Past, Present and Future

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I've explained some of my reasoning for keeping an open mind to the possibility of quantum processes that may change our understanding of our capabilities.

Mmm hmm. And I'm waiting for someone to actually deliver the goods before I go beyond just idly thinking about it. I don't see how this is so much different from what you do, except that I look at the track record of these abilities and see a gigantic string of failures, rightly banished to obscurity, whereas you apparently see promising avenues of research ignored by "closed minded" scientists.

It must be hard to live in your reality where every box is square.

It's not really very hard to live in my reality. It just involves withholding belief until sufficient evidence is found. I don't find myself any the poorer for not being "open minded" (in your apparent sense) about unicorns, the survival of Elvis, or necromancy - why is this any different?

Forgive me, I'm at work, so this will not be too elaborate.

I can't disagree with your facts Jester about precognitive abilities. I am not only skeptical about divination's of our future (such as Revelations from the New Testament), but believe that once are aware of our own future (assuming we could know it at all), then we would have the power to change it, rendering any foreknowledge of the future obsolete, or at least unprovable. I know the experiences I've had boarder on the "mystical" from someone in your shoes, and I myself don't give much, if any credence to psychics and seers, but nonetheless I cannot discount my many experiences. Believe me, they have saved my life.

Regardless, you opened up a whole other can of worms when you mentioned psychic power in a broad, general term. You see, I feel there is still much that has yet to be explained that has been proven and well documented, but not scientifically: for example, I work with many women at my facility, and there have been many times when they have all been mixed up, fired, and hired and we have an all new woman staff. Within several months, all of their menstrual cycles will synchronize. I have personally witnessed this occurrence three times now. This is a well known fact, yet scientifically, there is no proof because currently, there is no means of detecting this. Again (and I saw this on 20/20, Dateline, and 60-Minutes, as well as read two articles about it), when people yawn or laugh, there seems to be a radius where people in that radius are more apt to yawn or laugh themselves, even when looking down at their feet (the example on 20/20 was when the Pope yawned and everyone in the front row around him also yawned even though their heads were down and not aware that he had yawned). This also has not been proven with any device that can detect what is happening, but is accepted as some kind of innate human response. Finally, a few people in the world have a rare magnetic disorder, such as Liew Thow Lin or Miroslaw Magola, where magnetic objects stick to their body, and their bodies inexplicably let off a strong magnetic field - but again, science fails us.

Which bring me to my next point: The military used a man pre 1950 who could not only do remote viewing, but could snap pictures of the images he saw with some strange clicking sound in his nasal cavity. I have searched and searching the net this morning trying to find his name, but have failed. Anyways, to my knowledge it is well documented what he did and about his abilities. Uri Geller bent metal spoons on live television given to him from skeptical reporters. While many of his stunts have been disputed, the facts remain that he did this several times for skeptics in front of skeptics. There was also a man who could poke a yarn needle through his arm, then heal the would within 20-minutes. I forget his name and Google fails me yet again, but his exploits were also pretty well documented on national television and reported articles. Finally, we have water dowsing, which when the Russians did it with only the "best of the best" water dowsers, had a 68% success rate (I'm going to have to find that link on the net, but I just saw the show on Discover channel a few months ago and the number stuck with me), which according to the Discovery channel is better than devices that detect the water molecule in the air at parts per million.

So what the hell does all this have to do with time-travel? In my opinion it doesn't, other than to say there is more observable phenomenon in this world than our science has the capacity to fully document. Remember, it wasn't too long ago in terms of how long humans have been on the Earth that the world was flat! Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for science backing up and validating psychic claims 100%, but I'm just pointing out the obvious here: we don't know everything, and quite a bit of our own bodies is still a big mystery, even in our day and age.