Is anything really "paranormal"?

Question

...or are there just areas of our reality that we don't have the ability to understand?

UFOs, telepathy, you name it.

could we be shunning the truth?

Answer 1

probably to some individuals shunning the truth ,works better
for them than accepting the validity of facts,

Answer 2

Paranormal simply means outside the normal experience, or understanding of science. Having said that, two way voice radio was paranormal in the 18th century.
To a large degree, we create the reality or norms around us as an interpretation of what we experience. These interpretations are subject to change depending on experience. There is much about our universe we don't understand and haven't experienced. The paranormal is simply waiting to become the normal.
Does this statement encompass ghosts, telepathy, and UFOs? No one can say until their own norms have changed.

Answer 3

I believe it is up to the definition of what is normality that cam make us accurately describe something as "paranormal". For what is normal to some is paranormal to others and vice versa. Paranormal is a term that can put people on the defensive and wary and close minded . I am pretty sure that the UFO's and people with the ability for telepathy considered themselves normal. I considered them unique but normal. Sometimes we have to go outside the limited box of our minds to fully understand something before we decide to classify as outside the norm of reality. Who knows may be the aliens consider us paranormal so how would some of us feel about that preception.

Answer 4

could just define as normal. as to telepathy a video headset sending camera images to another is as far as close to telepathy as can be managed. spacecraft are normal Nasa sends them up all the time.others should be considered normal as well. telekenesis can be somewhat achieved by use of magnets not as fun as idea of moving with the mind though. bugging places is good enough and enables a person to figure out what someone is thinking. or using internet sites to collect information. if all tecnology cannot detect people who are there but throwing objects around as they have been relegated to nonexistance then no proof can be found for that type of paranormal or anyother paranormal event. normal people being told they do not exist or people walking around saying the people do not exist and denying it even with evidence of own eyes following phrase fit for society''of course we know the people like that in our house do not really exist''. in other times humans themselves could be considered other than normal and their existance denied their spacecraft nomrmality relegated to books of the paranormal

Answer 5

Great question!
I think of most paranormal things as normal. I guess it's because my family thinks that way and I have always been surrounded by odd things. I think that some day when a universal field theory is come up with, it will explain a lot of it. There are a lot of dimensions out there, just ask a physicist.
As far as UFOs I think they are more local than from far, far, away.

Answer 6

It depends on how you define the word paranormal and what point of reference you use for the perception of normal.
UFO's that have radar returns, visual earth sightings, and visual air confirmations are certainly outside of most peoples everyday experience (although so is observing a stealth fighter at night) so in this since it is paranormal (outside the normal range of human experience).

However, ghost sightings are considered paranormal and 25% (representing only people willing to report) of people experiencing bereavment (grief) report seeing their departed loved one at least one time after their death. A large percentage of people (again representing only those willing to report) report seeing ghost/spirits that can be identified as a person they know (beyond the established period of grief). Thus ghost sightings are really common as a human experience.
However, science (outside of hallucination, mental disorder and fraud) has no explanation of how a person might survive death and communicate with the living. Thus ghost are considered paranormal because science has no clue about how this might work.

Denying the truth: Of course. Look at the debate over ESP and the evidence that parapsychology has established and the response from skeptics. Even long tern skeptic Ray Hyman (a full member of the parapsychological association) has said that he has no explanation for the Ganzfeld results conducted under the controls he helped to establish. Yet skeptical organizations still attack these findings (without any useful suggestions) on the basis of their belief that it can't happen.
That said I suggest everyone read up on the debate and decide for their selves.

Michael John Weaver, M.S.

Answer 7

yes, you have a point there.
If we knew about the aliens floating around our planet, they would no longer be considered paranormal, they would just be normal.
If we understood telepathy and how it works, it would be normal.
So, no, nothing is paranormal, just not understood yet.

Answer 8

Paranormal is a euphemism used to give true believers the benefit of the doubt, to humor the woo-woo folks. It really just means "things that some people claim to exist for which there is no evidence". Notice how that is the only thing in common among paranormal phenomena? What else to UFOs, spoon-bending, ESP, etc. have in common except a group of people who declare, despite all evidence to the contrary, that such things exist?

Answer 9

I say anyone and everyone has some sort of 'telepathic' usages. but since most people don't use most of their brains, it is untouched.

UFO's? people being parranoid that "The aliens are comming to kill us and use our lands!!!" Not true, earth isn't exactly the most ariable planet and most of the watter is salt.

Answer 10

When I think about paranormal I think about the great things that Jesus did.........raising the dead, healing the blind, exorcising demons out of bodies........now that's paranormal.