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teknix said:
There is no such thing as mystical super powers you can use to effect the material world, but there are ones that can affect it. I decided to determine for myself if there could be such a thing, and I found from that experience that there wasn't any evidence of any super powers anywhere! That is because they are only within.

We make our reality, what those spiritual guys are doing is simply becoming aware and utilizing the autonomous system and calling is different things!

Anyway thought I'd let you guys tell me I told you so

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Infinitys Minute said:
I have seen what can maybe be called a super power (albeit a shit one). I knew people that can roll 3-5 die of different colours and tell you beforehand what number each colour will come up as. They start by rolling the dice repeatedly until they sort of warm up without calling anything, then they start calling it getting exactly what they call around 80+% for 3 dice and similarly abnormal amounts for higher numbers. This can be repeated for hours if drunk and stoned enough. Smoking weed and opium according to these people gets you more in tune with the dice and helps a lot but is not necessary. They also have great luck in dice games in general. All of their rolls are legit rolls and not someone putting effort on a physical level into making the die turn up that way, nor are there loaded die involved.

Don't know if that really counts but it's the closest thing I can think of to one. After meeting them I have tried to do these sorts of things and appear to have increased my luck in general dice games, but not nearly to their level and I can not call the die by their colour with more than 2 consistently, sometimes I get a decent number in a row with 3, but nothing amazing... and it's bound to happen eventually so I think that's just luck for me

Dice and cards are funky things like that - you can feel something in them that tells you, I swear... mine's just not fine-tuned at all.

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teknix said:
Watching John Chang perform isn't too much different then watching a street magician on the strip in Vegas imo.

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Well good on you dude. Most people aren't honest enough to learn.

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Infinitys Minute said:
I have seen what can maybe be called a super power (albeit a shit one). I knew people that can roll 3-5 die of different colours and tell you beforehand what number each colour will come up as. They start by rolling the dice repeatedly until they sort of warm up without calling anything, then they start calling it getting exactly what they call around 80+% for 3 dice and similarly abnormal amounts for higher numbers. This can be repeated for hours if drunk and stoned enough. Smoking weed and opium according to these people gets you more in tune with the dice and helps a lot but is not necessary. They also have great luck in dice games in general. All of their rolls are legit rolls and not someone putting effort on a physical level into making the die turn up that way, nor are there loaded die involved.

Don't know if that really counts but it's the closest thing I can think of to one. After meeting them I have tried to do these sorts of things and appear to have increased my luck in general dice games, but not nearly to their level and I can not call the die by their colour with more than 2 consistently, sometimes I get a decent number in a row with 3, but nothing amazing... and it's bound to happen eventually so I think that's just luck for me

Dice and cards are funky things like that - you can feel something in them that tells you, I swear... mine's just not fine-tuned at all.

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teknix said:
Watching John Chang perform isn't too much different then watching a street magician on the strip in Vegas imo.

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Well good on you dude. Most people aren't honest enough to learn.

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teknix said:
Watching John Chang perform isn't too much different then watching a street magician on the strip in Vegas imo.

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Well good on you dude. Most people aren't honest enough to learn.

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Well if I took your word for it, then I would still be just believing someone else :P

thanks.

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An Interview with Kerstin Uväs-Moberg, M.D., Ph. D

If you suffer from stress, high blood pressure, elevated cortisol in the blood, or other stress-related symptoms, you will be interested in oxytocin—a hormone which Dr. Kerstin Uväs-Moberg calls the calm and connection hormone.

How can you bring greater calm and connection into your life and the life of your children?

Kerstin Uväs-Moberg, M.D., Ph. D, author of The Oxytocin Factor, is a recognized world authority on oxytocin.  Her research took place at the famed Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, where she is Professor of Physiology.  Influential in obstetrics, psychology, pediatrics, child development, physical therapy and other fields, Dr. Uväs-Moberg has authored over four hundred scientific papers and lectures widely in Europe and the USA.

1. In your book, you state, “There are many scientific conferences on the topics of stress and pain, but very few conferences deal with calm, rest, and wellbeing.”  What does oxytocin have to do with calm, rest, and wellbeing?

Dr. Uväs-Moberg: Oxytocin, which was first noticed during birth labor and in nursing
mothers in 1906, acts as both a hormone and a neuropeptide.  It triggers a complex series of reactions that enhance your body’s relaxation and calmness. This is important in two ways.  The first (1) is the immediate health benefit of lowering stress-related symptoms and the second (2) is that repeated dosages of oxytocin seem to convert the immediate benefit into a long-lasting effect.  In our studies, animals who received as little as one dose per day for 5 days needed little additional oxytocin to stay calm for up to 3 weeks.  This suggests that oxytocin can offer stressed human beings a way to open up new pathways, to help them relax and restore calm immediately and across long term situations.  I stress oxytocin’s ability to grow or develop people’s relaxation and restoration capacity.
(read more:)http://lifesciencefoundation.org/cmoxtyocin.html

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teknix said:
I think a big cause for it is Death anxiety.

People don't want to have to die. Pretty much all religions promise a sort of immortality I think. So thes belief structures are created to prey on fears. Yet pragmatically, is it good or bad?

Like say for instance, a holistic healer convinces you to heal yourself with the placebo effect. He doesn't really have any super powers yet there may have been no effect had you not had an open mind in that regard.

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You're preaching to the Quire here.

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teknix said:
Here is some documented research on the oxytocin effect:

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An Interview with Kerstin Uväs-Moberg, M.D., Ph. D

If you suffer from stress, high blood pressure, elevated cortisol in the blood, or other stress-related symptoms, you will be interested in oxytocin—a hormone which Dr. Kerstin Uväs-Moberg calls the calm and connection hormone.

How can you bring greater calm and connection into your life and the life of your children?

Kerstin Uväs-Moberg, M.D., Ph. D, author of The Oxytocin Factor, is a recognized world authority on oxytocin.  Her research took place at the famed Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, where she is Professor of Physiology.  Influential in obstetrics, psychology, pediatrics, child development, physical therapy and other fields, Dr. Uväs-Moberg has authored over four hundred scientific papers and lectures widely in Europe and the USA.

1. In your book, you state, “There are many scientific conferences on the topics of stress and pain, but very few conferences deal with calm, rest, and wellbeing.”  What does oxytocin have to do with calm, rest, and wellbeing?

Dr. Uväs-Moberg: Oxytocin, which was first noticed during birth labor and in nursing
mothers in 1906, acts as both a hormone and a neuropeptide.  It triggers a complex series of reactions that enhance your body’s relaxation and calmness. This is important in two ways.  The first (1) is the immediate health benefit of lowering stress-related symptoms and the second (2) is that repeated dosages of oxytocin seem to convert the immediate benefit into a long-lasting effect.  In our studies, animals who received as little as one dose per day for 5 days needed little additional oxytocin to stay calm for up to 3 weeks.  This suggests that oxytocin can offer stressed human beings a way to open up new pathways, to help them relax and restore calm immediately and across long term situations.  I stress oxytocin’s ability to grow or develop people’s relaxation and restoration capacity.
(read more:)http://lifesciencefoundation.org/cmoxtyocin.html

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teknix said:
How you know it isn't just a coincidence when you do good?

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