were there documented people with supernatural abilities?

[Spaventa]

Actualy, I have kept an mj plant without any light or ventilation for 3 weeks once...without harming it. I had too many clones (rooted in rockwool cubes) and put spares in a black refuse sack, knoted it and chucked to the corner of the room till i had more stuff to put in it before dumping it. 3 weeks later i open the bag to put more crap in and I see the clones are perfectly healthy, lush and green, without so much as an upturned leaf or red stem...I was amazed. I wasn't amazed they were stillalive but i was amazed how well they looked all in a heap. It was SS Chronic which was great robust genetics but poor smoke imo so I have her no longer...

 

[Logos]

Spiritual forces

Spiritual forces

If you are up for reading a good book, get a copy (library) of Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda.

http://www.yogananda-srf.org/

He tells of his many encounters with spiritually advanced people and their talents, as well as how these talents are acquired. The life of Yogananda is well chronicled by dozens of people who were intimate with him, and relate his natural abilities. I say natural because to not have these abilities is not natural.

A well know living Indian saint who is regarded as an Avatar is Sathya Sai Baba.

http://www.sathyasai.org/

As with Yogananda, Sai Baba's miracles are well chronicled and extensive.

To do these “supernatural” acts requires being in a very non-ordinary state of mind: such as totally devoid of doubt. I have had many, many, odd happenings over the years. I will relate a couple examples. I have had large objects disappear from one location and reappear in another just where I wanted them. I was painting my deck and realized I would not have enough paint to finish the project. I was down to the last couple inches of paint in the can when I thought: If Jesus can stretch a few fish, then I can stretch this paint. I continued painting with this positive thought, and the paint did indeed not only last to finish the project but I had paint left over.

Several cultures believe in a mischievous spirit / god / deity – Loki for example – that messes with your affairs. Today we call it Murphy’s Law. Many teachers of spirituality caution about opening yourself up to oppositional forces by being unconscious (ignorant) of what you are doing. In other words you have to learn to control yourself, your mind and emotions. Otherwise, the forces, spiritual energies that are all around us all the time will impact you with you having no control over them, let alone even being aware that they exist.

It’s that everything is energy, and you can consciously interact with it, or you can be ignorant of these energies (which are a form of consciousness) and be at their mercy like the leaf in the wind, so to speak.

It is a skill you learn. Eventually, with practice, you come to realize that all you have done is re-learn something mankind has basically simply forgotten.

Logos

 

[Only Ornamental]

It's been a while since the last post but nevertheless...

During my PhD I was experimenting with calcium currents in cancer cells when I found a publication on external bioenergy from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research where they basically did the same I did (Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15881655). The difference was that I used chemicals to stimulate and inhibit calcium fluxes whilst they used a 'guru' to 'mentally irradiate' the cells. Most notably, they got the stronger responses than I did! Well, we fooled a bit around with 'self-made EBM' but got nothing; likely because it was done half-heartedly or we simply weren't good enough...

 

[Stoner4Life]

were there documented people with supernatural abilities?

As the title suggests.

OK,

I saw this thread had several pages and yet I wasn't familiar w/it at all, so I started by going to page 1 and saw that it was from 2007.......

and immediately!!!


I knew it was a newbie that had refreshed it w/o even going the last post.

so as the title suggests,
does that count???

 

[exploziv]

now that the thread is alive again..

what about this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Karnazes

 

[Stoner4Life]

I saw my friend Greg do a vertical leap from standing of well over 6 feet straight up, I'm 5'9" & I was clearly looking at the soles of his sneakers for awhile.


we had just come back from seeing the Exorcist in the theater back in '73, Greg dropped me off @ my folks place; there was a detour up & so his ride home would take a few extra minutes, it was a very long run but I knew I'd make it. I was a fast assed runner and I beat him to his house, when he pulled into his driveway I was already hiding in the shrubs by his front door.......

yup, I jumped out and yelled "BOO!!!" and Greg got all sortsa vertical.


