How did Houdini disprove psychic powers?
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I didn't know he even tried to.
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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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I don't know what you mean by abilities. \nMoving things without touching them is called Telekinesis, and while I'm sure there are witches who can also do it, it's not a witch thing. You can't change the shape of something, or stop time or make the sun and the moon run backward or anything, but we, I mean, myself and the other witches with whom I associate can, and have healed others, and also made them sick, caused and cured insanity, increased and decreased fertility in plants, animals and humans, and caused various machines to act wacky. I have personally caused nymphomania, impotence and car trouble, though not always on purpose. Many of us are able to communicate with animals, and we are also able to communicate with each other without the use of a telephone. \n\nEx. My boyfriend lives 600 miles from me, and we are able to enter each other's dreams, feel each other's emotions and communicate with each other telepathically. I made a charm to aid us in doing so and we each carry it always, but we probably don't need it.\n\nLet's see... shapeshifting is a skill some of us have, but it's not what you think. It's more of a glamour. Astral projection is a simple feat, travelling in spirit form, entering people's dreams, spying on them, etc. Channelling spirits is also pretty easy, if you let it happen. In both cases it's a matter of allowing it to happen and not freaking out.\n\nYou can't turn someone into a toad, but a very skilled witch can make someone think they're a toad or give someone a toadish aura, if that makes sense to you. You can't defy the laws of physics, just can't be done. \n\nAnyone can learn to do these things. These are innate abilities, like speech that are easily learnable. However, much like speech, if you are discouraged from doing it as a child, or never learn it, the older you get, the harder it is.
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Psychics get their information from evil spirits.  And since they get their info from fallen angels... its wrong.  \n\nGod wants to to rely on him and trust in his Messiah.\n\nIf you want to know about something in the future, etc, ask God, or talk to one of his Prophets or a Prophetesses... not someome who gets their information from fallen angels.\n\nRely on God.  The Spirit of Jesus is the Wonderful Counselor.\n\n----- Edit:\n\nA Prophet or Prophetess is not a psychic!  I am a Prophetess.  The Spirit of Jesus is my Wonderful Counselor.  Do not confuse me with a psychic...\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Al0xE9_gZytqOPxpAjOYJ5Dsy6IX?qid=1006012708197\n\nAll psychics get their information from the evil one.  Prophets or Prophetesses communicate the living Words of God to the Church.
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If you are being completely, one hundred percent honest, you have a supernatural event on your hands. Call an expert! She might have... i hate to say it but... powers!
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Trusting and further developing your intuition leads to being psychic.\n\nThe more you trust your hunches the stronger your psychic ability will get. \n\nFor the believers no proof is necessary, for the skeptics no proof is enough. I’m happy for both the believers and the skeptics. I’m not here to convert anyone. I have my own evidence you need to get yours, if you want to that is.
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I held a seance with my friends when I was eleven. The spirit really came and we were all so freaked out and we asked him to leave. I once heard a story from my friend that there was this girl who held a seance when she was alone at home. The spirit came and unfortunately  the spirit was a violent one. When she asked the spirit to leave the spirit refused and possesed her.
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the answers could possibly come from 2 sources..the first is your subconscious like you say, and then your hand just goes in that direction...and second, demonic spirits...yuk..You don't want the second, and so if you are already answering your own questions, there is no reason to use the board.
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To demonstrate that He is One-in-the-Father. People are finicky and tend to believe their eyes more than their other senses, or even reason.\n\nBringing a known long-dead person back to life is something that neither ancient nor modern science can explain. He knows that, and worked miracles such as that to offer evidence of His true Nature.\n\nHeck, He tried to TALK and REASON with them and they still ran Him out of town on a rail (or cross!)\n\nSome people still don't believe in miracles because "they can't be proven." Well, the theory of scientific proof is based on proving something CAN'T be done, not on proving something CAN be done. To each their own!
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I want to believe that some people have the gift of being able to contact the dead and tell the future, but I have never come into contact with someone with those actual abilities. Every person I've met claiming to be psychic has been a fraud.
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I think she was gifted with psychic insight at one time, but she became a bit too full of herself. She believes in quite a few strange things, such as the idea that there are purely evil people who can't change. That's a sad point of view for any Reincarnationist to embrace.
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Mind reading? Technically it is impossible, it is possible however to get an information from the mind by the believers of the idea of "psi".  It is the energy which is basically life. Such is required for one to use to determine what the person knows and feels, according to the belief anyway.\n\nBut what you are describing is a huge coincidence.  It happens every now and then, if it happens everyday and about 10-20 times a day, then it is a paranormal occurance, and then the only thing I can tell you is, take pictures, videos, and any other proof, because that would be amazing.
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I don't believe that anyone has psychic abilities. It's more for entertainment value.
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Any psychic resorting to those tactics is a phony.\n\nYou need to remove yourself from their email list to stop the spam emails.\n\nThere are much better ways of finding good psychic advice.
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Yes the powers of Satan are real. The evidence can be found in the Bible as you have already stated. His powers are also apparent in life today, in some of the things society justifies, for which their is no real justification. His powers are also in evidence in some physical manifestations that many people reject as superstition or a desperate attempt to prove their religious beliefs. \nSome of these physical manifestations include possession or obsession. Possessions are documented in the Bible, but also in modern medicine. There are numerous reports found all over the world made by doctors, who were not religious, but were forced to accept the existence of Satan, demons, and devils when patients of theirs' exhibited signs of possession and after long, drawn out exorcisms by Catholic priests all signs of diabolical possession were gone. Both possessions and obsessions of a legitimate nature are recorded by many psychiatrists in the world as well as medical doctors. During these exorcisms, one of the steps of ousting the possessor is making it state its name. In one case, the one on which the movie "The Exorcist" was based, the possessor identified himself as Satan and his legion.\nMany saints, though some reject this title of them, have also been physically abused by Satan and devils. During their lives these saints were thrown against walls, hit, and battered by unseen adversaries. These ocurrences were not just testified to by the saints themselves, but also by witnesses, who were astonished to see these saints locked in struggles with something, lifted in an upright position above the ground or their beds, thrown aside, and subjected to other abuses. These saints would have the marks of these battles in bruises, broken bones, cuts, and scars. These fights with Satan are well recorded in hospitals where these saints were examined and by the testimonies of the witnesses. Some of these saints include St. Jean Vianney, St. John Bosco, and, a man many consider a saint, Padre Pio. I hope that whoever reads what I have written does not dismiss this out of hand but investigates it for themselves.
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No proof of telepathy exists to date, as well as no proof of "gifted" people in doing whatever paranormal task.\nThis is not my personal opinion, it's a fact: the James Randi Educational Foundation is offering a prize of one million dollars (see reference) to anybody who is able to show any kind of paranormal ability. But nobody has ever retired the prize. Isn't this the best demonstration that all paranormal claims are false?\n\nLater addition about the 10% brain usage: this is a question that has been posed and answered many times in Yahoo!Answers. Again: there is *no evidence* that we use only 10% of our brains, this is a myth without scientific grounds, originated from a misquote of Albert Einstein or a misinterpretation of Pierre Flourens in the 1800s. See reference for more details.
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When I was a teenager I had a Ouija board. At first I did believe that spirits were controlling it. But after a while I realized that it's really the subconscious mind that moves the piece. I figured this out because the "spirits" wouldn't answer any questions correctly that I didn't already know the answer to. Plus it was the way the piece moved sometimes, it didn't seem like an actual spirit was controlling it.