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'The Extended Mind' Rupert Sheldrake

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Image via Wikipedia Rupert Sheldrake 's Theories In 2003, Sheldrake published The Sense of Being Stared At on the psychic staring effect , including an experiment where blindfolded subjects guessed whether persons were staring at them or at another target. He reported that, in tens of thousands of trials, 60% of subjects reported being stared at when being stared at; 50% of subjects reported being stared at when they were not being stared at. According to Sheldrake, this suggested a weak sense of being stared at but no sense of not being stared at. He also claimed that these experiments were widely repeated, in schools in Connecticut and Toronto and a science museum in Amsterdam , with consistent results Video available here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6285430996722410689# Here is an old audio recording that is interesting: http://www.sheldrake.org/Trialogues/trialogues_98-1.mp3

The Rich Have Stolen the Economy by Paul Craig Roberts on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent

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Image via Wikipedia Paul Craig Roberts was Asst Secretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan and is hailed as the "Father of Reaganomics ". Whether you agree or disagree with Reagan's policies, you should see what Dr. Roberts has to say about the economic climate today. The Rich Have Stolen the Economy by Paul Craig Roberts on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent "Bloomberg reports that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's closest aides earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and other Wall Street firms. Bloomberg reports that none of these aides faced Senate confirmation. Yet, they are overseeing the handout of hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer funds to their former employers. The gifts of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money provided the banks with an abundance of low-cost capital that has boosted the banks' profits, while the taxpayers who provided the capital are increasingly unemployed and homeless....

The Behavioral Economics Of Playing Hard To Get