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Post Number:#1  PostJuly 15th, 2012, 7:09 pm

I was wondering if someone had ever read the book. My cousin recently suggested it to me and its very contrary to mainstream western thinking and definitely more of the mystic direction but wanted your thoughts on it. The book gives cited examples of being able to put a person under hypnosis and convince the person there is no wall there and read what the clock says(on the other side of the wall) and they achieve this. The author claims to have compiled over 30 years of research of many different scientists saying incredible things such as we are able to put lie detectors up to a plant and actually detect whether they are comfortable with us burning them. The plants seem to freak out as soon as we think of killing them.Thus, giving us the idea that they can read our minds and that we are all connected. There are way more examples in the book and trust me while I am not one for this mystic weird stuff, the reason I bring it up is because of its eastern philosophy of everything being connected in a "source code" as he calls it. While I dont think most would be able to reply to this who have not heard of this kinda stuff, or read the book, I would greatly appreciate anymore information or even thoughts on this seriously radical type of thinking which seems to be definitely eastern philosophy related. Thank youuuuuu

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Post Number:#2  PostJuly 16th, 2012, 11:37 am

Sounds like eastern quackery scam-losophy.
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Post Number:#3  PostAugust 5th, 2012, 3:53 am

Brb09006 wrote:I was wondering if someone had ever read the book. My cousin recently suggested it to me and its very contrary to mainstream western thinking and definitely more of the mystic direction but wanted your thoughts on it. The book gives cited examples of being able to put a person under hypnosis and convince the person there is no wall there and read what the clock says(on the other side of the wall) and they achieve this. The author claims to have compiled over 30 years of research of many different scientists saying incredible things such as we are able to put lie detectors up to a plant and actually detect whether they are comfortable with us burning them. The plants seem to freak out as soon as we think of killing them.Thus, giving us the idea that they can read our minds and that we are all connected. There are way more examples in the book and trust me while I am not one for this mystic weird stuff, the reason I bring it up is because of its eastern philosophy of everything being connected in a "source code" as he calls it. While I dont think most would be able to reply to this who have not heard of this kinda stuff, or read the book, I would greatly appreciate anymore information or even thoughts on this seriously radical type of thinking which seems to be definitely eastern philosophy related. Thank youuuuuu


I have seen such documentation too but it is highly limited and rarely if ever repeated. I would suspect that if such phenomena were repeatable or had even occurred in the first place that follow up studies would have been done. This does not mean I am telling you that it is false, just that it is suspect. This is not proof that the universe is not connected mind you, just an indication that those particular experiments may have had fraudulent results.

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