Psychic Samurai applies for MDC...apparently...

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Chris H

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No doubt you've all seen references on this forum to the recent threads over at The Magic Cafe regarding this fellow and his claims that he will apply for the JREF challenge. I'm a regular poster on that board, and thought you would all like to know that Psychic Samurai is now claiming to have applied for the challenge.

This is my first post here, and I understand I'm not permitted to post external links, but anyone who is interested can visit The Magic Cafe dot com, and then proceed to the 'Stand The Test' forum to find the topic entitled "SLIM KING ACCEPTS RANDI'S MILLION DOLLAR CHALLENGE! !!!!", where you can read all about it.

Hopefully the crew at the JREF can provide more details regarding his claim and the preliminary test once his application arrives.
 
Now things are really starting to get interesting...

David Koenig/Psychic Samurai/The Professor Slim King (from now on, I'll just call him Slim) appeared on August 3rd on an internet radio show called 'The Ghostman and Demon Hunter'. Their podcasts are available on iTunes. Just search for Ghostman and Demon Hunter in your podcast directory. During this show, he made a (very loose) prediction...

"I predict that in the very, very near future, that someone is going to have like a deathbed confession, and they are going to confess that during May 18th, probably 19th, the day after Mt Saint Helen's erupted, that they found a Sasquatch."

What he neglected to mention is that the recent "bigfoot" discovery was public knowledge about 2 weeks before his appearance on August 3rd, and a post on the JREF forum by "tube" entitled 'Bigfoot Body in Georgia!' on July 23rd confirms this.

He also neglects to mention that he has acknowledged on The Magic Cafe that he visited the JREF forum only three days after this post was made.

Slim has been promoting his August 17th appearance on the 'Ghostman and Demon Hunter' show quite heavily over at The Magic Cafe, so I thought it only fair that I drop the boys a line and fill them in on the somewhat suspicious piece of information. As predicted (Hey! I must be psychic too!), my e-mail had very little impact on the show and the hosts raving reviews regarding Slims performance and prediction. When asked about the prediction and the people who have sent in e-mails saying that this information was made public two weeks earlier, Slim responds with...

(Around 12 minutes in)
"They've accused me of taking this off some little, tiny blog somewhere."


I can only presume he is referring to the little, tiny JREF forum.

It gets better...

The August 17 Podcast of 'The Ghostman and Demon Hunter Show' is now online. Hopefully Garette will be kind enough to post the link for me again. In this podcast, Slim King has stated that he will be taking the one million dollar challenge. Interestingly enough, although the JREF has made no public announcement regarding this test, Mr. Koenig has announced the dates, location, and details of the test in this radio show.

(At 12 minutes and 40 seconds)
"I David Koenig will contact a paranormal entity and communicate with it in an intelligent and understandable manner. Reasonable questions will be asked, and answered. This communication will be recorded with instrumental trans communication, and electronic voice phenomenon (ITC and EVP) methods. Conventional video recording will also be used to verify contact, in addition to still photography. Other scientific devices will also be used to determine and verify any unusual presences at the location.

This demonstration will take place 10-31-2008 at Lake Helen, Florida. I will make contact on that date as a preliminary test, and then again on 10-31-2009 to complete the million dollar challenge, unless the JREF would like to forgo the preliminary test and go straight to the challenge on 10-31-2008. I would prefer to go straight to the million dollar challenge, and not waste any time."

Does the JREF have any details of this so far?

Cheers,

Chris
 
GuerrillaMagic said:
Now things are really starting to get interesting...

David Koenig/Psychic Samurai/The Professor Slim King (from now on, I'll just call him Slim) appeared on August 3rd on an internet radio show called 'The Ghostman and Demon Hunter'. Their podcasts are available on iTunes. Just search for Ghostman and Demon Hunter in your podcast directory. During this show, he made a (very loose) prediction...

"I predict that in the very, very near future, that someone is going to have like a deathbed confession, and they are going to confess that during May 18th, probably 19th, the day after Mt Saint Helen's erupted, that they found a Sasquatch."

What he neglected to mention is that the recent "bigfoot" discovery was public knowledge about 2 weeks before his appearance on August 3rd, and a post on the JREF forum by "tube" entitled 'Bigfoot Body in Georgia!' on July 23rd confirms this.

He also neglects to mention that he has acknowledged on The Magic Cafe that he visited the JREF forum only three days after this post was made.

Slim has been promoting his August 17th appearance on the 'Ghostman and Demon Hunter' show quite heavily over at The Magic Cafe, so I thought it only fair that I drop the boys a line and fill them in on the somewhat suspicious piece of information. As predicted (Hey! I must be psychic too!), my e-mail had very little impact on the show and the hosts raving reviews regarding Slims performance and prediction. When asked about the prediction and the people who have sent in e-mails saying that this information was made public two weeks earlier, Slim responds with...

(Around 12 minutes in)
"They've accused me of taking this off some little, tiny blog somewhere."


I can only presume he is referring to the little, tiny JREF forum.

It gets better...

The August 17 Podcast of 'The Ghostman and Demon Hunter Show' is now online. Hopefully Garette will be kind enough to post the link for me again. In this podcast, Slim King has stated that he will be taking the one million dollar challenge. Interestingly enough, although the JREF has made no public announcement regarding this test, Mr. Koenig has announced the dates, location, and details of the test in this radio show.

(At 12 minutes and 40 seconds)
"I David Koenig will contact a paranormal entity and communicate with it in an intelligent and understandable manner. Reasonable questions will be asked, and answered. This communication will be recorded with instrumental trans communication, and electronic voice phenomenon (ITC and EVP) methods. Conventional video recording will also be used to verify contact, in addition to still photography. Other scientific devices will also be used to determine and verify any unusual presences at the location.

