Here goes my theory:
It's no mistake that the brain gives off different waves. My theory is that these slight combinations of waves radiate. Now, I truly believe that one who is well practiced can "feel" these waves, and interpret what they mean.
To me, this covers "mind reading".
I'm slowly debating whether or not these waves resound forever, though diminishing greatly over time, and absorbing into other things. If this is so, I think that when psychics read the thoughts of dead people, it's really just the imprints that their brainwaves have left on objects and people.
I mentioned an occurence of this a while ago on an older message, contained in this thread: http://www.learningstrategies.com/forum/ubb/Forum8/HTML/001301.html
I get iffy on the physical manifestation part, meaning telekinesis. I believe in Qigong, but for scientific reasons as well as spiritual (I believe that at the very least, the placebo effect isn't an error, but the mind/body relationship knowing how to heal itself). Scientifically I believe that Chinese healers got the system perfect over thousands of years, they just used different ideas to represent the truth (like electromagnetic waves and such influencing your body, which is true, since radiation is similar to this).
As far as moving objects, I *do* get iffy on the physical aspect of it. Influencing movement on a straw tied to a string I can kinda see, but actually moving a pencil is a little more unbelievable (not that I don't believe it, it's just more unbelievable).
In sum:
Mind reading - definately; I've seen two instances of it that were foolproof
Mind control - not sure, though hypnosis definately works, as well as NLP
Telekinesis - can't say yes or no just yet
-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com
[This message has been edited by razordu30 (edited February 18, 2002).]
