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Praying away the oil leak

Discover how some are attempting to meditate the oil leak away through visualization as part of a unique experiment. Learn more!

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A man in Boulder -- yes, my home town -- is trying to meditate the oil leak away. His idea?

"The basic concept is to try and get as many people to visualize that the valve is actually functioning and is working and closing."

This is part of the Intention Experiment, what is basically telekinesis:

Lynne McTaggart, who started the Intention Experiment, has organized more than a half dozen mind-over-matter experiments -- most recently to try to improve the water quality in Lake Biwa, Japan -- that involve people focusing their thoughts on something in the physical world to make change. She claims to have scientific evidence that it works.

Scientific evidence? Really? I wonder if she's interested in making a quick million bucks.

Look, we've seen this before. People have prayed for rain, and tried to pray the stock market into obedience. These efforts fail, always. Or at best ...

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