Thanks for the award! It was very kind of you. I have made a further addition to the talk:psychic page that you might enjoy.
As I have said on that page, though, I regretfully do not have the time at the present to fully invest in developing proper and relevant articles. I am hopeful that this will ease up come November-December. However, I will try to keep current with the discussions as much as I can.
Thank you very much again for your kindness and thoughtfullness. Nomorebs 07:05, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Man, I've found a lot of interesting stuff on your page. I appreciate your interests very much! You are a human whom Lise Bourbeau probably would call "of Aquarius era". Very neat!
So many societies I'll copy into Russian Wikipedia! — Tolek R. 01:44, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Is this the picutre you are looking for?
http://www.facinghistory.org/ctp/ctp.nsf/All+Docs/CTP+crisis?OpenDocument
Thank you for your friendly welcome, Solar. I have read your most interesting profile, and look forward to many discussions on spiritual themes - Suziebeau 10:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
After taking a look at your profile I really wanted to urge you to go through the nine lecture videos here.. http://www.falundafa.org/bul/lectures/index.htm#video
.. I am sure you will like them a lot... :)
Dilip r 17:32, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Nice to hear from you :). Regarding Falun Gong, I would request you to go through the teachings directly, as there is a lot of slanderous material being propogated by the CCP. For a true spiritual seeker such an extremely high level Xiulian(Cultivation Way) is something too precious to miss.
In eastern traditions or in western inner traditions like gnosticism, there is the concept of this plane of existance emanating from a higher one - which some traditions call the heavens. The gnostics have a saying "As in the heavens so on earth."
If you look at the upright culture of each race - be it Classical Western music , Classical Chinese Dance forms or Classical Indian Dance it carries the elements from their corresponding divine bodies. Even the images of Boddhisattvas and Angels differ - these certainly are not made up things. Master Li Hongzhi just pointed out in one of his speeches that mixing of races on such large scale has happenned only during this period of time. You could look also look at what the Bhagavat Gita mentions regarding the mixing of races.
Regarding "homosexuality" it is said that a cultivator must give up this behaviour. Infact the Buddhist Scriptures, The Bible, The Gnostic Bible - Pistis Sophia all share the same viewpoint.
I can tell you with utmost sincerity that Falun Dafa is just something too precious to miss. You will understand for yourself once you listen to the nine lecture videos and just try out the exercises - there is no need to look at what I say :) .
Dilip r 06:58, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Dean Radin claims to have bent a spoon with his mind. Go to Dean Radin follow trail to his blog page. It is in his book. User:Kazuba 7 Sept 2006
```Openly claiming he bent a spoon to the public in his book and on his blog page, and defending it, gives a strong indication Radin does not see this as peculiar. If I remember correctly, Radin recommends John Taylor's 1975 book,Superminds, or was it John Halsted's The Metal Benders, 1981, (Here, Superminds is a reference) both are classics in psychic hokum. (Yep, Uri and his spoons are there). This is also "very" peculiar. Radin's statement of just because we did not find any evidence of remote viewing in the Stargate Project (2% over chance) at a cost of 20 million dollars, does not mean it doesn't work, is true, but also peculiar.
This evidence suggests Radin has reached the same irrational stage as a firebug filling out a job application admitting they like to start fires. This seems to happen quite frequently to those involved in parapsycholgy. One gets the impression because of unwelcomed scientific findings,(it was probably evolution and preliminary Biblical higher criticism in the 19th century) these scientists are trying to find something metaphysical: mysticism, miracle, immortality etc. within science to believe in so they can find comfort. This is not good science or good religion. I submit, like Sheldrake now defending telephone and e-mail telepathy Radin is, as they say on the street, out-to-lunch. It is unlikely he will be coming back without therapy. Like 16th century witch hunters and burners who never wanted to admit their mistakes; they had gone over the edge. So it goes, over and over and over, from one generation of psychic "scientists" to another. It is certainly nothing new to the historians of the conjuring community. User:Kazuba 8 Sept 2006
KazubaI'm going to make a guess here on a future statement about psi from Radin; if he hasn't said it already. Something like this: "Parapsycholgy is too important to be hampered by the old ways of experimental proof, and it is the abscence of proof that is perhaps the most damning". It is fine to propose speculative ideas (Quantum and psi), but if they cannot be tested they are not science. They don't even rise to the level of being wrong. User:Kazuba 8 SEpt 2006 Kazuba If Radin bent that spoon, as pictured, it was physically bent around a rod with a tool in his hands and he knows it. This seems to be Radin's only real contribution (physical) to psi. (It will keep the money coming in). 2% over chance just doesn't get it. Let's see Radin do it for Randi and others. I'm done. You can have the last word if it makes you happy. User:Kazuba 8 Sept 06
