Comments on: Seeking a New Fulcrum http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/seeking-a-new-fulcrum/ Promoting Science and Critical Thinking Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:04:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul D.E. Mitchell http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/seeking-a-new-fulcrum/#comment-3235 Paul D.E. Mitchell Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:20:30 +0000 http://www.skeptic.com/?p=1891#comment-3235 Hi David - I always see a fulcrum as a pivotal moment of destiny around which the course of history rotates then via a series of levers (key choices by a group or individual or natural changes like a tsunami or a combination - especially in war) then settles onto a new path. I've met people (other than me) with an an annoying ability to finish sentences and second-guess but that's computational rather than a telepathic ability. I've had occasional warning 'flashes' of danger that were hard to explain - on three occasions that saved me from a serious beating - but again the subconscious could be chugging away processing hidden signals and data. I get a high from intense Tai Chi especially the 'opening the sky/closing the earth' techniques but again that's more serotonin than celestial. But I still have fun with it - and so do millions of fiction fans - so I wrote a fun series of books starting of with Fulcrum/Lever/Rotation that are selling in their hundreds (okay I 'm not making a bundle) so maybe you, too, could take all the hokum and expand this article into a brilliant satirical novel! Regards Paul D.E. Mitchell Hi David – I always see a fulcrum as a pivotal moment of destiny around which the course of history rotates then via a series of levers (key choices by a group or individual or natural changes like a tsunami or a combination – especially in war) then settles onto a new path. I’ve met people (other than me) with an an annoying ability to finish sentences and second-guess but that’s computational rather than a telepathic ability. I’ve had occasional warning ‘flashes’ of danger that were hard to explain – on three occasions that saved me from a serious beating – but again the subconscious could be chugging away processing hidden signals and data. I get a high from intense Tai Chi especially the ‘opening the sky/closing the earth’ techniques but again that’s more serotonin than celestial.

But I still have fun with it – and so do millions of fiction fans – so I wrote a fun series of books starting of with Fulcrum/Lever/Rotation that are selling in their hundreds (okay I ‘m not making a bundle) so maybe you, too, could take all the hokum and expand this article into a brilliant satirical novel!
Regards
Paul D.E. Mitchell

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