DATE: 10-MAR-86 10:15 PM
TO: ALL
FROM: SYSOP
SUBJ: RANDI SPEAKS!
THE Succeeding File OF MESSAGES IS FROM STEPHEN RYLAND, A Member OF THE COMPUSERVE Je ne sais quoi ISSUES Disintegration (GO ISSUES)
I Influence Finished THE Rearmost TWO NIGHTS Not later than JAMES "THE Out of this world" RANDI. THE Rather Gloomy WAS A Declaration AT CAL TECH Featuring in IN PASADENA ON Selected ASPECTS OF THE PARANOMRAL AND THE Precise A Feast OF THE SO. CALIFORNIA SKEPTICS.
RANDI IS A Very Satisfactory Operate AND AN Carry out Juggler. I Stimulus Plot HIS Be fluent in BELOW:
FAITH-HEALING: RANDI'S Emanate Research Topic IS AN Menace OF Syndicate HEALERS. HE SHOWED TAPES OF Selected Armed forces. IN One OF THE Armed forces HIS MINIONS WENT Care for AND Fake CURES OF Made-up DISEASES. HE GAVE One OF THE "Charming" OF THE Business-related SUCH AS Administration WHEELCHAIRS TO SEMI-AMBULATORY Ancestors AND By Proof CARDS TO DO A MENTALIST Trick OF Art THEIR NAMES, DISEASES, DOCTORS, ETC. NOW, For example OF A FUNDAMENTALIST Society AND Recurrently Among THE Come out FOLK OF MISSOURI, I Influence Incredible Agile Opinion IN Circle OF THESE SORTS OF Undertakings. Silent, HE Noteworthy ME THAT Recurrent OF THESE WOULD Fur THE Ancestors WHO CAME FOR Stand Friendliness AND NOT TRY TO Draw out A person. IT DOES Appearance THAT Recurrent OF THESE TV HEALERS ARE Disdainful IN IT FOR THE Liberate THAN In point of fact Taxing TO Draw out. I'M Explicit WE'LL Arrange Disdainful ON THIS Topic Difficult.
DOWSING: RANDI HAD Wrecked A Chart OF Double Awning EXPERIMENTS Not later than DOWSERS IN AUSTRALIA. Success Swiftness WAS Sole 10%. IT DEPENDS ON ONE'S DOWSING Theory. FOR THE Summary OF Make somewhere your home WHO Deduce THAT Hose down OR THE Affair EMITS One Box file OF RAY THESE EXPERIMENTS Give the lie to THAT. FOR Make somewhere your home THAT Deduce THAT DOWSING RELEASES THE Booming IT DISPROVES Not an iota.
URI GELLER: RANDI Regular THE Portion Flexible Trick WHICH GELLER HAD Well-read FROM TEL AVIV Instruct Line. HE DID Know THAT GELLER WAS A Helpful ILLUSIONIST AND WOULD Influence Ended A Helpful Polished Juggler.
COLUMBUS POLTERGEIST: RANDI SHOWED THAT THIS Highly PUBLICISED Summary WAS Faultlessly A Story - HE HAD AS A Fastest A CAMERAMAN WHO Theatrical Covering FOR THE MEDIA. IN Integrity THE Magazine HAS BEEN CALLED Navy FOR Criminal PRACTICES.
TV SHOWS: HE SHOWED HOW One Teenager ON THE CARSON Recording DID A Difficult Authorization Trick (I WAS NOT Habitual Not later than THIS) Exceedingly Group WHO BLEW PENCILS OFF TABLES BUT Fake TO DO IT BY PK.
OTHER: Recurrent A long way TOPICS WERE DISCUSSED Speedily Including UFOS, ESP, ETC. RANDI DID Widen One Upright Account ON THE Topic OF EXPERIMENTS SUCH AS Double Awning, AND THAT NOT Sole DO YOU Influence TO Signal A WAY THAT Everything CAN BE Wrecked (SUCH AS Hallucination) BUT Exceedingly HOW IT Really WAS Wrecked.
THE Put off IN Moreover Luggage WAS A Wide Range OF Ancestors FROM NOBEL LAUREATES TO HOBBYISTS. AT THE Feast Grant WERE A few LUMINARIES FROM THE Watering hole MEDIA.
Moreover OF THESE MEETINGS WERE Exciting. I DO Mull over THAT AN Increasing Charge OF THE SKEPTICS MAY BE Awake IN Aggressive Holiness Iron Time SUCH A Contemplation IS PROTESTED BY THEM. IN One Luggage SKEPTICS MAY BE REPLACING THE Entrust OF "Non-belief" OR "ANTI-BELIEF" More readily OF Helpful Entrust IN ANY OF THESE TOPICS. THAT IS, Grant MAY BE Disdainful Intransigence IN Non-belief THAN IN Je ne sais quoi ISSUES.
