Nov 24, 2023Β·edited Nov 24, 2023Liked by Matt Osborne
I am the most pro-science, anti-supernatural, anti-paranormal, contemptuous-of-all-things-spiritual person you will ever meet. I became an atheist at age eleven, I went on midnight walks in graveyards to defy residual fears, I even stood on a hill in a thunderstorm and screamed at the sky,
... And I have had experiences that so conflicted with the outlook I just described that even after ππ₯π₯ my friends were completely convinced I had paranormal "powers," I still didn't believe it myself.
Then came some evidence that I had arranged using the best scientific method I could muster and I did something that made further disbelief impossible. Coincidence is just not that energetic. I am one who only uses "proof" for courtrooms and geometry, and I proved that whatever you want to call it, what I was doing was real.
I am not alone. I have met others; in the dialup days before the WWW there was a service called PLINK ("People Link") with a chat room made of people who had the same abilities. And there was a sailor in a pea coat who was much, much more powerful than I was.
For some reason, decades after I stopped experimenting with this, it's come up in conversation several times and I am encouraged repeatedly to write it all down. How it started, what I could do, the pivotal event that convinced me it was real, and what I can still do.
I will not write this in any way connected to my name because anyone reading it would be perfectly justified in thinking I am nuts. I have desperately sought scientific explanations for what I was doing and can still do, and I get encouragement from quantum entanglement and Hugh Everett's Many Worlds Interpretation. Because it sure isn't quantum chromodynamics or gravity.
Matt, when I do write this, I want to send it to you. Please send your email address to one of my burner accounts, solonaquila431@gmail.com. I have been secretive and silent for almost fifty years but it's too important to not record.
I am the most pro-science, anti-supernatural, anti-paranormal, contemptuous-of-all-things-spiritual person you will ever meet. I became an atheist at age eleven, I went on midnight walks in graveyards to defy residual fears, I even stood on a hill in a thunderstorm and screamed at the sky,
"π»ππ¦, πΊππ! πππ’ πππ'π‘ ππ₯ππ π‘!"
... And I have had experiences that so conflicted with the outlook I just described that even after ππ₯π₯ my friends were completely convinced I had paranormal "powers," I still didn't believe it myself.
Then came some evidence that I had arranged using the best scientific method I could muster and I did something that made further disbelief impossible. Coincidence is just not that energetic. I am one who only uses "proof" for courtrooms and geometry, and I proved that whatever you want to call it, what I was doing was real.
I am not alone. I have met others; in the dialup days before the WWW there was a service called PLINK ("People Link") with a chat room made of people who had the same abilities. And there was a sailor in a pea coat who was much, much more powerful than I was.
For some reason, decades after I stopped experimenting with this, it's come up in conversation several times and I am encouraged repeatedly to write it all down. How it started, what I could do, the pivotal event that convinced me it was real, and what I can still do.
I will not write this in any way connected to my name because anyone reading it would be perfectly justified in thinking I am nuts. I have desperately sought scientific explanations for what I was doing and can still do, and I get encouragement from quantum entanglement and Hugh Everett's Many Worlds Interpretation. Because it sure isn't quantum chromodynamics or gravity.
Matt, when I do write this, I want to send it to you. Please send your email address to one of my burner accounts, solonaquila431@gmail.com. I have been secretive and silent for almost fifty years but it's too important to not record.