Reply With QuoteWell, yes ... very occasionally incredibly good luck happens. Much more often of course, shit happens.
Tricia RobertsonMannion, inevitably, appears in the article. The famous "Abraham" has been joined by another spirit guide,revealed some early findings in a lecture on paranormal healing to the Society for Psychical Research in London on Thursday, 1 October, titled “Do Miracles Happen?”the spirit of “Dr Nicola Alexandre” worked in conjunction with Abraham to produce a result which the patient described, 44 days later, as “nothing short of amazing”.Well, would you believe it?Although no controlled sessions were conducted with Nina Knowland, Robertson has researched 30 of her cases – all of whom were the healer’s own patients – and discovered equally impressive results.
http://www.paranormalreview.com/heal...diate-benefit/Tricia Robertson, who is a DACE tutor for the University of Glasgow (Department of Adult and Continuing Education), concluded that “miracles do appear to happen” and will publish a report on her study once she has completed all the interviews and obtained signed testimonials.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear
bright, until you hear them speak.
Well, yes ... very occasionally incredibly good luck happens. Much more often of course, shit happens.
Be skeptical of the things you believe are false, but be very skeptical of the things you believe are true.
I wonder why someone who had received virtually "miraculous" healing on his damaged eye, would still choose to remain blind in that eye, rather than continue "treatment".
Still, it makes a nice story.The healer believed that with continued treatment she might be able to restore some vision to the eye, but Sean has decided not to pursue that course of action. Instead, he told Robertson that he is happy with things as they are – retaining the sightless eye and relying on his right eye for vision.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear
bright, until you hear them speak.
Interesting philosophical question - do miracles happen. If an event takes place that defies our understanding of the laws of nature, it only shows our ignorance. The scientific laws must then be amended and the miracle is no more.
I wonder if anyone ever enters the field of parapsychology without prior beliefs in psychic phenomena?
I'd have to nitpick slightly here. When an event takes place that defies our understanding of the laws of physics, it usually means that our understanding of the event itself is incomplete, rather than requiring changes to the physics. This is especially the case for things that get described as miracles - I'm not aware of a single one that actually led to a change in our understanding of science.Originally Posted by Harryprice
Better sorry than safe.
This was put as a philosophical question. There was an underlying assumption in my proposition that the event actually did defy the known laws of science. I think anyone who did not realise this assumption would have picked it up automatically from the conclusion.
Behold a new star in the east...
If it had led to an understanding of supernovas, or whatever it was (if it happened at all) ... but it didn't. It took nearly 2000 years for a (possible) scientific explanation.
Be skeptical of the things you believe are false, but be very skeptical of the things you believe are true.
I was thinking of historical recordings of ostensibly supernatural events in the sky being coallated years later by Edmond Halley, leading to a new understanding of the solar system.
But with regard to supernovae check this out http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=5638#
Where would we be without the mysterious light in the sky being recorded by arab, chinese and korean skygazers back in 1054
Well pretty much where we are now but with a slighly less compete picture of the expansion of the crab nebula.
That's one hell of a slow miracle.the spirit of “Dr Nicola Alexandre” worked in conjunction with Abraham to produce a result which the patient described, 44 days later, as “nothing short of amazing”.And who was Dr Nicola Alexandre? If she was an actual human being who was born, qualified as a doctor and died it should be fairly easy to trace her.
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"If I get rid of the cancer and the person decides they don’t want treatment any more ‐ either they’re too busy, or they’re too mean with their money, or they just think they know better ‐ the cancer often comes back. And if it comes back, I can’t get rid of it a second time. My healing doesn’t work a second time."
Adrian Pengelly
You are assuming that all that great doctors out there are from Earth!That's one hell of a slow miracle.
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Last time I got flu I recited a special mantra that I had bought from Swami Baksheesh Rum Baba, and 44 days later I was miraculously completely healthy again.
Be skeptical of the things you believe are false, but be very skeptical of the things you believe are true.
But I bet that at the end of those 44 days, many people on Earth came down with some disease or another.
Therefore you must be a witch.
Science has to investigate the power of "FAITH". We do not understand the full meaning of that word and the effects it can actually cause.
Don't tase me, Bro!
Well, some of the known effects of "FAITH" include seeing thing which aren't there, hearing things which aren't there, trying to make memories of events fit within a preconceived framework, etc.
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