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- From: wag5@quads.uchicago.edu (john peter wagner)
- Subject: Re: Is chi/ ki real?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.153719.5616@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:37:19 GMT
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- In article <28616@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
- > [On yet another query about chi.]
- >
- >wag5@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- > + Well, at Beijing University, people who are 'able to
- > +use their Chi' are studied because of their <ability to move
- > +objects with their minds>. I forget the word for <>. It seems
- > +that they can occasionally do it, but not so much on demand.
- > +You can get Chi from certain exercises, and people who are good with
- > +their Chi can either give or take it, leaving you strong or weak,
- > +so they say.
- >
- >I was curious where you had read that. Most university research
- >I have heard/read of have to do with curative properties (e.g.,
- >purifying water, positive results for AIDS, cancer, etc.) whether
- >it be by the action of the exercises or the supposed projection or
- >transmission of chi into some organism.
- >
- >I think you're referring to telekinesis. While there have been
- >more grandiose claims, I thought there were hardly any claims of
- >telekinesis anymore (maybe too easy to disprove?).
- >
- >Terry Chan
-
- Yah, that's it:telekinesis. It, along with the curative properties,
- are being studied at the Beijing University physics department. Check
- them out for details. They had one guy go through who was 'pretty good
- with his Chi' who would give up to thirty hour lectures in which his
- listeners, he claimed, 'fed off of his Chi' so they could stay and
- not go to the bathroom, eat, etc. I think he gave an 18 hour lecture at
- Beijing University a few years back.
-
- John
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