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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.sci
Subject: Re: Interesting seminar
Message-ID: <396@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 10:34:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  7 10:34:13 1985
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Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
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Summary: 

In article <319@boulder.UUCP> root@boulder.UUCP (Sylvan Ruud) writes:
> 
> 	I would like EVERYONE to learn about the most powerful four days you
> WILL ever SPEND in your entire life!
> 	I have recently completed a four day seminar in Denver which is 
> called THE MIND REVOLUTION:  Three steps to personal power.  One of the MANY

Oh boy!  Another pop-psychobabble get-em-rolling seminar like EST and all
the others.  :-)  Sarcasm aside, I have no opinion on their value.

> THINGS we learned was how to walk on 1600-2000 degree (F) HOT coals IN OUR 
> BARE FEET!  The POSSIBILITIES and OPTIONS that this one act releases in an 
> individual are absolutely awesome!  To put the POWER and WORTH of this 

Wow, I can't think of how many times I've needed to walk on hot coals!  :-)
There is a short article in the March issue of Science 85 on how fire-walking
works, prompted by this fad.  Essentially, there are a few physical reasons
why: coals have a very low specific heat and are very poor conductors of
heat, and moisture in the skin vaporizes which provides an insulating layer
of steam and dry skin which also conducts heat poorly.  It was pointed out
that a real test of mental powers would be to walk across aluminum heated
as hot.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh