Can you tell when you are being stared at?

[Dna]

Rupert Sheldrake is another one of my heroes:

We have all had the feeling of being stared at - he is conducting an online experiment, which you might be interested in trying. I.E. Can you tell when you are being observed?

Significant result so far:
By chance people would be right 50% of the time. In fact the overall score is 60.6% correct. Sample size to date: 343 pairs of participants.

More detail at his website: Sheldrake.org (http://www.sheldrake.org/experiments/staring/exp/results.html)

[sidecross]

Imagine what other traits we once may have had beyond knowing when we are being looked on.

A simple walk down any urban street these days will show the great number of people walking with earphones or talking on cell phones; it is no wonder why we have lost our ability to observe, hear, and feel what other things are happening around us.

[drew hempel]

Thanks for the link -- I've read his books on Morphic Resonance. The only disagreement I have with Sheldrake is that he argues resonance changes by "habit" while my focus is on what Oliver L. Reiser calls "the music logarithmic spiral" -- the structural resonance of Platonic mathematics.

In fact this is exactly what Jose Arguelles emphasizes as well -- the "music logarithmic spiral" -- Arguelles indeed references Reiser but after taking Reiser as his source Arguelles then drops Reiser, while continuing with his ideas.

In fact Reiser's early work was supported by Einstein and Reiser's work had much more grist, more scientific credence, than Arguelles and even Sheldrake.

There's more than a "habit" -- there's a method of Platonic Form to morphic resonance. The method is the "small universe" based on the 12 nodes around the outside of the body -- as taught in traditional Indian and Chinese practice.

Apparently Sheldrake didn't learn this while he meditated in India but then it's a fairly obscure model of "morphic resonance" -- although Mircea Eliade includes it in his yoga book.

Then, of course, once that principle of Platonic resonance is understood it is applied globally.

This is in fact what Sri Aurobindo did -- with his two interlocking Tetrads as his symbol -- the Star of David as the yogic lotus. Aurobindo was supported by UNESCO and his ashram still is and Aurobindo collaborated with Reiser as well as Julian Huxley who coined the term

TRANSHUMANISM.

So even though the transhumanists sell themselves as ultra-rationalists they do not want to dwell on Julian Huxley's esoteric ties through UNESCO.

I can't remember if it was at Sri Aurobindo's ashram that Sheldrake did his meditation training but I know it was around there in S. India.

drew hempel, M.A.

[willoweyes]

Sidecross, it's been my experience that most of us aren't seeing our surroundings, nor are we going deep within. It's like we're in the seventh ring of Purgatory, neither in nor out. Waiting. Nowhere, marking Time. Killing time.

Or is it just me?

[sidecross]

“Or is it just me?”

It at the least it is both of us. As we both know, horses and dogs can instantly size up a human, and their behavior will have a great deal to do with this calculation.

We humans have been so hammered as to be alienated from the most basic instincts and perceptions our ancestors 100,000 years ago were so familiar.

[willoweyes]

Rupert Sheldrake had a magic trick which he showed off in his book, "dogs who know when their "Owners" are coming home. . ."

Newborn chicks are put in a cage next to a robot which supposedly travels absolutely radomly.

Whoah! Strange, but in such a situation, the radom robot starts hanging around the chick's side of the cage, much more often than random!!

What does it all mean?

In Romania, there is an old folk tradition(don't scoff at the old folk too often--you might find yourself embarrassed!)

The husband and wife wander through the apple orchard in February--the husband has an ax.

He cries: "This tree bore nothing last year!" and he raises the ax threateningly.

The wife pleads: Oh, but this is a good tree!!" (etc, etc)./
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The production improves the next year--believe it or not, peasants are into saving energy, and they don't do things for no reason.