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Are there real psychics(mediums)?
A psychic (/ˈsaɪkɪk/; from the Greek ψυχικός psychikos—"of the mind, mental") is a person who claims to have an ability to perceiveinformation hidden from the normal
The video is 4 hours long, and the article is almost as long, but both are extremely informative. It is not out of the realm of science for psychic phenomena to exist, the ancients knew well of it, they connected to the source daily.
Most psychcis are phony and are only in it for the money. A real psychic is in it to help spread it. This is the truth they hold back from us and while you may be skeptical, our history is rife with psychic phenomena, and it all ties into religion and the quest to control. Psychics in the past were the ones who were burned at the stake.
There is a war between heaven and hell, but the war is trying to control the force around us. If you don't know what HAARP is you could look that up as well, it messes with frequencies, which as we all know, everything, including matter, is energy vibrating at a low frequency.
The reason we were so psychic in the past is because the earth was vibrating at a much lower frequency, at about 7-8hz, and this is what binaural/theta/alpha beats are in the range of, and shamans are well known for these beats.
The "spirit world" isnt as weird as we would like to believe, it is just the experience we perceive that we have reports of such strange beings and such strange experiences, because experiencing and explanation are 2 very very different things.
Science will study anything it deems possible to study. From sand, to mountains, to animals to stars and pulsars and black holes and psychology to neuroscience to computers and air and ANYTHING, if it exists, science will study it and find information on it.
Why is psychic ability not studied by scientists? It's because it's impossible to study. You cannot test it, so there is no observation.
There is a war between heaven and hell, and peace between Kilope and Heleos.
Who knows what the truth is. I just made that up now, so believe me if you're gullible, or look for evidence and observation and logic if you're not. If what you say can't be supported by evidence, then why should it exist?
How can you know it exists, if not because of evidence? I know you exist because I see your writing. There's evidence.
Yet, even though you speak of psychic ability, why can you not show me evidence it exists?
Why can't you actually make a bolt tied to a string suspended in a glass jar on a firm surface move?
There's the trick where you hold a string with a bolt on the end, and you can subconsciously make it move any direction you want, but that's when you're holding it. If you can't touch it, your mind has no effect on it.
Don't believe me? Try it! If what you are saying is real, then you should be able to gather proof of this. There is proof of black holes, the strangest and most ...just unbelievable objects in the universe, yet there is no proof of psychic power, which is why it is not studied by science. Prove it's real, do an experiment and find the truth.
The reason they dont study it anymore is because it has been washed away as "not important" Big money businesses control eevrything, from universities, to our "official" research, our history goes back alot farther than you think. Think about the fibonacci series, its evident everywhere in natures constructs (including galaxies) But they dont teach us that, they dont teach us the mathematics of nature, they dont teach us sacred geometry, there is so little information because its been covered up, seeked out, and terminated throughout history. They are taking a major slice of what it is that we are.
You do not seem to understand that science isn't some terrible big business thing. Science is under attack from nearly everyone. People like you say science is ignoring everything, creationists say scientists are all dirty atheist liars, the government spends several times more money on it's wars than it's tiny space program.
Science is in trouble.
But what is science? Science is about the scientific method. All it takes to do science is to perform an experiment. You think you need to study for years and have a fancy degree to do it? Of course not.
If you want to perform an experiment and prove that what you are saying is true, then do it!
I highly encourage you to actually try to perform psychic ability. If you are searching for the truth, you will do it honestly. If your results are what you expect, you have learned, and now have the power to educate people- with evidence.
If you fail, then you have learned something. It's win/win.
No, universities do most of the science. Not big business. Businesses might hire scientists to innovate and make new products so they can make money/new medicine, but otherwise, scientists are generally poor. At least I'm poor as heck.
Anyways, what does that argument even mean? If what science studies is true, then it is true.
If what you are saying is true, then it is also true, however, you are unable to prove it is true, and unwilling to do science and perform an experiment.
No, many universities are private. Either way, what is your point? Are you trying to paint science as something that's evil or oppressive? Science is just a way to find stuff out about the world.
