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by sam noyoun on December 29, 2007

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intro: Test your psychic powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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step 1: Psychic powers and telekinesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

step 2: Harness the power of chi (qi) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

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step 3: Vitality meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

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step 4: Scientific explanations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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step 5: Better Psi wheel design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

step 6: The ultimate test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

step 7: one million $ challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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intro: Test your psychic powers
Can you make an object move without touching it?
How strong is your chi?
This simple device is said to offer some answers...

The Psi wheel (also known as Chi wheel or Gonzo wheel) is a small pyramid-shaped piece of paper or foil, balanced on top of a low-friction pivot such as the tip of a
needle.
It is commonly used to attempt to demonstrate and develop psychokinetic powers (i.e. telekinesis).
Psi wheels are also said to provide a measure of the strength of one's chi, or vitality.
The beauty of a Psi wheel resides in its simplicity, and the ease with which one can seemingly get fast results from it.

In the short video below, I will show you how to build a Psi wheel, and how to make it spin.
You can also view a complete version of this instructable on my website: badkungfu.net , as well as other similar videos

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The base of the Psi wheel is made up of a needle, put through a rubber.
The top is usually constructed from a 2/3in square piece of paper or foil, which is then folded along its diagonals so as to assume the shape of a small pyramid.

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step 1: Psychic powers and telekinesis

Here's a quick tutorial I have thrown together (based a method which sevral people have found to be sucessful) on how to make your Psi wheel spin through your
psychokinetic powers:

1. Our first step is going to involve making a Psi ball, which we will hold in our cupped hands, and subsequently use to spin the wheel. This involves some visualization.

Sitting in front of the Psi wheel, but not focusing on it at the moment, we're going to start drawing energy from the nearest available source: the earth.

Let's visualize drawing energy from the core of the earth, through our feet. Picture this stream of energy flowing from the deepest part of the earth, and rising as a torrent
of fire to your feet. Picture yourself drawing this energy through your feet until it rises through your legs, abdomen and torso, and finally separating into two streams
flowing down through each arm.

Visualize this stream of energy still flowing through each arm, twisting and meandering like a great torrent of flames, until it reaches your cupped hands, where it is
gathered in a ball.

As you keep visualizing the earth's energy being drawn through your body, the Psi ball in your hands will be slowly growing. Keep going until it reaches the size of a
football, and you can feel it's size, weight and texture in your hands.

You have your first Psi ball!

2. Now, still holding this ball of energy through your hands, bring it to the Psi wheel so that it would envelop the device, the foil pyramid sitting in the center. Keep
visualizing this ball of energy still flowing through your hands and now starting to spin, and starting to make the Psi wheel spin with it.

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Through visualization, you can also reverse the direction of the flow, and make the wheel spin the other way.

You have now just mastered basic telekinesis!

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Image Notes
1. Streetfighter Ryu summoning a Psi ball (Hodouken)

step 2: Harness the power of chi (qi)

Chi (also spelled ch'i or qi) is a vital concept of chinese culture. The term, meaning 'life force', or 'breath', is said to be a form of energy (though it cannot be measured
directly) which flows through every living being and organism, and can be harnessed in the human body at a point in the lower abdomen called 'tan t'ien'.

Psi wheels are said to provide a measure of the strength of one's qi, and they have sometimes been used in the West by some martial artists to provide a physical
manifestation of qi.
A version similar to the one we have built is sold commercially as the 'Chi-spinner', a tool said to "help you measure your chi energy level" (http://chi-spinner.com). see
video at the bottom of this page.

Chi cultivation is an essential part, notably, of chinese internal martial arts such as T'ai Chi or Qigong, as it is said to dramatically enhance performance -notably strength,
balance, and coordination. The fundamental concepts of these martial arts cannot -obviously- be picked up in a few minutes, but here are a couple of simple exercises
used in chi cultivation, illustrated in this short video:

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1. Diaphragmatic, or belly breathing:

As you inhale, allow your stomach to push-out, thus relaxing your diaphragm, and allowing more air to enter your lungs. When exhaling, allow your stomach to return to
its normal position.
This method of breathing is said to allow the accumulation of chi energy in the 'tan t'ien', a point an inch and a half below the navel.

2. Taoist breathing:
Taoist breathing is the contrary of belly breathing. With each breath, pull in your stomach, while allowing it to return to its normal position when exhaling.
This sort of breathing is said to help facilitate moving chi around your body.

3. Embracing the tree:

In an upright position with feet shoulder-width apart, allow your knees to drop until they are directly over your feet. Keep your back straight and relaxed. Raise your arms
in front of you level with your shoulders, and extend the palms of your hands as if hugging a tree.
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In this position, use abdominal breathing to accumulate qi in your tan t'ien.

