It would be so amazing to learn that humans actually have psychic powers...so why has no one ever proven that they have the powers they claim?

I mean, if i was psychic and i wanted people to know that not only i but many other people really did have this kind of power to help people then i would be only too happy to prove it.
There are many large cash prizes for people who could prove psychic ability but so far no one has collected.
Many have tried but none have passed.

Hot take: seems to me that if psychic powers existed then at least one person would have proved it by now.
Instead we get people with their "powers" delivering the vital message that a father or father-figure who died young (maybe 40-75) of something to do with his head, chest or stomach and whose name contains an R, N or E wants to say that you have a CD player with dust on it and a chair with a wonky leg and that everything is going to be ok.🙄

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Ferric67 · M

Are most of the people cons?
More than likely.
Is it possible to actually have abilities?
Possibly, after all....don't we use a small portion if our brains?
What if you could harness much more brain power?

Pikachu

@Ferric67

don't we use a small portion if our brains?

No, that's a myth. We use the whole ding dang thing.

DallasCowboysFan · 61-69, M

@Ferric67 @Pikachu I think we do as well. It's just that scientists only understand 10 percent, so we often hear that only 10 percent is used. But that is because scientists are arrogant and they think that if they don't know something, it can't be known or that we can't possibly figure it out on our own.

Nature doesn't create waste. Everything has a purpose, from nasal hair to eyelashes to the gallbladder and appendix. The brain is the most sophisticated computer ever created.

I think that THE MIND exists within the brain and it does amazing things we don't understand yet.
It is separate and distinct frm the brain, and has its own consciousness.
From the amygdala to the pineal gland (third eye), there are a lot of things we don't understand.

Many people have gotten bumps on the head, or had a traumatic experience and become psychic, able to see auras, the future or sense the personality of others.

We have a lot to learn.

Ferric67 · M

@DallasCowboysFan that's exactly how I feel

Pikachu

@DallasCowboysFan

. It's just that scientists only understand 10 percent,

I don't think i've ever heard that and i confess i'd be surprised if you could share, for example, a neurologist saying that we only understand 10% of the brain.

scientists are arrogant and they think that if they don't know something, it can't be known or that we can't possibly figure it out on our own.

My dude...that is exactly the opposite of the attitude that scientists have towards discovery.
Scientists say rather if we don't know something now, we just need to keep trying until we do.
If they reject a hypothesis as impossible it is because there is a preponderance of evidence which points to this conclusion.
The idea that if we don't know something then it is unknowable is much more characteristic of a faith-based worldview.

I think that THE MIND exists within the brain and it does amazing things we don't understand yet.

Agreed.
The mind appears to be an emergent property of the brain.

It is separate and distinct frm the brain, and has its own consciousness.

Disagree.
There is no example of a mind that exists completely discretely from a brain.

Many people have gotten bumps on the head, or had a traumatic experience and become psychic, able to see auras, the future or sense the personality of others.

If that were so then i think we'd be seeing at least ONE of these people demonstrating the power under controlled conditions.