Now before you write this off to mere exaggeration please consider the superhuman strength a mother exhibits while lifting a car off of her baby and transfer that energy to the situation described above. Hell the decibels of Greg's scream even diminished as he gained height, his leap was no less than superhuman.


word.

 

[Eighths-n-Aces]

these two idiots obviously have super powers and they have made sure they are well documented ........

they have the power of illusion that is for sure

and the superhuman ability to lower the bar whilst making a shit load of money doing it

sorry i ruined breakfast

 

[jburns]

when I hit the brakes really hard leading up to a stoplight, I hold my hands out and tell my wife I am slowing down all of space and time. she acts like she is not impressed.

 

[ydijadoit]

Not sure how "Supernatural" this is, but I knew with absolute certainty my Mom had died, from 250 miles away.
I was driving down the freeway, smoking a cigarette, and staring at absolutely nothing. Just one of another boring drives home from work.
The sensation that hit me was like nothing I had ever felt before. I almost crashed my pickup, driving in a straight line. Just an overwhelming, breathtaking, feeling, that I cannot possibly express, no matter how I try.
I KNEW that something had happened to my Mom. I had no information, up to this moment, that anything was wrong with her.
I drove straight to my Dad's house, instead of going home. I knocked on the door, and he had a solemn look on his face.
He said "Come in, sit down. Something has happened to your mother."
I remember saying "I know, Dad, that's why I am here"
He asked me if someone from the hospital had called me at work, or something.
I said "No. I just knew it, so I came here"
In the moment, we just exchanged odd looks, and I went straight to the phone, to call the hospital.
I got through, but couldn't get any info over the phone, so I called my Mom's friend, who told me that about a half hour before I called the hospital, my Mom had had a fatal heart attack, but that the staff were able to revive her, after 2 minutes, or so.
The timing of all this, is just impossible, in my mind. I cant even begin to run the numbers on it being coincidence.
She passed away for good, last year. We had been estranged for many years (She wasn't a good person. You can't chose your parents, as they say).
About a month before she died, I was watching TV with my wife. Mildly baked, and probably 2 or 3 beers deep. Not wasted by any stretch, just an average night.
BAM! Same sensation I had before. I though I was having a stroke, or a jammer, at 40 years old.
I didn't call her, but I will always wonder if that was another communication.
I believe it was.
All in all, we don't know a damn thing about life, or the human mind. Apes on a rock, whistling through space at an enormous velocity. I personally don't find it surprising that there are plenty of elements to this existence that we don't understand in the slightest.
Supernatural? I dunno. Life changing? Yes.
Regards

 

[trichrider]

ouji.

that's all i'm brave enough to say.

 

[Only Ornamental]

@trichrider: Do you mean the ouija board? That's like a pendulum: It acts like the hands of a watch and you are the clockwork. It just makes subconscious 'knowledge' visible for your consciousness by semi-subconcious muscle movements. There is nothing magical, supernatural or so about it (at best something mystical). But if you find an answer to a question you can't possibly know with those techniques it might make YOU 'supernatural' only that everyone can do it and sometimes it works (maybe even more often than seems possible by mere conincidence but we know a tremendous amount of stuff well hidden in the deepest corners of our minds).

What's about horse whisperer and alike? Do they just do cold reading (at a distance and maybe with some hair or a photo)? True, most are guessing or charlatans but I know someone who talks with the 'spirits' of dogs and she's awesome (tried even to trick her but didn't work)! I was and am very sceptic but also open minded and I suppose it's hard to cheat me with tricks, cold reading or even guessing etc. but this women... weird... she just knows things she can't and is maybe wrong in only 1%... How does she do that?

 

[Easy7]

Folie à deux, seems to be what binds society. Shared delusions get interesting on strong blotter. Seeing the same visions seems to me to be a super power. I think people that appear to have magic use this Folie a deux. Anyone that has taken enough of the right drug with someone, must have some stories.

 

[floralheart]

I like to smoke and Vape Cannabis...

Maybe if i had some sort of supernatural ability I would be posting at a Psychic-Abilities forum about it

cannabis is actually pretty cool for spiritual meditation, religious rites, sex, exploring the mindscape and altered perceptions of the world, being a mild psychadelic.