The chi spinner:

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step 3: Vitality meter

Chi spinners have also found themselves on the market, under a slightly different disguise: the Egely wheel.

The Egely wheel is the brain child of Dr. George Egely ( http://www.egely.hu ), a Hungarian scientist who, after many years of research, developped a version of the
wheel featuring a very low-friction pivot.

You can see the mechanism of the Egely wheel, and the way it is used in the video below.

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Dr. Egely's research suggests that his wheel gives a good measure of vitality, which he also calls 'life energy', and compares to chi. In short, it gives an indication of a
person's health, fatigue, mood, and personality.

The results from his research can no-doubt translate to our Psi wheel:

- 0-2 revolutions per min: Vitality very low, must be improved.

- 2-4: Low vitality, worth improving
- 4-5: Still under average
- 6: average level
- 6-12: good healthy level
- 13-24: outstanding high level
- above 24: exceptional talent
(source: http://kirlian.org/interesting/egely/leiras2.htm )

Vitality, according to Dr. Egely, can be increased through: sleep, relaxation exercises, sport, vitamins and trace elements, diet, exposure to sunlight... etc.

Interestingly, the highest score ever on the Egely wheel was reportedly achieved by Erno Rubik, the inventor of the Rubik's cube, with 35 revolutions per minute.

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 Image Notes Image Notes
1. Dr. Egely's vitality indicator 1. low friction bearing

Image Notes
1. The wheel itself appears to be plastic

step 4: Scientific explanations

The short video below details the following processes:

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Heat convection
The most common scientific explanation for the movement of the Psi wheel involves heat convection: by placing your hands around the wheel, they warm the air
surrounding the wheel. This warm air, through convection, rises above the surrounding cold air thus creating a small updraft that sets the wheel in motion. The direction of
this motion can then be affected by hand positioning, and the slight off-centering of the paper or foil pyramid.
Observation suggests that a temperature difference of at least 10 degrees Celsius (20F) is required between your hands and room temperature for the wheel to turn.

Air currents
The extremely low-friction pivot which is formed by the foil pyramid and the needle, means that the Psi wheel can be affected by the slightest air current, from drafts in the
room, to your breath and the movement of your hands.

Vibrations
Again, the Psi wheel's inherent sensitivity means that vibrations from the surface it rests on can set it in motion.

Static electricity.
The above video demonstrates that an object charged with static electricity can easily set the paper wheel in motion.

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step 5: Better Psi wheel design

The standard 'paper pyramid' design of the Psi wheel means that there remains a fair amount of friction between the paper and the needle, thus making it less
susceptible to the influence of air currents. While this may sound like good news, the downside is that the Psi wheel often does not yield any great results for the non-
gifted!
This can be improved by reducing the weight of the paper (i.e. hollowing out the sides).

Tin foil Psi wheels, tend to have less friction, though they are a bit trickier to shape. These are by far my preferred choice.

A Psi wheel which will be particularly sensitive to heat convection can be fashioned by cutting out half of each side of the pyramid, thus forming an helix.

Finally, in a pinch, the foil wrapper from the inside of a cigarettes pack makes ideal Psi wheel material (the shiny foil part should be on the inside of the pyramid, in
contact with the needle, for reduced friction.

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Image Notes
1. the sides of this Psi wheel have been hollowed out to reduce weight

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 Image Notes
1. Helix-shaped spinner, particularly sensitive to heat convection, but only spins in
one direction.

step 6: The ultimate test

Short of suspending the paper pyramid in zero gravity, the following experience should be the ultimate test of your Chi/Psi powers:

The influence of air currents can obviously be dramatically reduced by placing the Psi wheel under a glass bowl.

Contact with the surface on which the Psi wheel rests should be prohibited, in order to rule out the possibility of vibrations affecting it.

Finally, in order to rule out the possibility of other factors affecting the wheel, a second Psi wheel should be placed under the glass... The aim of the experience being to
spin the main wheel, without the second (the test one) being affected.

Being able to change the direction of the spin at will would also constitute a sign of a very strong Chi!

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 step 7: one million $ challenge
For those of you who have succeeded in the 'ultimate test' (step 6 of this instructable), it might be worth considering applying for the 'James Randi one million $
challenge', as such a feat would definitely make you eligible.

Here's a few lines of information, copied from the James Randi's Educational Foundation :

"The Foundation is committed to providing reliable information about paranormal claims. It both supports and conducts original research into such claims.

