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Colin Ross, MD - has he applied?

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Yesterday on reddit, I came across an interesting story on Market Watch.

Colin Ross, MD claims he "can make a tone sound out of a speaker using nothing but an energy beam he sends out through his eyes."

Apparently "Dr. Ross' application to the $1 Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge has been received by the James Randi Educational Foundation". No details as to whether it has been accepted.

Does anybody know any more about this? I checked Swift, but didn't find anything. And a quick search of the forums revealed nothing.
 
ObscureReferenceMan said:
Yesterday on reddit, I came across an interesting story on Market Watch.

Colin Ross, MD claims he "can make a tone sound out of a speaker using nothing but an energy beam he sends out through his eyes."

Apparently "Dr. Ross' application to the $1 Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge has been received by the James Randi Educational Foundation". No details as to whether it has been accepted.

Does anybody know any more about this? I checked Swift, but didn't find anything. And a quick search of the forums revealed nothing.
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:eye-poppi
 
Weird.

Here is his website http://www.rossinst.com/treatment.html where he deals mostly with psych trauma.

He's pretty well published with a mixture of papers in good journals and some in so-so journals. Not a shred of woo in his site at all although it does not say what is taught in his seminars.

Don't know what to make of it. Does he have weird beliefs or is he trying to prove some sort of point?
 
It's getting weirder.

Here are some books he has published:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/s...ype=ss&index=books&field-author=Colin A. Ross

It looks like he has published some pretty scientific books. However:

Spirit Power Drawings: The Foundation of a New Science (Paperback)
by Colin A. Ross (Author)
Book Description
Spirit Power Drawings lays the foundation of a new science. According to Colin A. Ross, M.D. this new science is a marriage of science, religion and psychiatry. It is an ancient way of knowing that has been lost by modern industrial man. Industrial man has "lost touch" with nature, the senses have been closed up and two profound dissociations or disconnections have emerged.

According to his philosophy, spirit is a general property of matter. He calls this energy, Spirit Power. His new science is based on a form of knowledge that is deeper, more ancient, more sensual, intuitive, and more rooted in the natural world.

The experiential foundation of the new science is communicated through text and drawings. The drawings communicate a vision of human life and the natural world that Dr. Ross has explored in poetry, fiction and essays. Out of this vision comes an understanding of mind, body, the natural world, and the human spirit.
http://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Power-...r_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217535724&sr=1-10

Looks like he is into this spirit energy belief.
 
We have received incomplete application information from Colin Ross and are awaiting the rest.
 
Hmmm. He's already deciding on how he'll spend the $1 million. Where have I see this before? ; )
 
RemieV said:
We have received incomplete application information from Colin Ross and are awaiting the rest.
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I heard him on Coast to Coast tonight and George raised the question of whether an appearance by a applicant on that show would count as media presence.

Say what you will about the content, but an article in the East Podunk Picayune will not reach the audience that a C2C appearance will.
 
At least, the JREF would have a prominent applicant. And his claim seems testable fairly easy.
 
ObscureReferenceMan said:
Yesterday on reddit, I came across an interesting story on Market Watch.

Colin Ross, MD claims he "can make a tone sound out of a speaker using nothing but an energy beam he sends out through his eyes."

Apparently "Dr. Ross' application to the $1 Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge has been received by the James Randi Educational Foundation". No details as to whether it has been accepted.

Does anybody know any more about this? I checked Swift, but didn't find anything. And a quick search of the forums revealed nothing.
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Looking over his website, I get the impression he is another "legend in his own lunchtime," a la Arthur Janov.

However, I could be wrong.


M.
 
I wonder how the original story on Market Watch was put together. Did Ross approach them? Maybe this was his required "media presence"?
 
Moochie said:
Looking over his website, I get the impression he is another "legend in his own lunchtime," a la Arthur Janov.
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Listening to him on C2C I learned how he came to realize he was emitting energy from his eyes. Back when he was in his late teens he noticed he'd get the sensation he was being stared at, turned around and immediately made eye contact with the person staring at him.

He also mentioned that sniper schools teach that you shouldn't stare at a target too long otherwise they might sense they're being watched. :rolleyes:
 
Does the speaker have to be hooked up to something? How big a speaker does it have to be? How loud is the sound? How close does he have to be? Is he humming? Something tells me these eye beams aren't going to go through glass.
 
UnrepentantSinner said:
Listening to him on C2C I learned how he came to realize he was emitting energy from his eyes. Back when he was in his late teens he noticed he'd get the sensation he was being stared at, turned around and immediately made eye contact with the person staring at him.

He also mentioned that sniper schools teach that you shouldn't stare at a target too long otherwise they might sense they're being watched. :rolleyes:
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Just remembered something else he mentioned which ties into an argument I've made about evolution. He claimed that he things we evolved the ability to sense this energy emitted from the eyes because prey that could sense it would be more likely to escape being eaten and be able to reproduce. I can't recall if he claimed that we evolved the ability to emit the energy or if it's a natural aspect of having eyes.

If he is also claiming that we evolved the ability to emit energy that we can't even see he's so far off base it's not even funny when it comes to evolution. Blind cave fish didn't evolve the ability to see in infrared and an organ to light their environs with it - they lost their eyes because there was no selective pressure to keep them. Similarly moles didn't develop ground penetrating radar organs, they lost their eyes and developed a variety of scent or tactile methods for making their way around their environs.
 
UnrepentantSinner said:
Listening to him on C2C I learned how he came to realize he was emitting energy from his eyes. Back when he was in his late teens he noticed he'd get the sensation he was being stared at, turned around and immediately made eye contact with the person staring at him.

He also mentioned that sniper schools teach that you shouldn't stare at a target too long otherwise they might sense they're being watched. :rolleyes:
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Fantastic :p
 
Video of Colin Ross demonstration

The Dallas Observer's blog (blogs dot dallasobserver dot com/unfairpark/2008/08/colin_ross_has_an_eyebeam_of_e.php) has posted a video of Colin Ross explaining and doing a demonstration. Sorry, I don't have enough posts to actually post the link -- maybe someone else can. Disclosure: I helped Dr. Ross with PR to help satisfy the media component of the application.
 
dpkpr said:
The Dallas Observer's blog (blogs dot dallasobserver dot com/unfairpark/2008/08/colin_ross_has_an_eyebeam_of_e.php) has posted a video of Colin Ross explaining and doing a demonstration. Sorry, I don't have enough posts to actually post the link -- maybe someone else can. Disclosure: I helped Dr. Ross with PR to help satisfy the media component of the application.
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Thanks dpkpr and rjh01 for posting the link.

As I said earlier, this claim should be easily testable. Plus, Dr. Ross seems to have all the necessary qualifications to have his application accepted - and then some.

After the modification to the Challenge Rules, the JREF wanted to go for more prominent figures. This would present an excellent possibility to do so, would it not?
 
Thanks for the vid dpkpr and rjh01.

:o

I hope he's serious and not just trying to pull a stupid stunt, whatever it is, I hope he can make it up to the preliminary test. Would be great to watch a live-stream of that.
 
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