KazubaThis is not emotional for me. I am not Randi. Like I said Radin could bend his spoon for "others". I have a pretty good suspicion telepathy may exist, but not much beyond it. But I think it will take better parapsychologists than Radin and those seeking mysticism to find it. I can only share with you the knowledge I have gained from watching spirtism to parapsychology for the last 45 years and seeing minimal progress. I am only trying to be a critical historian in the matter, nothing more. Randi and I don't see things eye to eye. People who attend spoon bending parties, and recommend bad science books are not very reliable. If I angered you, I am sorry that was not my goal. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings. It sounds like I did. Having a sense of hearing, seeing, tasting and such are mundane and not mystical. If telepathy exists I imagine it will be pretty much the same. I really don't care whether or not psi exists. I enjoy the history of the quest and the puzzle. I do not consider myself a skeptic. If you read my user page you know that. Sorry I added this (I gave you the last word) but I seem to be very misunderstood. If you have made mistakes in your life, as most of us have, you should know you cannot trust experience. There are many failed marriages. User:Kazuba 12 Sept 2006
KazubaThe 2% over chance can be found in the on-line paper, Utts and Josephson: The Paranormal: Evidence and Its Implications for Consciousness, 1996. This 2% over chance for Stargate is consistent with an earlier study in an article by Honorton and Ferrari which is noted. There has been duplication. I would imagine Dean Radin is aware of this since he was supposedly connected with Stargate. He likes to use the word "significant". I have not seen figures. Shared delusions and hallucinations may be a form of telepathy. Perhaps some day we will find out. It may be I expect too little, and you expect too much. User:Kazuba 12 Sept 2006.
``` I never claimed Radin said "We did not find any evidence of remote viewing in the Stargate Project." Just go back and look. It was "Just because [we did not find any evidence of remote viewing in the Stargate Project] does not mean it is not there." Your statement is taken out of context. There is a delicate difference. Watch out for those cognitive distortions. User:Kazuba 13 Sept 2006
```I do not trust my experiences or my emotions. My thinking can be irrational and distorted. I try to critically examine them as close as possible, especially if they effect my feelings. For example, I may imagine I know what are another's motives and what they are thinking about something, but don't take the time to check it out. I could be dead wrong, cognitive distortions. We all do it.
I am sorry I didn't save a link to Radin's statement on the failure of remote viewing. It is the just a typical excuse for a failed inquiry into many things. I didn't make it up. That is not my way. If you keep looking maybe you'll find it. I've had no luck finding it again. I found it totally by accident. You have probably had the same expirence on the NET, there is a lot of stuff!
When persons start using the odds of this happening are so and so, I've learned not to trust it. To me its a game. I've seen it used too often on a variety of things. Someone is trying to baffle you with numbers. Usually they don't give you the figures to show you how they arrived at that magic number. My favorites were the odds against a brick sprouting wings, another were the odds of a blind man completing a Rubik's cube. How the hell can you arrive at these figures with mathematics? Be cautious.
There is no need for a new occult. Sloppy parapsychology opens the gate. You don't want your grand children bending spoons, talking to the dead, and telling fortunes in school. The dark side of irrationality, madness, and superstition is much closer than you think. Just study the past. I see you have an interest in paganism. Try the classic work of E.R. Dodds' The Greeks and the Irrational. Nice to hear from you. User:Kazuba 21 Sept 2006
Hi. Thanks for responding to my suggestion that Category:Psychics be renamed. As you stated "A consensus sounds like a very good idea.", which I agree. To that end, since I'm the only one that favoured the idea, I'm going to leave it alone until some hypothetical time in the future that someone else happens upon the conversation and supports this move. (I'll continue to respond to new questions or points raised, but I think I've made my point, even if I make it alone.)
Anyway, thanks. -- Billpg 16:57, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm leaving you this message because I noticed you are interested in Wikipedia:Wikiproject Paranormal. We're currently starting a new project which we need the help of our members in, the WikiProject Paranormal Collaboration of the Month. This is an initiative where we can identify articles that need work (especially high-traffic pages), and get the whole project involved with their improvement. Currently, we are in the process of voting for our first collaboration. We'd appreciate it if you'd stop by, vote, and add any articles you may think may be appropriate for the project. Also, you may wish to add the Collaboration page to your watchlist to observe future collaborations. If you'd like, we've also created a category to collect articles covered by our project as a reference, if it helps. So, thank you for your interest, and happy editing! -- InShaneee 16:11, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Hey Solar, thanks for your kind welcome. perusing your profile was a delight, and i find that we have a lot of interests in common. i might take a while to get regular at wiki, cuz around this weekend, i have to move to the EU for my masters....my name is rishabh, i hail from jodhpur>rajasthan>india. really nice 'meeting' u at wiki cheers, Legalese
How do I make a user article? I cant seem to find an area to do so. Also, I just wanted to let you know, that anyone can edit your user page.
