Now I'm a bit skeptical, it's true, and the spirit of skepticism suggests, even demands that I be open to his ideas and not dismiss them outright.
And they're curious ideas indeed, and he's doing the research. He's charming, well spoken, and has that steampunk style that seems entirely natural and unaffected. Do I agree with his conclusions? Well, not necessarily, I don't know, but I'm glad there are people out there investigating these things.
More here: Wiki on Dr. Michael Persinger, Laurentian University, at Wired.
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And there's this theory from this Aussie that suggests that our intent - our real intent - is expressed by hidden messages encoded backwards in our speech. It sounds like Mumbo Jumbo, but he's charismatic and seems to have attracted quite a few followers, and if you think about it it just might not be that far out....
Similar to Backmasking, only whereas in backmasking the record producers or artists deliberately encode messages backwards in records, Reverse speech suggest that these messages are encoded - backwards - by our subconscious.
Make up your own mind: Reverse Speech (Google search, choose your links carefully...)
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From radiolab, the idea of Cosmic Habituation - which attempts to discover why researchers, upon repeating a new experiment, often find that the initial results are diminished or vanishing.
Links: Radiolab, Nature, The New Yorker
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