mod-psi@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (01/21/87)
[] >/* Written 9:25 am Jan 12, 1987 by mod-psi@ulowell.UUCP in inmet:mod.psi */ >/* ---------- "Re: PSI vs scienterrific research vs wi" ---------- */ >> >> Why hasn't science been brought to bear succesfully on psi? Elementary. >> Proper investigation of psi could take lifetimes. Your typical scientist (who >>has to eat, too) isn't willing to risk his credibility and career on something >> that far out in left field. Tosh! Mapping human DNA will probably take lifetimes. Filling in the holes of the periodic table took lifetimes. The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence will take lifetimes (but gets some funding, last I heard). >>Why is it so far out? Because scientists are all >> believed to be hopeless Mundanes (the term used by my Gifted friends) who >> couldn't understand spiritual matters if they tried. The blade cuts both ways False symmetry. What about Susan Blackmore? >> Sunny. > >I am a scientist. (Does B.S. Engineering count as scientist?) I don't know. If you are engaged in *science* you are a scientist. That is, you do well-designed experiments which can be duplicated by others. I certainly hope that you aren't implying that because you had an engineering education, your later actions or beliefs are "scientific". >I am a psychic healer, and will attain my Reverend title in March. Congratulations (I mean it!) but... > Psychic phenomena DOES bear up to the scientific method. Oh? $10,000 (and a great deal of media hype) is yours if you can demonstrate this to James Randi (you will notice that demonstration to outside observers is *part* of the scientific method, so if you cannot do this, then *these* psychic phenomena do NOT fall into the category of science). If, by the way, you *would* call Randi, except that you *think* he is biased and close-minded, then you are not being scientific: why not call him and find out? >I have repeatedly seen spiritual (psychic) healing techniques work in a >repeatable manner. ANYONE who WANTS to find evidence of PSI phenomena, >can go to the Berkeley Psychic Institute ministry of the Church of >Divine Man, and see such. You want to believe there is no evidence, >don't go there. So send a representative to pick up James Randi and show him the error of his ways. AFTER that, make the assertion.