Quote Originally Posted by Coelho
Well... you have a proof that "supernatural" things can happen living under the same roof as you... so i would say youre not being exactly skeptical, but a bit stubborn... also, as you mentioned this infamous prize... why dont you take your brother and claim the prize? If he is able to turn operating radios to static noise just putting his hand over them, surely it would configure a supernatural thing, worth the 1,000,000.00 prize...

My brother's "power" is nothing supernatural at all; it's already explainable by conventional science which acknowledges that all (complex) organisms produce an electro-magnetic field. Really nothing mysterious about it.

BUT i am very skeptical about this Randi and i think if he says he is willing to give someone one million of dollars, is because he is deadly sure that no one will ever have it... but the only people who are deadly sure of anything are the religious fanatics... and as any reasonable follower of reason should know that reason is a limited thing and that there are things outside its domain, any follower of reason should know that he may be wrong. But it doesnt seem to be the case of this Randi, and so im led to believe that he knows how to interfere with any "psychic" event, maybe generating some psychic noise or something like this, to ensure that he wont never ever have to give someone such huge amount of money.
James Randi's Million-Dollar Prize is offered under the condition that a third party accredited scientific instutition carries out the tests, under mutually agreed-upon conditions, with both parties agreeing to the institution that does the testing. Randi is also a long-standing and highly skilled magician who has debunked many, many frauds.


Well... the eastern medicine (mainly the Chinese one) is some thousand years older than the traditional western medicine... so their knowledge must be very ahead ours, and our practices must seem somehow primitive to them... you see that they accomplish the same results of taking a medicine (with all the side effects it may have) with some chiropractic, that is far less harmful (and far healthier) to the body...
Well, in some ways it's a head of us, in some ways it's very behind. There can be no denying that western medicine has made a lot of amazing discovers about biological processes, many of which were not even close to understood prior to the 20th century. The fact that we can explain how a cell works, exactly what molecules form which parts and how, and overall explain how the nuts and bolts of organisms work, is a sherely amazing feat (with solid, repeatable evidence).

I forget which year it was, but when China adopted western medical practices (surgery, insulin shots, chemo-therapy, thousands and thousands of medicine types), the Chinese government and medical board declared it to be far supperior and more advanced than traditional chinese medicine. This is no-doubt in large-part due to the fact that it was all very new to them, but there are many MANY ailments that only western medicine can fully explain and treat; especially in the acute range.

Well... you can think this way if you wish... so, all that "psychical" stuff would be the result of the interaction between matter and electromagnetic waves generated by the electric currents flowing through our body... anyway, no matter how one chooses to name it, the fact is that it can be done... and as you seems to have an uncanny ability to do such things, i think you shouldnt waste it only because you dont believe in it. The science is an experimental thing, and when experiments contradict the theory, the theory must be changed. So i think you should try this techniques, to make the experiment. Only after having tried it you could say rightfully if it works or not (for you).
Oh, I have no doubt that qigong and other eastern theories work very well. Just because I question the theory, doesn't mean I disagree with the method.

BTW, in my own personal opinion, chi is not eletricity nor anything physical. But the interaction of chi with matter produces (among other things) electric currents, electromagnetic waves, and etc. Much like the sunlight is not heat, and yet it heats anything put under it. (More info about this subject can be found here.)
Toaist theory would postulate that chi is essence of emptiness, the power that flows where none is found. Having no power in itself, but having extraordinary power when used relative to physical matter. As the tao te ching describes it "it is the emptiness inside the boat that lets it float, not the hull. It is the space inside the window that allows you to see out, not the frame that makes up the window." and so forth...




And let me just say that I have no doubt that, via quantum physics or some other science, that all these things can inevitably be explained by proper, measurable, repeatable scientific analysis.