Magic!

"Would you like me to contact them, just so that we can be sure of this? I'd hate to think that anything that appears here might have the slightest appearance of being anything less than the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!"

Feel free, I've no problem with that at all. Tell David Moore (Astronomy Society & Skeptics Soc.) I said Hi. You see there are people out there who have actually met me, worked with me etc. As regards the truth, I thought I was contributing to a "Paranormal" discussion board, all I've seen are battling egos and people demanding "Proof". No-one seems open-minded or even interested in learning about this field.

I agree, Insider. When I was asked live on air for my opinion of Sarah's behaviour, my reply (verbatim) was "I think it's a disgrace". That did'nt go down too well with Ireland's "psychic" community as you can imagine!

I agree, there are sincere people out there in the psychic field who try their best to help, but chancers like "Psychic Sarah" get everyone a bad name. Every field has it's chancers, look at the medical profession and all the fatal mistakes they make. I find it funny that because someone belongs to a "Skeptic's"society, or claims to be one, is suddenly an expert on everything! I'm extremely sceptical, but I know psychic abilities exist. I don't expect others to take my word, I don't believe most of the claims made. Because my qualifications are mostly scientific/medical, I need proof to believe and respect other's rights to the same.(But I don't lie or exaggerate about anything I discuss)

mysteia wrote:

I thought I was contributing to a "Paranormal" discussion board, all I've seen are battling egos and people demanding "Proof". No-one seems open-minded or even interested in learning about this field.

you get used to it after a while. The charter was updated by the previous mod to allow for critical analysis. I think it may be time to update the charter again.

Come on solas, without critical analysis we'd still be stuck on a flat planet

my point being there is a difference between critical analysis and blatent bashing by closed minded skeptics unwilling to listen to the other side. (no pun intended, tis funny though)
open minded critical analysis is very welcome.
Trolls from the skeptics society have no place here, they have their own forum in which to do all the bashing they want.

Well said Solas

Emmmmm.......stunned silence.....no-one wants to challenge me about the existence of TCD/UCD etc.....No-one wants to tell me what a chancer I am........(I think I need my inhaler) Just joking folks, c'mon you have to admit I've taken my share of flak. I'm a Grad so now no-one wants to challenge me?That's why I didnt go public re qualifications etc at first. Seriously, my points are 1. Psychic abilities exist
2. They can be used to help ourselves and others
3. They are natural, we all possess them!

Has anyone else on this board openly submitted their identity etc? Maybe they have,I haven't been involved long enough to know that. Can anyone tell me why they need to feel so hostile? I've been repeatedly questioned about my qualifications and when I respond I'm accused of making claims and boasting. Quotes are taken out out of context and over-analyzed. This is not, I repeat not, a board open to paranormal concepts. The subject matter should be important, not the poster. I still say I'm here if anyone needs help or advice, I'll do my best for them. I'm not sure how the banning system works, but I would like to see Zillah & Kernel re-instated asap. I understand their need to question (and other's have been just as hostile and insulting are still on the board. Wishing everyone a Happy & Prosperous 2006!

Both Zillah and kernel broke the rules which resulted in a temporary ban. I'm not in a habit of banning anyone, in fact they were the first to receive one since my time as mod here. But it was called for it and was about time to get the forum in order. They've stepped on that line many times before and are used to getting away with it. Perhaps they don't realise how hostile they can be but I have no more interest in nannying threads on a daily basis.
If they were genuinely open people they would be sensitive to the needs of others and they might realise how it feels to have those daggers being thrown across the forum, everytime anyone doesn't agree with them or give them what they want. I believe in the trade they are considered energy vampires and in all fairness I need time to recover. I'm really not interested in the Zillah breed of enlightenment.

I wouldn't take their hostility personally mysteria, its just typical Irish begrudgery.

wicknight wrote:

In reality it is a coincidence that I simply notice. In reality I nearly meet loads of people all the time, but I don't notice because I am not aware of it. I only think it is fun when I do become aware. But if you actually study movement patterns of people, which psychologists and architects do when designing public spaces, you can see these types of coincidences are constantly happening or nearly happening, but we during or day to day lives are largely ignorant of it because we are not watching for them.

I notice how often you use the term reality, bear in mind its your reallity, your opinion which you are stating as fact.