I use it in meditation, because it simulates the feeling of flight.

I've worked on prolonged meditations for hours at a time, sometimes 2 or 4 or more. Attempting to produce effects. That's easier to do with herbs as a spirit aid. Bending wills, influencing outcomes through energy, generating energy fields, that sort of thing.

 

[floralheart]

this neat trick allows me to spark electricity from my car keys through my body, into locks and ignitions. I'm sure more is possible.

 

[GMT]

this is the closest I can find. There are other tales of the same thing where the time was 22 mins, but I dont trust the sources. there also seems to be a large difference in times between natural air and breathing pure oxygen prior to the event.

http://www.worldrecordacademy.com/s...oluntarily_record_set_by_tom_sietas_70802.htm

[Aug 10] NEW YORK--A German free diver has plunged himself into a plexi-glass tank full of water on live television and held his breath for more than 15 minutes — smashing his own Guinness World Record.

Tom Sietas’s new record for ‘Longest Time Breath Held Voluntarily’ — which stands at 15:02 — beat his previous time by 37 seconds.

Photo: Out of breath ... Tom Sietas, 30, shows his delight as he breaks his own Guinness World Record. Photo: AP

He said he quickly knew he would beat his own world record. "After the first two minutes I felt quite confident," Sky News reported. After the stunt he said: "I'm hungry...I think I'm going to McDonalds."

Sietas also holds the world record, at 9 minutes and 8 seconds, for holding his breath underwater without inhaling oxygen first.

Sietas has some natural advantages, such as lungs that are 20 per cent larger than average for his size, said Dr. Marc Spero, a lung expert affiliated with the Divers Alert Network.

He also manages not to move in a situation that would have most people splashing and gasping for, well, air. A corpse-like stillness is central to his success, as it decreases his need for oxygen, Spero said. Underwater, Sietas clears his mind. "Let's say I had an argument with my girlfriend, I would get upset, and my heart rate would go up. I really don't think about anything," Sietas said.

Today’s effort is just one in a week-long cavalcade of record-breaking feats he has performed on American talk show Live with Regis and Kelly.

 

[floralheart]

mental focus. he's got it.

 

[floralheart]

Ok, so let me preface this by saying that I don't expect you to believe what I am going to tell you. On my mother's eyes and the welfare of any children I hope to have, it is the truth... but I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes.

About 8 months ago, I was washing dishes at my kitchen sink. My girlfriend was sitting at our island counter, which was behind me and to my left. She was sitting no more than 5 feet away from me. She had been battling a bout of what I suspect was the winter blues, and had been quite emotional... I guess 'stormy' would be a good way to explain it. She had also been doing a lot of yoga and although I don't know much about it, she loves it and I think she's very good at it. If one can be "good" at yoga... maybe yogis just are? Anyway...

So I'm facing away from her, and I hear her say something. She had been quiet for a while, and the water was running, so I missed whatever it was. I shut off the sink and turned around, drying my hands. I had started asking her what she had said before I turned around, and finished the question looking at her. She looked... I don't know...tired, but like focused yet really zonked out at the same time. Like she was miles away, but doing quantum physics where she was.

She was looking down at the counter, at a small (7 1/2 inch diameter? slightly larger than a bread plate but smaller than a dinner plate) ceramic plate. She looked up and said, "I moved the plate."

"what?" But as I asked her this, I kinda had the sense that something weird was going on. Christ, I'm getting goosebumps thinking about this. So, she says, calmly and almost matter-of-factly, but with the aforementioned demeanor, "I moved the plate, but not with my hands."

WTF? She looked back at the plate, by way of explanation, stared the plate down, and I shit you all not, I saw it nudge a bit. Not a lot, but it was real, and perceptible. Like a 1/4 of an inch. All of the hairs on the back of my neck stood up, as they are again right now. I was standing right across the counter from her at this point, with the plate between us. Now I am a huge skeptic about stuff, and I would have called bullshit on this. In fact, I did.

