Thanks to everybody for the responses. I've come back twice intending to reply and then got distracted by work! I wasn't just stirring the pot and backing off, honest!
Some interesting stuff and of course it's down to me to believe what is good for me. I suppose the major issue I have is with the fact that it's one of those subjects (like religion) that a believer can move the goalposts to fit any given criteria using SR and then claim they were always there. It's a tricky one in that respect.
The one area where I would take major issue is this. If somebody genuinely could do the stepping off a building thing it would end the debate period. A press release and a demonstration would end that argument. It may take a few demonstrations but it could be done, of that I have no doubt but can anybody do it? Has anybody enough real belief to pull it off, or are we still groping around the edges here? Yes there has been some stuff in the dim and distant past but history gets corrupted with time and a lot of the historical stuff was written up decade’s even centuries later. Try and get anybody to agree on what happened at a football game and you'll know how accurate that is likely to be.
As I said originally I do believe that there is a LoA I'm just not convinced anybody knows how it works. People will of course report when it works for them but not report the times when it doesn't because thet are likely to write those experiences off with the belief that they did something wrong or didn't quite believe strongly enough.
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