Geophagy
The Otomac Indians who live along the Orinoco River in Venezuela
hunt for fish with bows and arrows when the water is low but for
two or three months of the year when the water is too high and
rapid they survive on a diet of mud balls. The mud does not
contain any nutrient that we can recognize and yet these indians
remain healthy and strong through the dirt eating season.
Patient Pam
In July 1991, a female aneurysm patient code-named "Pam
Reynolds" underwent an 8-hour surgery in Phoenix, Arizona
during which she was clinically dead for an hour. During the dead
hour an electric saw was brought into the operating room in a
case and this saw was used to cut open her skull. after the
operation she said that she saw the procedure from "above"
and she accurately described the saw which she had never seen in
life. She also accurately related the conversation that took
place in the room at that time although her ear canals were
packed with test equipment which showed no response from the
brain stem to repeated audible clicks.
Telepathy
Do you believe in telepathy? No? Then what are you doing when you
pray?
The Human Interface
Write a little program so that when the cursor moves to a
different part of the screen the computer says a different word
or makes a unique sound. Now wire your brain to the mouse port
with a neurotrophic electrode so that your brain's electrical
activity moves the cursor. At first the motion will be a frenetic
mess but soon you will gain control of the cursor and you will
know how to make the computer make the sound you want but you won't
know how you do that.
Life After The Hayflick Limit
H Lee Sweeney isolated the gene that
produces the hormone that normally maintains muscle tissue,
wrapped it into a benign virus and injected it into the muscle of
laboratory mice whose muscles were wasting away either with age
or muscular dystrophy and the muscles returned to youthful health
and vigor.
It's All In The Mind
Just as we are conditioned to survive and mate, so we are also
programmed to age and die. It's software. You don't have to do it.
The Human Subject
Wearing t-shirt and jeans take the subject to a windowless room
with a panic button and tell him that this is an experiment and
if he gets bored to press the button. He will sit there for hours
without pushing the panic button and without any ill effects. But
if you wear a lab coat and have the subject sign a release; then
take him to the same room and inform him that this is a sensory
deprivation experiment and if it starts to go wrong he must push
the panic button he will do so within an hour and display
symptoms normally associated with sensory deprivation experiments.
The Power of Prayer?
Grow mold in two identical petri dishes 1 and 2 and pray for dish-1
and don't pray for dish-2. The mold in dish-1 will grow bigger.
In a similar experiment in 1986, 24 heart patients were randomly
assigned to two groups of 12 and the group receiving prayers did
better!!!
Faith Heals
Reproducible scientific experiments carried out by Harold Koenig
of Duke University show that people who have a religion, any
religion, are healthier, are more disease resistant, and live
longer than those who don't.
The Human's Perspective
According to human beings only they are capable of intelligence,
design, choice, mirth, anger, anguish, love, compassion, and
kindness and the other creatures just carry out nature's
programming. But what was the program that drove a hippopotamus
to rescue an impala from the jaws of a crocodile and then try to
resuscitate her? And what would you have made of it had it been a
human instead of a hippo?
Urine Heals
To build up your immune system or to fight off aids, cancer, or
anemia, drink the urine of a pregnant woman.
Chemistry
We are constantly communicating with each other by discharging
into the air colorless and odorless chemicals that form our
social glue and determine how we interact and mate.
Gender Wars
Witch burnings and misogyny are left over embers from a war
fought in 3500 bc in which a goddess-worshipping matriarchal
culture that ruled europe peacefully for thousands of years was
defeated and subjugated by a patriarchal warrior culture from the
east that worshipped male dieties.
The Magic of Garlic
To avoid illness eat lots of garlic. It contains a chemical
called allicin that kills bugs even if they are resistant to
antibiotics. Garlic is our last hope against the tough new
resistant strains of bacteria.
The Prince of Snakes
Boonruang Buachan of Thailand communicates and makes friends with
snakes and insects. He has been seen hanging out with king cobras
and scorpions and even kissing them.
The Figure Head
7,686,369,774,870 times 2,465,099,745,779 is 18,947,668,177,995,426,773,730
and the 43rd root of 18,947,668,177,995,426,773,730 is 3.871240336.
Results like these come to Shakuntala Devi of India upon a moment's
reflection and without the aid of any computational device. She
can figure in her head.
Mind over Machine
Suppose that you want to see picture 1 and you don't want to see
picture 2. If your computer produces a random mixture of the
pixels from pictures 1 and 2 your mind will force the result to
be more like picture 1 than picture 2. And it's not just in your
head because the picture will actually contain more picture 1
elements than is its random share. What's weirder is that without
your attention it goes back to random.Try it for yourself. the
software is downloadable. (john
haaland)
(Incidentally, the resultant picture is a fingerprint. No two
persons produce the same picture. This could explain, among other
things, why some individuals win more than average and others
lose more than average at slot machines and why some slot
machines more than others work better for you.)
The Gloria Ramirez Story
On Feb 19 1994 a woman in cardiac arrest was brought to Riverside
General Hospital. When a nurse drew blood it released a powerful
stench. The nurse passed out and the rest of the medical team
began to collapse. Pathologists who conducted the autopsy also
became sick even though they wore space age 'toxic suits'.
Mind Reading Plants
Plants generate electrical impulses that may be measured. Cleve
Backster measured these voltages. He found that the plant became
agitated when he injured it with a knife or a match; or if he
even just thought about causing such an injury.
La Cucaracha La Cucaracha
Behead cockroach 1 and cut the legs off cockroach 2. Now mount
roach 2 on top of roach 1 with a tiny tube that allows their
bodily fluids to comingle; and watch as headless roach 1 now
walks around navigating with the eyes and head of his buddy.
Roach 1 also knows night from day and only comes out to feed at
night as is the roachian custom.
Does the Soul have Mass?
Duncan MacDougall weighed the almost dead and the dead and he
found a consistent difference of about an ounce between these
weights.
A Drug Addiction
Falling in love is phenylethylamine addiction, heartbreak is
phenylethylamine withdrawal. The person you are in love with is
only an artifice in the ritual you use to cause your brain to
manufacture this drug.
Olaf
Johnson
Olaf has been subjected to many controlled tests and experiments
by scientists and skeptics and no one denies that he can
materialize and dematerialize objects; he can also move objects
as large as an end table with his mind; and he can control other
people's minds to make them say things they don't want to say.
Loopholes in Space?
In South Africa one night a drunken man walked out of a tavern
and into Ohio. This case has been well documented but never
solved.
Sponge
Photograph a live sponge and then grind it into a slurry. Press
the slurry through a micropore strainer and you will get what
appears to be muddy water. All the individual cells of the sponge
have been separated from each other. Let it sit for a few days
and the sponge will rise like a phoenix from the muddy water.
Compare this sponge with your photograph. It's the same sponge.
You are what you eat
Teach mouse-a to run a maze but don't teach mouse-b or mouse-c.
Now kill and grind up mouse-a and feed it to mouse-b and not to
mouse-c. Mouse-b will run the maze better than mouse-c.
Complete Knowledge
In 1895 the royal society (in England) passed a resolution to the
effect that man's knowledge of the universe was complete and that
everything worthwhile had been invented.
