“When convention and science offer us no answers, might we
not finally turn to the fantastic as a plausibility?” – David Duchovny as Fox
Mulder (The X-Files, “Pilot”)
I think one of the most misunderstood things about the
paranormal is that it may be "normal". There is so much we don’t understand. Perhaps
simply don’t possess the technology yet to be able to fully understand the
phenomena out there. If we did, wouldn’t those paranormal investigators be out
of a job? Their area of study would just be “normal investigation”, nothing
“para” about it. Nevertheless, their work must be done as the modern and
mainstream accepted sciences want no part of it for the time being. Whatever is
happening across the world, regarding all types of paranormal events and
phenomena, it’s pretty clear something is going on. Unless the entire planet is
in varying states of hallucination and hysteria, and let’s hope we find out if
that’s true if it’s indeed happening…
Take another look at the strange happenings in our
world. Perhaps, only the fantastic can be proven by the fantastic. Our world’s
ecosystems are interconnected through the efforts of plants, animals, and the
world around them to keep the circle of life moving. The paranormal maybe
connected in the same way. Connected, both in it’s own separate existence from
us, and with us moving in concert with our known ecosystems and life cycles.
So, in the approach to this large area of the paranormal, think of ways
to connect the dots of the paranormal in such a way that they don’t contradict
something else already existing, either in the world as we know it or maybe
something that exists to us only in folklore.
To knock a few off the top, the existence of UFOs does not
contradict whether the Loch Ness Monster exists or not. Both could co-exist at
the same time. Likewise, prophets and their prophecies don’t contradict the
existence of ghosts. The cryptozoology field itself has a natural basis for
everything in it to be true, just undiscovered. In another direction, the idea of
enhanced consciousness and levels of spirituality naturally contradict nothing
in the psychical world.
Science is moving in leaps and bounds in certain
aspects of this area and it may one day be proven, but for now, telekinesis,
telepathy and other mind powers remain in the paranormal category. No “mind
power” contradicts any of the above either, it too can exist at the same time. To change directions again, Scottish legends of Little People could fall in a
number of categories. It could simply be cryptozoology being a race of pygmies
in different areas of the Earth.
It all must be approached with a healthy bit of skepticism of
course. There are hoaxed tales and hoaxed evidence to all of the above subjects
I listed. The thing to remember is that we’ve got tens of thousands of years of
folklore, stories, legends and our modern sights to draw on for information. I
believe all the pieces are there to solve some of the puzzle. We just don’t
know what the big picture is supposed to look like. The vast majority of this
field makes the average person take a leap of faith too far for them most of
the time, but if enough people don’t do it, how are we ever to going to the
bottom of our planet’s mysteries?
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