If you are interested in psychic stuff, then study it. But don't just read about it, or you'll probably be mislead with such an open ended and bizarre topic. If you can't perform experiments on psychic, then what use is what you are saying? Why does it matter if ancient civilizations had psychic? We don't now, so it's a non-issue. I don't believe that stuff anyways and I don't know why you do, but if you want to believe in it, go ahead.
I will continue my search for truth alone. Experiments and observation are how you find truth, for if you cannot observe it, is it real or just made up? Just get a glass, put a pencil over the top and tie a string to it. Then tie a paperclip or even a crystal if you can to it, and without touching it and keeping it on a firm surface, to prevent wiggles, see if you can make it move. If you are truly in tune with the universe and have knowledge of these things, you should succeed. If you do not, then I would expect it to not move.
Lets revisit egyptian pyramids, you have an engineers mind, as do i, so you should know the pyramids are the first step that we arent being told the truth of our history, the 30 foot tall statues, have you seen them? Try and make a blueprint for that and then chisel it out with stones and copper tools, im sorry but i find that impossible, especially for a society that is supposedly "primitive" and they accomplished this 4500 years ago... they are holding knowledge from us
Primitive? Egyptians had a LOT of medical techniques and science. They were astronomers and the precursors to scientists.
They certainly could chisel well. You think Michelangelo and other sculptors from even before him had more tools than a hammer and chisel?
You are underestimating humanity. We don't need magic to do the great things we have done. You think computers work by magic, or did someone carefully construct them? Same with the pyramids. These things don't require magic, only human innovation and passion.
I dont consider it magic i consider using the EMF that exist all around us in every living thing, they are around our bodies... it may have seemed like magic at the time but its really not... You should really watch that video even though its 4 hours long, its informative...
But is there evidence? I can't waste four hours watching something, when so far you have been unable to prove even one thing.
Except that sound waves can lift small, light objects, but that has an explanation to it, and a video.
If we cannot build a machine that can lift very heavy objects with sound, then why should I believe that Egyptians could with what? Singing? That is silly.
Interesting, but unrealistic. In elementary school I once did a presentation on ancient flying machines.
It was fascinating, but I can now see that it was all conspiracy stuff.
Are you a conspiracy nut or are you not? Conspiracy nuts seem to be 10% truth and 80% insanity, 10% reasonable guesses.
Yes, egyptians did build pyramids, but using magic/your new age stuff? Probably not. But how they did build them is mainly a mystery.
If you had 50 years and 5000 people willing to work, how would you construct a pyramid without using magic or psychic?
I would use ropes, wheels and pulleys and levers and slopes. I can easily visualize how you could do this without the things you are talking about. Can't you imagine hewing stone from rock and building something amazing?
firstly, egyptologists say it was 20 years, not 50, and it took us 5 years to rebuild a temple that had 2200 blocks, not 2 million, and magnetic forces are not magic dude... i dont see how you think EMF is not scientific at all its a force of nature and these people back thenn were VERY in tune with nature, they didnt "sing" them to move blocks that was just a guess, but it was a pretty stupid guess at that, but still, and yes the video has tons and tons of evidence, like how easter island, nazca, and the pyramid of giza all line up on an equinox line, the holes that have been dug out in egypt are ridiculously an astonishing feat without machinery, i can imagine hewing stone from rock to build a building, but you need planning, and direction, and to stack uneven stones all of different shapes and sizes to create an earthquake proof temple (which are all over the world) then it starts to get a little fishy, and some of these stones weighed as much as like 20 tons or way more, is just i cant imagine them doing it with just some hemp rope and might muscles... i just honestly can not believe it, its impossible to me, especially the interiors of the pyramids and the mathematical significance they have...
The video doesnt prove psyhics, but it goes to show that our ancestors were FAR more advanced than we think they are today, even though we are a technological society, they had different technology, but it was still advanced technology, and the best part is they were in tune with nature, in tune with the universe, we are destroying the earth, at least, to our own survival we are
Yes, it is fascinating, but you seem to jump to conclusions very quickly, many of those conclusions dabbling into the supernatural.
