[Isomotopes]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

What do you mean "sealed off sections of the brain?" Using the language of neuroanatomy, can you please elaborate, and also explain why this is "sealed?"

We only use a small portion of our brain the rest of it is unused so metaphorically it is sealed off.

[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by Isomotopes

We only use a small portion of our brain the rest of it is unused so metaphorically it is sealed off.

Well, no. That's a myth:

Neuroscience For Kids - 10% of the Brain Myth


We use all of our brain, and I encourage you to look at the site I linked above for a very easy to follow description and explanation.

[Pyrotex]

Originally Posted by Isomotopes

We only use a small portion of our brain the rest of it is unused so metaphorically it is sealed off.

Oddly enough, since the invention of positron emission tomagraphy, we have been able to track the activities of the brain in three dimensions and in real time. Fascinating!!

We use ALL our brain, Isomotopes.

That old canard about using only a small portion of our brain was just an old wives tale, a popular common myth, with evidence behind it at all. It was never true.

[HydrogenBond]

When I was much younger, in high school, a friend of mine was involved in this programmed called Silva Mind Control. He convinced me to go. I still remember their slogan was "everyday in every way I am getting better, better, and better". It was very positive. One thing I still use is a pain control technique. The instructor planted the hypnotic suggestion. I was skeptical about the ESP claims, until we did the part of the program called cases.

The way it worked was there was a reader and seer. The reader had index cards on which former members wrote the description of a medical condition they had. Part of the exercise was to think about the person, sending them healing energy. The seer would try to guess what was on the card by closing their eyes and trying to visualize. The information you were given was the name and city-state. That particular day the smallest children were hitting 80-90%.

I thought it might be fixed, until it was my turn. The first was a dud, because I was playing along. The second one I visualized a woman lying on an operating table, but she was covered with a blanket so I could tell what was wrong. The reader told me take the blanket off, in my mind. When I did I saw she was pregnant. That was it. After that I got the next 6 of 8. Some case visualization images would be very nebulous like a black color where the heart was, on a fuzzy imaginary image of a human. This would suggest something wrong with the heart, etc. It was not a diagnosis tool, but an attempt to narrow down. The pregnant one was dead on. I even saw the color of her hair. It is one of those things you have to experience.

After I wrote this, I googled Silva Mind Control. It has gone through two revisions; now is ultra. Below is one of their claims, just like I remember. I am not endorsing this. But it would be the good place for science to get data since they set the ambience to help it happen. I did not link.

2# Develop Your Powers of Healing and ESP

Once you learn to meditate we teach you to tap into your ESP. You will experience undeniable evidence of your own ESP by Day 2. This is an incredibly powerful and emotional moment for many of our graduates.

You will be given names and locations of random people unknown to you and you will receive information on them and their state of health through intuition.

[Moontanman]

This the truth guys, no joke My son and I tired a few remote viewing experiments. We made some hits separately that were pretty good but once we made a hit together that was impressive to say the least. (i think i mentioned this in a another thread) We were supposed to try and view a picture and give out impressions. My sons and I stood around that concentrated, i said it's a stone fort, my younger son said, their's a dolphin jumping in the ocean, my other son said there a palm tree in the foreground. we emailed our impressions and low and behold it was a picture of a fort on the gulf coast with a palm tree in the foreground and a dolphin jumping in the water just in front of the fort. We were all floored, our impressions of what was in the picture were so strong it was very tense session but when we saw the photo the weird factor was off scale. We all had seen those things in our minds and they were on the picture. the guy doing the experiment hounded us for months to try it again but both my sons went away to school and I couldn't do much alone. We still talk about it and wonder why it was so close when all three of us were in the loop.

[freeztar]

A poignant story for me is one that my father would often relate when I was younger.

When he was in Jr. High, a science teacher passed around a jar with random astrological sayings on pieces of paper. Every student was asked to take a piece of paper and note, on a separate piece of paper, what it said. Additionally, every student was asked to qualify the statement on the astrology paper to how accurately it related to their personality, or what they were experiencing at the time.

The teacher collected the papers and commented how every single student had remarked on how accurate that the astrological prediction had been. The classroom was buzzing with excitement. To their discouragement, the teacher announced that every single piece of paper had the same exact prediction. She explained how their belief had led them to conclude that the statement was indeed "meant for them specifically".

Everyone was astounded. My father never recovered. He argued against Astrology from then on (this is the reason I know the story ).

[E=mc?]

