That would be the local comicbook shop.

Heh, sorry, absolutely not taking the piss, since you seem like a good sport and a friendly fellow. Thanks for the links.

Btw, I notice you're in the OBE thread as well. Since you had one, you might enjoy watching Shinreigari, aka Ghosthound, (which is an anime series produced by the guy who made Ghost in the Shell) which is all about OBEs and takes them completely seriously (There are huge infodumps in there where they quote extensively from real OBE research). On top of that, it's quite a good story, brilliantly told, with many downright awesome character moments. (You can watch the whole thing for free here : http://www.animeboy.org/anime/347/ghost-hound.html )

People often see and do things which they can not reproduce reliably and consistently, but that doesn't make them liars. Usually, they gain no positive publicity or influenceby saying that, quite opposite. They have nothing to gain by lying.
I believe that everyone can learn a basic form of ESP, like psi-sphere or 'feeling the energies', but the time needed for it may vary. It can work almost immediately, or it can take years. It's individual. As for demonstrating it, that's a different problem. It's simple if you produce the woo-woo, then you can observe it easier, but showing it to someone who has not trained perception is diffcult and possibly requires a cooperation of another at least a bit clairvoyant person. In that case, a skeptic will still not see the woo-woo, but he may see (for example) how signals are by some mysterious way transferred from one person to the other.

I think, what I and people I know investigate, is far from any possible normal explanation. We make sure of it. For a real example, if there is a UFO in the night sky which performs maneuvers and light effects according to our mental commands and then disappears,then we go and check the International Space Station flight schedule on the internet. I hope you see the irony

You're right that the stuff we usually investigate is not reproducible according to our will or testable by technical devices. And if yes, it's diffcult to detect, or it's a bit controversial. This is why this area of research is pretty much untouched by science. The detectors are too crude to be reliable, the phenomena which we investigate are extremely fine and subtle. Let's say, a detector of electromagnetic waves which could photograph them several octaves into ultraviolet light would be a good start. (octave = n*2) One day the technics will surely allow this to happen, but it would be good to direct the development in this way.

My definition of woo-woo is not horribly nebulous. It is basically simple, but has an enormous number of implications in the natural world, and a great explanatory power. It is basically about the idea of less or more material worlds existing on a different so-called "vibration" - composed of elementary particles which have a different wave characteristics and different orbitals, and that difference in "vibration" is gradually scaled in an octave-like way. Each "octave" is therefore like another dimension of the universe, with different physical laws. Surprisingly, the higher the "vibration" is, the easier it is for life to exist there.

 
As for the skeptics, I'd like to know where they have been, when David Copperfield and Criss Angel did their disappearing tricks. I mean, Criss stood on two plastic tables, there was just an empty space everywhere around and below him (it was in a city, not studio), he threw a rag over him and then just disappeared.
Of course they say it is just an illusion - they don't lie, this world itself is an illusion. And they're safe from skeptics, because it's a professional secret, you know.

By the way, I'm definitely not satisfied with the pink unicorn idea. If I couldn't see and touch these things by myself, then I wouldn't even think about them being possible. But I can, unfortunately that's only me and relatively few individuals. And you should understand, that proving things is not so easy. If a skeptic is not trained, then I'd need at least one more person gifted with woo-woo preferably better than me, so we can learn together a magic trick to show, that something mysterious is going on. And I'm sure that I don't want such a kind of publicity, definitely not in the beginning.
I have once personally cooperated with an experienced mage to show a few tricks to a skeptical woman, and we were pretty much succesful, because that woman could do the tricks as well. But it still needs someone really good at woo-woo, better than me,  but not too good, these people usually already have their own business and a shitload of money, just like that mage. (by business, I mean stuff like industry or software, not woo-woo)
BTW, if you want I could tell you about the one trick we did, it's quite interesting.

Since it's not that simple to prove anything, I'm here rather to inspire people to prove things by themselves. Scientific method is fine, but it's just a method. You have merged it with the scientific institutions and technologies so you don't recognize that we here use this method as well, just in very different circumstances and means. Our observing possibilities are entirely different. They're mostly subjective, but so numerous, synchronized and identic, that they are statistically significant and becoming obviously objective.
And there is a problem with external proof. If something is detectable mainly subjectively, then wanting an external proof is diffcult. To quote one wise man's poem,
I AM... like a sugar in coffee. You can not see me. But you can taste me.

Well, sure. But don't rely just on me, my way is a bit different. What about these guys from PsiPog, they've moved things like a book, coin, watch or cell phone, they have recorded it and published on the internet for everyone to see.
My woo-woo efforts will have a bit different results, and if there will be any telekinesis, then probably as a side-effect.


I could, but I don't know why. If you mean psi-wheel, then it works with me some days, some days not. And there are already such a videos, and some are pretty impressive. If you mean psi-ball, then I haven't yet tried to photograph it, but it's worth trying. For that I'd probably need an assistance, to photograph me in a total darkness...
In this city's meditation group there's a guy a bit younger than me, who's a bit like me - a clairvoyant kid of parents having the esotericism as a hobby. Possibly he's more talented than me and migth offer some assistance. Too bad that I can't go there this week.