Many thanks to our Patrons who cover ~2/3 of our hosting bill. Please join them if you can.

Paranormal phenomenon

From Wikispooks
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Concept.png Paranormal phenomenon Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Foo fighter.webp
The "Foo Fighters" of WW2.[1][2][3]
Interest ofDavid Paulides
Events or sightings of something that can not be explained with "science"

Paranormal phenomena are events or entities that go beyond the normal scientific understanding of the world.[4]

The paranormal can include the following topics:

  • UFO and UAP sightings, encounters with extraterrestrial beings including alien abductions (experiences of scientific experiments or communication);
  • Ghosts, Hauntings, Poltergeists: spirits, contacts to the deceased, unexplained physical disturbances;
  • Parapsychology and Psychic Abilities:[5] psychic powers, telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, ESP (extrasensory perception), telekinesis, and the existence and/or visit of the afterlife (ie Near-Death Experiences);
  • Cryptids/Cryptozoology:[6] reports of Bigfoot and other creatures;


 

Related Quotation

PageQuoteAuthorDate
Nick Redfern“[...] has anybody heard of thought-forms? The concept of a thought-form, it is actually a Tibetan, Buddhist term in it's originality. But the idea is that if enough people, like in sort of a hive mind set, if enough people focus on something and think about something, obsessively and on and on, it can create a real world paranormal version of something that began just as a piece of fiction. [...] And if you got 100s of thousands of people all thinking about it, all obsessing about it, the theory is, then suddenly what exists in the human imagination then strides out of the imagination into the real world - and the stronger it gets, the more self aware it becomes [...]”Nick Redfern18 October 2018
Many thanks to our Patrons who cover ~2/3 of our hosting bill. Please join them if you can.



References