If psychic ability really exists,  why is Osama Bin Laden still at large, why 9/11,why aren't psychics rich?
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Hmmm. No psychic predicted the most world shattering event of the 21st century. Doesn't that tell you something? Most psychics are frauds who are just really good at reading people and scamming them. \n\nI mean, common. The Psychic Hotline went bankrupt. I oft wonder if any of them saw that coming. *grin*\n\nAs for Osama... the same answer applies. Psychics aren't going to find him because the majority of them are frauds. \n\nWe can only hope that he will be brought to justice to answer for his crimes before he is killed.
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The problem with proof of psychic power or any other form of meta-physic ability is not a matter of can it be done as much as what constitutes proof. For example a weight lifter may have a very good day and press 50 pound more than usual, when asked to prove it they are not capable of doing so. The proof you apparently seek is in the form of extremism. When dealing with paranormal ability or phenomena of any type there is overwhelming subsidiary evidence, what is lacking is measured repeatable showing of a particular power. Most likely you actually know someone who has some form of ability, perhaps an uncanny ability to know when someone needs them. These phenomena while apparently random often happen with too great a frequency to be dismissed but are because we don't think about them as proof of ability. In a way psychic ability is more innate then expressible. Proof exists if you are willing to accept some things can not always be explained by coincidence.\n\nIn case of point in the issuance of the Randi Challenge clearly states acceptable proof is to be determined only by Randi himself as the final say. In effect, the challenge would require anyone with ability to fly around the room and tap dance on Randi's head five times before being able to win the prize. Accepting the physics precept that energy can neither be created nor destroyed it would be logical to assume that consciously using any form of paranormal ability would require expenditure of personal energy. At the levels Randi would want to be demonstrated how many would be willing to waste that much life energy?
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Actually, the person who responded previously is wrong.   There is evidence which suggests there is something to psychic or intuitive power. They often help detectives in murder cases where there are no leads, which is a good thing.   \nStudies of the top psychics under impartial scientific analysis have shown that they DO get it right more often then their non-psychic counterparts, but it doesn't mean they ALWAYS get it right, just more often then the rest of us.     So much so that even our own government wanted to use those who had psychic power as spys, I think they call it remote viewing? anyway they cancelled the project because it was too unreliable. UNRELIABLE, not fake or untrue, they didn't deny there was something there, they just couldn't control it and rely on it for accurate information. the government obviously knew there was an amount of "psychic power" or else they would have never started a project like that in the first place. \n Do they talk to dead people? I don't know, I think many of them are mind readers. There is a lot more to what meets the eye than many of us are willing to admit.  People who are religious of course call anything which is mystical and outside the barriers of organized religion demonic.  \nHundreds of years ago, if you told someone they get sick because there are microscopic "bugs" that get into our bodies through our breath and multiply, they would accuse you of being a heritic or maybe a witch, you cohort with demons, because it is the devil which makes them sick or whatever other ignorant barbarism they attributed to illness.  \nBut it was a fact that applies now as it did then: just because you can't see something with the naked eye does not mean it's not there.  \n It is human nature to say when we don't understand something which is a mystery that it is totally fake or it is demonic.   I don't think it is either. I think it is somewhere in between the material world we see and the world or worlds which we can not.
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He is a real person, but, his role as a terrorist is rather overstated.\n\nHe is more of a mascot, a figure head. His influence is drastically overstated.\n\nTerrorists work in very small cells, and the majority of these cells have no contact with bin Laden.\n\nThe US Government needed one person to place all the blame on, and that is bin Laden.\n\nIn reality, there are countless terror cells, loosely connected or directly connected, with established terrorist organizations. bin Laden's role with them is minor or non-existant.\n\nUS intelligence grossly underestimated his financing capabilities: that is what he primarily does.\n\nBefore the 9/11 attacks, there was plenty of intelligence to indicate an attack was about to take place, but, due to a combination of understaffing, lack of Arab speakers, and general incompetence, those terrorists were able to pull off a bad one.\n\nbin Laden praised them, but in reality, his true connection to 9/11 is being debated. . .
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What you experience is not ability, but a random firing of neurons and synapses.\n\nThere is no-one here or anywhere else who is a psychic.  It's all malarkey.  You cannot learn how to master your power; the best you can hope for is chemical therapy to lessen the undesireable side effects.\n\nGood luck!
