Two rare psychic abilities - Pyrokinesis and Thoughtography

[Dover]

Two rare psychic abilities



By Jaime Licauco
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 20:33:00 02/18/2008


MANILA, Philippines— Pyrokinesis is such a rare phenomenon or psychic ability that one could hardly find any documented example of it.

If Tibetan monks can generate extreme heat with their bodies, enough to dry wet blankets, then it is theoretically possible to produce fire by psychic or mental power alone.

One of the first recorded cases of a person’s ability to produce fire was that of A.W. Underwood of Paw Paw, Michigan. Dr. L.C. Woodman wrote about him in the New York Sun issue of Dec. 1, 1882:

“He will take anybody’s handkerchief, hold it to his mouth, rub it vigorously, while breathing on it, and immediately it bursts into flames and burns until consumed.”

According to a report in the book “Phenomena, a Book of Wonders” by John Michell and Robert Rickard, “Underwood would strip, rinse his mouth out and set any cloth or paper alight by his breath."

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‘Thoughtography’

Otherwise known as “thought photography,” this is the very rare mental ability to transfer the image of what is in one’s mind into a photographic film. In the West this psychic feat is associated only with one man, a Chicago bellhop named Ted Serios....>

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Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtography

YouTube - Thoughtography
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Thoughtography+&search_type=

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Never heard of either of these. Hmmmm....not sure what to think.

[I Have A Dream]

1. These are the types of things that I'd like every skeptic to experience...

firsthand. They seem to need to have physical evidence like this.

Very interesting stuff! Thanks, Dover.

[rumpel]

2. You know what immediately came to my mind?

Spontaneous combustion.

Could that be an uncontrolled ability of their own?

[Cleita]

3. Serios was eventually proven to be a fraud.

He used a device that enabled him to transfer images to film seemingly miraculously. It was just sleight of hand magician stuff.

However, creating fire by thought is far more mysterious, especially considering the cases of spontaneous combustion that are well documented out there with very little scientific explanation for them.