I agree with you. I guess what I meant to say is, guessing cloth colour by random would produce very different results from being able to see the cloths aura and deduce it from that. If a person can see auras, then they would get 100% each time. Over enough sets of 100%, science would have to concede that 'something' was happening. This wouldn't prove the existence of auras, but it might give reason to believe auras might exist. At the least, it would be something for science to start studdying.Originally Posted by Roo
I guess an analogy would be a sighted person in the land of the blind. These blind people ask him to tell them the colours of certain objects (which they have deduced from instruments - ie although they can't see colour, they can detect it scientifically). The sighted person would have no trouble giving the correct colour each time. So why can't people do the same with auras? It seems we could spend a lifetime learning to see auras, yet our incidence of seeing the correct aura would be on par with chance guessing (thats how results seem stacked to date).
Agreed completely.. but its the same for OBE's and astral projection also. I know a great deal is being done to try and prove that OBE's are a real phenomena, but if we're led to believe that here with us now are great people capable of having OBE's at will, then surely we wouldnt be completely insane in thinking that these people would also be capable of proving their ability. The playing card experiment for one has been attempted by possibly hundreds of people, why then do we not see better hit rates?[quote:1dcifiw0]I’m not attempting to change opinions, or state that energy and auras don’t exist. But I guess it just makes me doubt and disheartens me when every experiment I’ve read of fails, even when the psychic claims they can detect energy and auras.
Im on the fence with this, im neither a skeptic nor a believer, im simply an open minded person who's had some strange experiences in the past and wants to dig deeper.
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I'm on the fence too. I used to be a believer, but the more 'paranormal' experiences that I experience for myself, and as I expand my knowledge of science and spirituality, I can find, if not scientific explainations for this phenomena, but the area of scientific knowledge an explaination could fit under (my lack of knowledge not allowing me to articulate etc). So I now sit on the fence.
I admit to increasing frustration at the lack of any meaningful results, and parts of the spiritual community who try and attach science to their arts to gain credibility (but they usually misinterpret the science ie QM, and bring more scepticism their way).
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