PALLAVAS : PSEUDOSCIENCE AND PSYCHISM by RISHIKA MANNA https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh en-us 2021-09-01 09:00:59 UTC 2025-12-30 17:01:19 UTC hello@padlet.com As a child in 1953, Johnny Smith falls unconscious while ice-skating, then mumbles a prophetic warning to an adult who later suffers an accident. In an unconnected incident, a young, emotionally troubled Bible salesman named Greg Stillson vindictively kicks a dog to death. The FBI agent is killed by a car bomb. Meanwhile, Johnny's warnings that a disaster will occur at his pupil's graduation party are ignored by some, leading to several deaths. Now believing he must take more decisive action to prevent nuclear war, and learning his headaches are the result of a brain tumor, Johnny buys a rifle to kill Stillson. At the next rally, Stillson begins his speech and Johnny shoots from a balcony. He misses and is wounded by guards. Stillson grabs a young child and holds him up as a human shield. A bystander photographs Stillson's act. Unable to shoot a child, Johnny is shot twice by the bodyguards. He falls off the balcony, mortally wounded. Dying, Johnny touches Stillson a final time. He feels only dwindling impressions but knows the terrible future has been prevented. When published, the picture of Stillson using a child as a shield ends his political career. By 1970, Johnny is a high school teacher in the small town of Cleaves Mills, Maine with a new girlfriend named Sarah. He is involved in a car accident and falls into a coma. Waking up over four years later,he finds that he has suffered a neural injury with one part of his brain seriously damaged, making it a "dead zone." As if to compensate, other parts of the brain now show heightened activity. As a result, Johnny sometimes experiences clairvoyant visions when touching people and objects. After helping various people, he becomes frustrated by sensationalist media reports of his supposed psychic talents. After Johnny rejects a lucrative offer from tabloid reporter Richard Dees to run fake predictions under his name, Dees' paper denounces him as a fraud. Greg Stillson, now a successful businessman and mayor of Ridgeway, New Hampshire, threatens to kill the people he bullies if they reveal his actions or don't aid him. In 1976, he wins a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives as an independent, having blackmailed a local businessman into raising funds for him. Johnny becomes a private tutor to a teenage boy in Ridgeway and develops an interest in politics. He meets Stillson, and is horrified to see a vision of an older Stillson, now President, causing a worldwide nuclear conflict. As Johnny's health worsens, he contemplates Stillson's presidency, comparing his dilemma to someone with the ability to time travel having the opportunity to kill Hitler in 1932. Rather than assassinate Stillson to ensure the vision does not come true, Johnny procrastinates because of doubt in his vision, his abhorrence of murder, and his belief that there is no urgent need to act immediately since he has met an FBI agent investigating Stillson as a possible threat.Relieved, Johnny hopes to resume a normal life as a teacher despite ongoing, severe headaches. The community fears him but Sarah visits. She and Johnny consummate their romance, but Sarah then makes it clear that she has a new life with a husband Walt and their child. Sheriff George Bannerman of Castle Rock asks Johnny to help catch a local serial killer. After a nine-year-old girl is murdered, Johnny investigates and reluctantly identifies the Castle Rock Strangler as Bannerman's deputy Frank Dodd, who commits suicide after leaving a confession. As Johnny feared, the incident reignites the public's interest in his power and he is seen as too controversial to return to teaching.An epilogue intersperses excerpts of letters from Johnny to his loved ones, a "Q & A" transcript of a purported Senate committee investigation of Johnny's attempt to assassinate Stillson, and a narrative of Sarah's visit to Johnny's grave. Sarah feels a brief moment of psychic contact with Johnny's spirit and, comforted, drives away. sg131094 https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1709517280


]]> 2021-09-01 09:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1709517280 PREDICTION sg1502121 https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1709549035 In science, a prediction is a rigorous, often quantitative, statement, forecasting what would be observed under specific conditions. The prediction is a statement of the expected results of the experiment based on the hypothesis.]]> 2021-09-01 09:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1709549035 The Lunar Effect https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711527003 The lunar effect is a purported unproven correlation between specific stages of the roughly 29.5-day lunar cycle and behavior and physiological changes in living beings on Earth, including humans. In some cases the purported effect may depend on external cues, such as the amount of moonlight. In other cases, such as the approximately monthly cycle of menstruation in humans (but not other mammals), the coincidence in timing reflects no known lunar influence.]]> 2021-09-02 02:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711527003 Time Cube https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711532110 Time Cube was a personal web page, founded in 1997 by the self-proclaimed "wisest man on earth", Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray.It was a self-published outlet for Ray's theory of everything, also called "Time Cube," which polemically claims that all modern sciences are participating in a worldwide conspiracy to teach lies, by omitting his theory's alleged truth that each day actually consists of four days occurring simultaneously.]]> 2021-09-02 02:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711532110 LOA https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711538872 The law of attraction is a philosophy suggesting that positive thoughts bring positive results into a person's life, while negative thoughts bring negative outcome]]> 2021-09-02 02:43:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711538872 Apport https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711544343 In parapsychology and spiritualism, an apport is the alleged paranormal transference of an article from one place to another, or an appearance of an article from an unknown source that is often associated with poltergeist activity or séances.]]> 2021-09-02 02:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711544343 Subliminal https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711549549 Subliminal stimuli contrary to supraliminal stimuli or "above threshold", are any sensory stimuli below an individual's threshold for conscious perception.]]> 2021-09-02 02:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711549549 Clairvoyance https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711556519 Clairvoyance is the claimed ability to gain information about an object, person, location, or physical event through extrasensory perception.]]> 2021-09-02 02:49:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711556519 PSYCHISM https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711567093 Fundamentally, psychic skills are defined by an innate ability to process sensory data — both tangible and intangible stimuli — on an extremely deep emotional, physical, or spiritual level. ]]> 2021-09-02 02:53:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711567093 Vivid Visions https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711575799 Your visions may appear to be very strong, scary, intense or just a mere flash in your mind, but like your intuition, your visions also come true in real life.]]> 2021-09-02 02:56:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711575799 Strange Gut Signs https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711578905 Gut feeling, or intuition is an experience that is unique to humans. It can keep you safe or serve as warning about certain people or energies that you need to stay away from. While intuition is innate in most people, having strong gut feelings which more often than not come true, is also one of the most common indications that you may have psychic abilities. ]]> 2021-09-02 02:57:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711578905 Vision of Light https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711583932 Psychics often see a certain ray of light or a particular hue surrounding another living being. If you do see this manifestation, then there is a great chance that you have special abilities too. More often than not, flashes of lights and pops of colors is a sign that there is another spirit that is near that being and you are able to detect them.]]> 2021-09-02 02:59:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711583932 sg131094 https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711721724 2021-09-02 03:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sg1502121/4sun35fm0apzhqsh/wish/1711721724