The great excuse you have is "Humans lost the ability to do this", making it completely impossible to ever fully disprove what you say, but giving no reason to believe you.
All we can look at are real facts.
The pyramids DO exist. That's a fact.
The pyramids were built long ago, around 2,560 BC.
They are made of limestone and once had white casing stones, making the pyramids shine pure white in the desert sun.
There are three known chambers inside the Great Pyramid. The lowest chamber is cut into the bedrock upon which the pyramid was built and was unfinished.
And we know that ramps and rope and water and chisels CAN chisel stone into block AND move it. Lifting 1.5 ton blocks is very difficult, however.
Less "factual", but still should be considered is that a god told them to build this. The pharaoh, although a man, was considered a god. People would listen to him. He had at least 100,000 people working on it as well.
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We must also consider the existence of pyramids in South America as well. Although I would like to ignore it, the fact that these pyramids, although not exactly the same as the Egyptian pyramids exist does bring up some interesting thoughts.
However, this does not point to magic or super human abilities.
Without anything other than the facts, how could these be built? If you make up levitation, which sounds nice, but with no proof, then I would expect you to find hieroglyphs or images clearly depicting this method, and the ability to replicate it.
The universe is very old. I would not expect a species to lose these abilities in less than 10,000 years. Humans have not changed very much. If the knowledge of levitation exists, why are we not studying it? If we are, why do we not use it?
Also, if you've watched more Cosmos, have you seen the episode on mathematics throughout history? Sagan talks about it and how fascinated the ancients were in mathematics and geometry. However, this still does not point to magic, only knowledge of math and astronomy and hard work.
Well this will sound crazy to you, but you know that "prove the supernatural and gain 1,000,000 dollars" to me, is a trap, IMO, if someone were to prove that existed, they would be taken immediately for testing and would never see the light of day again. And the pyramids in south america have pictures of elephants on them, elephant are not native to south america, i dont think there has ever been an elephant in south america, also what about pacals tombstone? Hes pictured in something like a rocketship, leaving.... And "super human" abilities are not so super human, they are innate abilities, untapped, we only have 20 pairs of amino building blocks unlocked in our body out of how many? like 60? we are psychic, this is my belief and i will stand by it because i have seen truth of it, just becasue you havent, doesnt mean its not true, i have had the same experiences as alot of other psychics have, either something is up, or we are all just "mentally challenged" But i find that that theory is a westerners greatest fear that someone doesnt conform to societal standards
Ahaha, a trap? Don't be silly. If you don't want the money, then do it yourself. Just perform an experiment and do it honestly. Do the glass jar thing. That's the easiest way to see if you can influence small, light objects with your mind.
Otherwise, just look at the forums and see how other people try to plan experiments. I highly doubt that they would take you away though. It's not government sponsored. Randi is gay and an atheist. The government hates him.
If you want to ahve your mind blown skip to 3:25:00 in that video and it will come up in a minute, it talks about how the environment affects our lives, and NOT our genes, it is actually proven right there. Its very, very, very interesting
It's not science and it does no good. If what you were saying was useful, why do we not use it?
Instead, we use science like physics and chemistry to do things like go to the moon, to Mars, to deep space. We have computers and medicine, but only with science. What you are talking about is not real or we would be using it.
If we cannot use it, then why bother with it? It just seems like brain poison to manipulate gullible people into believing stuff.
Because i can attest with 100% that these have real results, and it affects every living thing around us through EMF, every thought and emotion goes into an EMF field which is connected to every other EMF field, this is how you read minds, you dont LITERALLY read minds you read the FEELING of the mind, you read the FEELING of the emotions, and we can use this, i use it everyday to connect with people, and i have awesome experiences with awesome people that lead me to places that help my life. This is real, if it wasnt the military would have never tested with it and would have never gotten actual results. Its REAL. I know it is, and if you dont believe it is thats fine, we will have proof in time, just not now, but i already have my proof, and i get real results which affect me and my reality, which in turn affects everyones reality.
Real? I don't doubt that EMF is real. The electromagnetic field is VERY real.
