MY APPROACH TO THE PARANORMAL
Posted by anthonynorth on January 2, 2008
A FEW RAMBLINGS FROM PSI-WORLD
What’s on today: A look at my methodology in dealing with the paranormal … PLUS … A brief survey of Telepathy. Just what, exactly, is reality? And a little tale of ghosties.
TAKING A SMALL STEP INTO THE DARK
MY APPROACH TO THE PARANORMAL
As regular visitors will know, I write a lot about the paranormal. However, over the years I’ve been accused of being both a sceptic and a believer. How is such a thing possible? Surely I must be one or the other?
It is to my great delight that I’m not classed as one or the other. Rather, I take a middle ground on the subject, accepting that most phenomena happens, but not accepting classical interpretations such as spirits of the dead, etc.
I take a different approach.
Rather, I believe that if we are ever to understand what is going on, we must accept present knowledge, and move forward taking this knowledge with us, and taking just one small step at a time.
To not do so is to take huge leaps into the darkness of knowledge, and this is nothing more than perpetuating a belief system. Hence, I am labeled a believer for accepting phenomena happens, and a sceptic for trying to place known ‘mechanisms’ onto the subject.
The purpose of paranormal research is, to me, to look at what is said to happen, then look at what our knowledge says is capable of happening, and then extending that knowledge system just a little to see if what is thought to happen COULD happen.
It is, to me, the only stance that can lead to proper understanding.
© Anthony North, January 2007
FROM THE ARCHIVES
TELEPATHY
Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins once went on an Arctic expedition in which he co-operated with researcher Harold Sherman. Over 68 nights he would spend a little time trying to communicate the events of the day by thought to Sherman in New York. Records of the test show that Sherman wrote some incredibly accurate notes …
… read more …
REALITY - OBJECTIVE OR SUBJECTIVE?
We have various labels for paranormal phenomena – ghosts, premonition, etc – but can we better understand the paranormal by using a new definition? To me the subject can best be seen as the interplay between mind and environment …
… read more …
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Fiction Xtra - IT’S LIKE A VIRUS - a little ghostie tale to scare you
They say that life is like a road you travel down. For a while it will go nice and straight, but occasionally you get surprising corners that nearly knock you off the road. Then there are the crossroads – you know, times when a choice decides your entire life’s journey. But really it is nothing like a road, because on the road you get warning signs of the crossroads. In life, you get no warning at all; and when you hit, boy it can be a matter of life and death …
… read more …
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January 2, 2008 at 6:57 pm
You’ve articulated exactly my own feelings about the paranormal. There’s obviously something going on that most people cannot access, but current explanations are insufficient and incomplete. Edgar Cayce predicted that the 21st century will see an increase in our psychic abilities. Who knows?
January 2, 2008 at 9:06 pm
I have experienced many such moments that others might deem telepathic. Would I spend a lifetime trying to explain this phenomenone (ie. like Cayce?). Probably not, but it is fascinating, as you say. Anyway, I tend to share more energetic forms of connection with people that I am very close to either psychologically, emotionally or mentally. I am also a bit of an empath (feel the pain of others…sense their anxieties etc.)…which makes life a little “interesting” at times to say the least! Lol!
January 2, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Phenomenon (not phenomenone…or pheromone for that matter!)…Lol!
January 2, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Hi Karen,
This is the problem with much psychical research - it is too entrenched on both sides. Whether my voice of reason will work, though, I’m not so sure. I’ll keep trying.
Although I must admit I don’t tend to take Cayce’s predictions too seriously - after all, Atlantis didn’t rise up out of the Atlantic in the 1970s did it?
Hi PM,
I think everyone has experienced incidents that could be telepathy - it’s just that many discount them as coincidence. Not that anyone can actually explain coincidence either.
Your typo is a coincidence in itself. For a time some researchers worked on the possibility that pheromones could be a conduit for telepathy.
Caused quite a stink, if I remember
January 4, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I’m with you on this one. It may not be a ghost in your basement making those noises. It may be a natural phenomenon that we don’t know how to measure or identify yet.
Call me an open-minded skeptic.
January 4, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Hi Lorigloyd,
I won’t use the word, sceptic, for myself, as that will have a lot of enthusiasts screaming ‘I told you so’. But we’re pretty close.