Mickey191, would your chiropractor be willing to have her aura sighting put to real rigour and analysis? Would another claimer to seeing auras be able to see precisely the same thing without prior contact with her? Could her claims be subject to a double blind trial? Or would any such question of medical efficacy be met with vague excuses that such things wouldn't apply because blah mumbo jumbo?

3refs, the film "What The Bleep Do We Know?", though entertaining and containing some very basic science, was full of half-truths and covered things that, if the *rest* of the information were given about certain people's claims, would give a very different slant and make some people seem just as silly as they are. For example, remember the miscroscopic water patterns that supposedly formed naturally in containers, either forming horrible patterns with horrible words stuck on the containers or forming beautiful patterns with beautiful words stuck on the containers? Whhhaaaa? So water can read English backwards?! So where are the eyes and brain of water? Did you know that same 'scientist' (ha ha) claimed that water doesn't bubble and boil because of heat reaction but because it is angry?!

Little Hawk, your claim that "most people fear what they do not understand" may or may not be true. But the claim is misused if used to halt intelligent analysis. The implication here is that, met with mumbo jumbo, intelligent and questioning people "fear" because they "do not understand". Could it not just be that they do understand because they recognise mumbo jumbo?

"Whenever an esoteric or unusual subject like this one comes up in a thread, you can be guaranteed to hear their predictable responses...which will be to deny, scoff, ridicule, warn of dire dangers, etc..." Same as above. This claim is a way of ending debate, not encouraging it; of seeking to maintain claims without analysis.

Bee, you have my deepest sympathy for what happened to your friend.