But you are talking about reading feelings. I mean, looking at someone's face also lets you know how a person is feeling. That's simple psychology.
I mean, you say you know it's real, but you still have no proof besides what you say. I don't see the proof, so you can believe what you want, but on a debate site, do you really think you will convince anyone by simply telling them that you're right no matter what anyone says?
I know im right, im not saying everyone else is wrong, but the results and experiences i have are real, they are not hallucinations, they arent tricks of my mind, they happen with other living beings.
Take this example that i had happen: I had a random homeless man come up to me, and ask me if he could tell his life story to me and talk to me because he felt safe around me, and thought i would understand, and he also said this: "Out of everyone i see, i can only see you" and i asked if he was blind because i didnt know what he meant, and he was talking about my aura. This is my proof and i dont need to prove it to anyone.
I mean, if that's what you take as evidence, that is fine. You can believe what you want.
But when you say "I know I'm right", I already assume you're wrong.
Only the dumbest people know they're right. It's true over and over.
The smarter you are, the more you know how flawed and stupid you are. The smartest person I know thinks he's an idiot, and the dumbest person I know thinks he's right no matter what.
If you think you're completely right, then I am nearly positive that I have no reason to believe you.
i said i know I am right, not everyone else, but this proof and what i practice works for me, so its right for me, it may not be right for you, but its right for me, and thats all i need im happy as hell with it because i help out people who have nowhere to turn too otherwise, and also the exeperience with the homeless man happened after i had meditated on how to help people, so i will take that as my evidence, and its my personal evidence, not yours, not anyone elses, but mine, thats what i mean when i am right, i am right in the experiences i have. Maybe you should reread http://www.victorzammit.com/skeptics/winston.html
just because truth isnt accepted by the masses does not mean its false.
Right, and look at the environment we live in today, its no wonder we dont care about our natural roots and nature, we are too busy destroying it to make our lives better. I plan on travelling around the country pretty soon here and then around the world because im sick of what society has become, its ridiculous, and if we keep it up like we are, our children will be mindless drones.
We need a heavy societal change, but its so hard to do lol
Don't talk to me about mindless drones after all the crazy new age stuff you've been spewing! hahahah
I mean really, everything you say, if it was true would be excellent information, but the problem is that it doesn't appear to be true. It appears to be made up just like religion is, making you the sort of person who tricks other people into believing things simply because it sounds comforting. Not that you're doing it on purpose though. You believe it too, just like how rich church leaders believe it too, while raking in money.
But you don't even get paid, except in "secret knowledge", which is ancient and soooo useful, except for the fact that no one can use it because it is all just occultist stuff, made up to sell crystals and booklets. Of course, the people who made it up might very well believe in it too, they just had too many drugs.
But yes, besides that, you are right, we do need to change society. A post-scarcity world IS possible, I think, but only with science. Not with magic or other stuff that doesn't really exist.
Science and the scientific method is the best way to find truth that we have. Even though ancient knowledge LOOKS useful, it's useless in reality or you would be rich and famous and powerful for knowing about it.
Science, however lets you use the internet and have electricity and lights and microwaves and loads of very useful stuff.
If you can combine science with your unique way of thinking, then instead of meditating over the fate of ancient aliens, you could be inventing something that could change the world and make people happy.
But who knows. That would be hard to do, and it's much easier to have a belief that makes you feel wise without research, and it makes you feel powerful too, I suppose. Just illusions to me though. Perhaps it's real and I'm the crazy one.
Like with all myths, there is half truths to each myth, sure they go into alot of fictiousness, but the reality of it is that there is an element to every myth that holds true. And i meant mindless drones as in people who dont think for themselves and only do what they are told to do and how to do it. I am not a mindless drone, i am nothing like anyone that you have ever met, maybe over the internet i am, but in real life i am far, far, far different than anyone you would ever meet.
I dont give 2 shits about money, i am going to be backpacking around the world without any money, its not impossible, its just really hard these days, but i can ask people for food and sleep in turn for physical labor and spiritual healing.