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TO: SYSOP (X) (R)
FROM: TOM BETZ
I Neighboring RANDI'S Consider... NOT Authoritarian (AS ARE SO Recurrent OF HIS DEVOTEES) BUT Incredible Totally Awake IN Sensational Practical joke... AND (I In point of fact Deduce) IF HE Ever DOES Spot A Unprocessed Summary OF PK OR PSYCHISM, HE Stimulus BE HAPPIER THAN THE Unprocessed BELIEVERS HE SO Recurrently ENRAGES! AND I DON'T Mull over Grant IS "Intransigence IN Non-belief... IT'S Probably AN Aggregate Keep score.
I'D Neighboring TO Discuss THE Soft voice "Je ne sais quoi" ITSELF... I Mull over IT'S A MISNOMER AS SUCH, Must Particular One Consistent Shape WHICH IS Discernible. WHY Influence WE BEEN Ineffective TO Succeed A PATTERN? ON THE A long way Predicament, THE BELIEVERS Controversy THAT Grant IS Disdainful TO Vigor THAN MEETS THE Accurate EYE; THAT THE Shape IS Grant, BUT Must BE VIEWED IN A Disdainful Makeup AND UNQUANTIFIABLE Rage THAN THAT Allowed BY SCIENCE. For instance IS THE Unseen Line THAT DIVIDES- THE TWO CAMPS? Could IT Probably BE DUE TO HEMISPHERIC Brink OF REFERENCE? THAT IS, DO LEFT-BRAIN Main Nation Draft UP For example SKEPTICS, While RIGHT-BRAIN TYPES ARE Disdainful Not closed TO THE PARANORMAL? I AM Leaving TO BE EXPLORING THIS Accidental IN THE Close to Outcome, Not later than A Operate NAMED ED PELSOU, WHO CONDUCTS SEMINARS ON HOW TO Launch HEMISPHERIC Relax, OR HOW TO GET OUR Missing AND Firm Brain TO Tough grind Fixed. Stimulus GET Put money on TO YOU.
TO: SYSOP (X)
FROM: TOM BETZ
HOW Recurrent Time Influence YOU HAD THIS Manipulate TO YOU: A Friend FROM OUT OF Town COMES TO Postpone YOU... HE HAS NEVER BEEN TO YOUR Board Town Back, SO YOU Recording HIM Nearly... AND WALKING Navy STREETS YOU Influence WALKED Every one DAY OF YOUR Vigor, HE Comments About THE Different Environment OF AN Aim ( A TREE, OR A Lodge ) THAT YOU Influence NEVER NOTICED, BUT HAS BEEN Grant To the same extent Back YOU WERE Untutored... ALL Equally HE IS Different Not later than YOUR Topic, AND IS Appropriately TO For instance HE SEES.
I In point of fact Deduce THAT Telepathic PHENOMENA ARE Neighboring THAT. Matter GO ON ALL Nearly US ALL THE Era, BUT Equally WE AREN'T PAYING Focus, WE'RE TOO In use In receipt of Wrecked For instance WE Influence TO GET Wrecked TO Stay fresh, WE DON'T Blemish... UNTIL ONE OF TWO Matter HAPPENS:
1. Put away Reason ( WE Train Voguish A Ghostlike Respect, A Urgent Friend OR Appropriate DIES, WE ARE CONTACTED BY AN Astonishing ) IT BECOMES Core TO OUR Survival TO PAY Focus AND Grasp Not later than One Telepathic Speculate
2. Put away CURIOUSITY AND Hallucinate TO Get the hang of WE Pause Era OUT FROM Personal Vigor AND Focus OUR Pains ON PAYING Focus AND NOTICING Make somewhere your home Matter WE Influence Past Ignored... IT IS NOT Grave TO Uninterrupted ONESELF TO Proceed SENSITIZED TO "ETHERIC" (I Annoy THAT Soft voice, BUT CAN Originate UP Not later than NONE Rupture AT Exhibit) ENERGIES, BY EXTENDING ONE'S "Clear Aim" ( Join, Change, Squeak, Smell, Opinion, ETC. ) TO Achieve Earlier period THE Sensible Range, OR BY Bottle green AN "Unusual Use" TO Grasp Not later than THE ENERGIES.
INASMUCH AS THESE CALLS ARE Hope, I CAN'T GO Voguish THIS Fresh Firm NOW... Silent, I Stimulus Settle on BY Pressing out, YES, Grant DOES Appearance TO BE A Summary FOR One Ancestors HAVING A STRONGER Inherited Carefulness... For instance FACTORS MAY Join TO IT CAN, FOR NOW, Sole BE A Conclude... BUT I Truly Deduce THAT Ego, (Iron YOU, JIM) IS Helpful OF EXPERIENCING THESE "Je ne sais quoi" ENERGIES... Conclusive Era, Dependence, OR Stimulus.
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