This demonstration will take place 10-31-2008 at Lake Helen, Florida. I will make contact on that date as a preliminary test, and then again on 10-31-2009 to complete the million dollar challenge, unless the JREF would like to forgo the preliminary test and go straight to the challenge on 10-31-2008. I would prefer to go straight to the million dollar challenge, and not waste any time."

Does the JREF have any details of this so far?

Cheers,

Chris
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Experience suggests - strongly, I might add - that none of these events Koenig names will happen.

Not only does he not seem to understand the JREF Challenge Rules which clearly state that "paranormal entities" e.g. angels, demons, fairies do not qualify for claims because the test results are not falsifiable.

Also, the wording and the presentation have self-promotion written all over it. I won't even bother dissecting the statement you quoted for obvious gobbledygook.

Pass the popcorn, Art.
 
GuerrillaMagic said:
This demonstration will take place 10-31-2008 at Lake Helen, Florida. I will make contact on that date as a preliminary test, and then again on 10-31-2009 to complete the million dollar challenge, unless the JREF would like to forgo the preliminary test and go straight to the challenge on 10-31-2008. I would prefer to go straight to the million dollar challenge, and not waste any time."[/I]
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Doesn't sound like any agreement has been made, rather he will be performing and the JREF are welcome to watch.
 
GzuzKryzt said:
Experience suggests - strongly, I might add - that none of these events Koenig names will happen.

Not only does he not seem to understand the JREF Challenge Rules which clearly state that "paranormal entities" e.g. angels, demons, fairies do not qualify for claims because the test results are not falsifiable.

Also, the wording and the presentation have self-promotion written all over it. I won't even bother dissecting the statement you quoted for obvious gobbledygook.

Pass the popcorn, Art.
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Assuming he can record them I guess he'll be within the rules. ;)
 
Here's the link.

Guerilla Magic has informed me he has been banned for two weeks (therefore actually suspended?) from the Magic Cafe. I can find no reference to it on the site, but I don't know if they give any. I speculate the reason he has been suspended is his informing the Ghost and Demon Hunters show about the reasons Slim's "prediction" regarding Bigfoot cannot really be considered evidence of the paranormal.

Several posters there have excoriated GuerillaMagic for doing this, and at least one said he reported him for it.

I'm about to chime in my support for him over there, but I need to compose it after doing a little more research.
 
If you need any help Garette, you know where to find me.

Cheers mate.

Chris
 
GzuzKryzt said:
Experience suggests - strongly, I might add - that none of these events Koenig names will happen.

Not only does he not seem to understand the JREF Challenge Rules which clearly state that "paranormal entities" e.g. angels, demons, fairies do not qualify for claims because the test results are not falsifiable.

Also, the wording and the presentation have self-promotion written all over it. I won't even bother dissecting the statement you quoted for obvious gobbledygook.

Pass the popcorn, Art.
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I agree. But I figured you guys would all like to know about this, nonetheless. The presentation screams publicity stunt, and I agree with Lothian that this seems more like an invite to watch something that has already been planned, not a genuine attempt at taking the challenge.

Not only that, he has stated that the challenge will take place over the course of twelve months. This is before the JREF have even acknowledged receipt of his application, let alone determined the testing procedure.

Koenig is a friend of Jim Callahans. There is a photo on Callahans website of Koenig, apparently about to post his application, which again, I'll have to ask Garette to post the link to.

Come November 1st, my bet is that Koenig and Callahan will scream foul, and attempt to tell the world that the JREF ran from them. As you can see, unlike these boys, I'm happy to put my predictions in print before the event actually occurs.

I can see it all already...

If he never actually sent in the application - "The JREF lied about receiving it, and THEY RAN FROM MY CHALLENGE!!".

If he actually sent in his application, and the JREF ignore it - "The JREF received my application, and they were too scared. THEY RAN FROM MY CHALLENGE!!"

If he actually sent in his application, and the JREF publicly state that they're not interested - "Ha! They're scared of me! THEY RAN FROM MY CHALLENGE!!"

We've seen it all before...

Cheers,

Chris
 
Looks to me like Slim's just trying to get more deeply into the "woo economy"; he's evidently a minor, peripheral player in the mentalist show circuit and figures woo is where the real money's at, hence the announcement regarding the MDC. Oh, he mentions that he's about to get married, so that's a good reason for wanting to make a bit more of the green stuff, too.

M.
 
Garrette said:
Here's the link.

Guerilla Magic has informed me he has been banned for two weeks (therefore actually suspended?) from the Magic Cafe. I can find no reference to it on the site, but I don't know if they give any. I speculate the reason he has been suspended is his informing the Ghost and Demon Hunters show about the reasons Slim's "prediction" regarding Bigfoot cannot really be considered evidence of the paranormal.

Several posters there have excoriated GuerillaMagic for doing this, and at least one said he reported him for it.

I'm about to chime in my support for him over there, but I need to compose it after doing a little more research.
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Maybe you can add to my thread I've created Garette,assuming it stays.;)
It's in Stand The Test sub forum.I await my inevitable ban.
 
I asked Slim to join this thread, he's already a member here. We'll see what happens.
 
DJM said:
I asked Slim to join this thread, he's already a member here. We'll see what happens.
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Slim, if you are reading this, the JREF Forum members do not speak for the JREF.

Exceptions are two JREF Staffers who post here regularly: GM Jeff Wagg and Research Assistant RemieV.

If you wish to contact the JREF directly I recommend challenge@randi.org.
 
Oh well that thread didn't last long.
A bit like Slims claim to be paranormal. ;)
 
Hmmm. I can't post support for GuerrillaMagic, either. They do not allow discussion of moderator actions.

They apply that standard fairly, though, so I don't have a complaint.
 
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