{"id":1635,"date":"2007-10-04T08:28:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T15:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2007-10-04T08:28:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T15:28:57","slug":"spoon-bending-is-trivial-for-quantum-kooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/10\/04\/spoon-bending-is-trivial-for-quantum-kooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoon Bending Is Trivial for Quantum Kooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess &#8220;trivial&#8221; is in the eye of the beholder (or the eye of the guy who doesn&#8217;t understand quantum theory):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI have always maintained there is no such thing is supernatural or paranormal. All observed phenomena, if accurate, are natural and normal. We call something supernatural or paranormal when we can&#8217;t explain it. Once we know the<br \/>\nexplanation, its science. Before that it\u2019s spooky. Everything I write about can be understood if you understand non locality and non local correlation and the inseparability of mind and matter as different expressions of consciousness. Let&#8217;s not waste any more time on spoon bending. For millions of people it\u2019s now a trivial example of mind and matter as inseparably one.<br \/>\nLove and God bless!<br \/>\nDeepak<br \/>\nP.S. Dear Skeptisch, please come to NY at your own expense and I will make sure you can experience spoon bending for yourself. If you can&#8217;t, or don&#8217;t want to do that, then stop talking over and over again about the same thing. It\u2019s boring\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think &#8220;it&#8217;s boring&#8221; means something like &#8220;dude, stop cramping my book sales.&#8221;  Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1261#comment-208162\">hana<\/a> for pointing me to this gem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess &#8220;trivial&#8221; is in the eye of the beholder (or the eye of the guy who doesn&#8217;t understand quantum theory): I have always maintained there is no such thing is supernatural or paranormal. All observed phenomena, if accurate, are natural and normal. We call something supernatural or paranormal when we can&#8217;t explain it. Once &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/10\/04\/spoon-bending-is-trivial-for-quantum-kooks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spoon Bending Is Trivial for Quantum Kooks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}