She is not a prankster, as such, but I would have been much less amazed to find she was effing around with me. I will absolutely admit that her knees were under the counter, obscured from my view. I did not see her move a muscle, though, and she was seated slightly back from the base of the island, and the tops of her thighs clear the bottom of the counter-top by several inches.

I said, "bullshit you just did that, you're effing with me, how'd you do that David Blaine o-mine?" She says, "Baby, I SWEAR I'm not," kinda freaked but like empowered, not doubting at all. Now, she can't tell a lie to save her life, but you can never shit a shitter, either. So I pick up the plate, look under it, do just as Penn and Teller have trained me to do... I walk around the counter, make her stand up... I even put the plate back down where it was, and hip checked this solid-ass island. Pain in the hip, but not ANY movement of the plate.

I look at her, and she says, "Baby, I told you, I really did it." She is now standing to the short side, around the corner from me. She sits down, and I have a full view of her from a foot away, and the plate on the counter in front/between us. She says, "I'm going to do it again," all of this has been in a semi-spaced out voice. She stares at this thing, and I get right down there at eye level with the thing. After about 7 seconds, I see the thing kind of like wobble in place. Audible on the counter-top. Then another little nudge, same tentative as before. Then, another 1/2 seccond passes and that plate MOVED a full 2 inches, right before my own eyes.

I turn to look at her, and she has like kind of slumped down a little bit, was sweating, looked pale, her eyes were red. Basically she looked like my younger brother when the girly-man whited out in Amsterdam. She said she had a headache, and needed to go to bed. This happened after a late dinner, and clean-up, so maybe around 9.30 pm -ish. I got her some water and tylenol, and tucked her in.

I was mega freaked out at the time, but I didn't want to freak her out, so I assured her that she wasn't crazy, that I had seen her do it, that I believe she did in fact move that plate with her mind. She was talking about wanting to mess around with this more when she woke up, and that it was an unbelievable experience, and I hope I can do it again. I immediately tried gently disuading these ideas, at least for the time being. I told her that even if she never does it again, we both know that she did it, and that should be the thing to focus on.

I didn't want my girlfriend, who was already in a funk, to drive herself crazy trying to replicate the inexplicable. I told her if she was really freaked out by this, she could pose some general questions to her yoga teacher, feel her out, and maybe see what she thought of this. I also told her that I don't know if what the teacher tells her is going to matter, because if she believes this then she's prolly one of those slightly whacked out yoga teachers. I explaine that this is the kind of stuff that gets people locked up in loony bins. You either drive yourself crazy trying to replicate this, or you can do it, and hone it, and see how long it takes for them to snatch you up and put you in a lab to study you. She agreed and went to bed.

She hasn't ever done it again, and has only tried to do it a few times since, as far as I know. She said that it doesn't "feel the same" when she tried it again. So aside from it having blown both of our minds, it managed not to mess our lives up in any way. Time has passed so it's kinda just one of those crazy, "you remember when..." kinda things, but with some oomph. It did make me realize that there are all sorts of things that man cannot currently, or possibly ever, explain. And even when they do explain, that don't make it right. How about when everyone KNEW the world was flat? And (not that I needed reinforcing) the experience showed me what a special girl I have.

So naysayers, fire away... Like I said, I don't expect any one to believe this. Call me a liar, call me crazy, but this is not some FOAF type shit. This is something I saw, and I sure as hell can't explain it. I don't even really care to have it explained... I feel like that shit is dangerous for some reason... Like what possible good could come out of it? Anybody who wants to study this and explain it, that's great, but you ain't using my special lady friend to those ends. Hope everyone who had a long weekend enjoyed, and to those of you that didn't, I drank several beers for you.

Stay Safe,
HuffAndPuff

That was a cool story dude. Don't piss her off, she'll choke you out like Lord Vader.

