Re: look out! long-haired gun loon! | natural balances

michael k teehan (miketeehan@worldnet.att.net)
Sat, 20 Dec 1997 06:22:45 -0500


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> From: michael k teehan <miketeehan@worldnet.att.net>
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Subject: Re: look out! long-haired gun loon! | natural balances
> Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 7:41 PM
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> > From: Wings of the Morning <nectar@landmarknet.net>
> > To: extropians@extropy.com
> > Subject: Re: look out! long-haired gun loon! | natural balances
> > Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 1:44 PM
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> > mark@unicorn.com wrote:
> >
> > > nectar@landmarknet.net wrote:
> > > >So tell me what does this mean? Probability? Was this bound to
happen?
> > >
> > > How many times have you had these feelings and they've been wrong? I
> know
> > > in my case the answer is 'lots'. And how do you know that you ever
had
> > > those feelings and they aren't just false memories created after the
> > > fact? Did you write anything down at the time?
> > >
> > > Personally I think our brains go wrong far, far more often than most
of
> > > us realise, and that explains an awful lot of 'psychic'
experiences...
> > > and why they can't be reproduced in a laboratory.
> >
> > >
> >
> > Obviously it's natural to have those types of feelings and be
wrong.
> Of
> > course it happens more than not. But when instance after instance
occur,
> I
> > tend to wonder. And of course I can't prove to you they are false
> memories
> > that happened after fact, I can only tell you honestly, that was my
> > experience; that's what happened. I'm not going to forget the events
> that
> > happened in an instance like that. On the contrary I remember them
quite
> > clearly. No I didn't right anything down at the time, but when I first
> had
> > that "vision" of the yellow rider truck, I did mention it to my mother,
> but
> > at the time I didn't think it was overly significant, but she still can
> > recall me mentioning it. And also right after I put down the phone
with
> my
> > friend, and then came back, I told him what had happen. I told several
> > people directly after the incedent. And they all can recall what I
said.
> > And as far as brains "going wrong" (whatever you exactly mean by that),
> > perhaps that will explain some failures in attempt to reproduce in a
> > laboratory, but what about those psychic experiences in which someone
> makes
> > mention of something ahead of time and it happens to come true. Are
all
> of
> > our brains "going wrong" coneviently at the same time?
> >
> > -Mike