I believe that what some call a soul is an energy capable of manipulating and detecting such manipulations of terrestial energies. Ghosts could be residule soul energy. Our ability to see, hear,feel these residues could be in connection to our sensitivity to recognizing and using said energies. So maybe we just need to know what to look for. Like looking at a flashlight beam that is pointed at someone else. They would see it as much brighter.

[HydrogenBond]

Here is another one of my experiences from my youth. I was in New England visiting my parents for a week. I had to then drive south for a new job. I was a few years out of college. I waited to the last minute to leave, which required, that I had to drive through a snow storm that was working its way up the coast. It wasn't snowing when I left, but I hit the storm soon enough. I drove about 10 hours and made about 400 miles. I was tired, pulled over and took a nap. I shut off the car and the cold woke me. When I awoke the storm had passed and I was feeling good. There was no more blizzard, and the conditions, although slippery, were really easy since hardly anyone was on the road at 3AM. I could now get up to 60 mph.

About an hour into the drive, with the conditions good, I had a premonition to put on my seat belts. I never wear them, and hadn't during the worse of the storm. I ignored it at first, but I kept getting this anxiety feeling. Eventually, I decided to follow the seat belt hunch and about 20 minutes later I was coming down this long icy mountain hill on I81 in Pennsylvania and totaled my car. I was not injured, but had to wait out in the cold, with others until the sun came up. It was a remote place, a one tow truck town.

I remember going into the pile-up, time seemed to slow down. I did my best to steer around. You should never use brakes on ice or risk losing all control. Seeing the bang was inevitable, I downshifted and then decided to test the seat belt by putting my hands in the air. I figured I would not have gotten the warning if I was suppose to get hurt. As I bounced off the seat belt, I remember thinking, I wish I had been going a little faster to get a better test. The car I had, was a sports car with crumple zones, it absorbed really well. My steering caused the passenger's side to take the hit. I was driving alone, so I was not sacrificing any passenger.

The twists of fate continued. Back then, I used to play it on the edge, just bringing enough money for gas with no extra provisions, i.e, no credit card, there were no cells phones back then. I would assume a happy ending and would commit myself that way. With my car not drivable, and only chump change in my pocket, I had to find a way to get the next 500 miles. I needed to get to my new job. I didn't want to call, worry or inconvenience anyone. It was sort of my adventure and need to be resourceful.

I spent the rest of the morning at a truck stop near where me and my car had been towed. Nobody was going my way for a hitch. The 18 wheelers were sort of thin due to the storm. The guy who had towed my car passed me several times, doing his job. Finally, toward the afternoon he told me to come with him. He brought me home to his wife and they fed me. I offered to pay but they wouldn't take my money. They offered to put me up for the night. But, I explained I needed to go. After talking to his wife they agreed to loan me money for a bus ticket. He had my car in his junkyard, and I needed to leave everything, so I could travel light. Although I was thinking collateral they were kind folk thinking, helping a stranger. The kind gentleman, drove to the bus station. Since there was a wait, he took me to the local pub and we had a few beers with his friends. It was a interesting adventure with the doors opening up.

When I finally got to where I was going, I was telling my story to a female neighbor. She offered to let me borrow her car. I made it to the job in time. What was suppose to happen was I was going to have this temporary assignment, until a security clearance came through. But the funding had been cut due to federal budget cuts. I wish they has told me sooner. Ah sh*t!, Here I was, I had no temporary job, no car, just a multi-month wait without pay. I had called to let family know, I had arrived safely, but, by the way, I think I am going to sell my car to the insurance company. I played it down so my mother would not get all worried. As it turned out, the insurance money for the totaled car wiped out my car loan, which now I couldn't afford. The payoff kept my credit good. As my story hit the vine, an uncle and aunt, who were leveled headed, and who liked me, beamed me down money for a new car, helping to may everything smooth.

As it turned out, I had been away from home at college, and for early jobs for many years and the unexpected break given me an opportunity to move in with my parents and renew old friendship. I was able to collect unemployment and enjoy what turned out to be a nice vacation. Back then I had this intuitive faith that seemed to open up the right doors.

[InfiniteNow]

Would it be fair to call gullibility and/or ignorance a "sixth sense?"

If so, I vote for those.

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

Would it be fair to call gullibility and/or ignorance a "sixth sense?"

If so, I vote for those.

I think it's more likely it's the ability to figure out who is gullible or ignorant enough to be fooled is a sixth sense.

When the ability to create really cold temps came to be one of the first uses of this was to make a statue out of mercury and use it in a magic show where the magician claimed to be able to make the statue disappear