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In the Yoga Sutras, Vibhuti Pada III.19–20 describes siddhis suggesting that it is possible to gain knowledge of others’ minds. Today we would call this ability telepathy, a mind-tomind connection. Like other psychic phenomena, reports of telepathic communications can be found across all cultures, and these experiences were just as common centuries ago as they are today. Samuel Clemens, who used the celebrated pen name Mark Twain and was the author of such nineteenth-century classics as Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, had many telepathic experiences. He dubbed them “mental telegraphy” because the telegraph was the fanciest long-distance communication technology in his day. Twain was concerned about his reputation as a serious author if he reported his experiences, so for years he kept quietly adding his experiences to an unpublished manuscript. Finally, after British scientists began to show serious interest in this topic in 1882 with the formation of the Society for Psychical Research, Twain decided to publish an article in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine in 1891.
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eight scientific doctrines:
1. Realism: The physical world consists of objects that are completely independent of observation. This means, with a little exaggeration for the sake of illustration, that the moon is still there when you’re not looking at it. This doctrine rules out the possibility that mind can directly influence matter.
2 . Localism: Objects are completely separate. There is no such thing as “action at a distance.” This excludes virtually all psi effects.
3 . Causality: The arrow of time points exclusively from past to future, with no exceptions. This prohibits precognition.
4 . Mechanism: Everything can be understood in the form of causal networks, like the gears of a clock that operate in a strictly local, causal fashion. This does not abolish the possibility of psi phenomena, but it does limit viable theoretical explanations.
5. Physicalism: Everything can be described with real properties that exist in space and time, and all meaningful statements are either analytically provable, as in logic and mathematics, or can be reduced to experimentally veriɹable facts. This does not necessarily limit the likelihood of psi effects
6. Materialism: Everything, including mind, is made of matter or energy; anything else thought to be “immaterial” doesn’t exist. It is not yet known that psi is necessarily immaterial, because the meaning of material has changed so much over the last century that it is not clear that this doctrine eliminates the possibility of psi phenomena.
7. Determinism: There is no free will, and all events are fully caused by preceding states. This doctrine casts doubt on the possibility of precognition and mind-matter interaction effects, but it doesn’t prohibit them.
8 . Reductionism: Objects are made up of a hierarchy of ever-smaller objects, with subatomic particles at the bottom. All causation is strictly “upward,” from the microscopic to the macroscopic world. This allows matter-to-mind interactions, but excludes mind-to-matter interactions.
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The 1883 Krakatoa volcano eruption .
This is the most frightening natural event ever: the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa ( Indonesia ) recorded a power of 200 megatons , 21 cubic km of incandescent material were expelled and the glow, sound and effects of the explosion were identifiable as far away as South Africa and Australia .
The abnormal explosion had an impact force equal to 4 times the ' Tsar Bomba ' (the most powerful weapon of war ever created by man ), which caused an impressive number of victims: 36,000, equal to approximately 165 human villages completely obliterated from the face of the Earth.
The bluish reflection present today on the visible face of the Moon is due to the abnormal release of ash due to the explosion.
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