Late last night (around two) I was flipping channels thru all the paid programming junk that’s played after midnight. I happened to come across something called “Fire-Walking”. I had heard about it before but never really knew about it. The documentary was on how this guy Anthony Robbins devised a scam about it and made millions.
Most of us have seen or heard about fire walking. It looks impressive. How, we ask, can ordinary people with ordinary feet walk across a bed of hot charcoals without being burned? They must have some special control over their bodies!
Anthony Robbins has long had his disciples walk across a bed of hot charcoals as profit their new, Robbins-derived powers. According to Robbins, those who lean his techniques have special psychic or mental energy that can, among other things make them successful in business, in bed, and in walking on hot stuff. As they walk across the burning charcoals and chant “cool moss”, Robbins’ disciples firmly believe that anyone else would be burned or even killed.
In fact, however the disciples are wrong- there is nothing special about fire walking: anyone can do it without any preparation. The reason fire walking is possible is that charcoal, especially when coated with ash, does not transfer heat readily to other things. The same can be said about air: when you stick your hand in an oven, the air is as hot as the metal; but you aren’t burned, for the heat in the air does not transfer quickly to your arm, unlike metal. Fire walking, then is not strange and does not require and special powers.
It is a scam, just like other psychic and future predicting plots that are profitable these days.
interesting, now lets go out and buy some coals and you can demonstrate for us! =)
Ok…. I didn’t ever think it was a scam… You haven’t watched enough TV boy. I knew it was something scientific a LONG time ago. In fact I never saw anyone pretending they were all mystical and stuff. .. yeah
the way they do it now is a scam but how they use too like in acinet times was not… at least what i think.. but yea of coarse now it is a scam.. do they EVER do anything magical or mystical that isnt?
I think the whole point to firewalking is for the mental aspect rather than the physical aspect. Who here would actually have the guts to walk on fire even if they knew this fact. You can definitely feel the heat that is being emitted from the coals, and that is enough to discourage anyone from walking on fire. The idea is that once you are mentally prepared enough to walk on fire, then you are able to conquer anything in life
w0rd chris.
Its not fire that they are walking on, its charcol covered with ash.
Get me charcol covered with ash, and I’ll do it for sure. I’ll even bet $20 that I’d to it without flinching.
I’ll take the bet on ;)