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There are things that can be frightening and there are situations that may tempt you to do things that you shouldn't. Stay calm and always try to do the right thing. Never act out of fear or anger. If you stick to the right side you will be ok.

Even with our senses operating normally there are many things that we think we see that really are not there. This is how magicians tricks work and why witnesses to the same crime all report something different. Our minds are only partially connected to the real world and fill in the gaps in order to function. The more gaps there are the more fill in.

Sometimes in the absence of sensory input the brain will create it's own. To take it into the realm of psychic ability then you would have to verify some information obtained from those images that you had no other way of knowing.

Are you saying that if they really believe they will be safe out on the street they will be? What if the criminal absolutely believes that they will be successful? Who's belief wins?

Believing that you are safe may make you feel better but living in a fictional world seldom means that you are.

I once met a woman who insisted it was perfectly safe to walk around in gang territory, provided you were unarmed. Anyone think her belief would prevent her from being robbed, raped or murdered if she actually tried it?

Many of the people reading his work are treating it as though it were a science. If they do these rituals or have these charms they will be safe. They hang on his every word as though it was law. This does not encourage growth, it only sends them on an endless search for another ritual to try and control their world. It is a path that takes them further and further from the truth.

It doesn't hurt to introduce a little logic once in a while.

One of the things that Robert Bruce wrote was that negs are not able to cross running water. It's an old Celtic belief. So he suggest running aquarium tubing around the room attached to a pump. To believe that this would work shows a two dimensional thinking to begin with. Why couldn't a spirit move three dimensionally over the tubing? We do. What about four dimensionally? If we dismiss those ideas then how about looking at the structure of a city? Water pipes, drains, gutters, flood control, and rivers, all crossing in different directions. Should we believe that something that crossed all that would be stopped by bit of aquarium tubing?

I think it is easier to believe that Robert Bruce is not the expert he pretends to be. He as really only proven that he can sell books, not that he knows anything about this or even that he believes what he wrote.

Why is it that people think that someone who lived thousands of years ago knew more about what is ahead of us than we do? They used to think the sun went around the earth. We know that is wrong. Why should we believe a Mayan calendar has any significance? It was put together using a faulty model of the solar system. We have already been through this when our own calendar hit a significant event. Other than a few minor computer bugs, nothing happened.

The only historical mention of Atlantis was by Plato and he said it was 9000 years before him. He was just a man, people get stories and facts confused all the time. There are no other historical records than mention it and it has never been found nor has it's existence been proved. How can anyone say it ended on any particular cycle when we don't know when, where or if it was destroyed?

Who is "they"? Do you have a link to the documentation on this?

You are not the ultimate power in the universe, none of us are. Consider that for one of these people to be in power, they also have the support of a large number of people, in most cases millions. Do you feel that you have the ability to override the wishes of all those people in favor of your own? You suppose that there is nobody in that group of millions with skills equivalent or superior to your own? Just by sheer numbers the odds are not likely.

There are things that we can do all around us. It is no less important a project to help one person. Who knows, maybe the person you help will be the one to change the world. You need to start with positive actions rather than planning attacks.

Nobody knows exactly when or where Atlantis was, so how can you say it was related to any cycle?

I have heard many predictions of disaster based on astronomical alignments. They always say it is different this time. None have ever come true. 

Leave it alone until you find your own balance.

I you want to do something help the people around you. They are part of humanity as well. Rather than grand plans to change things that are out of your reach, do your best to change what you can.

Everybody always takes it as a given that the world is going to end, even if they don't belong to one of the religions that predicted it. The only thing they question is when, not if. Why? The writings are always cryptic, full of metaphors and symbols. The average person commonly gets confused by them and has no idea what they mean until some "authority" comes along and tells them. What if they are wrong?

If you must believe that the writing are valid to begin with, why not take it a different way. A warning of what might be if we do not change it. The more people that join in an effort to make the world a better place, rather than giving up on it, the closer we will come to that reality.

The future is not written, so make it a good one.

People spend too much time worrying about the end of the world and not enough time trying to change it.

Helping someone is a worthwhile cause, but anger will not help. It will only make things worse. It is possible to defend someone without acting out of anger. Many situations can be resolved with a nudge at the right time and place rather than with brute force. Doing it right will be less traumatic, more stable, and longer lasting that doing it wrong.

It does seem you are running in a circle looking for answers. I can see the benifit in getting another persons view of yourself, it is often hard to see yourself objectivly, but I would say save your money. You are not finding what you are looking for in these people and would be better served by both looking at yourself and looking for someone that genuinly cares about you.