The reason i meditate is not to advance society or hold it back, its to gain knowledge for myself so i can apply it to the external world and see actual, better results, i meditate to see what i need to do to help out, and then i go do it, well, i am still preparing to go do it. I would combine science with my way of thinking but first science needs to change itself before i can apply what i know to science. And i have many many years of training ahead of me, im only in the baby steps of my destiny.
I would be fine living in a little hut growing potatoes and veggies and building a little hydropower/solar/wind power generator and having no possessions except a bed pretty much... So i dont really know why i would need the power, but i would eventually need it...
Yes, half the truth to the egyptian stuff is that the pyramids exist and were built. The other half? MAGIC SOUND WAVES LEVITATED SOUND BLOCKS.
Crystals exist as well. They have a very interesting atomic structure. AND THEY CURE EVERYTHING IF YOU FOCUS ON THEM.
Pulsars also exist. They are some of the strangest objects in the universe, spinning and emitting light so it shows up as a pulse on Earth. ALSO CATS AND THE KING OF THE NILE, HAIL THE DARKEST LORD OF THE DEEPEST PIT, HE WHO DWELLS IN THE CAVERN OF ZOD, THE ULTIMATE WIZARD OF THE BLACKEST NIGHT.
So yes, you take something that is real, and perhaps because those weird new age occultist websites tell you that there's magic to it, you believe it.
It doesn't matter if it FEELS real. You think Srom or Lolzors feel that what they believe is true? You think that Hindus or Muslims feel that what they believe is true? Everyone thinks that what they feel is real.
I am not like that. I require proof and evidence before I assume something. Simply feeling something is no good because of how easy it is to fool someone. I fooled my little sister into thinking she had real magic, and that it worked. She felt it was real.
It wasn't real, because she could never test it.
That's why it's difficult to believe you. You say something that IS true, but then you add a bunch of stuff that makes no sense and is based only on the most sketchy of internet websites. I need more than just that to believe.
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"I don't want to believe. I want to know." - Carl Sagan
I hope you realize with the pulsar i didnt know what to expect as i had never seen one before, and it took me like 5 seconds before i started seeing all the images and i started crying because it was so beautiful. Its called symbolism.
and every crystal has different types of healing powers and energies.
Magic sound waves? Maybe they used a huge ass bell or something we havent found or has been hidden from us...
I dont pull my information from occultist websites, i read those sites but i interpret what it actually means and or could mean.
I base all of my interpretations out of religion and i try to interpret what they actually witnessed back then. thats all i do...
Seriously, get into science and mathematics if you want to explore this stuff. The shape of bells are fascinating in how it influences their pitch and volume.
If you want to know about the world, then don't just do thought experiments. Those are what many people throughout time did, and it kept them in dark ages. They can't advance their knowledge because knowledge doesn't come from within. You didn't know I existed until you met me, and what I've told you, you couldn't have read without the ability to read.
If you want to know about the world, then do experiments and test your knowledge. If what you believe is true, then you should be able to use it.
Crystals don't have healing powers. What makes you say they do?
Crystals have healing powers because they are different colors, and all our chakras are based on colors, certain colors have certain abilities. I dont want to get into mathematics and science to study this stuff when i can just experience it directly, im a hands on person, i dont like looking at things and inferring results, i dont work like that, and while the rest of the world may, i dont. I dont conform, not out of a rebellious nature, but its in my blood to question everything and anything, and through that attitude i have arrived where i am today.
The dark ages, you fail to forget, is when one person had all the power and said only they were the way, this is when the people did not have individual power, individual power gets us out of the dark ages. Im not doing thought experiments, i consult my subconcious directrly and ask what i need to do in order for this to happen. And it tells me, and sometimes i dont listen to it, but most of the time i do.
If youve ever had a lucid dream, have you ever stopped to ask your subconcious or yourself, "what does this mean?" It will tell you what it means
The reason what i say is so easily proven false and unprovable is because 1) its so easily proven false because this is the peoples mindset of today, so they will find ways to dismiss it no matter what until an experience hits them directly in the face, and even then they might not believe. and 2) its not unprovable we just dont have the tools to prove it externally or observably, but there are accounts thorughout history of many people witnessing psychic powers.
