Skepticism is a good thing.
I am certainly not interested in trying to convince anyone of anything they don't want to believe.
Trying to get a hard boiled materialist to accept the possibility of psi phenomenon (or any other "mystical" event) is at least as difficult as trying to get an evangelical Christian to acknowledge that much of the early Bible was lifted wholesale from Sumerian mythology. (No surprise really as Abraham
was the son of a Sumerian High Priest).
I am not 100% confident of
consensual reality, so I am certainly
not trying to convert people to believe things that lie outside their realm of experience. I am merely pointing out that saying
anything with absolutes, tends to render one's argument illogical and usually demonstrates a closed mind rather than adherence to strict evidence.
I personally would have
zero interest in demonstrating any phenomenal abilities to scientists. What would be the point?
Seriously. Does anyone really want to become a human guinea pig, lose all personal freedoms etc.? The government would be likely to confiscate you and your brain for experiments. And even still, they would never publish the results, so the population at large would be none the wiser for your sacrifice.
If
you could read minds, would you really want to prove it to some stiff jerks in lab coats?
Really?A true psi master would be more likely found lounging on his ultra yacht anchored off his private island than in some sterile lab facility with electrodes attached to his head.
"Curiouser and curiouser..." ~ Alice
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." ~ Buddha