Dear Friends,

 

How superstitious are you?

Do you walk on cracks in the pavement, for example?

Or, dare you not do so?

 

Are you a scientist, one who demands proof?

Are you a skeptic?

 

Or, are you like many of us, those who believe in levitation through the power of TM?

 

And what about other magical beliefs you may be unconsciously guided by throughout your day?

Do you understand bias?

 

Surely, you must believe in something which cannot be proven!

Most of us do.

 

What do you think about your magical beliefs?

 

Some believe in levitation, for example.

What about you?

 

Can you say, for sure, that you are immune to magical thinking?

This is the question of this topic.

 

Some people can levitate.

What about you?

 

After all, it's Sunday.

 

Sundays are best for levitation.

 

 

All things under heaven are possible.

One only requires a bit of faith.

 

 

 

This is the closest I get to "levitating"

 

 

 

You meant flying high or levitating? ????

7 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

This is the closest I get to "levitating"

 

 

 

Levitation, by age 90, must feel like a miracle. 

 

Wait for it. 

Just now, GammaGlobulin said:

Levitation, by age 90, must feel like a miracle. 

 

Wait for it. 

No, thats a different kind of rising that a  miracel ! ????

Thank "whoever" for modern chemistry.

1 minute ago, Tarteso said:

You meant flying high or levitating? ????

I meant TM levitation. Everybody knows this. 

6 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I meant TM levitation. Everybody knows this. 

Was just a joke gamma ????

Im wary of all your topics. If I open them I might encounter hot air.

7 minutes ago, Tarteso said:

Was just a joke gamma ????

Please never joke with a man of faith. 

1 minute ago, Sparktrader said:

Im wary of all your topics. If I open them I might encounter hot air.

I am equally wary in writing and posting all my topics. 

 

Please believe me. 

The folks in the OP video are simply bouncing on their bums, with a strong push from their, what looks like, amputated legs.

 

You mentioned TM. Well I didn't see The Beatles bouncing around in Bangor or Rishikesh.

21 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

The folks in the OP video are simply bouncing on their bums, with a strong push from their, what looks like, amputated legs.

 

You mentioned TM. Well I didn't see The Beatles bouncing around in Bangor or Rishikesh.

I think this great video was, actually, somewhat of a parody of the original TM movement, many decades ago. 

 

Be this as it may, the topic at hand is about belief in magic in the broader sense. 

 

Just as an example, Steve Jobs, so the story goes, believed that fruit, and not necessarily green apples, might cure pancreatic cancer. 

 

Magical thinking is all around us. 

 

Sometimes, people feel the need to believe. 

 

But, blind faith is always a killer. 

 

We humans tend to always see reality as we need it to be. 

 

Even Leon Festinger was subject to bias and magical thinking. Probably, he was not unaware of this. 

 

What about you? 

 

 

6 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I think this great video was, actually, somewhat of a parody of the original TM movement, many decades ago. 

 

Be this as it may, the topic at hand is about belief in magic in the broader sense. 

 

Just as an example, Steve Jobs, so the story goes, believed that fruit, and not necessarily green apples, might cure pancreatic cancer. 

 

Magical thinking is all around us. 

 

Sometimes, people feel the need to believe. 

 

But, blind faith is always a killer. 

 

We humans tend to always see reality as we need it to be. 

 

Even Leon Festinger was subject to bias and magical thinking. Probably, he was not unaware of this. 

 

What about you? 

 

 

I really liked Paul Daniels.  555

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Or, are you like many of us, those who believe in levitation through the power of TM?

No

Everybody reading this!!!!!  Think of a number!!!!!  Think very, very hard!!!!  Between 1 and 2

 

Let me use my magical wizard skills.........umgmgmgugmmgmgmguggmgmggugmgmgmgm (chanting)

 

OK, you are thinking of the number........................................................1

 

follow me my followers...... 

13 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I think this great video was, actually, somewhat of a parody of the original TM movement, many decades ago. 

 

Be this as it may, the topic at hand is about belief in magic in the broader sense. 

 

Just as an example, Steve Jobs, so the story goes, believed that fruit, and not necessarily green apples, might cure pancreatic cancer. 

 

Magical thinking is all around us. 

 

Sometimes, people feel the need to believe. 

 

But, blind faith is always a killer. 

 

We humans tend to always see reality as we need it to be. 

 

Even Leon Festinger was subject to bias and magical thinking. Probably, he was not unaware of this. 

 

What about you? 

 

 

Sorry: There is no evidence that Festinger ever engaged in Magical Thinking. Indeed, he probably never did. 

 

Magical Thinking has nothing to do with this Topic. 

 

And, Festinger was, and is, one of the true GIANTS walking among us who shed light on human behavior. 

 

Sorry to you, Festinger. 

 

You are one of the few social scientists deserving of great respect. 

 

Festinger deserves a place on Hollywood Boulevard for so many valid reasons. 

 

 

Got septic, a couple of times, after heavy sex.

I went to a TM session a couple of times. It used to be big in the 90's. Seemed like stock standard meditation with a bit of hype. Hard to say after two sessions to be fair.  No levitation just bouncing around. Tried a few new agey things in the early 90's but then decided it's not for me. 

Superstition is not magic.

 

Of course magic exists, which is why we marry the women we do. Must have been under the witch's spell when we thought they were the one.

20 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Sorry: There is no evidence that Festinger ever engaged in Magical Thinking. Indeed, he probably never did. 

 

Magical Thinking has nothing to do with this Topic. 

 

And, Festinger was, and is, one of the true GIANTS walking among us who shed light on human behavior. 

 

Sorry to you, Festinger. 

 

You are one of the few social scientists deserving of great respect. 

 

Festinger deserves a place on Hollywood Boulevard for so many valid reasons. 

 

 

If he's so great, why do I know nothing about him?