Do You Believe

[Robert]

I'll have to choose probably not on this one. Although I do like to read about the paranormal on occassion and wonder a bit. I think we humans want to believe so badly in such things that we overlook the evidence that argues against it. But then might some of us want not to believe so much that we overlook the supporting evidence? hmmm....

[tom mccurdy]

Paranormal is just humans wanting things not to be normal.... we will forever be bound by laws of which nothing is free from in physics

[Zo the Toe]

Although I'm involved in the paranormal, I find it difficult to advance an argument that hasn't been covered by those of religions and subsequently scoffed at by those of the sciences. I'm being general of course, writing from the premise that the scientific pov is that the paranormal is part superstition, and partly the mysterious workings of the brain, so that we may say the paranormal is all to do with the brain. Well of course, in the first part, what else is there but the brain?

As an expert in the paranormal, I will say that there are many experiences to be had there. My own sceptical self has had experiences that were real. But of course any fool can tell you that. Experiences of the paranormal or otherwise, I think, are the business of the person who experienced them. For me, paranormal experience is as much use as 'usual' experiences, whatever use they may be. Experiences encourage us or discourage us in one direction or another.

There is an opinon that it would nice to incorporate superstition into the sciences by means of scientific understanding - that is, by the sciences ironing out the origin of superstitions. IE, by explaining the foundations of superstition. Here I will not mention religions, Names and other such controversies. The incorporation idea sounds nice, I'll agree. The ideas of the newage also sound nice, which is believed to offer people some sort of release from the stresses of today's world.

The hope of 'unification' and incorporation has in the history of humanity been thought a solution to many ailments. Well, in the lulls between between them hacking each other to pieces, physically or verbally at least. So is 'today' different from 'yesterday' when 'they' were barbarians who lacked your kind of advanced reasoning?

Mysticism, my speciality, my life. It has always been with us even when great civilizations have fallen. So what is mysticism? Cut away the crap and it's much like science except that it does not deny anything.

How can one deny anything when there is a rule that applies to everything? 'The Grail?' It's not over until the fat lady sings. And hark I hear no melody, but only dispirit and diverse mumblings, many hopes and the adding and subtracting of numbers.

[Rybo]

Im not sure of the definitions of paranormal. I do think most people have had rare and/orinfrequent experiences that happen to them that appear to be "beyond the normal". Whatever normal means.

One of own "paranormal" experinces involved driving at 9m at night in an a part of the US unknown to me. I forget how my wife and I got on the subject but I stated to her that the name of the next road we came to could be anything and I spouted out some irrelvant 3 or four word name like Red Point Star Cross road or something like that and then when we came to the road sign in was exactly what i stated.

My wife and I disscussed this and the only plasuible explanation I could come to that I had seen this name else where in the area but it was absorbed subconsciously by my brain/consicouness or the it was like winning the lottery and I just happen to guess the words on a sign we hadnt come to yet.

Ive also had many seeming telepathic-like experiences but nothing that was conclusive. There is at least two others I know and trust their judgement very highly, that have experiecnes without any doubt in their mind in having had a telepathic experience. With one these that person and another confirmed the telepahy while visiting with a psycho-tropic substance.

I think telepathy may occur in rare instances or at least noticable in rare occasions as an Electromagnetic radiation, or gravitational, whole, or nearly whole-body-resonance between two biologics. I dunno

Rybo

[mkirkpatrick]

Animals certainly appear to have a sixth sense,I well remember a dog I once had
while working in a large country house,which had 15 residents,the dog was very
fond of one chap in particular,who came to me one day and said that there was
an appearence of a lady wearing clothes of the last century,in his bedroom,from
that moment on the dog who daily dash into his room,stopped,if I tried to bring
her into the room,her hair would stand on end,and she would dig her feet in,this
was an animal reacting to phenomenon in a most natural way.Telepathy is well
known and accepted by millions.Look at the Remote viewing program set up by
the C.I.A. in the states,where millions of taxpayers dollarswere spent looking
at ways to spy into sensitive areas around the world,psychic spying,so to speak.
The russians also had a similar setup sponsored by the K.G.B.they also looked at
ways of stopping a frogs heart,by thought? so does the paranomal exist,of course it does,you would have to be blind and living in the north pole to think
otherwise.
kind regards.michael.