> The final episode of the search for Australias best psychic had a very
> interesting finale.
>
> The final task was for the remaining three was to find the body of a
> murder victim, Peter Falcone. A very well publisised crime under the
> lable of the "backpackers murder".
>
> They each had hundreds of km2 to look at, and each took a helicopter
> ride, and each homed in to an area of a few km2. The police decided
> not to follow up , thank heavens.
>
> Being such a high profile case, imagine what would have happened if
> the body had been found on national tv?The disruption would have been
> enormous.
>
> What is interesting though,is the number of US police departments who
> are willing to acknowledge the validity of the help of some pychics
> have produced, on documentaries such as 'psychic detectives', and the ...

> "We discovered that the work of the psychics was not just ludicrous and
> laughable. it was sinister and evil....

> On Aug 11, 12:05 am, "bigflet...@gmail.com" gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> The final episode of the search for Australias best psychic had a very
>> interesting finale.

>

>> The final task was for the remaining three was to find the body of a
>> murder victim, Peter Falcone. A very well publisised crime under the
>> lable of the "backpackers murder".

>

>> They each had hundreds of km2 to look at, and each took a helicopter
>> ride, and each homed in to an area of a few km2. The police decided
>> not to follow up , thank heavens.

>

>> Being such a high profile case, imagine what would have happened if ...

> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:40:20 -0700, Shrikeback wrote:

>> "We discovered that the work of the psychics was not just ludicrous and
>> laughable. it was sinister and evil....

>
> It's hard to understand what is and is not really going on here.
>
> On the one hand this stuff is so obviously easy to dismiss. Then on the
> other...
> ======================================================
> Abstract - In July 1995 the CIA declassified, and approved for release,
> documents revealing its sponsorship in the 1970s of a program at Stanford
> Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, to determine whether such phenomena
> as remote viewing "might have any utility for intelligence
> collection" [1]. Thus began disclosure to the public of a two-decade-plus
> involvement of the intelligence community in the investigation of so-
> called parapsychological or psi phenomena. Presented here by the
> program's Founder and first Director (1972 - 1985) is the early history
> of the program, including discussion of some of the first, now
> declassified, results that drove early interest.http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com/Pages/CIA-InitiatedRV.html ...

> The final episode of the search for Australias best psychic had a very
> interesting finale.
>
> The final task was for the remaining three was to find the body of a
> murder victim, Peter Falcone. A very well publisised crime under the
> lable of the "backpackers murder".
>
> They each had hundreds of km2 to look at, and each took a helicopter
> ride, and each homed in to an area of a few km2. The police decided
> not to follow up , thank heavens.
>
> Being such a high profile case, imagine what would have happened if
> the body had been found on national tv?The disruption would have been
> enormous.
>
> What is interesting though,is the number of US police departments who
> are willing to acknowledge the validity of the help of some pychics
> have produced, on documentaries such as 'psychic detectives', and the ...

> And not long befor that, anyone foolish enough to demonstrate such
> capabilities were burned at the stake. The US is heavily influenced by
> the church, and even some jesuits I have known (one spends...

> On Aug 11, 5:40 pm, Shrikeb...@gmail.com wrote:
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>> On Aug 11, 12:05 am, "bigflet...@gmail.com" gmail.com>
>> wrote:

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>>> The final episode of the search for Australias best psychic had a very
>>> interesting finale.

>

>>> The final task was for the remaining three was to find the body of a
>>> murder victim, Peter Falcone. A very well publisised crime under the
>>> lable of the "backpackers murder".

>

>>> They each had hundreds of km2 to look at, and each took a helicopter
>>> ride, and each homed in to an area of a few km2. The police decided ...

> On 11 Aug, 12:41, ZerkonX X.net> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:40:20 -0700, Shrikeback wrote:

>>> "We discovered that the work of the psychics was not just ludicrous and
>>> laughable. it was sinister and evil....

>

>> It's hard to understand what is and is not really going on here.

>

>> On the one hand this stuff is so obviously easy to dismiss. Then on the
>> other...
>> ======================================================
>> Abstract - In July 1995 the CIA declassified, and approved for release,
>> documents revealing its sponsorship in the 1970s of a program at Stanford
>> Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, to determine whether such phenomena
>> as remote viewing "might have any utility for intelligence ...

> On Aug 11, 3:53 pm, "bigflet...@gmail.com" gmail.com>
> wrote:
>

>> And not long befor that, anyone foolish enough to demonstrate such
>> capabilities were burned at the stake. The US is heavily influenced by
>> the church, and even some jesuits I have known (one spends much time
>> in the Vatican), dont deny, but actually refer to such behaviour as
>> being in league with the devil.

>

>> I remember a couple of decades ago , talking to a friend about the
>> exciting discoveries I had made looking up Pythagorean mysticism. He
>> was also interested, until we met once again, when he informed me he
>> was warned off by the priest for similar reasons.

>
> I generalize I guess so...although I reckon that interest in...