re: #349 Shiplord Kirel

Firewalking is a familiar woo woo trick and Robbins has been running the scam for 35 years. There is nothing supernatural or transcendent about it at all. The trick is having the coals properly prepared, with the very low density ash material actually transferring very little heat despite being glowing hot. It is also necessary to step very quickly and not leave any particular area of skin in contract with the ash for more than a fraction of a second. This rules out pausing for selfies.

I’ve done this a couple of times just to show that the skeptical, scientific explanation is the correct one. It’s really all in the “coals.” If Robbins and the other scammers could walk across a glowing hot steel plate, I would be most impressed.

Yeah, but I bet you didn’t do the control experiment where there are a lot more coals, all packed together, and all the ash blown off them!

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