Corey Clayton
Hi Solar, By all means add these significant numbers to Remote viewing. My only wish is that they be related specifically to remote viewing, and cited and dated in some kind of sequential dating order. (This is highly unlikely, but the mathematical formulas to show how these numbers were determined would be nice to see.) I do not want the Remote viewing materials to be unfair and void of important findings. User:Kazuba 8 Oct 2006
Hi Solar, I noticed your update to the Unicursal Hexagram and appreicate your contributions, especially to other affairs looking at your profile. I am Vegetarian but my profile needs completely starting again as I havn't touched it in so long and i have done so much since both here and elsewhere. I am writing to you to see if you want to join this and help and add your name ot participants. Thanks! FK0071a 10:50, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Asking people to vote is not acceptable. It would be unfair for me to do it.
It is considered highly inappropriate or unacceptable to advertise Wikipedia articles that are being debated in order to attract users with known views and bias, in order to strengthen one side of a debate. It is also considered highly inappropriate to ask friends or family members to create accounts for the purpose of giving additional support. Advertising or soliciting meatpuppet activity is not an acceptable practice on Wikipedia. On-Wikipedia canvassing should be reverted if possible. [3]
Please provide links that prove it is notable. Arbusto 22:47, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Solar, I just saw your additions to the OBE page. Overall, I think they are really good. I've followed your refrence and ended up doing some pretty substantial copyediting on what you wrote. Take a look at it. I've tried to preserved the sense of what you wrote, but tried to make the neuroscience clearer to someone coming from the outside. I've also added some mention of the other case study, since both of them go in the same direction, suggesting right parieto-occipital involvement, which is consistent with the Blanke data. As an aside, although the Persinger review you cite is published, the original data have never been published in a peer-reviewed format, which makes me more cautious about Persinger's conclusions than I am about Blanke's... this is nothing specific to the psi area, just a general distrust among us professionals for anything that hasn't been through our standard procedures. Best wishes, Edhubbard 20:25, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
AzaBot 18:38, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Dear Solar, Please help me to become contributer in Spiritual Portal. Is it possible?
Razum 15:18, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi Solar, thanks for the barnstar! :-)
cheers M Alan Kazlev 00:24, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the welcoming. Erisie 14:38, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Solar, wow! Thank you so much for the huge compliment! It was such a nice surprise to receive it - especially from someone who's work I admire. You really made my day! Dreadlocke ☥ 03:35, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm curious to find out who was being handfasted. I'm on this yahoo group: [5]. Of course if they don't want to be identified then that's fine.
BB Totnesmartin 21:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Am I barking up the wrong tree with the Edwards article when I want to reduce the number of "claims" or "purported" or other modifiers that I think are just meant to give the article more of a critical slant? Dreadlocke ☥ 05:46, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi there,
I'm contacting you because you listed yourself at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers. You might be interested in a new wikiproject page that lists photographers and articles that need photos by location. The page is located at Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service or WP:PMS GabrielF 00:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Solar,
thank you for your kind Welcome to Wikipedia. I might not contribute much, if at all edit where I see a mistake, maybe. In fact, this account is sort of a replacement account for my German one, where I once edited a little bit, but found it too... well... I hope the English language Wikipedia will remain open and of free spirit and keep (at least that which deserves it) knowledge....
In fact, I just wanted to say "Thank you." Good luck to you ! -- Deus et esse idem. 11:01, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Solar, thank you for the welcome, just want to ask you, I want to add a image into the article of David Roberts about his meeting with Muhammad Ali Pasha in Alexandria, I found the image in the spanish article about Muhammad Ali Pasha, could you explain me how to upload this image
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/RecepcionMehmetAli.jpg
Gracias y saludos cordiales,
-- Eduardo Tellez 18:26, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Wow Solar, thank you for the barnstar. That is so totally nice of you. Namasté Martinphi ( Talk Ψ Contribs) 00:11, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
I award you this barnstar for your excellent contributions to paranormal articles. - Dreadlocke ☥ 05:50, 17 January 2007 (UTC) |
Thanks for letting me know about that! I really like this idea and I'll see what I can do to help support it. I've always thought that while Randi could be included, there is far too much emphasis placed on his opinion and group - it needs to be limited. It's a good place to start.
