The amazing Randi is more like an amazing windbag in reality.  I have seen him back away from several different challenges for his million dollars, once he himself realized that he was probably going to lose it (talking about after he had already met with these people, set up conditions for the experiment, run test trials, etc.).  Not for astral projection, per se, but for other "psychic" phenomena.  I could come back with links, etc. if anyone is interested.

From what I have read secondhand, and gleaned from the "rulebook" which Randi provides, the challenge is basically open to the set which includes everyone except anyone, and you can win it, except when you can't, which is at the complete discretion of their comitee. So you can win $1,000,000, provided Randi wants to give it to you.

I would be interested in reading your links, should be grade-A comedy 

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Gotta do better than that Stookie

My post has a useful graphic to indicate what level of awesome exposure you  hazard as a function of your proximity to it, and I am only on 406! I expect better from you come 2500!

tx)~Vtnl*F^2, lim = A-Grp Area A.

Vtnl = 'Volitional', meaning an entity that can focus its will on something. F is 'focus'. ^ is exponential, so ^2 is 'squared'. lim is 'limit'. A = 'acceptance'. The operator is not " ~ ", but " )~ ", and I don't quite get what it means, but it means something as much more intense than exponential than factorial is more intense than addition.

So, the maximum value of Chi in an area is determined by (racial energy throughput times minimum spatial sample) [intensified at a greater value than exponentially](the will of the volitionals involved times their Focus squared) limited by the general Acceptance minus the Acceptance of the group of volitionals in that area.

Thanks, purple. What are the units involved, though? What quantity, for instance, is focus, or "volitionals"
measured in?

because OBE's are almost completely proven to be in the mind

Yes this non place is needed for existence to come into being

Impossible-miracles would work in non-places that God cannot fathom let alone enter, not even in his most wildest dreams

People are typing a lot of interesting stuff in this thread without any particular desire to clarify their logic, lol. A common bit which bears repeating is that if you are introducing a concept that is not widely accepted by others, you must explain your reasoning, or you are speaking to yourself.

Oh, okay. Thanks- I didn't mean to put you on the spot here, it just sounded a bit odd to me; I could certainly picture there having been studies on tactile awareness, if not NEW in particulary.

You're not doing anything wrong- speaking in strictly specifically scientific (as in measured to be accurate) terms, the effects of NEW on the physical body have been shown to increase circulation and endorphin activity in the areas targeted.

Are you saying that there has been direct research on "NEW" itself, or just tactile-awareness exercises? How would endorphin activity in a specific area be measured? I thought endophins only produce reactions on neural tissue, and are measured in blood samples, not locally.

I'd tell you, but you wouldn't understand half of the terms.

Oh, heck, why not!

tx)~Vtnl*F^2, lim = A-Grp Area A.

That is not good enough, lol.

You can't just write an equation like that- you need to define the terms and operations involved. For instance, what does the (~) indicate? Equations like that have no meaning if the terms are not defined.  I can say
De= {5(wL^4)}/384EI, but if I don't say De-deflection, or w-uniform load, the equation is gibberish.

I am legitimately interested- you should explain what you have written. It is of no value to speak to an Arabic person, and Answer their questions in Russian, unless you are going to translate for them 

I don't know about that- if there is any trickery, it is in the form of advanced contemporary video-editing. It is quite possible that this video was mde using cgi, it would not be hard. If it is a real period video, however, I would have real difficulty explaining how it could be faked. You see swords pull his skin to its elastic limit as they poke through, lol. I can't see any way you can fake a sword impaling your bear torso.

400

That makes two of us, lol.

I am sure there is one person who might know......

Indeed, I would have difficulty explaining it without recourse to paranormal abilities. If you notice, there are particular places which he always inserts the swords, so He probably knows which organs we wants to avoid, but even so, this is more than impressive. It is not out of the question that he has some control over his body that others lack. Others have been demonstrated to control their heart rate and blood pressure, but this would be a most interesting ability.

Who is this O'no who has been giving their wisdom to the forum for weeks now, lol? I tried to search for them, but the only results on google are Oprah, and your posts. Is he an Upanishadic Guru?

Pretty neat. I read some German- I think the quote at the end is something like, "I remain nameless, I stand before you all, to prove what words alone cannot."

Although some older people bleed very little, and some people heal extraordinarily fast, that does not mean this is not impressive. It is difficult to take an inch-wide blade through a lung without losing any blood. Although he certainly has great poise, there looks like there is more to it. It is funny to see the marks on his back in various stages of healing, lol.

Yeah, it is hard to say that "mark of the beast" means this or that thing. You can look to anything to fulfill this phrase. In fact, it has been said for years that credit is a good culprit, since it is so universal now, and there are those who interpret the raised marks that spring from the sides and middle of a barcode to read "666", since in a certain way of reading the thickneses, those three bars are always a six. I think when you have prophesies which can be read that loosely, though, that there is indeed the danger that you can wrangle any collection of facts to fulfill them.

The language of the Bible is so difficult to interpret, it is hard to say what is meant literally, what is meant figuratively, and what may have been introduced later, that people can adopt it to serve any purpose they want, really- it really is a slippery and perilous thing.

And when I was looking at the video it struck me- this guy, whoever he is, moves his hands just like a magician.

Yeah, that is what struck me too. That his hands are so close and active leaves room for something to be hidden, but I am still not sure what it could have been that melted the cup that fast, and in that fashion. Oh well!

That is a neat video you post.

From the face of it, a sketchy-looking Russian guy holding stuff in his hands and saying, "EEEEEEEEHHMMMMM!!!!", does not look all that credible, but I have difficulty explaining how he might have staged what he did. The way he has both his hands so close suggests he might have had a lighter or something that he extended from under his left sleeve, but in a few of the demonstrations, I still don't think a lighter could fully expain how quickly the item melted or combusted.

I don't feel right aceding that this skethcy video is authentic, but I must admit I have no way of proposing what he might have done instead. A good find!