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Yes, these things have been widely scientifically tested.\n\nOver a period of more than 20 years, the CIA and Pentagon spent approximately $20 million to study and employ numerous "psychics." They were supposed to help track down terrorists, find hostages, help anti-drug activities, etc. Experiments were conducted on precognition, clairvoyance, and remote viewing.\n\nThe "psychics" were accurate about 15% of the time when they were helping the CIA.   Fifteeen percent?  Is this supposed to convince us to pay them to help the United States government?  Utts says she thinks "they would be effective if used in conjunction with other intelligence." My intelligence tells me that 15% accuracy isn't much help no matter what it's used in conjunction with--that's an 85% failure rate! So 85% of the time, spies would be wasting their time and resources on incorrect information. We're supposed to be happy with that? And that's presuming she's right about the 15%.\n\nThe results have always been the same: psychic phenomena achieve the same results as random guesses.\n\nWhat that means is that they don't exist. People who call themselves psychics are either deluded and simply guessing, or more often they are charlatans like John Edward who try to take people's money by pretending to be psychic,
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It is more important that stability is built in Iraq.  We want Bin Laden, but he's just one guy.  In fact, Kaleed Sheik Muhammad, the actual mastermind of 9/11 has been captured years ago.  Bin Laden is just money and a figurehead.  He is dangerous and needs to be captured, but it is more important that stability is brought to the middle east.
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I don't particularly believe in psychics myself, but if in a situation of desperation, most people, including me, would do whatever it takes to get things done. A friend of mine had a sister that was missing for almost 2 years, her family finally decided to use a psychic, between the police and the psychic, her sisters body was found.
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We don't. It's an urban myth.\n\nIt's the old myth heard time and again about how people use only ten percent of their brains. While for the people who repeat that myth, it's probably true, the rest of us happily use all of our brains.\n\n One reason this myth has endured is that it has been adopted by psychics and other paranormal pushers to explain psychic powers. On more than one occasion I've heard psychics tell their audiences, "We only use ten percent of our minds. If scientists don't know what we do with the other ninety percent, it must be used for psychic powers!" In Reason To Believe: A Practical Guide to Psychic Phenomena, author Michael Clark mentions a man named Craig Karges. Karges charges a lot of money for his "Intuitive Edge" program, designed to develop natural psychic abilities. Clark quotes Karges as saying: "We normally use only 10 to 20 percent of our minds. Think how different your life would be if you could utilize that other 80 to 90 percent known as the subconscious mind."
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Your question is provocative, thank you!\n\nOsama Bin Laden graduated from a Saudi Arabia university, majoring in public administration and economics. After taking over a few family businesses, he amassed a personal fortune of 300 million dollars.\n\nHe became a terrorist because he opposes the imperialism of the U.S. (he is not against capitalism, being a capitalist himself).\n\nIn 1998, the U.S. identified him as an enemy of state, and launched 75 cruise missiles at him (each missile costing American taxpayers one million dollars). They missed.\n\nNot surprisingly, he retaliated on September 11, 2001. He didn't miss. He's part of a group of super empowered individuals who wield power, even though they are "non-state actors."\n\nHow do I know all this? I work in Covert Ops for the CIA.\n\nNo, just kidding..! I read it in George Friedman's book America's Secret War. Friedman founded and runs Stratfor, whom many consider a shadow CIA.\n\nSo Bin Laden is for real. Although puppet masters in Washington don't create reality, they do shape reality to serve their political ends. \n\nThey use the media to tell stories that are quite believable, not unlike Keyser Soze in the movie The Usual Suspects.
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There are many psychics out there who have no power- they just want to make an easy dollar. There are psychics with power, though, it is only the ones who use this power to help others who will benefit. Telling the future is not always certain though, since humans have this power called free will and can change their own future at will. There are a thousand paths to choose, a psychic may see only one.