I've received many comments from readers and new editors of Wikipedia that our articles on the paranormal are skewed towards the skeptical view, I've received comments like: "The articles in Wikipedia do not represent the balanced views I have found -- they only convince me of the con (Skeptic side)." That's just not right.
There have so many comments of this nature about Wikipedia that I've been considering taking this directly to Jimbo, and it would be very helpful to have a guideline from Project Paranormal to stand on. It might also help bring Project Rational Skepticism a bit more rationality on paranormal subjects. :) Dreadlocke ☥ 20:35, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
What's your take on this discussion? I find it kind of strange to limit an article on mediums or mediumship to either parapsychology sources or spirituality sources - but not both. It also doesn't seem like something that will protect the article from over-enthusiatic skeptics. My own comments are here: User_talk:Martinphi#Mediumship. Thanks Solar! Dreadlocke ☥ 00:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Solar, thanks for the welcome and the links. Your personal page is well articulated. Amitchaudhary 02:39, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm new to Wiki and wanted your advice on how to handle some of the shamefully biased stuff that keeps showing up on the Dean Radin page. I made some edits in an attempt to tone down the pejorative language and personal attacks, but my edits were reversed. Any thoughts on how to make this fair?
BTW I recently interviewed Dr. Radin for the http://www.skeptiko.com Podcast. I haven’t posted the interview yet, but if you want to listed to the pre-released version here’s the link http://reason9.com/podcast/upload/skeptiko2-radin-1.mp3
I'd be very interested in your opinion. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Atsakiris ( talk • contribs) 17:44, 18 January 2007 (UTC).
Thanks for the feedback. Regarding presentiment, I share your uneasiness (kinda makes my head hurt thinking about it), but the data looks pretty amazing. Multiple replications, positive results after meta-analysis. Science has been showing us that our reality ain’t what we think it is for 100 years, but it’s still hard for me to let go of the dance.
As far as WP, I guess I’ll just keep plugging away. I’m new to it so it may take a while. I tried to sum up my position with NOPV Re Radin. I’ll see what kind of response I get. AD 18:14, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
I think Sheldrake is brilliant… but that’s just my opinion. He recently posted audio of a head-to-head debate he did with Chris French (a noted British skeptic). The link is: http://www.sheldrake.org/B&R/realaudio/Sheldrak&French281106.mp3
It kinda long, but excellent. AD 21:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Thx Solar. I'll have to show that butterfly to my kids... they'll think it's cool. AD 17:25, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi Solar, These equations bug me. Edwin May supposedly described the odds against chance being the answer is 10 times the square root of 20 to one in RV. Supposedly a billion billion to one. (I'm not that sharp on math.)
Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne say that after 25 years of RV study the odds of the results being chance are 33 million to 1.
Why don't these fiqures match? It looks to me like they really don't know what the odds against chance being the culprit are in RV.
In PEAR the numbers are 100,000 to one to 100 billion to one against chance. How come there is such a number spread? Again this indicates to me they have no idea what the odds are, and they just fudge them.
Might as well just say we don't know what the accurate odds are against chance, but we think it is a lots and lots. (That doesn't sound too scientific does it?) How do you explain these numerical differences? How accurate are they? Do you have an alternate explanation than these guys faking numbers? Could you show me? I'm genuinely honest and curious, I mean no sarcasm, axe grinding or such. I just want to know. User:Kazuba 30 Jan 2006
-- TomasBat ( Talk) 23:18, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
If you get a chance, see if I'm making any sense on the WP:WTA talk page: Bad example of claim in this guideline. It's a bit long, but I think it might be a significant discussion re: language that is allowed in paranormal articles. Dreadlocke ☥ 01:51, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Solar,
I see you are interested in coming up with some guidelines which might keep paranormal articles NPOV. this might be a start, I don't know. It might at least help keep us from having to explain these points over and over. What do you think? Edit all you want. Martinphi ( Talk Ψ Contribs) 08:38, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Your poll entries in the Psychic article have recently come under a bit of scrutiny, and we might need to find better references. The sudent/faculty poll now has a "fact tag", becuase they say the rense site is a consipiracy theory site and not WP:RS. Plus, didn't you have a poll on scientists that showed a majority believed psychic abilities did exist? Thanks! Dreadlocke ☥ 21:32, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Criticism_and_response_in_parapsychology
Hi Solar, it would be great to have you opinion on the above. Martinphi ( Talk Ψ Contribs) 01:25, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the award! It was very kind of you. I have made a further addition to the talk:psychic page that you might enjoy.
