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For the demonstration to work, the only thing grounding the body is one of the terminals of the LED. The other terminal of the LED touches the grounding rod. If the demonstration is done barefoot, etc., it does not work. I am sure John could probably do this demonstration barefoot, however.

At the very least, you'll need to be as far away from a power line as you can be.

1.8v forward voltage 20mA red LEDs

Grounding strap.

I've only ever meditated and trained while grounded. I can tell you I don't sleep as well though without being grounded.

Some ideas for you Testing should be done in as remote a place as is possible, far away from power lines or devices. Bring antennas and pieces of metal to test. Buy LEDs with the lowest forward voltage you can find. If you would like to test this yourself, the parts are all very cheap. Our demonstration involves a grounding rod, an LED, and nothing more, so keep it simple. Please report your results back to us.

To the best of my knowledge, these devices hit the market in the early 2000s. https://smartenergy.illinois.edu/ionization-technologies/ Overview: Ionization technologies have been in use for air purification since around 2000 when Sharper Image released the Ionic Breeze air purifier. Early versions of ion generating devices used plasma tubes to energize air flowing over the plasma, breaking the water vapor molecules into hydroxyl radicals, ozone, and other reactive oxygen species (ROS). The problem with these early models was the purposeful or incidental production of ozone, a respiratory irritant.

There is a grounding rod, a grounding wire, and a grounding rod nut. The rod is driven deep into the earth, leaving only a small bit exposed. A grounding rod nut secures the wire. The wire is run inside the home. Some people use an unpainted metal chair. Some people use a large flat sheet of chainmail over a cushion. Some people use a cooking sheet. I'm sure there are countless variations on this. I don't know of anyone in our group who sits with a wire in their bum, though.

https://mindscience.org/the-foundation/about-tom-slick/ An intrepid explorer, Tom sponsored two expeditions to Nepal in the late 1950s, hoping to find the Yeti in order to scientifically determine whether it was a legitimate "missing link" between Homo sapiens and earlier primates. While he didn’t find the Yeti, Tom returned from his expeditions in Nepal with a profound desire to explore the unknown mysteries of the mind, inspired by the powers of the mind he observed in the yogis and holy men he encountered. That desire inspired his creation of the Mind Science Foundation. Roger Nilson, a medical doctor. Gregory V. Simpson, a very well-known neuroscientist: Formerly the director of the dynamic neuroimaging laboratory at UCSF, co-director of the dynamic brain activity imaging laboratory at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a senior scientist at the brain plasticity institute, Kosta was the lead engineer for the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon program. Kosta convinced John to call Lawrence Blair and assemble a team to investigate him. The hope here was that it would inspire people to pursue and preserve this knowledge, which is at risk of dying out. John was stripped down to his shirt and underwear and checked with a metal detector. As to John hiding a negative ion generator and a 9-volt battery on the back of one of the researchers, rest assured that didn't happen. Also, these negative ion generator devices were not available in the early 1990s, to the best of my knowledge.

John taught that it was necessary to be electrically grounded during meditation in order to absorb yin chi, which comes from the earth.

I know this was meant as a joke, but I just want to state again that no one in our group at least puts wires in their bum or anything like that. John taught people to sit on the earth during meditation, and a grounding wire was only to be used if it was snowing or raining. Even then, no wire went anywhere near anyone's bum.

I am pretty sure you could strip Chris Angel naked, check him with a metal detector, have him change into clothes you provided, take him to a random hotel you choose while under your constant supervision while someone else drove you, and when you got to your location, you could have him strip and check his body with a metal detector again and check the clothes themselves for hidden devices. Stage magic depends on devices hidden on his person and props he has set up at the location beforehand. If you followed that protocol, you could be fairly certain that stage magic would not be possible. If it would work on a stage magician, it would work on a person claiming Siddhis too.

What are everyone's thoughts on cultured meat, milk, and eggs? Would it feel wrong morally to consume meat, milk, and eggs if there was no animal, and no brain?

John did it:

I guess I really didn't finish my thought and left it hanging. My apologies. So if you could create a protocol that would make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for a stage magician like David Blane, David Copperfield, Chris Angel, and others to cheat, then this same protocol should also work on the subject in question. There is no need to have a stage magician to rule out fraud if they themselves couldn't cheat the protocol.

I am not sure if at this time we'd be interested in a parapsychologist or anomalistic psychologist, but thank you for your suggestion.

If you stripped Chris Angel naked, handcuffed him, and took him to a random hotel room you chose, checking him for metal with a metal detector, I bet his magic wouldn't be so great. That's just my opinion.

I can certainly understand why you feel this is an appeal to authority. Police routinely kill people, "lose" the bodycam and dashcam footage, and report no one saw anything. Then they investigate themselves and determine that they did nothing wrong. This is why I am an advocate for independent oversight and investigation. I also try to project how I see things and imagine how others might as well. When I see these videos of people demonstrating siddhis, my first thought is, "Who knows if a device is being used or not?" What I want to see is independent oversight by qualified individuals doing their best to rule out fraud on camera. This, to me, is the gold standard in evidence. If you feel that amounts to an appeal to authority, I respect your opinion.

We do in-person demonstrations to the best of our ability.

Maybe there is some miscommunication here. You asked why we didn't release video evidence without scientists and medical doctors present to rule out any possibility of fraud. I answered because we want to release high-quality evidence, not low-quality evidence. Quality over quantity Already there are tons of YouTube videos from other people, but without a concerted effort by professionals to attempt to rule out fraud, they are of little to no value.

I am not sure I understand your meaning here; could you re-word this, please?

Quality over quantity

Thanks.

Please see my previous statement.