At JREF, we offer a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or
event. The JREF does not involve itself in the testing procedure, other than helping to design the protocol and approving the conditions under which a test will take place.
All tests are designed with the participation and approval of the applicant. In most cases, the applicant will be asked to perform a relatively simple preliminary test of the
claim, which if successful, will be followed by the formal test. Preliminary tests are usually conducted by associates of the JREF at the site where the applicant lives. Upon
success in the preliminary testing process, the "applicant" becomes a "claimant."

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mazeka.14 says: Jan 23, 2009. 6:41 PM REPLY

Chi doesn't exist

Read Head says: Apr 16, 2009. 5:07 PM REPLY

Traditional Chinese medicine accepts the idea of Chi as fact. What is so extraordinary about the fact that humans containing volts of electricity. We are
made up of energy? It's not supernatural.

pedritopedro says: Feb 5, 2009. 10:24 AM REPLY

Does God exist? Shall your answer be NO and claim to be an atheist, I bet that if you were on a crashing airplane, the first thing you would do would be
PRAYING TO GOD. But then again, you may be a fiction of my imagination and simply DON'T EXIST.

cartmanblues says: Feb 7, 2009. 10:38 PM REPLY

You are my favorite person on here now

pedritopedro says: Feb 8, 2009. 2:38 PM REPLY

Thanks. Hey! Did you ever tired attaching the leaf blower to your bike, and did it go any faster? Let me know. Later.... Pedro

cartmanblues says: Feb 8, 2009. 3:17 PM REPLY

How'd you know I wanted to do that?

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 pedritopedro says: Feb 8, 2009. 4:41 PM REPLY
I think you must have mentioned it earlier. Anyhow, let me know how it worked out. You know, It'd be nice to atttach TWO leaf blowers
(one on each side) to the same bike and see then how fast it goes. Then again, it woud be quite noisy, but so are some motorcycles out
there. Later pal.... Pedro

JZweige says: Jan 2, 2008. 3:09 PM REPLY

I don't want to disappoint anybody, but... the needle and the piramid are a simple trick explained by Physics...

drummerboy911 says: Apr 10, 2009. 5:39 AM REPLY

hi

pedritopedro says: Feb 5, 2009. 10:15 AM REPLY

Can you please be so kind as to delight all of us with lecture on your knowledge of physics, and the scientific basis behind your comment ? Tell me what
is the name of this law: PV= mRT (don't search for it) 6FAF6D6A3E2D8F0601AC2DCD98752065A65BBC2A.

JZweige says: Feb 7, 2009. 11:08 AM REPLY

that is the Ideal Gas law... duh!

pedritopedro says: Feb 8, 2009. 4:48 PM REPLY

Hey Duh! Is that a real X-ray of your skull, 'cause if it is, you are then missing your canine and incissor teeth, and your brain hemispheres look
like nothing I've ever seen before. Are they implants for some sort of therapy? By the way... Congratulations on finding out about the Gas Law.
What an advantage search engines are, aren't them? With just a few keystrokes and a click, you were able to learn about the Ideal Gas Law.
Congratulations Duh!

pedritopedro says: Feb 8, 2009. 2:32 PM REPLY

Thank goodness for search engines. But still, a whole audience is awaiting your intellectual lecture behind the "PHYSICS" that - according to you
- explains the movement of the pyramid. Would you be so kind as to deligth us with your knowledge, Mr. Duh.

Ian01 says: Jan 31, 2009. 6:16 PM REPLY

What physics?

Neriel says: Mar 2, 2008. 11:48 AM REPLY

I tried it but failed, you know....
How can I fell the chi entering my body?
How can i do this stuff?
I want to experience this..........
Help mee, sam noyoun...

- Awesomeness - says: Feb 9, 2009. 8:57 AM REPLY

most people cant... but some people are amazing and THEY CAN

The Twist-Tie Guy says: Feb 8, 2009. 6:43 PM REPLY

I often chuckle when I see shows about his kind of stuff, but then I saw this instructable thinking "sounds simple enough". About a minute later and with
minimal concentration, my wheel gave me a couple spins. And now I can just look at the wheel from across my desk and it starts moving. I don't care if it is
convection, static, or the real thing. This is really cool, and I will be practicing more now. Thank you very much for this excellent article.

lance_r says: Sep 23, 2008. 8:43 PM REPLY

i do not mean to hate on this or anything
but is there proof that this is a viable method
and he is not blowing on it to make it move?

pedritopedro says: Feb 5, 2009. 10:17 AM REPLY

Hey Lance
Do what I did. I stood from a distance and just focused my eyes on the object and held my breath for over a minute and it did not stop spinning. So no
breathing involved no thermal conduction, nor vibration interference. Later... Pedro

