Thanks for the link Steelworker. I watched several videos to get some personal (subjective) context on where you are coming from. As someone who had an identical skeptic's viewpoint for most of my life, I can totally identify with where Harriet Hall is coming from. Now I empathetically view it as a sterile and prideful place, with an undercurrent of fear that I could be proven wrong at any moment. (I wouldn't have said that then - I would've said that I was 100% rational and open-minded based on purely objective, scientific truth.) Ultimately, a lot of time was spent justifying the need for skepticism itself. Nothing wrong with skepticism - just had to recognize it as a tool/stepping stone rather than a primary means of life. I was previously using it to deflect doubts and fears related to my own self worth.

My opinion, which I acknowledge is totally subjective, is that James Randi's million dollar "challenge" can't be accepted until the essence of its delivery goes from "prove it" to "allow it." And at that point there is no longer a challenge.

And reading this from a "rational" perspective this sounds like total semantic woo-woo rubbish. I totally get that. Lol