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Date Posted: Saturday, July 06, 06:30:22 GMT-4
Author: Ross
Subject: Re: A Quest To Follow
In reply to: Animolo 's message, "A Quest To Follow" on Wednesday, June 12, 10:15:27 GMT-4

We Scientists believe that the common paradigms that govern this sort of human behaviour are part innate and part learned. The evidence for this is very strong and I can't go into it all here.

Put simply and briefly, people NEED to believe in something of a higher order or something that would point in that direction - it gives life more meaning. Ask a random sample of people what they would like to find in life and most would probably reply more meaning.
EXAMPLE: In 1945 US Airmen crash landed on a remote island in the Pacific. They were whorshipped as "Gods" - people submitted to them - immediately. This was on an island were there had been no previous form of relegion.
This brings me to my second point neatly, the idea of God, Gods, or even ghosts and ghouls probably dates back to prehistory when these stories were told by word of mouth by travellers who linked with other groups. This created a snow ball effect across the globe as tribes passed this on to other tribes so we have a harmonious and uniform subject matter for the paranormal.
Example: Travellers setting out from Britain in the 1500's brought back tales of Sea Monsters and Dragons. These were mostly learned from local art belonging to tribes they had visited on their travels etc. The notion of Sea Monsters and Dragons was accepted by the British as late as the 1900's.
The ideas and concepts in this argument run as deep and wide as the Nile Delta and incorporate Freudian psychology and Right Brain Functioning into a sort of History of Modern Man via Right Brain (paranormal) development - our legendary culture rather than our artistic or language culture.
Basically, Mans Legendary culture has developed very similar to our artistic culture. We have adopted the best bits of everythinbg over time to get were we are today.

I am working on an essay "Legends: Cultural Myths in Time"
that I will e-mail you if you send me an e-mail. It is not quite polished enough yet.

This message is just a very short non-scientific cross-section in a very broad sense.

However, I have a confession to make, I strongly believe that there is a basis of fact in all this (Myths) that have been developed and finely tuned over time to become mostly fictional (Legends) over time.

There are various things in the world of the supernatural, like telepathy and psychokenesis, that are factual enough for me (there is overwhelming evidence - very foolish to ignore). Precognition is also a good contender for fact status.

I'm afraid that most phenonomen investigated by Pyschicial Research still rely on old eveidence and stories and not enough on modern research. People like Home (who claimed he could float) are not exactly surging forward to show the TV cameras today. And remember those little fairies Conon doyle wasted his life on? Yep! All B/S. All about peoples' NEED to believe - no greater example than Conon Doyle's NEED to believe in Fairies despite the fact that the fairies in question looked exactly like pictures that had recently been published in a childrens magazine a few weeks before the young girls "photographed the fairies". This is hardly surprising as they were the same pictures!

E-mail me if you wish to view or publish on this site the whole essay (properly researched and written and referenced).

I have gone a bit further than I intended ad waffled a bit, I leave you with the conclusion that the paranormal doesn't really happen outside our own minds with some noteable exceptions and anomolies.

*This essay doesn't explain my own experince with a "GHOST" however, but I will not be going into that as it can never be proven and is therefore non-empirical data and surplus to requirements. BRIEF THEORY : Ghosts are recordings in time, they do not really exist as they do not act idependently - they are more like robots. As Descartes said "I think, therfore I am" Ghosts do not thinks therfore they are not!

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