bee on Oct 27 2008, 08:00 AM, said:
trusting the orthodox scientific community. etc.
Also...I consider the bolded above...to be another example of a 'sly dig'. (hey..this is just like old-times... )
As you know the likes of Tesla and Einstein wouldn't have done what they did, if they had been held back by
the psychological constraints that sceptics tend to put on innovation + invention. (exploring something that sounds/feels 'cool'
has probably made the modern technological world what it is today....)
I think equating Tesla and Einstein with any current or even past scientific study of psychic phenomena is pushing the envelope. "Psi" is far from the same level as atomic physics or electrical engineering. This may change some day, when (and if) psychic phenomena/abilities are ever shown to be a repeatable, quantifiable, researchable event. In teh meantime, it just has to remain in the "unknown" column of human experience.
If this kind of reasoning is seen as a "dig"...well, psi is what it is...and the more people that pop up and claim to have 19 different abilities including the ability to control the weather...the harder it is to justify a case for it's reality.