to learn the force too. I just can't seem to get things to fly to my hand.
That's just his problem though, he links everything back to religion.
monkey_man wrote:
> And don't ask FF, it's got nothing to do with religion. Although he
> is a Universal expert on everything because the Internet told him so.
Ha! I'd just be interested to know where 'religion' stands with this. Always interesting to hear craziness.
> And don't ask FF, it's got nothing to do with religion. Although he
> is a Universal expert on everything because the Internet told him so.
Ha! I'd just be interested to know where 'religion' stands with this. Always interesting to hear craziness.
And don't ask FF, it's got nothing to do with religion. Although he is a Universal expert on everything because the Internet told him so.
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