somewhere in the US, there was a communion taking place and the communion wafer fell on the floor. they put the wafer into holy water but it wouldn't dissolve. instead it turned into a flesh-like thing. i don't know anymore about it. heard it on the radio this morning. will check for more info and let you know.

verifiable transubstantiation, huh?

weeeiiiiirrrrdd!!

isn't it? haven't heard anything else about it but the dj promised to call the priest on monday morning's show so i'll definately tune in and see what's up.

the millenium...

oooohhhhh! this would be one of the reasons I do not attend church services... Wafers do the strangest things!

now, imagine if there were holy Pez...

ahhh... now your talking!

yeah, maybe, but everyone else stopped...

no so...

er... noT so...

ah, then it would only be my perception of things...

a form of reality indeed...

then I would justified in feeling the way that I do currently?

certianly. maybe not logically, but emotionally or mentally sometimes is much stronger... (shooting in the dark as I have NO idea HOW you feel...)

o-kay!

Woooooops, whazzat?

apparently so amazing that everyone else is still attempting to formulate an answer!

Or has given up entirely...or has been whisked to a higher self by the great Spirit...or abducted by aliens...?!

or d) all of the above

...simultaneously!

(*lol* sanctified Pez!)

Not sure where this should go... Putting it here with the WolfMistress's permission Science News Online Week of June 10, 2000; Vol. 157, No. 24 Mystic Stuff Scientists describe and ponder their own brushes with spiritual, mystical, and psychic happenings in the online journal called The Archives of Scientists' Transcendent Experiences (TASTE). Psychologist Charles T. Tart of the University of California, Davis, produces the journal and hopes to build a database of accounts by bona fide, show-me-the-data researchers for future investigations into such experiences. Believe them or not, you'll find the Web site's strange tales curiously enthralling. Go to: http://issc-taste.org/index.shtml

this is an excellent spot for the above info. thanks!

Interesting discussion yesterday at home regarding personality and the paranormal. The person I was talking with has the same personality type as me (INFP/ENFP)((see http://www.kiersey.com) and has read up on it, and apparently it is quite common for INFPs to have premonitions, see 'pictures' and other paranormal stuff. Especially if they are highly intuitive. I don't know if there have been many studies on the extent of paranormal experiences and personality types, but it sounds interesting...

I must have anti-paranormal genes. I get no vibes, visitations, visions or premonitions. Someone definitly got MY share!!!

i'm familiar with the keirsey temperment sorter (mine's ENFP, i think). but this temperment sorter is used for all sorts of things from getting jobs to psychology/psychiatry. very interesting stuff) will reverify mine, it's on a note at work so will let you know tomorrow.

Marcia, I don't think that's strictly true.... maybe you don't remember them *grin* Wolfie, why am I not surprised????? I came out ENFP on the Myers Briggs (from which the Kiersey was derived) some 15 years ago, with intuition almost off the scale. Since then I have become more 'I', as the latest ones come out INFP.

if i had taken the test years ago, it would've been INFP. but i have changed with life experiences.

Hmmm, I think I went into a pit about ten years ago, partly the CFS and partly big hurts professionally = I became more I than E. When I gain confidence I become more E, but I still sorta feel it's not acceptable.... I guess this is also linked with being comfortable and relying on my intuitive powers too. As a christian I link that with the power of the Holy Spirit, and interpret things in that paradigm. I know others would interpret the highly intuitive state differently. However, for me that is a sort of safety net against going too far off beam.

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