As I have said on that page, though, I regretfully do not have the time at the present to fully invest in developing proper and relevant articles. I am hopeful that this will ease up come November-December. However, I will try to keep current with the discussions as much as I can.
Thank you very much again for your kindness and thoughtfullness. Nomorebs 07:05, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Man, I've found a lot of interesting stuff on your page. I appreciate your interests very much! You are a human whom Lise Bourbeau probably would call "of Aquarius era". Very neat!
So many societies I'll copy into Russian Wikipedia! — Tolek R. 01:44, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Is this the picutre you are looking for?
http://www.facinghistory.org/ctp/ctp.nsf/All+Docs/CTP+crisis?OpenDocument
Thank you for your friendly welcome, Solar. I have read your most interesting profile, and look forward to many discussions on spiritual themes - Suziebeau 10:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
After taking a look at your profile I really wanted to urge you to go through the nine lecture videos here.. http://www.falundafa.org/bul/lectures/index.htm#video
.. I am sure you will like them a lot... :)
Dilip r 17:32, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Nice to hear from you :). Regarding Falun Gong, I would request you to go through the teachings directly, as there is a lot of slanderous material being propogated by the CCP. For a true spiritual seeker such an extremely high level Xiulian(Cultivation Way) is something too precious to miss.
In eastern traditions or in western inner traditions like gnosticism, there is the concept of this plane of existance emanating from a higher one - which some traditions call the heavens. The gnostics have a saying "As in the heavens so on earth."
If you look at the upright culture of each race - be it Classical Western music , Classical Chinese Dance forms or Classical Indian Dance it carries the elements from their corresponding divine bodies. Even the images of Boddhisattvas and Angels differ - these certainly are not made up things. Master Li Hongzhi just pointed out in one of his speeches that mixing of races on such large scale has happenned only during this period of time. You could look also look at what the Bhagavat Gita mentions regarding the mixing of races.
Regarding "homosexuality" it is said that a cultivator must give up this behaviour. Infact the Buddhist Scriptures, The Bible, The Gnostic Bible - Pistis Sophia all share the same viewpoint.
I can tell you with utmost sincerity that Falun Dafa is just something too precious to miss. You will understand for yourself once you listen to the nine lecture videos and just try out the exercises - there is no need to look at what I say :) .
Dilip r 06:58, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Dean Radin claims to have bent a spoon with his mind. Go to Dean Radin follow trail to his blog page. It is in his book. User:Kazuba 7 Sept 2006
```Openly claiming he bent a spoon to the public in his book and on his blog page, and defending it, gives a strong indication Radin does not see this as peculiar. If I remember correctly, Radin recommends John Taylor's 1975 book,Superminds, or was it John Halsted's The Metal Benders, 1981, (Here, Superminds is a reference) both are classics in psychic hokum. (Yep, Uri and his spoons are there). This is also "very" peculiar. Radin's statement of just because we did not find any evidence of remote viewing in the Stargate Project (2% over chance) at a cost of 20 million dollars, does not mean it doesn't work, is true, but also peculiar.
This evidence suggests Radin has reached the same irrational stage as a firebug filling out a job application admitting they like to start fires. This seems to happen quite frequently to those involved in parapsycholgy. One gets the impression because of unwelcomed scientific findings,(it was probably evolution and preliminary Biblical higher criticism in the 19th century) these scientists are trying to find something metaphysical: mysticism, miracle, immortality etc. within science to believe in so they can find comfort. This is not good science or good religion. I submit, like Sheldrake now defending telephone and e-mail telepathy Radin is, as they say on the street, out-to-lunch. It is unlikely he will be coming back without therapy. Like 16th century witch hunters and burners who never wanted to admit their mistakes; they had gone over the edge. So it goes, over and over and over, from one generation of psychic "scientists" to another. It is certainly nothing new to the historians of the conjuring community. User:Kazuba 8 Sept 2006
KazubaI'm going to make a guess here on a future statement about psi from Radin; if he hasn't said it already. Something like this: "Parapsycholgy is too important to be hampered by the old ways of experimental proof, and it is the abscence of proof that is perhaps the most damning". It is fine to propose speculative ideas (Quantum and psi), but if they cannot be tested they are not science. They don't even rise to the level of being wrong. User:Kazuba 8 SEpt 2006 Kazuba If Radin bent that spoon, as pictured, it was physically bent around a rod with a tool in his hands and he knows it. This seems to be Radin's only real contribution (physical) to psi. (It will keep the money coming in). 2% over chance just doesn't get it. Let's see Radin do it for Randi and others. I'm done. You can have the last word if it makes you happy. User:Kazuba 8 Sept 06
