Actually, there is also another conceivable explanation for this type of phenomenon: demonic activity. (Personally, I think a scam, plain and simple, is more likely the explanation in 99.99% of cases.) There is a fascinacting book on this sort of thing, called "Unholy Spirits" by Dr. Gary North. It is available online:
http://freebooks.entrewave.com/freebooks/docs/21ea_47e.htm The PDF (Acrobat) version is much more readable than the HTML version. North can be a real windbag and the book doesn't start to get into the nitty-gritty of the bizarre phenonmena until after page 50 or so. Is "Spontaneous Human Combustion" your cup of tea? How about Edgar Cayce? The story of the Brazilian peasant who successfully "treated" the various ailments of as many as two million patients, even performing countless scarless, bloodless "surgeries" without anesthesia using a rusty, unsterilized knife -- sometimes leaving the knife protruding from the patient's body for a few minutes while he did something else -- is especially bizarre. (Researchers and debunkers repeatedly captured this sort of stuff on film, and one debunker actually had a benign tumor removed from his own body this way.) The descriptions of truly bizarre phenomena for which no "rational" explanation can be given goes on and on. The common thread running through them all is this: none of the phenomena are reproduceable by anyone except particular individuals. Only Edgar Cayce could do what Edgar Cayce did, and only the Brazilian peasant could painlessly jab a rusty knife into somebody's eye, wiggle it around, and cure some serious ailment. Anyone else attempting the same thing would result only in some poor idiot screaming in pain and holding his eye while blood streams down his face. North offers an explanation: demonic activity. In other words, in these cases the "scam" isn't being perpetrated by people so much as by demons; the people involved may be just as deceived as everyone else. Christopher Witmer Lawrence Rhodes wrote: > Tim Ventura, who has reproduced a lifter technology, commented that this > "free energy" technology in general seems to be camera shy. As strange as > that sounds, another inventor who claims to have a device that draws energy > from the aether, said that his machine that has been operational for six > years will stop working at times when certain people come near. Hahahahaha
