Other Forms of Life (Evolution)

by David Turell , Saturday, December 20, 2008, 19:26 (5815 days ago) @ dhw

I have absolutely no doubt that humans possess at least the potential for extraordinary powers ... and my father's cure was evidence of this ... but I don't know where they come from. just as your wife may have extrasensory powers, I am suggesting (especially because of my father's scepticism) that it was the healer himself who had a special, active gift. - Humans have extraordinary powers. Our intellect and consciousness appeared recenty in evolution, way beyond what we need to survive against nature and natural selection. The artifacts from the Neanderthals do not indicate minds of our type. There was no 'call' for intellect of this magnitude from natural selection; the odds against chance are extraordinarily large. We do not pass quanta by the laying on of hands. We pass them through mentation and suggestion, by stirring up quanta in the other person's brain. The strength is in THAT brain.
 
> I like your example of the desperate man who finds the strength to lift a car off an injured pedestrian. That is the sort of potential (over a wide range of fields) that I think is in all of us, but it's more highly developed in some than in others. I don't need any kind of religious faith to believe that the healer was able to release some kind of energy to cure my father. - Yes, the healer released energy, your father's energy. It is the brain that releases adrenalin to lift the car, or endorphins to dull shoulder pain.