Jungians might consider those incidents as synchronous
1. The state or fact of being synchronous or simultaneous; synchronism.
2. Coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related, conceived in Jungian theory as an explanatory principle on the same order as causality.

: the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality —used especially in the psychology of C. G. Jung

But that doesn't mean that if your predictions come true that you some how sensed the future. And you only notice and think it is freaky when your predictions do come true, it doesn't register when they don't, so only the true predictions stand out in anyway.

I recall some time ago this thread prophectic dreams
which while it may seem insignificant to you, I felt it significant enough to post or "make public".it was posted on the 13 of august 2005.

solas wrote:

have been having very vivid dreams these last few weeks, really drained too.
Had one last night were I struck gold (oil, fell onto a previously undiscovered oilfield and ended up quite wealthy)
Was talking to someone about it earlier though and a lot fo detail came up. I remember the agency responsible for officiating the oil (???) was called F.E.M.A.
I didnt realise until I woke that fema is the federal emergency managment agency. (US)
I'll just say that a lot of the symbolism in the dream is reflective of political situations. (I did apply it on a personal level too) but at the minute and I'm thinking "watch this space"

solas wrote:

I'm going to go with earthquake on this one.

steve wrote:

I think you'd probably have to deal with FEMA (aswell as the EPA) to sort out contingency plans if there was some kind of disaster either with the production facility or the transport (pipelines, supertankers etc) of the oil. Isn't there another big storm predicted to hit the Gulf of Mexico (where a lot of the US production is) soon ? Also I think I heard something on the news over the weekend about the Dept. of Homeland Security warning that Al Quaeda are planning on hijacking petrol trucks and crashing them into petrol stations. It could follow from that that they might hijack supertankers and crash them into ports ? I think something like that'd get FEMA involved.

solas wrote:

initially I thought terrorist attack too.
The oil pipline I discovered was off the west coast of cork /kerry I remember being in the atalantic. But because the agency is an american institution I thought it might be relative to that situation.

An earthquake would be nice around now too .

steve wrote:

Maybe one like this?

solas wrote:

i feel tension before earthquakes..stil feel like there is more to be released.

cue information via rueters on 28th august, almost three weeks later

solas wrote:

Had almost forgotten about this dream until I read this earlier.
Quote:
"I can't emphasize enough to viewers how serious FEMA is taking this storm," he told CNN.
...
The last time Mississippi or Louisiana were hit by a Category 4 storm was in 1969, when Hurricane Camille killed 143 people in the Gulf states. Latham said he attends a memorial service for those victims every year and keeps a book about the storm on his desk.
...
At least 12 platforms and nine oil rigs in the Gulf have been evacuated, a small portion of the 953 manned rigs and platforms operating there, according to the Interior Department's Mineral Management Service.

now as a sceptic I already know your going to come up with a volumn of reasons as to wittle the information down to nothingness, but in my reality I was aware the dream had significance. I dreamed it a day prior to posting which would have made it the 11/12 of august. I had no knowledge of any storm heading that way which steve later pointed out, (2 days later) I can't even be sure that such information would exist a month before the storm would hit and even they did, they had no way of knowing where it would strike or the intensity it would strike with, or the federal consequences and how fema were to be scrutinised for the whole charade. I didn't even know who FEMA were on a conscious level, until the next day.
You may also say, its not specific enough, it doesn't state where it was going to hit. In my reality the oil rigs were symbolic of the region. You'll say I didn't state anything about a hurricane, but I did suggest federal involvment in association with a natural disaster, which consequently was on the scale of a monstrous earthquake. You will say, but that area is prone to hurricanes and is hit repetitivly every year. I'm usually not concerned with America's hurricane seasons and don't sit around pondering the seriousness of them. And I've nver been aware of any situation like the Katrina one, which caused so much devastation and federal involvment. You might even suggest I'm attaching meaning to things which are not apparant to you, but I wouldn't have posted the message if I didn't consider it "meaningful" at the time. Note the reference to "watch this space".
Then you'll say if we can predict events then reproduce it, I'll say I can't it's not on tap and you'll say well, there ya go then and just deny the evidence as it is in front of you.

Synchronicty or lucky coincidence, however you choose to look at it is your reality