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General Theory of Paranormal Phenomena |
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Notes toward a General Theory of Paranormal Phenomena by John Walker
Some sceptics dismiss evidence for paranormal phenomena (telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, etc.) without serious examination on the grounds that the phenomena it purports to demonstrate violate fundamental principles of science and hence the evidence must be flawed or fabricated. This is not an unreasonable position to adopt in considering scientific evidence.
While it's important to have an open mind, one also must take care that one's brain doesn't fall out. The world abounds in bogus, flaky, and misinterpreted data, and filtering by the plausibility of the phenomena suggested is a useful way to discard time-wasting distractions. It's like the venture capital aphorism, “Never invest in something that violates a conservation law.” If somebody claims to have invented a perpetual motion machine, nobody is likely to pay attention to the evidence until they explain why it is exempt from conservation of energy and the second law of thermodynamics.
Posted by THoTH on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 @ 14:13:50 CDT
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Daniel Dunglas Home - Who? |
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By THoTH
If you've not heard his name before, so much the better. Perhaps you've heard a little about him, or seen his name in a book. The reality is that Daniel Dunglas Home (pronounced Hume) brought remarkable phenomena to this world. He is a name that no serious study of the paranormal should omit.
Home was Born in Currie, near Edinburgh in Scotland on March 20th 1833, and was taken to Connecticut in the United States when he was 9. His first paranormal experiences were visions of events that hadn't yet took place. Then, when his mother died in 1850, he experienced poltergeist like phenomena on objects near him.
Some conclude that poltergeists are in reality, examples of objects moving under the control of someone present, rather than the acts of disembodied ghostly pranksters. Certainly in Homes case that was true. Raps on furniture, as well as it moving around, but only when he was near. It is also theorised that Poltergeists are the result of troubled minds, that move objects randomly. Certainly with Homes mother dying this also could have had an effect.
Posted by THoTH on Monday, October 08, 2007 @ 17:56:57 CDT
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Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century |
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By John Jay Harper
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river that carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.—Jorge Luis Borges
The story you are about to read is true.
“John,” the voice on the phone said, “I have some very bad news.” My best friend George Sebastian Viguet III (pronounced “Vee-gay”) had died that day of a massive heart attack, his wife informed me. Born in White Castle, Louisiana on January 24th, 1947 he was a vibrant, young man of 40 when his life ended suddenly that Monday morning—officially stated on the Certificate of Death as 9:30 A.M. on November 9th, 1987 in Huntsville, Alabama.
Posted by Angel on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 @ 07:01:48 CST
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