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Message: [QUOTE="bballbeadle, post: 1193108, member: 548"] Dear friends, last weekend I was perusing an interesting and odd book called [U]The Synchronicity Key[/U]. It is a book about Everything (as opposed to Seinfeld's Nothing) and although I was drawn to it because of my interest in consciousness, imagine my delight when I came upon the excerpt below. The author is a geeky scientist and was discussing the idea that thought exists as energetic waves, and he uses as an example his experience at a baseball game. To whit: [B]This (energetic) system seems to work very well at public gatherings, which have gone on since the dawn of civilization. I was invited to attend a Detroit Tigers baseball game in 2011, while they were in the midst of play-offs that would determine if they would go to the World Series. I was not a sports fan and had no attachment to the outcome when I went to the game. This put me in a unique position, as I soon felt an incredible rush of energy from being in this packed stadium. This appeared as a euphoric state of mind as well as a strong sense of physical excitation. In particular, when the home team's batter got a good, strong hit, and the ball was looking like it might go the distance and become a home run, my mind and body raced into pure ecstasy. Almost every pair of eyes in the stadium was focused directly on that ball as it flew, creating a powerful focal point for the attention of the group. When the ball did make it past the outfield, the crowd leaped to their feet and all the energizing feelings reached an orgasmic peak. Within ten or fifteen minutes, I discovered that I absolutely loved baseball. I was really quite surprised by this - and with my background in this new science, I realized that what people were calling "team spirit" had a direct energetic component. The overall energy of the crowd gave each person more vitality than he or she brought in on his or her own, and people were willing to pay hundreds of dollars a ticket to participate in it. This same system seems to explain why teams seem to do better at home games. When the crowd is right there, hoping for their team to succeed, they are beaming a much stronger rush of biophotons into the players than the players receive at an opponent's venue. The minds of the players then become sharper and more alert, and their bodies become stronger, more energized, and capable of much greater endurance.[/B] And Jim Boeheim begins his autobiography with that night. [/QUOTE]

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