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Want to move objects (telekinesis)? Start a fire (pyrokinesis)? Send electricity (electrokinesis)?
Put words into people's minds? Create energy balls (Psi balls)? Control ice and water (cryokinesis)?
Move wind and affect weather (aerokinesis)? Use energy work to heal people? From many years of
experience, the exercises in this book will show you quickly and simply step by step how to easily
accomplish all of these tasks and many more. Anyone can accomplish these tasks with the easy
techniques in this book and a little bit of practice. After doing these exercises many of your
psychic abilities such as astral projection, clairvoyance etc. will also open us as well as these
exercises greatly train all of your psychic senses. At the end of this book is a notebook to record
your exercises and results and by doing this you will be amazed how fast you see will incredible
results!
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Does the paranormal exist? Is there some basis for ESP, telekinesis, astrology, and the other beliefs to which many so tightly cling? We cannot prove that they are nonsense, but we can show evidence at least that they are highly questionable and that they are used by hoaxers for fame and profit, especially when those hoaxers pretend to be taking a scientific stance. A wonderful lesson that The Amazing Randi and Penn and Teller have taught us is that magicians can make almost anything happen, or _appear_ to happen, and that scientists can get fooled watching these tricks just as well as Las Vegas audiences can. A happy, short, and informative book, _Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience_ (Johns Hopkins University Press), by Nobel prizewinner George Charpak and his colleague in scientific investigation of the paranormal Henri Broch, is a plea for intelligent avoidance of deception. It is translated from the French, but don't worry; the translator, Bart K. Holland, has himself written about the probability errors that people are prone to, and has an interesting preface to tell how he faithfully worked on the translation. Much of the book is devoted to magic tricks. There is the problem of the magician who can do a good trick, and claim it is no such thing; it is a miracle, the suspension of the laws of physics at his command. The authors want readers to know some of these tricks; if they can show you how keys can be magically bent (like rabbits can be magically produced), it makes no sense to assume that the bending is a miracle. Uri Geller is terrific at key bending, but so is author Henri Broch. And he gives away the secret here; it is a physical process no more supernatural than using a lever, but done in a hidden manner, the way all magicians do things. Geller claims a miracle; Broch claims a trick. Quite simply, if both performers produce bent keys in some covert way, whose claim is more credible? There is a wonderful ESP trick given here, illustrating the principle of surreptitiously conveying information so that it looks as if you have telepathically sent it. You can learn to stop your heart just like the yogis do, or at least you can make it seem so. There is an explanation of how the television show _Mysteries_ played up the paranormal origin of water that kept accumulating in an ancient sarcophagus, when there was a good scientific explanation already published. The book is packed with many other examples: the satanic face that appeared in the smoke from the World Trade Center, firewalking, divining rods, amazing coincidences, and more. The authors are amused by these follies, they are happy to demonstrate physical explanations for them, but they are also indignant. They are convinced that minds poisoned by pseudoscience are more tractable by those in power. "Thus we are witnessing a mystification of knowledge, which results in a concept of the world in which many things are forever outside the understanding - and the control - of most people." Clear thinking by the public, they remind us, is vital for the action of democracy. Choices must be guided by rational thought, as much as possible. The book wonderfully proselytizes for the power of rational, scientific investigation. "Rationality, too, can lead to error," the authors remind us, "but a lot less often than ignorance and superstition will." Reviewed by R. Hardy from Columbus, Mississippi USA |
Tianna Logan and the Salem Academy for Witchcraft - Find out about the book coming out in the fall of 2009. Read Exerpts from the book. Learn how to make your own spells, Hand craft your own Wand or Besom.