Posted on 09/05/2006 7:52:20 AM PDT by bwteim
NORWICH (Reuters) - Many people have experienced the phenomenon of receiving a telephone call from someone shortly after thinking about them -- now a scientist says he has proof of what he calls telephone telepathy.
Rupert Sheldrake, whose research is funded by the respected Trinity College, Cambridge, said on Tuesday he had conducted experiments that proved that such precognition existed for telephone calls and even e-mails.
Each person in the trials was asked to give researchers names and phone numbers of four relatives or friends. These were then called at random and told to ring the subject who had to identify the caller before answering the phone.
"The hit rate was 45 percent, well above the 25 percent you would have expected," he told the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. "The odds against this being a chance effect are 1,000 billion to one."
He said he found the same result with people being asked to name one of four people sending them an e-mail before it had landed.
However, his sample was small on both trials -- just 63 people for the controlled telephone experiment and 50 for the email -- and only four subjects were actually filmed in the phone study and five in the email, prompting some scepticism.
Undeterred, Sheldrake -- who believes in the interconnectedness of all minds within a social grouping -- said that he was extending his experiments to see if the phenomenon also worked for mobile phone text messages.
by Stevie Wonder
No new years day
To celebrate
No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
No first of spring
No song to sing
In fact heres just another ordinary day
No april rain
No flowers bloom
No wedding saturday within the month of june
But what it is
Is something true
Made up of these three words that I must say to you
I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart
No summers high
No warm july
No harvest moon to light one tender august night
No autumn breeze
No falling leaves
No even time for birds to fly to southern skies
No libra sun
No halloween
No giving thanks to all the christmas joy you bring
But what it is
Though old so new
To fill your heart like no three words could ever do.
I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart.
I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart
Of my heart
Of my heart
How sweet! Hello, BSF.
Are the wild fires near you?
Hi onyx! Always good to see you my FRiend!
Are the wild fires near you?
Thank Heavens no! I heard on FOX News Radio this morning that it's the biggest wildfire this state has ever dealt with, and it's currently the largest wildfire burning in the west this year. It's burning on the other side of the state, but when our wind blows from the south or southwest, you can smell burning firewood in the air.
The following acts are prohibited on all State lands and private forested
lands lying within the boundaries of the marked counties.
1. Building, maintaining, attending, or using a fire or campfire except
within a developed recreation site, or improved site.
2. Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or building, a
developed recreation site or while stopped in an area at least three feet in
diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable materials.
Exceptions:
• Persons with a written permit that specifically authorizes the
otherwise prohibited act.
• Persons using a fire solely fueled by liquid petroleum or LPG
fuels.
• Persons conducting activities in those designated areas where the
activity is specifically authorized by written posted notice.
• Any Federal, State, or local officer or member of an organized
rescue or firefighting force in the performance of an official duty.
• All land within a city boundary is exempted.
• Other exemptions unique to each agency.
Terrible. Just terrible.
Yeah, it's hugh! There are firefighters from far away as Australia fighting this fire. Last I heard there were 7,000 brave souls on the frontlines of the fire.
There is more to life, Horatio....
LOL, sad indeed.
I first misread it. Thought that you fried a psychic girl;)
I sensed that you'd be interested in this one.
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