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Psychic/faith healer Matthew Manning gave five years of his life to continuous research by university researchers at Cambridge. Surely that's enough to prove that "psychic powers" exist?
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Er, I'm not sure the one thing logically leads to the other, but thats besides the point. I do believe that psychic powers exist and stated as much in my post.
The million-dollar (as it were) question is: why has nobody publicly and irrefutably been able to prove it?
With regard to Nina Kulagina, a brief bout of research quickly raises sufficient reasonable doubt to challenge the integrity of these claims. To mention but two: the testing conditions were far from rigorous and Russia, at the time, had a vested propoganda interest in exaggerating and hyping her claims. Having said that, her feats could well be true! But I'm afraid I cannot bring myself to believe them simply on that basis of reading about them on the internet.
Why do I reason that way? Because if these phenomena were reliably true in this sense - one would not have to read of obscure or not-so-obscure reports and such on the internet - they would be every-day occurences, surely? One should be able to go to the local mall and see a person performing magical feats for money, or street performers who amaze and startle with their gift, much like any artist does. I do not mean to trivialise such gifts, you understand, I'm merely pointing out that if they reliably exist -why would you have to point to some obscure russian woman who do things with egg yolks that would make Jamie Oliver turn green with envy?
Why arent you telling me about the guy who lives down your street who's won the lottery 50 weeks in a row? Or the kid at the school you went to with who aced every exam he wrote because he could see the papers in advance?
I've seen many attempts of so-called psychics trying to prove their gift on TV under reasonable scientific scrutiny, and failing miserably. If I see just one attempt where they succeeded under these reasonable conditions, I would become a believer. Its as simple as that. Its just that I have yet to see it, and I cant understand why.