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 Ian01 says: Jan 31, 2009. 2:37 PM REPLY
Here is a video showing a person spinning a wheel under a glass bowl. He shows that air cannot get under the bowl and that the wheel cannot be spun
with a magnet.

pedritopedro says: Feb 5, 2009. 9:53 AM REPLY

Well...since childhood, experiences of this sort were not uncommon to me, as they were not uncommon to my mother, nor to my grandmother and her
mother before. Still, my mother married a religious fanatic, labelling what was natural to us, as works of the devil, keeping it always suppressed. Both my
mother, and my grandmother died recently. Anyhow, as I watched the video, it only seemed natural to me. There are some things you just can't explain, and
the day you do, perhaps will be the day you will no longer able to do the. So, as I drew near my right hand, spinning started inmediately. Hiowever, it seemed
easier to me to control the spinning velocity and direction by lowering my face (so that my breathing would not interfere), and just draw my eyes on the
object, disregarding the physical proximity of the hands, and thus neglecting vibration or thermal conduction. Hey, it is a lot easier to do it from a distance, by
focusing your eyes at the object, and directing your breathing away. I think you should try it that way. I will now attempt to do it with the glass bowl. P.
AMADOR

plcrules says: Nov 11, 2008. 6:39 PM REPLY

in the video it said that the psi wheel can be spun by heat air vibrations and static electricty so does that mean that mean that ur hands can shoot out any of
those. does mean a person can shoot out 1 of them?

P.S. where can i get rubber like an every day item that has a rubber peice and if u try to direct ur chi or qi to ur arms u become a little stronger in ur arms

Ian01 says: Jan 31, 2009. 2:21 PM REPLY

The rubber thing is an eraser.

aaaronmatinhamed says: Jan 24, 2009. 1:31 PM REPLY

i tried it out and it worked well but i wasnt convinced so i shut all the windows doors and turned of comp and tv....it worked again so i tried it from the other
side of my room....only using my finger next to my fumb on my right hand pointed at it and concentrated my bodies energy without tensing any muscles and it
moved in whatever direction i moved my finger,but i cannot do it with the bowl yet...also i covered my mouth and nose with my hoodie while i did it....im 15
from uk tell me what u think?good,bad,normal?

emenblade says: Nov 13, 2008. 2:39 PM REPLY

yea, um for you Christian peeps, uhh no this would not be against your religion, because all you're doing is making a tiny piece of paper spin with static
electricity.

mazeka.14 says: Jan 23, 2009. 6:02 PM REPLY

its not anti christian all we're trying to do is use the power God gave us

tcman says: Mar 17, 2008. 11:15 PM REPLY

Although the glass bowl around the Psi is a good deterrent for air currents, I think it blocks out chi. I feel my own chi being reflected back into my own hands.
Maybe an alternative, although a bit more work but won't block out chi, is to wear a hospital mask, close all windows and turn off vent/ac/heater, and move
hands very slowly around PSi so not to create any air currents. And maybe put little wrist rests so as not to cause any vibrations.

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 gizmo_ult says: Jan 1, 2009. 1:20 PM REPLY
chi is anything mine i can make it do anything as far from controlling it but i can't make it visible but to this picture your hands sending air and able to go
through the object blocking the psi wheel and just control it rotation it's easier said then done trust me it takes a long time to master it and i still haven't
gotten that good

PKM says: Mar 25, 2008. 9:43 AM REPLY

Erm.. the most likely and parsimonious explanation is the heat from your hands causing air convection currents, not air movement in the room in general
(or it would move all the time). If you can find a material that blocks these but doesn't reflect your chi back towards you, that would be a good test. You
can't stop your body heat creating convection currents so the best option is to isolate the spinner from the outside air movements, and a glass bowl is a)
common (most people have one) b) transparent c) effective at blocking air movement.

An alternative would be to create two identical wheels, put them close together symmetrically between your hands and only rotate one of them. In the
immortal words of XKCD- stand back, I'm going to try science!

DeusXMachina says: Jun 2, 2008. 8:32 PM REPLY

I've had a similar experience.

I had one psi wheel between my hands, and one over about a foot away as a control

When I focused on the near one, the far one would take off.

When I focused on the far one, the near one started to spin.

When I tried focusing on making both spin, both would spin, but more erratically. When I focused on nothing and basically just thought about the
concept of them spinning without much effort, both moved fairly easily.

