Hidden extras
Oh, and that Shakti helmet from the Persinger mob that costs 250 bucks? You need a Gauss metre to measure field strengths too, and that's extra.
Friday, March 18, 2005
- Hellblazer
- Oi! Munky!
- I want one!
- Neuroscience Quotes...
- The what?
- Dammit, Munky
- BANG!
- Dead Like Me
- Awareness...
- I know it's an old one
Keeper of the Truth, Self-Important World Jester, Minister of the ULC, Authority Disfigure, Unofficial Non-Spokesperson for the Oriental Trading Company, Priest of Spode.
The genetically engineered progeny of the divine and Sapphic union of Tank Girl and Ellen Ripley from Alien: Resurrection. Has the hots for Wolverine.
No, silly man, we need better telly.
flap flap flap flap flap flap. heh.
A being of eternally oscillating equilibrium. Founder of the Church of Stairianism.
Occasionally moonlights for Raven, although the hours and the pay are not very good. He does legwork for Admonishing Lady (prizes for identifying the Lady). Contrary to occasional opinion, he has a day job and a sense of humour.
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
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That Shakti looks like the next generation in the stick-your-head in a microwave technology.
The aliens are using mind control probes on my brain. No wait, thats me.
I note that many of the testimonies cover the exact same experiences felt by converts and people who have just started self-help or diet progams. The euphoria or doing something new and hopeful (and, of note: easy) with ones life.
Gadget also reminds me of those muscle electro-stims used in rehab (no not the ones in the spam pictures...) but they're selling them to wannabee dieters who think exercise is to hard.
Hey Sam, I've been meaning for some time to tell you about a new study that was conducted using Persinger's research. It could not replicate his findings.
Here's the URL: http://www.sweden.se/templates/
SISResearchNews____10812.asp (I had to break this URL for the purposes of the formatting of the comment)
"Results showed that the magnetic fields did not cause religious or paranormal experiences. However, highly suggestible individuals had paranormal experiences to a larger extent, but this was not correlated with a presence of magnetic fields. Paranormal experiences were particularly pronounced among participants with personality traits indicating openness to shifts in consciousness and a new age lifestyle orientation. Hence, our results show that the sensational conclusions about the effects of magnetic field exposure that were drawn in previous studies should be questioned."
It appears that more study on the subject is necessary.
Well I'm bloody glad I decided to spend my ill-gotten gains on an Il Pompino rather than a Shakti helmet then!
The study where the swedes counldn't replicate Persinger's results turns out to have been a badly botched job. They didn't even come close to Persinger's procedures - they didn't even have the program that 'calibrates' the computer for Persinger's software. It looks like the ones doing the replication ran their signals ten times too fast, and they ran it (a DOS program) under windows. Not wise. I once ran an old DOS game under windows and got gibberish on the screen, so I got the point.
Shakti seems to be a good mind machine, and it doesn't use microwaves. I see no need to ridicule it. I'll be looking into this some more. It looks serious enough for a term paper (sweat), and I'll bet I won't be allowed to make alien mind control jokes in it ...
Oh, yes, the other versions that don't use a helmet don't need a meter as a separate purchase. Only the helmet, but there are 3 others. Fall term paper, here I come. (Tentatively titled "The Neurotech wars")
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