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Weird, I say, weird.

Charles sent me a link to Princeton’s Engineering Anomalies Research group that essentially is trying to see if the human mind can affect real world events. I can’t say I believe in ESP, telekinesis or any of those related phenomena, but when you hear a respectable university like Princeton is involved in researching it, your interest gets quickly piqued. Either that, or your impression of Princeton diminishes exponentially.

There’s a number of interesting, yet I caution you quite dry, articles about their research and findings. Basically, they’re seeing small instances where things happen they can’t quite explain and the way in which they happen doesn’t exactly suggest random occurrence. The piece I found most interesting was the following, taken from this Web page:

“..the ability of human participants to acquire information about spatially and temporally remote geographical targets, otherwise inaccessible by any known sensory means, has been thoroughly demonstrated over several hundred carefully conducted experiments. The protocol requires one participant, the ‘agent,’ to be stationed at a randomly selected location at a given time, and there to observe and record impressions of the details and ambience of the scene. A second participant, the ‘percipient,’ located far from the scene and with no prior information about it, tries to sense its composition and character and to report these in a similar format to the agent’s description.”

Of course, this could revolutionize the phone sex industry, giving the online smut sites some serious competition!

Also of interest is the article on the implications and applications of such events becoming commonplace.

While fascinating, I doubt we’ll ever hit a point where it’ll be seen with any sort of consistency or on a mass level. But, imagine if something changed. That all of a sudden the world was populated with individuals displaying heightened ability. That’s right, we’d be living inside of a comic book. That can’t be good.