KazubaThis is not emotional for me. I am not Randi. Like I said Radin could bend his spoon for "others". I have a pretty good suspicion telepathy may exist, but not much beyond it. But I think it will take better parapsychologists than Radin and those seeking mysticism to find it. I can only share with you the knowledge I have gained from watching spirtism to parapsychology for the last 45 years and seeing minimal progress. I am only trying to be a critical historian in the matter, nothing more. Randi and I don't see things eye to eye. People who attend spoon bending parties, and recommend bad science books are not very reliable. If I angered you, I am sorry that was not my goal. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings. It sounds like I did. Having a sense of hearing, seeing, tasting and such are mundane and not mystical. If telepathy exists I imagine it will be pretty much the same. I really don't care whether or not psi exists. I enjoy the history of the quest and the puzzle. I do not consider myself a skeptic. If you read my user page you know that. Sorry I added this (I gave you the last word) but I seem to be very misunderstood. If you have made mistakes in your life, as most of us have, you should know you cannot trust experience. There are many failed marriages. User:Kazuba 12 Sept 2006
KazubaThe 2% over chance can be found in the on-line paper, Utts and Josephson: The Paranormal: Evidence and Its Implications for Consciousness, 1996. This 2% over chance for Stargate is consistent with an earlier study in an article by Honorton and Ferrari which is noted. There has been duplication. I would imagine Dean Radin is aware of this since he was supposedly connected with Stargate. He likes to use the word "significant". I have not seen figures. Shared delusions and hallucinations may be a form of telepathy. Perhaps some day we will find out. It may be I expect too little, and you expect too much. User:Kazuba 12 Sept 2006.
``` I never claimed Radin said "We did not find any evidence of remote viewing in the Stargate Project." Just go back and look. It was "Just because [we did not find any evidence of remote viewing in the Stargate Project] does not mean it is not there." Your statement is taken out of context. There is a delicate difference. Watch out for those cognitive distortions. User:Kazuba 13 Sept 2006
```I do not trust my experiences or my emotions. My thinking can be irrational and distorted. I try to critically examine them as close as possible, especially if they effect my feelings. For example, I may imagine I know what are another's motives and what they are thinking about something, but don't take the time to check it out. I could be dead wrong, cognitive distortions. We all do it.
I am sorry I didn't save a link to Radin's statement on the failure of remote viewing. It is the just a typical excuse for a failed inquiry into many things. I didn't make it up. That is not my way. If you keep looking maybe you'll find it. I've had no luck finding it again. I found it totally by accident. You have probably had the same expirence on the NET, there is a lot of stuff!
When persons start using the odds of this happening are so and so, I've learned not to trust it. To me its a game. I've seen it used too often on a variety of things. Someone is trying to baffle you with numbers. Usually they don't give you the figures to show you how they arrived at that magic number. My favorites were the odds against a brick sprouting wings, another were the odds of a blind man completing a Rubik's cube. How the hell can you arrive at these figures with mathematics? Be cautious.
There is no need for a new occult. Sloppy parapsychology opens the gate. You don't want your grand children bending spoons, talking to the dead, and telling fortunes in school. The dark side of irrationality, madness, and superstition is much closer than you think. Just study the past. I see you have an interest in paganism. Try the classic work of E.R. Dodds' The Greeks and the Irrational. Nice to hear from you. User:Kazuba 21 Sept 2006
Hi. Thanks for responding to my suggestion that Category:Psychics be renamed. As you stated "A consensus sounds like a very good idea.", which I agree. To that end, since I'm the only one that favoured the idea, I'm going to leave it alone until some hypothetical time in the future that someone else happens upon the conversation and supports this move. (I'll continue to respond to new questions or points raised, but I think I've made my point, even if I make it alone.)
Anyway, thanks. -- Billpg 16:57, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm leaving you this message because I noticed you are interested in Wikipedia:Wikiproject Paranormal. We're currently starting a new project which we need the help of our members in, the WikiProject Paranormal Collaboration of the Month. This is an initiative where we can identify articles that need work (especially high-traffic pages), and get the whole project involved with their improvement. Currently, we are in the process of voting for our first collaboration. We'd appreciate it if you'd stop by, vote, and add any articles you may think may be appropriate for the project. Also, you may wish to add the Collaboration page to your watchlist to observe future collaborations. If you'd like, we've also created a category to collect articles covered by our project as a reference, if it helps. So, thank you for your interest, and happy editing! -- InShaneee 16:11, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Hey Solar, thanks for your kind welcome. perusing your profile was a delight, and i find that we have a lot of interests in common. i might take a while to get regular at wiki, cuz around this weekend, i have to move to the EU for my masters....my name is rishabh, i hail from jodhpur>rajasthan>india. really nice 'meeting' u at wiki cheers, Legalese
How do I make a user article? I cant seem to find an area to do so. Also, I just wanted to let you know, that anyone can edit your user page.
