Re: virus: Rationality in the Cave

David McFadzean (david@lucifer.com)
Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:46:04 -0700

At 09:23 PM 3/14/99 -0800, KMO wrote:

>A million accounts compiled by whom? Collected from where and for what
>reason? A million examples from mainstream media? From CSICOP? From the
>Psychic-Friends network?

A hypothetical random cross-section taken from all historical accounts of supernatural experiences.

>What do you have in mind as being indicative of a "supernatural
>experience" when you're compiling these one million accounts? My
>estimation of the percentage of "genuine" supernatural experiences in
>that million accounts will vary greatly depending on the answers to
>these questions.

Anything that would be classified as "outside of the cave", something that can't be explained rationally with science or logic.

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