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I have often wondered the same thing... \n\nThere are very strange coincidences, after all:\n1 - During the 9/11 WTC attacks, Dick Cheney was in an important bussiness meeting, which included investors of the Carlyle Group, among them Saudi relatives of Osama Bin Laden. \nLet me rephrase that: "Dick Cheney was a bussiness partner with Bin Laden's family, until October 2001! \nThey were both investors of the freakin Carlyle Group, an international corporate group that acts as a military contractor!"\n2 - Bin Laden's brother owns a construction company (Bin Ladin Construction Group), and it's responsable for the construction of almost all US bases in the Middle East.\n3 - Isn't it strange that Bin Laden's family was allowed to leave the US in a private jet on 9/12, while other commercial and civilian flights were cancelled?\nWhy didn't the CIA consider them as possible suspects? \nThey weren't not even interrogated!\n4 - Bussiness relations between the Bush and Bin Laden family go a long way back.... Not to mention that the CIA actually funded the first Afghan islamic groups in 1989, to counter the soviets. (The US is actually responsable for creating the talibans)\n5 - Just check out Google Earth! If any miserable pundit like you or me can have access to such advanced satellite imaginery, then imagine the technology that the US military must have! How is it possible that they cannot find him? Do they really want to find him?\n6 - If you watch the BBC documentary "The Power of Nightmares", they mention there how Al-Qaeda is not properly portrayed by western media. They want us to believe that Al-Qaeda is in fact a single, unified terrorist organization, while the truth is that Al-Qaeda is just a political base that has no links to the individual, independent terrorist cells that carry out the attacks.\nIn other words, catching Bin Laden won't end terrorism, since the terrorist cells (in Iraq, London, Spain and elsewhere), often act independently.\n7 - Despite claims that Al-Qaeda is an old organization, it's never mentioned by the CIA's internal reports before January 2001.\n\nPersonally, I believe that there's something fishy behind the whole affair. It would not surprise me that Bin Laden is actually working for the American neo-conservatives and large corporations, by providing them with an excuse to scare the population, introduce a curtailment of civil rights and engage in pro-bussiness wars and military interventions.
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I believe that it's important to always prove ones abilities, and to not exagerate abilities\n\nI do spiritual healing with singing bowls. I play the bowl in someone's hand, and feel the vibrations as they extend through the person, and can tell them where the vibrations are and what they're doing. I can do this with person after person, and it always goes through at a different rate. I'm always careful to not call out too often where the energy is, so that I don't lead the experience. I think that it's important to verify the phenomena.\n\nI used to work with a Reiki master who could tell people many details about their lives while we were doing our energy work. Very specific things which could not have been randomly guessed.\n\nOne time on a camping trip, we created a psychic link which allowed us to keep tabs on each other without needing those family band radios.\n\nOne time, while engaging in on-line activities, a witch and I played a game of "where am I touching you" and we were able to correctly identify where and how the other person was touching from thousands of miles apart over IM\n\nFor a while, a friend and I maintained a karmic connection, and sometimes I would smell something, and call her up, and it was exactly what she was smelling.\n"Did you just make cookies?"\n"Was the dog just breathing in your face?"\n"Did you just disinfect something?"\n\nOften times when I'm driving, I'll see someone walking who doesn't look as several cars go past, and I'll look at the person, and they'll turn to look as I approach. Whereas people with the person (the ones I wasn't looking at) don't turn.
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Maybe because those are the people who already bombed the World Trade Center and because they were the most active terrorists in the world at the time. It's not like al-Qaeda just came out of nowhere on 9/11.
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Sorry my friend.....There is NO such thing as "psychic" ability.  There is a guy named Dr. James Randi who has offered $1 million to ANYBODY who can statistically prove ANY "paranormal" or "psychic" ability.....Nobody has collected and the money has been in a trust account for years.  He has publicly challenged every psychic from Jean Dixon to John Edwards and they are to afraid to show up and endure the public humiliation.
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I believe we are all psychic, but for the majority the gift or the belief has been long knocked out of them. Educated out is another way of looking at it. Many professional psychics have grown up in a psychic friendly environment. Perhaps a grand-parent or parent with the knowledge has helped bring the extra sense out in the open and encouraged its use. But there are as many practicing psychics who have not had the benefit of caring psychic guidance and who have still managed to develop and hone this natural extra sense. The Psychic Sense.\n\nTo tap in to it more you can go to my free develop-psychic-ability page here: http://www.psychic-junkie.com/develop-psychic-ability.html
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because there isn't such a thing as a REAL psychic.  A few years ago, some research group offered anyone who claimed to be psychic to participate in their study, and they would be payed $10,000 to prove their psychic ablities.  Thousands of people tryed to participate, but do you know that NO ONE was able to prove themselves as psychics.