They are only different wavelengths. You cannot even see x-rays or gamma-rays, right? That is light too. Light just like all light, except it kills you. There is a good reason it kills you too and it's not because it's filled with bad feelings.
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What you call an experience seems to only be a strange phenomenon. What does it matter?
If it is real, what does it matter? Why should I care? It is useless to think about this stuff because it has nothing to do with the reality that I live in.
I do not trust accounts. I trust data and hard evidence. Because there is hard evidence of a lot of really weird and crazy stuff already that I wouldn't think is real without that hard evidence, I should expect your weird and crazy stuff to also have evidence.
You have failed to convince me, no matter how you plead. You tell me statements without any sort of evidence or proof or logic or reason to believe you. Your greatest evidence you've given was that a homeless person decided to try to tell you his life story.
I see no reason to believe you. You appear to be completely insane.
"They only have different wavelengths" Right and this is what affects us, frequencies are wavelengths, high frequency=morewavelengths=love low frequency=less wavelengths=fear
But dont you see, the right hemisphere doesnt deal with logic and evidence and proof, it has to deal with our religious roots (i use the term religion loosely)
You can not deny the other half of your brain, i deny my left side alot i think, which i know is bad, but i still have a grip on reality my reality is just more in depth in detail than most peoples are, which has led to what westerners would call mental illness, but what easterners would call shamanism and what plato would call divine madness.
So i am not mentally insane, to say such is just wrong, as everyone is different, and all of our genes are different (i know, genes have nothing to do with how we are affected, its the environment) but in the western environment, shamanism becomes mental illness, and i hate that, i despise that, that is narrow minded at its finest...
Why equal fear? Do you not like warmth? Below red light is infrared, which is heat, like toasters or hot iron.
That isn't fear to me, that is comfort and warmth. I fear x-rays because they can cause cancer.
But I do not fear x-rays in a clinical setting, because those are used to see inside me to see that I'm healthy.
You are attributing human emotion to inhuman phenomena.
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I am very very right brained. My left side is horrible, even my left eye is worse than my right.
Yet what does it mean? Religion? No, that's not true. The right side of the brain is much more complex than you are saying. You have taken a simple idea and expanded on it without evidence or experimentation. What you are saying, even if true, is right for the wrong reasons. You have no reason to believe it except that you have a strong feeling you are right.
The evidence does not agree.
And insane to me is believing things that cannot be proven either way, and is able to be debunked more easily than proven.
You say people levitated stones to build pyramids or that crystals emit radiation that can heal us, and I see no evidence. I see experiments proving you wrong, or ideas based on Harry Potter magic.
It doesn't appear real to me, yet you say you "know" it exists. If it's only belief, that's fine, but when you proclaim this as truth, yet the best you have are homeless people confirming what you believe, I find it hard to trust you, especially when I used to believe in this stuff too.
well physical world then, which in the physical world, arises fear, there is no fear in the higher chakras, and higher chakras are higher wavelengths, so that why i equated it with fear
Equated? But why? What reason do you have for doing this?
I know why gamma-rays are high frequency light. They have more energy. Gamma-rays are produced by very very hot material. The hotter the material, the higher frequency light it gives off. Most things around you now produce only infrared light, or lower, because they're very cool. At high temperatures, things start to glow. Glass and metal do not burn, so you can see this glow. Get it hotter, avoiding the metal turning into vapor somehow, perhaps with high pressure, and it starts to give off higher frequency light, such as blues or greens.
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And of course, there is the amazing science of spectroscopy. Research it. It's like aura stuff, but it's based on real science and it's AMAZING. You can tell what ANYTHING is made up of with that.
Hm. They likely could. You can also increase temperature by running really fast, which burns calories.
Calories have little to do with just food though. They are actually a scientific unit of energy. By converting them into physical energy, such as making your muscles move to run, you perform chemical reactions in your body which turn the calories into energy, like burning wood and making fire. A bit different, but it's very similar.