And honestly, if someone's hands were creating enough heat to make convective currents, I'd be impressed by that feat in and of itself.

cheesehead says: Nov 29, 2008. 9:16 PM REPLY

nice experiment. so you may have just proved something, and PO'd a bunch of scientists lol

Rufda Camen says: Dec 12, 2008. 6:39 PM REPLY

the page non exist!!!! badkungfu.net

sam noyoun says: Dec 14, 2008. 8:31 PM REPLY

Yes it still does... The website is now called kungfudo.com... just look for 'test your chi' in the articles

RamDragon says: Nov 24, 2008. 1:09 AM REPLY

I once saw an interview with James Randi where he produced the check for a million dollars he'd been carrying for a few decades. There is a reason he's
still got it.

Besides, if you can produce, under lab conditions, demonstrable evidence of psychic powers or qi manipulation, nobody's gonna cut you open. They'd
observe you through an MRI where the living processes can be recorded and studied. This is the 21st century.

jizu says: Nov 10, 2008. 2:48 AM REPLY

million dollars sounds great.... but they'll cut you open
seriously though, if you can spin/levitate do chi or whatever, the satisfaction of being able to do it is more important than getting rewarded for it...money can't
buy happiness.
anyways, I gonna try this wheel spinning thing right now.... sounds perfectly possible to me

awkrin says: Jun 24, 2008. 7:10 AM REPLY

anyone can get their hands to be a lot warmer than normal without thinking of everything u said in the first step.

but there is something I wanted to ask you: whenever I'm in a discussion with my family, I usually think of something regarding what someone said before,
and then someone says that thought. it's really weird, almost like I get my thoughts to their heads...

M F says: Oct 4, 2008. 9:00 PM REPLY

this is sometimes caused by subconscious communication that you are picking up on.
go to www.reversespeech.com for an explanation.
I am a Christian and have 3 years training in R.S.
check out the examples on children. their subconscious develops first before the conscious.

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 milamber says: Sep 18, 2008. 9:57 PM REPLY
been there dun that it called dejavu (not sure on spelling) i get it to i hd times were i been able to predict what someone gona say .......and then the do it
creepy but cool ay

strick says: Nov 14, 2008. 5:11 AM REPLY

I knew you were going to say that...

dombeef says: Oct 4, 2008. 7:06 PM REPLY

WOW!! lol

dillshot says: Jun 2, 2008. 8:51 PM REPLY

Would doing this be against my religion. im christian and idk if its against my religion before i should try it. lol

PKM says: Jun 3, 2008. 3:12 AM REPLY

That depends how you believe it works. If you see it as a neat physics toy that demonstrates a physical principle but looks like a magic trick, it's 100%
fine. If you believe you are actually tapping into some kind of mystical energy then it may possibly be frowned upon. But, of course, if you were actually
tapping into some sort of mystical evergy, then there's a million dollars at the JREF with your name on it.

I don't like the way christianity seems to turn people off investigating new things that may be a little outside their realms of experience, especially those
associated with far eastern or arabic civilizations, even the most innocent and harmless things. I have a strongly christian friend who suffers badly from
insomnia, and I tried to persuade her to try meditation which worked well for me (not anything religious, just a simple mind exercise) and she refused
because "your mind is open and the devil can get in". I tried to point out that while meditating your mind is the least open to outside suggestion it can be,
and you are in the most control of your own mind you will probably ever have, but to no avail.

Aburame Shino says: Jun 27, 2008. 1:01 PM REPLY

Mm. I'm a very strong Christian as well, and I've never really thought that trying something like this would be blasphemy. I dunno.

Quick question: Does porno fall under the same category? XD

JohnyRktFingers says: Sep 23, 2008. 10:25 PM REPLY

In the bible the only magic that is prohibited is that which is used by summoning and controlling demonic forces. I really don't thin that's what this
is.

Aburame Shino says: Sep 25, 2008. 6:21 PM REPLY

Meh. I really wouldn't know. :P

milamber says: Sep 18, 2008. 9:55 PM REPLY

yeah du

FreshPineSent says: Jun 2, 2008. 10:43 PM REPLY

I think it would. I don't know, I just don't go for this kind of stuff.

JuCo says: Sep 24, 2008. 12:28 AM REPLY

I really don't know what to say since I have to "be nice". Ummmm... At least you enlightened some people to the eistence of the JREF?

Instrickables says: Sep 6, 2008. 7:47 PM REPLY

I wouldn't trust the 1 million challenge.
Randi would never let go of his 1 million, and you have to use your own money to get the 1 mil yourself.
Not to mention the money is supposed to be in bonds....

JuCo says: Sep 24, 2008. 12:20 AM REPLY

The money is indeed there... It has been for about 12 years, I believe. He's even had it insured that the person gets an even million after taxes. To be
honest, though, no one's tried for it (that wasn't certifiable) so that pretty much proves as unequivocably as possible that no one has these talents.

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