starise
Paranormal Adept
I thought it might be interesting to discuss what it is or was that drew you personally into the paranormal.
From what is admittedly probably a limited perspective I can see what I can only guess the reasons might be for others.
In my case, I have had a few odd unexplained occurrences. I don't consider myself "out there" in terms of rationality or common sense.
If there is a common explanation to something I usually jump on it first. At least some of the interest comes simply from curiosity of the unknown. I have read and studied a lot of material on the wide subject ranges concerning most all things paranormal. Many of the stories told by different people on specific subjects are similar, almost to the point of being predictable. This isn't always true, but is consistent enough to warrant attention and maybe even use as reliable data. Sometimes I might comment to an experiencer the reasons I have to speculate something bad may be happening, especially when discussing things more in the "spiritual" realm. If anything, the tendency among the free lance paranormal investigators seems to be a more trivial , an "innocent until proven guilty" approach.
I tend to be much more skeptical in my approach to these things. I KNOW for a fact that there are elements that are not out for our best interest, at least, if you look at past data compared to present similar circumstances.
UFOs, Cryptozoology, Ghosts........I am more and more of the opinion that, aside from man made constructs, these things have a common thread in many cases. Yes, UFOs are obviously not going to be one thing across the board, we already know that much, but at least a part of it is IMO. Cryptozoology is treated the same way in that we need to discover and categorize the animals we don't know about. Much of what we see in Cryptozoology though is clearly not simply some undiscovered animal if we look at what some of these animals would need to perpetuate a population and the sheer chances of having found and confirmed one by now.....so I guess this is what is interesting about the paranormal to me.
Once we sort though and classify one subcategory, we will still have the remaining less physical realities to attempt an explanation on. I am not in denial of these more intangible realities, but I understand that many are not there.
One of the things that sometimes baffles me with regard to outright skeptics is why they are still looking if they are convinced it isn't there. Maybe they are constantly checking and re checking themselves to make sure.
From what is admittedly probably a limited perspective I can see what I can only guess the reasons might be for others.
In my case, I have had a few odd unexplained occurrences. I don't consider myself "out there" in terms of rationality or common sense.
If there is a common explanation to something I usually jump on it first. At least some of the interest comes simply from curiosity of the unknown. I have read and studied a lot of material on the wide subject ranges concerning most all things paranormal. Many of the stories told by different people on specific subjects are similar, almost to the point of being predictable. This isn't always true, but is consistent enough to warrant attention and maybe even use as reliable data. Sometimes I might comment to an experiencer the reasons I have to speculate something bad may be happening, especially when discussing things more in the "spiritual" realm. If anything, the tendency among the free lance paranormal investigators seems to be a more trivial , an "innocent until proven guilty" approach.
I tend to be much more skeptical in my approach to these things. I KNOW for a fact that there are elements that are not out for our best interest, at least, if you look at past data compared to present similar circumstances.
UFOs, Cryptozoology, Ghosts........I am more and more of the opinion that, aside from man made constructs, these things have a common thread in many cases. Yes, UFOs are obviously not going to be one thing across the board, we already know that much, but at least a part of it is IMO. Cryptozoology is treated the same way in that we need to discover and categorize the animals we don't know about. Much of what we see in Cryptozoology though is clearly not simply some undiscovered animal if we look at what some of these animals would need to perpetuate a population and the sheer chances of having found and confirmed one by now.....so I guess this is what is interesting about the paranormal to me.
Once we sort though and classify one subcategory, we will still have the remaining less physical realities to attempt an explanation on. I am not in denial of these more intangible realities, but I understand that many are not there.
One of the things that sometimes baffles me with regard to outright skeptics is why they are still looking if they are convinced it isn't there. Maybe they are constantly checking and re checking themselves to make sure.
