Making the rounds on some of the hypnosis discussion lists and blogs, this clip from the Ripley’s Believe It or Not series has Qigong Master Jo healing and creating heat with an infrared camera capturing the event. Some are claiming it proves pyrokinesis.
The effects Master Jo demonstrates here are fairly common qigong demonstrations. They may or may not be genuine in this instance, however, anyone familiar with the various vagabond books know the methods the same effects are accomplished through other methods. A similar effect to the aluminum foil and water effect used to be used by stage magicians as part of the old hot and cold illusion. Note that despite the narrator saying the white hot heat comes from the healer’s hands, the hottest element is the aluminum foil with the hands only showing similar heat levels after grasping the towell with the heat and not vice versa. The paper walk can be done via a forced choice gambit common among magicians with substitutions. Of course, perhaps Master Jo is genuine. However, the same effects can and often are more commonly accomplished through other much more mundane means.
Snarfed from David Snyder’s sleepwalkers blog.
All the best,
Brian
SPEED HYPNOSIS – Nov. 18-19, 2006
Brian David Phillips, PhD, CH [phillips@nccu.edu.tw]Certified Hypnotherapist
President, Society of Experiential Trance
Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan
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