To MarkP4:
I understand your wanting to have solid proof in order to believe in the PR whole mind system. It seems to be a sort of comfort before going off the diving board into 'strange waters.'
The truth of the matter is quite simply, "seeing is not believing, believing is seeing." You can only look at the information that seems somewhat inconclusive to you at this point (this is not a criticism or a cut down) and wander "if."
The real issue is that you have to make that decision that it is at least possible, and once open to the possibility you can begin to experience the evidence for yourself. That is the correct order of things. How can you truly experience concretely what you don't really first believe is even possible? If you first decide that it can't be possible at all to PR, you have cancelled out your ability to truthfully and realistically consider it as a possibility. If you do open yourself up to the possibility then you can begin to at least test the waters and gain some 'concrete' experiences like spontaneous activation and the feel of a book beginning to "gel."
You can't expect your mind to respond to a reality that you have predetermined is no reality at all without proof. You've locked the door expecting some kind of mysterious proof to come along and unlock it for you. This is experience oriented discovery of a very personal kind. The feeling of 'ah ha'my mind is capable of doing these things because I have experienced it for myself, can begin to transcend any proof you could ever read in any journal, (not that the articles aren't interesting). The real power of "proof" usually comes after you have experienced it for yourself and it becomes a kind of confirmation that what you have experienced is valid.
10 years of a Christian walk with the Lord has proven this theory to me in a very personal and important part of my life, as well as PR. I'm telling you this from experience. Give it a try. What have you got to lose?
