Comments on: Remote Viewing is Mindfulness Meditation http://power.healingmindn.com/2008/08/12/remote-viewing-is-mindfulness-meditation/ Learn How to Unlock the Power of Your Healing Mind. Sat, 19 May 2012 13:36:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: HealingMindN http://power.healingmindn.com/2008/08/12/remote-viewing-is-mindfulness-meditation/#comment-464 HealingMindN Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:12:39 +0000 http://power.healingmindn.com/2008/08/12/remote-viewing-is-mindfulness-meditation/#comment-464 <p>Interesting. Have you considered all the resources poured into remote viewing by Stanford Research Institute, gov't intel-ops like CIA, our local police forces and then some? Why would a world reknowned scientific research facility like SRI pour so many resources into the "pseudo-science" of remote viewing over a decade if they were not producing results?<br /><br /> BTW: I've looked at your blog, and I know you're a troll. Trolls have an intensely negative outlook on life because of their own life experiences. Negative mentality is not balanced. Like I said on your other post, I don't blame you. You're a product of society which tends to treat the world like nothing but a resource to be exploited and the rest of the universe like nothing that deserves deep introspection - like it doesn't exist.<br /><br /> What you need is some discipline. Get away from the computer and take up sports like martial arts. What's more, you need a sensei who really puts the hammer down when you step out of line.<br /><br /> When you learn some mental discipline, try a few psychic exercises for expanding your consciousness. You'll be glad you did.<br /><br /> Thanks for visiting.</p> Interesting. Have you considered all the resources poured into remote viewing by Stanford Research Institute, gov’t intel-ops like CIA, our local police forces and then some? Why would a world reknowned scientific research facility like SRI pour so many resources into the “pseudo-science” of remote viewing over a decade if they were not producing results?

BTW: I’ve looked at your blog, and I know you’re a troll. Trolls have an intensely negative outlook on life because of their own life experiences. Negative mentality is not balanced. Like I said on your other post, I don’t blame you. You’re a product of society which tends to treat the world like nothing but a resource to be exploited and the rest of the universe like nothing that deserves deep introspection - like it doesn’t exist.

What you need is some discipline. Get away from the computer and take up sports like martial arts. What’s more, you need a sensei who really puts the hammer down when you step out of line.

When you learn some mental discipline, try a few psychic exercises for expanding your consciousness. You’ll be glad you did.

Thanks for visiting.

]]> By: AndyD http://power.healingmindn.com/2008/08/12/remote-viewing-is-mindfulness-meditation/#comment-461 AndyD Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:29:32 +0000 http://power.healingmindn.com/2008/08/12/remote-viewing-is-mindfulness-meditation/#comment-461 Just to clarify, there is no mainstream and non-mainstream science. When some people hear "science" they immediately picture lab coats, test tubes and beakers but that isn't "science" it's just one or two aspects of some scientific experiments. Science is simply analysis through controlled experiment. It's testing things and replicating those tests and recording outcomes. It doesn't matter if it's testing physics or chemistry or biology or astrology or psychic powers, science is just science. You could call it "rigidly controlled testing" if you like. The alternative to science is pseudo-science which means, literally, something which pretends to be, or claims to be, science but which ignores the central principles of the scientific method. More often than not, pseudo-science fails through inadequate controls, blinding or from retro-fitting failed test results to deliver a desired outcome. That some things repeatedly fail appropriate scientific testing is not a failure of science or the scientific method, it is simply the repeated failure of the claim being tested. If the scientific method has to be abandoned or altered in order to get a successful outcome, then you'd wandered into pseudo-science. Some will say science can't test the unknown but it can test the effects of the unknown even if the mechanism is not understood. So, while it may be some time before psychic powers could be thoroughly explained, science is immensely capable of testing any real-world application of psychic powers. If the effects can't be tested then they are, by definition, not real. And that appears to be the situation as it stands currently. Just to clarify, there is no mainstream and non-mainstream science. When some people hear “science” they immediately picture lab coats, test tubes and beakers but that isn’t “science” it’s just one or two aspects of some scientific experiments.

Science is simply analysis through controlled experiment. It’s testing things and replicating those tests and recording outcomes. It doesn’t matter if it’s testing physics or chemistry or biology or astrology or psychic powers, science is just science. You could call it “rigidly controlled testing” if you like.

The alternative to science is pseudo-science which means, literally, something which pretends to be, or claims to be, science but which ignores the central principles of the scientific method. More often than not, pseudo-science fails through inadequate controls, blinding or from retro-fitting failed test results to deliver a desired outcome.

That some things repeatedly fail appropriate scientific testing is not a failure of science or the scientific method, it is simply the repeated failure of the claim being tested. If the scientific method has to be abandoned or altered in order to get a successful outcome, then you’d wandered into pseudo-science.

Some will say science can’t test the unknown but it can test the effects of the unknown even if the mechanism is not understood. So, while it may be some time before psychic powers could be thoroughly explained, science is immensely capable of testing any real-world application of psychic powers. If the effects can’t be tested then they are, by definition, not real. And that appears to be the situation as it stands currently.

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