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- From: bbs.techie@tsoft.sf-bay.org (Robert Mc Daniel)
- Subject: Re: OBE tests that prove it DOESNT occur
- Message-ID: <JiD0NB1w165w@tsoft.sf-bay.org>
- Sender: bbs@tsoft.sf-bay.org (BBS User)
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- References: <BroDp6.5oq@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 10:55:06 GMT
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- > A very simple test that HAS been done (by the 'Amazing Randi')
- > to see if OBE's happen was this: A six digit number is written on a
- > card and placed in another room. The person who says they have or can
- > induce OBEs does not know what this number is. When the OBE occurs the
- > person goes to the card, reads the number and goes right back to
- > his/her body and rattles off the number. There is no time limit and
- > the experiment can run for as long as you need to induce or experience
- > an OBE. It has NEVER been successful. Of course you can say that
- > something happens to the mind when having an OBE that prevents you
- > from remembering a sequence of numbers, but that is such an obvious
- > and blatant cop out that it would instantly ruin your credibility to
- > suggest it.
-
- The solution to this is to present a variety of objects. For instance: a
- photograph, a number sequence, a coffee cup, and a poem. If the person
- in question can describe ONE of these will go towards proving OBEs
- happen. (But of course, they won't be able to.)
-
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- Robert Mc Daniel (bbs.techie@tsoft.sf-bay.org)
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