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News: Tactile illusions: Seven ways to fool your sense of touch
Posted by : skyhorse on Sunday, March 22, 2009 - 04:31 PM : 1024 Reads

New Scientist explores the how the brain makes you believe you are feeling something that isn't real, such as a "rubber hand" and to a great extent explains various experiences described by people who do meditation like Out of Body Experiences. A great and interesting read.
http://www.newscientist.com/special/tactile-illusions

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News: Professional psychics, mediums and spiritualists may face prosecution in the UK
Posted by : skyhorse on Friday, April 18, 2008 - 04:01 PM : 1582 Reads

The UK is debating in parliament the implementation of a replacement law for the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 which would mean all paid-for paranormal activities would be covered by the Consumer Protection Regulations.
The Consumer Protection Regulations would require all professional spiritualists to prove what they do. And we all know that's not going to be a tall order...
Read more at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7354089.stm

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News: Sticking needles in a bad back ‘eases pain better than drugs’
Posted by : skyhorse on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 03:11 PM : 1694 Reads

From The Times
September 25, 2007
Acupuncture works better than conventional treatments in reducing lower back pain, according to researchers in Germany.

But so does fake acupuncture, where the needles are inserted shallowly and in the wrong places. In a trial of more than 1,100 people, both were almost twice as effective as a combination of drugs, physiotherapy and exercise.

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News: Skeptic Revamps $1M Psychic Prize
Posted by : skyhorse on Friday, January 12, 2007 - 01:15 PM : 2275 Reads

By Kevin Poulsen, (C) Wired News

If you're an undiscovered psychic, soothsayer, dowser or medium, time may be running out for you to put your supernatural powers to the test and claim a million dollar prize.

But you already knew that, didn't you?

Ten years after stage magician and avowed skeptic James Randi first offered a seven-figure payday to anyone capable of demonstrating paranormal phenomenon under scientific scrutiny, the 79-year-old clear-eyed curmudgeon is revising the rules of his nonprofit foundation's Million Dollar Challenge to better target high-profile charlatans, and spend less time on unknown psychics, who too often turn out to be delusional instead of deceptive.

Click to read the full Wired news article.

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News: Nepal's mystery "Buddha boy" reappears
Posted by : skyhorse on Monday, December 25, 2006 - 08:42 PM : 6652 Reads

Reuters reports the teenage boy as reappeared recently after months without being seen.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A mysterious teenaged boy believed by some to be a reincarnation of Lord Buddha has reappeared in eastern Nepal after vanishing for nine months, a witness and a television channel said on Monday.

Sixteen-year-old Ram Bahadur Bamjon was spotted on Sunday by villagers in the remote and dense forests near Piluwa village in Bara district, 150 km (95 miles) east of Kathmandu, local journalist Raju Shrestha, who visited the boy, told Reuters.

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News: HyperBardonPraxis: a browseable online archive of the BardonPraxis mailing list
Posted by : skyhorse on Monday, April 04, 2005 - 07:34 PM : 2160 Reads

HermeticResearch.org presents to you the archive of the BardonPraxis mailing list, indexed by date, thread and author.
Search is now available through our Search box interface (top left on the screen). This is powered by Google Inc.

The Archive can be seen here:

HyperBardonPraxis

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News: BardonPraxis to be closed end of April
Posted by : skyhorse on Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 03:20 PM : 1241 Reads

BardonPraxis, a spin-off mailing list from the FranzBardonMagi yahoo group, is to be closed at the end of April, the moderator said today.
Rawn Clark ran this mailing list since December 2002 and it now counts with more than 700 members worldwide.
The mailing list is renowned for its clear and practical content relating to the training in the Bardon methodology, and is considered one of the best sources of information for new and aspiring Adepts.
Here follows the statement sent today to the mailing list by Rawn Clark:

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News: Sweeney Investigates: The Kabbalah Centre (London)
Posted by : skyhorse on Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 09:46 AM : 1915 Reads

The BBC announced they will broadcast their undercover investigation on The Kabbalah Centre, famous for their followers like Madonna, Demi Moore and David Beckham.

Here follows the BBC News report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/4158287.stm

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News: Happy New Year
Posted by : skyhorse on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 08:29 PM : 1144 Reads

The HermeticResearch.Org team wishes all members and visitors a very happy New Year of 2005!

May all your wishes come true. (Although some would argue that would only depend on you :P )

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News: Are you out of your mind?
Posted by : skyhorse on Monday, October 04, 2004 - 03:11 AM : 1195 Reads

'ARE you out of your mind?' is a pretty common query.
But, while the answer to that remains subjective, experts claimed yesterday that our mind is out of us.
They said it existed outside the body as a non-physical 'field'.

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