It is the same energy. I have had people describe my touch as either heat or electricity. It seems to depend on their perceptions rather than me doing anything different.

Here is something to think about. If you discovered that you had the talent what would you do? I bet you wouldn't quit your job to go sit on the boardwalk with a deck of tarot cards. Would you want your friends and family to think your nuts? My guess is that you would try to tell a few people, until you saw the doubt and sometimes fear in their eyes, then you would choose to hide it.

Some of the psychic may be real, many are not. There are people that do training courses for telephone psychics. The only goal in it is to keep the person on the phone.

The real ones are probably arround you already, but say nothing.

This is not a solution to the issues of your past. It will only complicate them further. You need to find your balance first.

What can happen? Even in the normal world there are repercussions. Someone gets up one morning in a bad mood and cuts someone off in traffic on the way to work. Now that person is angry and starts behaving the same way towards others, it spreads like ripples in a pond. Eventually it can find its way to someone who looses it and shoots someone. Then everyone sits and watches it on TV without ever thinking that they may have been one of the links in the chain that led to the event.

In the paranormal world there are other consequences. It is not your private playground. Go to your nearest mall, stand to the side and clear your mind. Then just watch the crowd, you will see people that stand out for some reason. You can easily run into people capable of defending themselves or that will step in to defend others. Since you are just beginning it is also likely that their skills are superior to yours. There are also entities, that you do not want around, that are attracted to negative actions. Lastly, we are not the ultimate power. We do answer to something larger than ourselves and that should be considered in the actions that are taken. There is a universal right and wrong. It is not based on what you can get away with or if anybody knows you did it, it is larger than that.

You need to keep to the right path or don't do it at all. There is no walking to the edges of the lines or doing what you know is wrong because you have a "good reason".

The dark ages sounded pretty bad to me. Plaque, wars, average life expectancy of 40, etc. From that perspective it would seem that things have gotten better.

A list of years that someone has predicted the end of the world.
1496
1524
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1689
1736
1792
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1843
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1856
1891
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1990-1997
1999-2006

There are also future dates scattered from now till 2076. Pretty hard to take it seriously considering the track record.

If you are acting out of anger then you should stop and go no further. There are dangers down that path and there is enough anger in the world already.

Before you trying to develope your abilities you need to spend time looking at yourself and your motivations. Seeking power just for the sake of having it or using it for selfish motives is a mistake. It can only cause harm to yourself and those around you.

Sure, I'll take a look at it.

It is known that when a person dies there is a sudden weight loss to the body

How do you know that? Many things get accepted simply because they are heard multiple times so I looked it up. http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=343392
The experiment was done a hundred years ago and has been debated since. Some tests have shown a weight gain, some a weight loss, others nothing at all. If you think about all the variables involved, temperature, air, water, etc., it is not surprising. The original experiment supposedly showed a weight loss in humans, but none in dogs. Someone else showed a weight loss in sheep. So the conclusions would be that humans and sheep have souls, but dogs don't. It would appear that the people doing the experiments slanted it to fit their own beliefs. So I think the conclusion would have to wait for a more modern, controlled experiment, probably using a sealed environment.

Don't get me wrong, I do believe that people are more than just the body, but I also think the search for the truth is hindered by the introduction of questionable evidence. We have to be careful to validate the evidence on it's own merit rather than on our belief. There is a popular saying that the camera does not lie. It's not true, as a photographer I can make women look slimmer, empty cities, floating heads, and I created a picture once that someone insisted was an orb even when I told them it wasn't.

AndrewTheSinger - It could be a reflection in the lens, something on the lens, or a spec of dust just in front of the lens. To really eliminate those possibilities you would need to capture it in the same place from two different cameras simultaneously. The paralax difference between the cameras would give a true range and size for the object. For dust, debris or reflections it would appear on one camera and not the other.

jub jub - Not everything the camera sees is visable to the human eye. They pick up light outside our visual spectrum. I have had cases were the camera was able to see blemishes through certain type of makeup, or make a models dress appear more transparent that it was to my eye.

I once had someone die in my hands. I saw the light leave his eyes and felt his energy go cold. The paramedics transported him flatline, the family was still hoping. It was a strange feeling when the doctors gave them the final word at the hospital. I remember thinking that the only thing left of this person, the last that I would see, was the blood on my hands.

I was not close to him, he was just a neighbor. I jumped in when he colapsed because everyone was in a panic and I am first aid trained. Still it was not a feeling I will forget. It does get easier to deal with in time though.