Aromatherapy Telepathy

[Ericka]

Here is an experiment for those people who are seriously interested in taking the challenge. But it is more of a training run down.

Two people work together on this, one person is the sender and the other is the receiver. The sender is asked to think up a number of memories she has about her life, and discuss them with the receiver. She then writes the memory she chooses down on a piece of paper and seals it in an envelope. After doing this she lights one of 3 aroma therapy candles. The first in eucalypts, the second is lemon & orange grass, and the third is rosemary.

The receiver then has time to meditate on the candle, and the powerful scents coming from it. It is important that only the best quality aroma therapy candles are used. And that the sender is present the whole time. Neither of them are to speak to each other at all. But once the reciever has an idea which memory the sender is concentrating on, he speaks it aloud and opens the envelope.

If he is correct they can move on to the next experiment. This time the receiver is blindfolded and taken out of the room. The sender lights all 3 candles in the room, and places two of them down on the floor. The room is empty, and the sender stands somewhere within the space holding the third candle.

The recievers job is to go into the room, and point to where the sender is standing, or walk over to her without searching the room at random.

If he finds her, he wins the million dollars.

 

[Katana]

It is important that only the best quality aroma therapy candles are used.

All other questions aside for the moment, how does one recognize the "best quality" among aromatherapy candles?

 

[fls]

Is this a joke?

Linda

 

[Loss Leader]

This time the receiver is blindfolded and taken out of the room. The sender lights all 3 candles in the room, and places two of them down on the floor. The room is empty, and the sender stands somewhere within the space holding the third candle.

The recievers job is to go into the room, and point to where the sender is standing, or walk over to her without searching the room at random.

If he finds her, he wins the million dollars.

So long asthe receiver, walking blindfolded around the room, accidentally lights herself on fire, I am all for this experiment.

 

[GzuzKryzt]

So long asthe receiver, walking blindfolded around the room, accidentally lights herself on fire, I am all for this experiment.

"You know that it would be untrue,
You know that I would be a liar,
If I was to say to you:
Girl, couldn't we be a big hit?"

 

[ben m]

"Let's see, three memories. I remember my trip to Australia and all the beautiful trees there, with koalas in them. I remember seeing a Roman Polanski horror movie about a demonic baby. I remember mowing the lawn under the citrus trees at my grandmother's house."

 

[Ericka]

I guess you must have one in mind. Do you want me to take a guess?

 

[Buckaroo]

Here is an experiment for those people who are seriously interested in taking the challenge. But it is more of a training run down...

...If he finds her, he wins the million dollars.

I'm sorry, did I miss something?

What the hell are you talking about?

"Training run down" for what? (That sounds awfully scientology-esque, fwiw)

 

[Blackwell]

"Let's see, three memories. I remember my trip to Australia and all the beautiful trees there, with koalas in them. I remember seeing a Roman Polanski horror movie about a demonic baby. I remember mowing the lawn under the citrus trees at my grandmother's house."

nice one, Ben. Welcome to the forum.

The recievers job is to go into the room, and point to where the sender is standing, or walk over to her without searching the room at random.

If he finds her, he wins the million dollars.

What makes you think such a simplistic "test" is worthy of a million dollars?

 

[Zygar]

I'm sorry, did I miss something?

What the hell are you talking about?

"Training run down" for what? (That sounds awfully scientology-esque, btw)

I'm pretty sure this is a training for a super preliminary test. Randi would never accept this test because there is so little required.

First, you have 3 memories and you have to guess one of them associated to a specific candle? So many opportunities for cheating. You could easily choose a memory that is very obviously associated to one of the scents, so that it's less a guessing game than a warm reading.

Then the blindfolded walking into a room with someone holding a candle? Sorry, but if you find someone with a reasonably decent sense of smell it would be very easy to again hint which candle you are going to hold, and the rest is easy.

 

[Ericka]

That's the initial assumption. But what if people could do all of this without the candles to smell thoughts and emotions coming from others? The candles help you do this by setting a mood. I've been burning lemon grass & orange all night and am on an unusually relaxed high.

In scientology a person learns how thier emotions are linked to there aura fields, scents, and sweat. That's what lie detectors read into. Animals can smell these emotions as well, and also notice the other energies in shifting body movements and language. The candles just help a person become sensitive to the energy by clearing out all the old static spirits in the ethers.

I don't think randi has done any experiments on humans & scents. But my findings are scentsational. And if you really knew anything about psychic readings you would realize that there are deeper methods within us for tapping into intuition than cold reading. & I wouldn't call them warm readings.

 

[Buckaroo]

If I wasn't sure before, I am now.

Troll. No question about it.

 

[Flange Desire]

...But my findings are scentsational. And if you really knew anything about psychic readings you would realize that there are deeper methods within us for tapping into intuition than cold reading. & I wouldn't call them warm readings.

Hmmm, I could almost but not quite grok that.

What sort of drugs are you on?

 

[Mojo]

Here is an experiment for those people who are seriously interested in taking the challenge.

1) Do you have someone who claims to be able to do this?

2) If the "reciever" was locating the "sender" by scent, would you consider this to be paranormal?

 

[Ladewig]

The recievers job is to go into the room, and point to where the sender is standing, or walk over to her without searching the room at random.

If he finds her, he wins the million dollars.

One of the problems with such a test is that the result is not objectively self-evident. If the receiver is pointing directly at the sender everyone will agree there is a hit, but what happens if the receiver is pointing a little off to the side of the sender. Some might call it a hit and others would not.

 

[geoman]

I don't think randi has done any experiments on humans & scents. But my findings are scentsational.

Has your entire time on the forum so far merely been an elaborate setup for this weak pun? If so maybe you should spend some time in the Humour section rather then the Million Dollar Challenge section.

 

[chillzero]

I've been burning lemon grass & orange all night and am on an unusually relaxed high.

Ventilation ... very important to remember.

 

[Zep]

I suspect the "candle" you have been burning is...umm...cone-shaped, smells of burnt hair, and contains goodly amounts of THC...

 

[Crowbot]

I guess you must have one in mind. Do you want me to take a guess?

That's all you would be doing anyway.

 

[Crowbot]

If I wasn't sure before, I am now.

Troll. No question about it.

Can I apply for the challenge, since I called this from her FIRST POST??

Clearly I realized this after sitting around in my cubicle at work burning some scented candles, I prefer passion fruit and super tangy mango candles for psychic prediction powers.

Ericka is a stupid, fat, ugly troll.