keep working on it H, and when you can predict the lottery, do let me know.

My, Amos, if I didn't know better (or, perhaps I don't) I'd say you're mocking about precognitive abilities and come dangerously close to a kind of attitude which keeps those with real ability quiet.

Your one-liner resembled a bit the thinking behind a skeptical anecdote (which I believe to be an invention) that when a committee had to decide about a grant proposal for research on precognition one scientist quipped: "If it doesn't work, they shouldn't get the grant, if it works they don't need it?"

On the other hand, you seem to understand what Taliesn means and that ability borders at the supernatural. But maybe I just have to try a bit harder.

Cayce? His track record is full of wrong predictions (China will be Christian by 1984 etc.). Never been tested in a controlled experiment during his long career. J. B. Rhine, the father of parapsychological lab research is on the record for thinking not much of Cayce. I just looked it up in the pro-parapsychology literature on my shelf: Cayce is often not even mentioned and if he is there is a large dose of skepticism.

Wolfgang