Corey Clayton
Hi Solar, By all means add these significant numbers to Remote viewing. My only wish is that they be related specifically to remote viewing, and cited and dated in some kind of sequential dating order. (This is highly unlikely, but the mathematical formulas to show how these numbers were determined would be nice to see.) I do not want the Remote viewing materials to be unfair and void of important findings. User:Kazuba 8 Oct 2006
Hi Solar, I noticed your update to the Unicursal Hexagram and appreicate your contributions, especially to other affairs looking at your profile. I am Vegetarian but my profile needs completely starting again as I havn't touched it in so long and i have done so much since both here and elsewhere. I am writing to you to see if you want to join this and help and add your name ot participants. Thanks! FK0071a 10:50, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Asking people to vote is not acceptable. It would be unfair for me to do it.
It is considered highly inappropriate or unacceptable to advertise Wikipedia articles that are being debated in order to attract users with known views and bias, in order to strengthen one side of a debate. It is also considered highly inappropriate to ask friends or family members to create accounts for the purpose of giving additional support. Advertising or soliciting meatpuppet activity is not an acceptable practice on Wikipedia. On-Wikipedia canvassing should be reverted if possible. [3]
Please provide links that prove it is notable. Arbusto 22:47, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Solar, I just saw your additions to the OBE page. Overall, I think they are really good. I've followed your refrence and ended up doing some pretty substantial copyediting on what you wrote. Take a look at it. I've tried to preserved the sense of what you wrote, but tried to make the neuroscience clearer to someone coming from the outside. I've also added some mention of the other case study, since both of them go in the same direction, suggesting right parieto-occipital involvement, which is consistent with the Blanke data. As an aside, although the Persinger review you cite is published, the original data have never been published in a peer-reviewed format, which makes me more cautious about Persinger's conclusions than I am about Blanke's... this is nothing specific to the psi area, just a general distrust among us professionals for anything that hasn't been through our standard procedures. Best wishes, Edhubbard 20:25, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
AzaBot 18:38, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Dear Solar, Please help me to become contributer in Spiritual Portal. Is it possible?
Razum 15:18, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi Solar, thanks for the barnstar! :-)
cheers M Alan Kazlev 00:24, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the welcoming. Erisie 14:38, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Solar, wow! Thank you so much for the huge compliment! It was such a nice surprise to receive it - especially from someone who's work I admire. You really made my day! Dreadlocke ☥ 03:35, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm curious to find out who was being handfasted. I'm on this yahoo group: [5]. Of course if they don't want to be identified then that's fine.
BB Totnesmartin 21:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Am I barking up the wrong tree with the Edwards article when I want to reduce the number of "claims" or "purported" or other modifiers that I think are just meant to give the article more of a critical slant? Dreadlocke ☥ 05:46, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi there,
I'm contacting you because you listed yourself at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers. You might be interested in a new wikiproject page that lists photographers and articles that need photos by location. The page is located at Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service or WP:PMS GabrielF 00:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Solar,
thank you for your kind Welcome to Wikipedia. I might not contribute much, if at all edit where I see a mistake, maybe. In fact, this account is sort of a replacement account for my German one, where I once edited a little bit, but found it too... well... I hope the English language Wikipedia will remain open and of free spirit and keep (at least that which deserves it) knowledge....
In fact, I just wanted to say "Thank you." Good luck to you ! -- Deus et esse idem. 11:01, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Solar, thank you for the welcome, just want to ask you, I want to add a image into the article of David Roberts about his meeting with Muhammad Ali Pasha in Alexandria, I found the image in the spanish article about Muhammad Ali Pasha, could you explain me how to upload this image
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/RecepcionMehmetAli.jpg
Gracias y saludos cordiales,
-- Eduardo Tellez 18:26, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Wow Solar, thank you for the barnstar. That is so totally nice of you. Namasté Martinphi ( Talk Ψ Contribs) 00:11, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
I award you this barnstar for your excellent contributions to paranormal articles. - Dreadlocke ☥ 05:50, 17 January 2007 (UTC) |
Thanks for letting me know about that! I really like this idea and I'll see what I can do to help support it. I've always thought that while Randi could be included, there is far too much emphasis placed on his opinion and group - it needs to be limited. It's a good place to start.
