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I wouldn't be convinced by those numbers either. However, everything I've read about ESP seems to indicate that it's more likely that humans would be able to communicate with each other or with animals in this manner, not with a machine. I have been reading a lot about visualization, and as part of my day, I've tried incorporating positive images about what I want or how I feel into my thought process. Then while I was reading an article about voodoo, I started thinking about the negative effects of visualization. Say that I could, through the power of my intangible thoughts, visualize my sickness away. Maybe it's like prayer. Say I pray for someone's health and they recover. What if I prayed for their sickness? An experiment was conducted in 2006 in Washington DC in which a group of people prayed for a decrease in the murder rate over the next five months. Results showed a 27% decrease from the previous year. What if they had prayed for an increase? A thought could be a dangerous thing, and what's more, if there was someone out there constantly wishing you ill and effecting you, how would you stop it? You can't force a person to change their thoughts. Is that why people once killed supposed practicioners of black magic? Were their very attentions and thoughts that poison to those around them? I just know that I value the power of thought too much to risk it, and even though I might be mean sometimes, I don't want to seriously wish harm on anyone, because what if it has an effect?!