A Yogi claims to have overcome pain through meditation. He takes a lit cigarette and bums his fingertip and shows the blister. He is smiling and in meditation. After a short time the blister vanishes. Experiment: 135 Effect: Overcoming Pain while burning your finger. Props: A car key and a lighted cigarette. Method: With your…
B Premanand Experiment: 133 Effect: Telling the number a person thinks. The tantrik asks a person to tell a number. When ash is rubbed on the surface of a blank card the number appears. Props: Soap, ash, blank card. Method: Write the numbers 1 to 9 on the board with soap. Ask a person to…
B. Premanand When the tantrik spits on sawdust, it bursts into flame. Experiment: 131 Effect: When the tantrik spits on sawdust, it bursts into flame. Props: A metal-bowl, well dried sawdust, sodium peroxide (powdered), water. Method: Keep in metal bowl dry sawdust mixed with equal parts of powdered sodium peroxide. Ask some one to bring…
B Premanand The psychic places the hot electric soldering iron across his hand without getting burnt. Experiment: 130 Effect: Hot electric soldering iron on the hand. Props: Electric soldering iron, petroleum jelly. Method: Smear petroleum jelly on your hand. Take the soldering Iron and lightly place it on your hand over the jelly. It…
B Premanand This ‘miracle’ is performed both by Muslims and Hindu oracles. They cut their body with a knife. Blood flows from the gashes. Later, the body is wiped with a towel and water and the cuts are healed. Experiment: 128 Effect: Cutting the body with a knife. Props: Ferric Chloride, Sodium Sulphocyanide, a…
Normal 0 B Premanand When a theft has occurred, the tantrik is called. He starts a havan by preparing a homa kunda with mud and firewood and lights the fire, chanting mantras for some time. After the prayer, he fixes a four-foot long stick in the ground and asks the assembled people go into the…
Basava Premanand We are now moving to the end of the first volume of the series under “Science Versus Miracles”. All the experiments explained here are found in books on Magic and in scientific literature. Using these methods. unscrupulous godmen and psychics have been exploiting the gullible. Even scientists like Dr. Bhagavantam. P. K. Banerjee.…
B Premanand At Tirupurakundram in Tamilnadu, two eagles come to the temple exactly at 12 noon to partake in the prasad offering of the god in the temple. Garuda is believed to be the vahana (vehicle) of Vishnu whose idol is installed in the temple. Experiment: 124 Courtesy: Wikipedia Effect: Eagle appearing at 12 noon…
B Premanand God’s spirit leaves the oracle and enters a wick which dances when it is lit. This phenomenon occurs in a village temple in South Kanara. The Oracle gets possessed by the god and after the ceremony, it leaves his body and he falls down unconscious. The spirit then enters a wick which when…
B Premanand When people come to the Tantrik to get their problems solved, he asks the person to write a number between 1 to 20 or the name of a flower. The Tantrik, after concentrating on the person, writes something on a piece of paper and puts it in his pocket. Then he asks about…