I've received many comments from readers and new editors of Wikipedia that our articles on the paranormal are skewed towards the skeptical view, I've received comments like: "The articles in Wikipedia do not represent the balanced views I have found -- they only convince me of the con (Skeptic side)." That's just not right.
There have so many comments of this nature about Wikipedia that I've been considering taking this directly to Jimbo, and it would be very helpful to have a guideline from Project Paranormal to stand on. It might also help bring Project Rational Skepticism a bit more rationality on paranormal subjects. :) Dreadlocke ☥ 20:35, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
What's your take on this discussion? I find it kind of strange to limit an article on mediums or mediumship to either parapsychology sources or spirituality sources - but not both. It also doesn't seem like something that will protect the article from over-enthusiatic skeptics. My own comments are here: User_talk:Martinphi#Mediumship. Thanks Solar! Dreadlocke ☥ 00:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Solar, thanks for the welcome and the links. Your personal page is well articulated. Amitchaudhary 02:39, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm new to Wiki and wanted your advice on how to handle some of the shamefully biased stuff that keeps showing up on the Dean Radin page. I made some edits in an attempt to tone down the pejorative language and personal attacks, but my edits were reversed. Any thoughts on how to make this fair?
BTW I recently interviewed Dr. Radin for the http://www.skeptiko.com Podcast. I haven’t posted the interview yet, but if you want to listed to the pre-released version here’s the link http://reason9.com/podcast/upload/skeptiko2-radin-1.mp3
I'd be very interested in your opinion. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Atsakiris ( talk • contribs) 17:44, 18 January 2007 (UTC).
Thanks for the feedback. Regarding presentiment, I share your uneasiness (kinda makes my head hurt thinking about it), but the data looks pretty amazing. Multiple replications, positive results after meta-analysis. Science has been showing us that our reality ain’t what we think it is for 100 years, but it’s still hard for me to let go of the dance.
As far as WP, I guess I’ll just keep plugging away. I’m new to it so it may take a while. I tried to sum up my position with NOPV Re Radin. I’ll see what kind of response I get. AD 18:14, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
I think Sheldrake is brilliant… but that’s just my opinion. He recently posted audio of a head-to-head debate he did with Chris French (a noted British skeptic). The link is: http://www.sheldrake.org/B&R/realaudio/Sheldrak&French281106.mp3
It kinda long, but excellent. AD 21:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Thx Solar. I'll have to show that butterfly to my kids... they'll think it's cool. AD 17:25, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi Solar, These equations bug me. Edwin May supposedly described the odds against chance being the answer is 10 times the square root of 20 to one in RV. Supposedly a billion billion to one. (I'm not that sharp on math.)
Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne say that after 25 years of RV study the odds of the results being chance are 33 million to 1.
Why don't these fiqures match? It looks to me like they really don't know what the odds against chance being the culprit are in RV.
In PEAR the numbers are 100,000 to one to 100 billion to one against chance. How come there is such a number spread? Again this indicates to me they have no idea what the odds are, and they just fudge them.
Might as well just say we don't know what the accurate odds are against chance, but we think it is a lots and lots. (That doesn't sound too scientific does it?) How do you explain these numerical differences? How accurate are they? Do you have an alternate explanation than these guys faking numbers? Could you show me? I'm genuinely honest and curious, I mean no sarcasm, axe grinding or such. I just want to know. User:Kazuba 30 Jan 2006
-- TomasBat ( Talk) 23:18, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
If you get a chance, see if I'm making any sense on the WP:WTA talk page: Bad example of claim in this guideline. It's a bit long, but I think it might be a significant discussion re: language that is allowed in paranormal articles. Dreadlocke ☥ 01:51, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Solar,
I see you are interested in coming up with some guidelines which might keep paranormal articles NPOV. this might be a start, I don't know. It might at least help keep us from having to explain these points over and over. What do you think? Edit all you want. Martinphi ( Talk Ψ Contribs) 08:38, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Your poll entries in the Psychic article have recently come under a bit of scrutiny, and we might need to find better references. The sudent/faculty poll now has a "fact tag", becuase they say the rense site is a consipiracy theory site and not WP:RS. Plus, didn't you have a poll on scientists that showed a majority believed psychic abilities did exist? Thanks! Dreadlocke ☥ 21:32, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Criticism_and_response_in_parapsychology
Hi Solar, it would be great to have you opinion on the above. Martinphi ( Talk Ψ Contribs) 01:25, 9 February 2007 (UTC)