 

[BakedBandit]

Not sure how "Supernatural" this is, but I knew with absolute certainty my Mom had died, from 250 miles away.
I was driving down the freeway, smoking a cigarette, and staring at absolutely nothing. Just one of another boring drives home from work.
The sensation that hit me was like nothing I had ever felt before. I almost crashed my pickup, driving in a straight line. Just an overwhelming, breathtaking, feeling, that I cannot possibly express, no matter how I try.
I KNEW that something had happened to my Mom. I had no information, up to this moment, that anything was wrong with her.
I drove straight to my Dad's house, instead of going home. I knocked on the door, and he had a solemn look on his face.
He said "Come in, sit down. Something has happened to your mother."
I remember saying "I know, Dad, that's why I am here"
He asked me if someone from the hospital had called me at work, or something.
I said "No. I just knew it, so I came here"
In the moment, we just exchanged odd looks, and I went straight to the phone, to call the hospital.
I got through, but couldn't get any info over the phone, so I called my Mom's friend, who told me that about a half hour before I called the hospital, my Mom had had a fatal heart attack, but that the staff were able to revive her, after 2 minutes, or so.
The timing of all this, is just impossible, in my mind. I cant even begin to run the numbers on it being coincidence.
She passed away for good, last year. We had been estranged for many years (She wasn't a good person. You can't chose your parents, as they say).
About a month before she died, I was watching TV with my wife. Mildly baked, and probably 2 or 3 beers deep. Not wasted by any stretch, just an average night.
BAM! Same sensation I had before. I though I was having a stroke, or a jammer, at 40 years old.
I didn't call her, but I will always wonder if that was another communication.
I believe it was.
All in all, we don't know a damn thing about life, or the human mind. Apes on a rock, whistling through space at an enormous velocity. I personally don't find it surprising that there are plenty of elements to this existence that we don't understand in the slightest.
Supernatural? I dunno. Life changing? Yes.
Regards

Similar experience with my grandmother. I knew she was near the end, and I was driving on the freeway as well. All of sudden I just knew she was gone. Super weird. When I got home a couple hours later my parents told me she had passed.

 

[SooperSmurph]

During Andre Agassi's 2nd to last professional match, I was watching with my wife, live.

I concentrated every bit of my madman's energy into my big fat mouth, and when Andre's opponent wound back for the swing, I screamed "FAULT!" and he did. Wife smacked me and told me to be quiet.

Did this a 2nd time, man faulted a 2nd time, wife looks a little nervous and doesn't hit me again.

3rd time, same, wife is now staring at me instead of the tv.

Did this 4 times in a row, resulting in the serve returning to Andre, and him winning the match. Wife didn't even notice him win, because i'd freaked her out so badly.

I was unable to do this in his next match.

You can verify the stats from that match, four faults in a row from a young but talented player, almost unheard of at that level of competition.

 

[Only Ornamental]

@SooperSmurph: Sure that there wasn't a time delay even if it was "live"?
Could be a series of coincidences? Or you just cry "fault" every 3 seconds LoL...
Seriously, I don't consider these sorts of things supernatural as the chances are possible (even if they're as small as winning in a big lottery or a casino).

Maybe 20 years back, when walking home at night, there was an old street light which used to go on and off some times. Strange but not bizarre, it used to go off regularly when I walked underneath and turned on again when a was a few meters away again. But that night it got a bit weird when I walked underneath, deep in my thoughts, when it didn't turn on again and then the next street light went off when I stepped underneath and also the one after that. That third one took me out of contemplation and, approaching the fourth light, I tried to focus my mind on that one to make it go off but it didn't. Neither did the following nor the ones after that... a few hundred meters later I lost interest and sunk back into my thoughts when the one overhead turned off again. I got a bit spooked and didn't fell back into deep thoughts and got home with all the lights staying on. The day after (maybe two) I saw that they had changed the bulbs of those four light (they were orange sodium-vapour before and the newer white mercury ones afterwards); so they have been broken and were not just flickering due old age...
Was it just mere coincidence or had it something to do with me stepping underneath AND being a bit lost in deep thoughts? At least, I don't feel like having supernatural abilities or I could repeat that trick. Or maybe it only worked on those old sodium-vapour bulbs?