Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Guy Savelli and the 1st Earth Battalion


Guy Savelli is a martial artist and teacher. He teaches the spiritual and mental aspects of martial arts. He has a classified relationship with the U.S. Military, and has been featured in the book the Men Who Stare at Goats. Savelli has been a research subject at Duke University, the Psychical Research Institute, the Syracuse University Department of Parapsychology, and the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio, Texas. Results of his work have been published in Research in Parapsychology, 1985, Scarecrow Press, the Journal of Parapsychology, 1986 and 1987, as well as the Parapsychology Department of JFK University. Savelli has also authored an introductory text on the Spiritual, Mental, and Physical Teachings of Chinese Kung-Fu.

The movie is very different from the book: the book is essentially sixteen separate chapters whose only link is their connection to the use of unusual approaches that the army and intelligence services have used, whereas the movie has a linear plot. Both the book and movie start with a general's attempt to walk through a wall (General Hopgood in the movie, and Major General Albert Stubblebine III in the book). The book then chronicles how Uri Geller got Jon Ronson interested in the idea of the goat labs. Real-life Guy Savelli in the movie becomes both Gus Lacey (Stephen Root) and George Clooney's character, Lyn Cassady. Lyn also has characteristics of Peter Brusso, particularly his use of the Predator.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

82-year-old yogi Prahlad Jani perplexes doctors

“Clinical, biochemical, radiological, and other relevant examinations were done on Prahlad Jani and all reports were within the safe range throughout the study. He is healthy; his mind is sharp,” said researcher Dr. G. Ilavazhagn according to the Daily Mail. “What is truly astonishing, and something we have no explanation for, is that he has not passed stools or urine. To my knowledge, that is medically unprecedented.”

After 15 days of investigation, India’s Defense Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences concluded its study of 82-year-old yogi Prahlad Jani on Thursday, May 6.

Jani, who claims to have lived without food or water since his childhood, was under the close watch of three video cameras 24 hours a day. Researchers conducted various medical tests on him. The research team, consisting of 35 scientists, could not find any evidence that Jani ate or drank anything during the 15 days.

Doctors have not found any adverse effects in his body from hunger or dehydration. They think that yoga exercises may have caused Jani’s body to undergo a biological transformation. The researchers said tests found that his brain is equivalent to that of a 25-year-old.

In fact, according to the Daily Mail, the doctors said that after fasting for two weeks, Jani was healthier than the average 40-year-old.

When a person fasts, there are usually changes in metabolism, but that was not observed in Jani.