I don't even know what the point me explaining this was, but it's very interesting how heat and light work together in such ways.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html if you dont think colors dont affect us well i can tell you for 100% suredness, you are dead wrong about that, babies are EXTREMELY sensitive to color and all colors have different qualities
Yes, colors do effect us, but not in the way you are saying.
You do this very often, you take something that is real, then you tack on paranormal things to it, claiming it to be true without reason or logic or even a decent argument.
Do you care about the REAL truth or don't you? I mean, to me, it just looks like you're as mislead and confused as those heavily religious people...
And about the 50 years, I just meant if you were to build it with current technology, what would you do? How would you design it? 50 years is enough time to take it slowly and think carefully about it. If we can get a framework for how it was built in 50 years with modern technology, we can get closer to knowing how they did it in 20 years with ancient tech.
well for something like the pyramids, that would prbably take a few years of planning alone, let alone all the dimensions you have to draw, all the information, interlocking the stones... that would take like 2 years, especially with that many blocks? maybe a few more years... as for the technology, it has to be some force of nature that could be utilized through us, to make lifting the stones alot easier...
Well, a good force of nature is out understanding of physics. Ramps make it VERY easy to get heavy objects upwards without directly lifting. Pushing an object up a ramp is really easy.
And don't forget back then they had animal labor too. Bulls could totally help with dragging stones and using pulleys to lift things.
You say "just because you believe in it strongly enough doesnt make it true" Well i have a counterargument to that and its the placebo effect. They did a study on dental patients, one group received real painkiller medication, the other got fake medication. The group who received the fake medication reported better results and faster healing and less pain than those who took the real medication. So yes, belief is actually a very powerful tool that we are told isn't.
The placebo effect is concerned with the alleviation of stress, stress hormones like the catecholamines divert blood flow to enable the body for flight or fight, long term exposure to said molecules via the stress of illness impedes the natural homeostasis of the body (one of the prerequisites for life) this in turn slows down or halts healing. A patient given a placebo can (but not all) be far less stressed, given that they believe that a new drug is helping them get better.
Placebos don't work on terminal illnesses, or cure people of disease, but can help to alleviate symptoms and help bring people back on a road to recovery.
Nothing to do with our belief in our self, it is actually more a belief in others.
Yes, there are. Even though you can defy them their are still rules we have to follow and abnormal thing that can happen. For instance, when man tamed wolf and made man's best friend (dog) yes that wolf was no longer a wolf but it was there and there still are wolfs we will never be able to make a wolfs dogs. Yes we can to a few. Yes we can break a few laws but for now we can do nothing but follow. Like we were all able to do.
Firstly what do U think is psychic ability? Psychic ability can vary from knowing that the phone is going to ring and who will be on the other end, to communicating with Spirit.For example Many parents have a psychic bond with their children and can sense when they are in danger, same with twins and close friends/partners.Or the same thing is intuition , some people have a excellent intuition or predicting ability so according to that case we can also call them psychics too. I think we are all a psychics but in differing levels of development and it is worth our while developing this, not to become a sterotypical psychic with a crystal ball or tarot cards who reads peoples fortunes. More to develop the intuitive part of our psyche.
No, it would be very interesting, but police used to use psychics to try to solve cases, but they had the same success rate as a person who was randomly guessing.
And of course, there is Randi's one million dollar prize for anyone who can prove psychic powers.
It hasn't been taken, although even a famous psychic tried it.
Obviously failed even the preliminary testing. I tried doing psychic stuff too, but obviously, I was met with failure.
Psychic powers, mind reading, beyond the grave mediums, telepathy, telekinetics, it's interesting, but not real.
A part of me would like to believe that there are such people with these kinds of 'gifts', but honestly, no I don't think there is. Watch Derren Brown's programme called "Derren Brown Investigates: The Man who contacts the Dead". Derren explains the concept of 'cold reading' and how it is used by "psychics" to perform a reading. It was an eye-opener for me so it will hopefully give you some more ideas on the specified topic of debate. Oh and yes, if you haven't already guessed... I love Derren's shows! :)
