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Parapsychology~ Has anyone here read Superstition by David Ambrose ?
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When it comes to paranormal activity I tend to believe in the "all of the above" option - meaning these things are from the human mind (figments of our beliefs), they are separate to us and real, they are sometimes even interdimensional beings from an entirely different place.Same goes for aliens, I'd say.
Ok, I am a Naturalist, believing nothing exists outside the natural world. That is why I am so excited to read this book. I have already read what I could find about the Philip Experiment, which like all such experiments.....proved inconclusive.I would like to find more books about such studies, but no luck.
C. wrote: "Ok, I am a Naturalist, believing nothing exists outside the natural world. ..."Out of curiosity, does a naturalist differ from an atheist?
I would say no difference. Neither believes in the supernatural nor a supreme being. This pretty well explains it~http://atheism.wikia.com/wiki/Naturalism
In the Philip Experiments, they assumed the test subjects created the entities they believe manifested. Hence, the entities came from the human mind. There are a lot of problems with this conclusion, primarily it included too many assumptions.Could a group of people concentrating on "creating" something do so? It's within the realm of possibility. We don't understand the power of the human brain. I've read studies where the beneficial impact of mass prayer on an ill subject were shown to be statistically shown.
OTOH, could there have been a spiritual entity already there, and when the test subjects concentrated on creating their own entity, the existing entity decided to just play along? Who knows? Maybe ghosts get bored.
The Philip Experiment also does not account for paranormal incidents involving people who were not concentrating on the paranormal. Many years ago, I was in a US Navy Reserve ground combat unit. During a war game, we set up a position on an Army base next to an abandoned WWII canteen (i.e., club). We established a phone watch in the empty building do we could talk to our command element via landline. Everyone (including me) who stood watch in that building had experiences--strange noises, moving furniture, voices and foot steps when no one else was in the building, etc. One sailor was so scared he refused to stand another watch in the building and almost faced court martial.
As the great Bard wrote: "There are more things between Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than accounted for by your philosophy."
Have you heard of the Christian financed study that found that patients who know they are being prayed for fared far worse, as far as complications go?Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/hea...
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Parapsychology: The Controversial Science (other topics)Superstition (other topics)
It was amazing to read about the experiment where the group of chicks were able to make the little robot they had imprinted with as their mom, come to them when they were caged several feet away from it!
What about any similar books?
Superstition by David Ambrose
Parapsychologist Sam Towne believes that ghosts come from the human mind, not from "beyond". To prove his theory, he invites eight volunteers, including skeptical reporter Joanna Cross, to take part in an experiment. In a series of seances they invent "Adam Wyatt," a tragic Revolutionary War hero, and are thrilled when he starts rapping on tables and spelling out messages. But when members of the group begin dying in horrifying ways, it becomes clear that Adam has taken on a strange and dangerous life of his own -- one feeding on their very thoughts and emotions. Now Sam and Joanna must destroy Adam before he destroys everything in their world -- and even the love they have found for each other turns into an endless, terrifying, inescapable nightmare...From cult classic author David Ambrose comes a story based on the true case of an experiment into the paranormal, a story that will change forever the way you feel about....
based on ~Philip experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_...