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Originally Posted by Zannek  I'm a long time listener, first time poster and I have to say...
Alex, either you've finally gone off the deep end or you're about to revolutionise the way we look at biology, parapsychology and consciousness in general. However, the very fact that you've included animal communicators in this experiment is already going to turn 90% of all heads away from the results, and the remaining 10% will be 9% dismissive skeptics, the remaining 1% (myself included) will be willing to look and, who knows, may be convinced.
Unfortunately, I don't think that this will be the paradigm-buster you're looking for. Not of any fault of your own, but simply because not many people will take it seriously.
Nonetheless, I'm very excited about this research and will certainly stay tuned. I can't be sure on what results will yield, but I think you've designed an experiment which is a great improvement on Sheldrake's methods.
Good luck to everyone involved. With a little suspension of disbelief and some real data, maybe we'll scrape that little bit closer to the truth behind the whole matter. Stay skeptical. No matter how convinced anyone is that this phenomena exists, doubt both the proponents and the critics.
Hope I've been of service.
~Zannek |
Thanks for the balanced perspective on things... of course you're right about the skeptical part of animal communicators... it's very hard for most of us to wrap our heads around the how/why/if part of the thing.
It's nice to imagine one experiment might 'revolutionize' some part of science, but that's too much to expect. Sheldrake, Radin and Schwartz (among others) have shown how difficult it is to open a closed mind... closed institutionalized science.
But, I'm very optimistic about the DogsThatKnow.com experiment. After a relatively short search, I've found this phenomena isn't just real, but relatively common.
As far as adding animal communicators to the research design, well this is one way the dominant materialistic paradigm has made our job easier. They don't think ANY kind communcation like this is possible, so if we can demonstrate the phneomena using communicators psychics, shaman, or whatever, we'll have somehting... then we can leave it to future researchers figure out what it is and how it works.