Daily Archives: June 4, 2009

Test Your Psychic Abilities on Twitter? An Amazing Experiement in Astral Travel & Remote Viewing

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Hey – HERE is a first!  Test YOUR psychic abilities on Twitter, by way of an experiment being launched by one of the world’s foremost paranormal SKEPTICS……Prof Richard Wiseman!

Super interesting stuff, and it looks like they’re trying to get a whole slew of people to take advantage of a remote viewing experiment using Twitter’s built in “real time” type of functionality, and this I think will be interesting to watch!

Interested in taking part?  Have any remote viewing skills of your own?  This is most definitely a great way to prove it!  Wiseman is a well known psychical debunker, but he’s worked and tested lots of psychic phenomena and experiments, EVEN I dare say something I was remotely involved in myself ( no pun intended..;-) a bit after the fact. 

Go check it out and let us know if you want to get on board with this – good stuff and a great use of technology for sure.

Check out the full story after the jump!

Prof Wiseman will travel to each target location and send a message to thousands of participants to “tweet” their thoughts about his surroundings.Twenty minutes after sending this message he will transmit another containing a website address on which participants can view photographs of the actual location and four decoys. They will then cast their votes.”I have staged several mass participation studies over the years, but this is the first to use Twitter,” said Prof Wiseman.

“The instant nature of tweets allows thousands of people to take part in real time, making it perfect for an extra-sensory perception experiment.”If the effect does exist then having so many people participate will help detect it.”Prof Wiseman is not the first scientist to investigate remote viewing.

At the height of the Cold War in the 1970s, the CIA spent $20 million (£12.5 million) conducting remote viewing experiments in a real-life case of the “X-files”.The “Stargate Project” was aimed at conducting “psychic spying” missions against the Soviet Union.”The Russians were doing the same thing, and there was evidence from laboratory studies that suggested there might be something going on,” said Prof Wiseman. “The CIA just thought it was worth a try and ran the programme for about 10 years.”Remote viewing has been linked to astral projection and telepathy, but no-one knows how it might work.

Twitter’s psychic experiment – Telegraph

What is EMDR? A Fascinating Look at After Death Communications in Ordinary People

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What is EMDR?  Well, it’s actually Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming, and is a pioneering approach to induce healing through rapid eye movement techniques……which APPARENTLY, according to the doctor’s that practice it, often brings a full on “encounter” with a deceased loved one or relative.

Sounds pretty hokey, huh? 

Think again!  The Craig Hogan, the author of “Your Eternal Self” and very popular and respected writer on survival research and the paranormal is one of the authors, and the other, Dr. Allan L. Bokin, a very respected clinical psychologist who “discovered” and teaches the practice.

Anyway – there are thousands of people ( and a new documentary to boot) that describes how this process faciliates communication with the dead.….and it’s super interesting stuff that has convinced LOTS of skeptical folks. 

Here is a great exchange on the topic on one of our favorite blogs – including some comments by Hogan himself, which is well worth reading if you are interested in the whole life after death stuff at all…;-) 

Enjoy – and let me know your thoughts in the comments section below!  Read the whole thing at the link after the jump!

Right now I’m reading one of the most interesting books I’ve encountered in quite some time — Induced After Death Communication: A New Therapy for Healing Grief and Trauma, by Allan L. Botkin and R. Craig Hogan.Botkin is a clinical psychologist who specializes in EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming.

The EMDR technique involves simulating the rapid eye movement characteristic of deep sleep in order to place the patient in a trancelike state. In this state of altered consciousness, the patient seems to be able to process the memory of traumatic events with extreme speed and efficiency.

Frequently patients who have been haunted by the symptoms of post-traumatic stress for years have been cured, or at least significantly helped, by a single application of EMDR.What Botkin found, quite by accident, was that when the EMDR procedure was modified in a rather minor way, patients would experience a strong sense of connection with a deceased friend or loved one, and that this experience was remarkably effective at healing grief.

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