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“Believers in psychic phenomena... appear to have won a decisive victory and virtually silenced opposition.... This victory is the result of careful experimentation and intelligent argumentation. Dozens of experimenters have obtained positive results in ESP experiments, and the mathematical procedures have been approved by leading statisticians.... Against all this evidence, almost the only defense remaining to the skeptical scientist is ignorance.”

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“Why do we not accept ESP as a psychological fact? Rhine has offered enough evidence to have convinced us on almost any other issue... Personally, I do not accept ESP for a moment, because it does not make sense. My external criteria, both of physics and of physiology, say that ESP is not a fact despite the behavioral evidence that has been reported. I cannot see what other basis my colleagues have for rejecting it... Rhine may still turn out to be right, improbable as I think that is, and my own rejection of his view is - in the literal sense - prejudice.”

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“Okay, what in Hades just happened? Stones don’t glow blue or any other color and they certainly don’t burn circles on you.” The stone wasn’t talking. Alexandra considered herself well grounded, yet here she stood, talking to a stone that glowed, burned circles, and refused to answer. A thread of sensation pricked at the edges of her mind, then grew stronger. It mirrored an idea then became clear. Tell no one. What? Looking from side to side, she backed against the wall. Although it felt like someone whispered in her ear, she stood there alone. The day’s trauma must have pushed her over the edge, yet the sensation persisted. Tell no one. She froze. Her eyes darted around the room. The muscles in her legs tightened as she prepared to bolt from the room. Alexandra swallowed and licked her lips. “Who would believe me anyway?” she whispered.”

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“[When testing psychic abilities of normal people who claimed no psychic powers, J.B Rhine found that] success rate deteriorates if you undertake prolonged experimentation. As with telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition experiments, J.B Rhine observed that this decline effect reflected the subject's loss of interest. [...] And as with other ESP experiments, the degree of belief in your powers can prove significant. Rhine found that sceptics again scored below what you would expect from chance alone.”

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Book:Your Psychic Powers: A Beginner's Guide
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“I sometimes tell my students to do a writing exercise that’s just something on their desk. An object they’ve had with them for a while, a photograph, a stone from the ocean, a shell. I tell them just to explore it, interrogate it, just turn it over in your head and see what might happen. And the most amazing thing happens: they really find they love those objects, and can write about them for a long time. That they carried that black stone home from a day with their father just weeks before he died, that the small elephant was a gift from a friend on a day of heartbreak. We start talking about those objects and soon it feels like our whole life is full of small stories to be grateful for. So many small things we pass all the time without holding them up to the light.”

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Author:Ada Limon
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“Неопределенность, бесплановая природа времени пугает, однако благодаря мышлению в понятиях прекарности делается очевидным: неопределенность-то и делает жизнь возможной. Единственная причина, почему все это звучит странно, - в том, что большинство из нас выросло в грезах о модернизации и прогрессе. Эти рамки выделяют те черты настоящего, которые могут вести к будущему. [...] Понятие прогресса, относящееся к положению вещей в целом, ныне встречается редко, и даже модернизация ХХ века уже воспринимается как архаика. Но их категории - всегда с нами. Мы ежедневно представляем себе образы прогресса: демократия, рост, наука, перспективы. С чего нам ожидать, что экономика будет расти, а науки - развиваться? [...] Тем не менее современная человеческая спесь - не единственный план создания миров: мы окружены множеством творящих миров проектов - и человеческих, и нет. ... Миры возникают и такими способами - и благодаря им мы учимся смотреть и по сторонам, а не исключительно вперед.”

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Book:The Mushroom at the End of the World
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