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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  I think Randi's challenge is bogus... a publicity stunt to feed his ego and a tool to attack his perceived enemies. Since he controls the test, he can always prevent a winner.
I think Randi just needs a hug more than anything else.
So here's the Pavlina challenge:
I'll offer a $10,000 cash prize (that's cash, not bonds) for a 60-second hug between James Randi and Sylvia Browne. That's $5000 each for 60 seconds of their time. They can donate the money to charity if they wish.
Maybe over time we can build the prize even higher and encourage them to forgive each other. How much will it take to crack their mutual resentment?
As human beings we have more important things to do right now than fight amongst ourselves. |
Thanks for your response Steve. I think it's unfortunate that you chose to discredit James Randi rather than try to find a away to prove psychic abilities. I am sure it is very easy to misunderstand my words. I probably sound like a non-believer and that I am trying to root out a hoax. In fact I am trying to do the exact opposite. Right now a major part of the world see's all of the paranormal activity such as psychics, astral projections etc as a delusion. Without proof you stand beside each church claiming their dogma as the word of God. Accepting all of this paranormal activity is yet another belief system. Perhaps you (and many of us) have been sitting in the "new age" box far to long, and it's time to get inside another box and look through that lens to see what this new age world looks like. It's easy to critisize fwhen looking from the other side. I learned from you that you cannot appreciate a belief system unless you dive in become that belief system. James Randi is not the only person out there who doesn't believe in this. There are millions of non believers. Imagine the impact if one person, could prove without a doubt, any of the psychic abilities. You would show all of the those red lens wearing people that a blue lens exists, and they need to try it on. As of right now, they only know of the red lens.
How about we forget the Randi experiment. I'm not interested in peace between him and Sylvie Browne as they are at two ends of magnetic pole that will never meet. I am interested in enlightment. Aren't you? Isn't Erin? You have over 1 million people that hit your site every month. Not one of them has psychic abilities to demonstrate to the world?
I believe that if one person comes forth with real psychis powers, or telekenesis, proof of astral projections, proof of clairvoyance etc, they will put that vision into the minds of millions who will then have witnessed something of enlightment. Through visualization more people will have these powers as the thought streams throw all of our connected minds.
So I ask again, doesn't anyone out there want to show people the blue lens?