I love all that psychic stuff. It is mad, because on the one hand, logic dictates there is chance, which is brutal and hard and cannot be influenced. But if you start to have human involvement in random desision making(like the Ball bearing example) then wierd stuff starts to happen.
It works with Zenner cards too. (They are the cards at the start of ghost busters). Anyway, literally hundreds of thousands of repititions of the experiment have been carried out over the last 50 years both in the UK, United States and Russia. The experiment is conducted by 2 people, the first person holds up one of the 5 zenner cards, so the second person cannot see whats on it, and the second person writes down what they think the card is. Now obviously, chance dictates that they get it right 20% of the time, but reality shows that people are 25% accurate. Now this is interesting, because whilst it is still very inaccurate, it is still statistically significant. And there are so many experiment that have similar results, that it is not accurate to say that there is no connection between intent and outcome, because scientific experiment shows there IS a statistically significant link.
And then you have to start talking in philosophical terms about scientific phenomena, ie were all, what, quarks, liptons, electrical charges. That all matter that we percieve is mainly made from spaces that are bigger than the actual matter participles by an astronomically large factor. Then there is the idea that my PC, the silicon switches, are made from the same basic things that I am made from. Also, I believe that it is possible for me to influence the world around us through my actions.
But what is an action? If I have a desire, I then satisfy my desire through action. I move my hand to pick up a bottle, and drink from it. I have no evidence or proof to suggest this is what really happens, I just imagine that is what is happeneing. I could be wrong, I cant say. So what if my desire was to have all the ball bearings fall into the left bucket? Why is it so improbable that I can do it? A human does not have to fully understand a process to be able to change the out come.
Science cannot make a human being, it cannot fully explain the process. But I could make a human being, given the right lady friend...Things dont work like we think they do, and if you think about it, its actually all the truly great people through history(Jesus,Mohammed, Ghandi, the Dali Llama, Einstein, Euripides, I could go on)who have said that thought power can allow you to transend the physical form and become a being of pure energy, and that its all the boring nobodies who poo-poo this claim and say that we are bound to the physical, that logic rules and is immutable , so who do you belive?
GIve me more power!
