Are you an Atheist whom has had a paranormal experience...?

Question

What did you think about it being real,though ofcourse no God?I'm an Atheist too, I'm just curious to see how many think it is easier to believe in the paranormal stuff verses God.

Answer 1

My father was a self proclaimed athiest. He was not. He was agnostic. He had many many paranormal experiences and he just shrugged it off as if it were not really anythign more than coincidence. Or he openly admitted that it was beyond his comprehension. He was a Mensa member and considered a genius. I do not understand how he could deny it myself. He experienced much of what I experienced and had his own experiences as well.
I am not sure that paranormal experiences are always related to God however. i am deeply spiritual, and I believe in God, but not in the conventional sense.

Answer 2

Christians often think I'm an atheist I'm more of a Deist (God created the universe and then went to play golf).
My beliefs about God are mixed at best.
However, I have experienced unexplained (by conventional science) events and I do not associate any of them with a belief in God (although perhaps an afterlife).

I also have a friend that is a practicing shaman and believes in an afterlife but is a firmly dedicated atheist.
We were in a paranormal investigation group together for a few years. While he always looked for normal explanations he firmly believed not everything had an immediate conventional explanation.

Answer 3

No, I've never had a paranormal experience. Any time something weird has happened, I got up to investigate. When you find the natural reason for the "weirdness", it isn't weird or paranormal any more.

People seem to define "atheist" differently, but I like the strict definition: "a-theist". The "a-" prefix indicates lack of, e.g., asymmetry is lack of symmetry, amoral is lack of morality, etc. In this sense, atheism is simply a lack of belief in gods.

This means agnostics are really just atheists by default. I'm an agnostic, towards god as well as the paranormal. In either case, if I am presented with credible evidence, I will evaluate it to see if it warrants changing my position.

Answer 4

I am an atheist. I have had a few "paranormal" experiences. I believe they all come from the universal life force called "Bio cosmic Energy". They are the human mind tapping into what I like to call the universal mind.This is the grouping of intelligent energy of the various life forms existing everywhere.It is a natural ability every life form has,some are just better than others.

Answer 5

I'm an atheist, I have never had a paranormal experience. But I have been around people who thought *they* were having a paranormal experience and all I have ever seen is spontaneous contagious hysteria. It's hilarious to watch. For me, God and paranormal are all the same. Nonexistent.

Kimberlee, I think you are being unfair to your father. Most people who call themselves atheists are atheists. My sister refuses to acknowledge that I am an atheist. She wants to call me agnostic, too, and I resent it. Your father shrugged off things *you* considered paranormal, probably because he realized what they were, or that there was no reason to jump to extraordinary explanations for ordinary things, like coincidences.

Nuff said, you're not even in the ballpark. Don't try to represent views or the attitudes and feelings of those you clearly do not understand. Nuff said.

Answer 6

From time to time I can kind of know things with uncanny accuracy, but I don't know how to make it happen. Once I bought a circular etched piece of metal from a new age store and I was fooling around with it by putting it on my forehead and asking people to pick a number between one and ten. I got the right answer about seven times in a row, and then I quit. But that stuff doesn't make me any more or less inclined to believe there is a God. Call me an agnostic.

Answer 7

I noticed a ghost while I used to be more youthful. It nervous the residing bloomin daylights out of me. Took me a few days afterwards to recover from it. luminescent seventeenth century determine witnessed overdue at night time in a gloomy room. It has permenantly left me with a worry of the darkish ever considering that. I can most effective in well moral sense label the occasion in my brain as "unexplained." I do not know what the intent used to be, be it supernatural or a manufactured from my mind. My concept is that it would were an early manifestation of my intellectual health problem (my Bipolar sickness has show up complete blown hallucinations, however most effective at aspects of severe strain and deep melancholy. This used to be a decade earlier than analysis). It used to be additionally at the same time I used to be worn out after an afternoon of heavy exertion and endeavor. Whatever it used to be it lasted no less than eight seconds, a ways longer than one might count on a trifling trick of the sunshine to final. I'm now not willing to label it a supernatural revel in outright even though considering the fact that that asks way more questions than it solutions. I'd want extra to head on with a view to make that alternatively amazing declare.

Answer 8

No I've never had a paranormal experience.It's funny people say Atheists believe in nothing.Actually they believe in plenty.The natural world is so full of mystery and wonder.They find all they need there.No need to look for fulfillment in the supernatural.In my opinion an Atheist does not believe in Religion or the paranormal.Which are arguably the same thing.

Answer 9

No, I'm too curious of an atheist. Sure, I could have interpretted those weird lights as aliens, or I could go check them out and find out it was my neighbors. Sure, it might have been a ghost making those noises - but when I got up to look, it was just the fridge motor going. Frankly, the more curious and less credulous you are, the fewer 'paranormal' experiences you are likely to have - simply because you go investigate.

Answer 10

I'm an agnostic; we believe that it is impossible to tangibly (physically) prove OR disprove the existence of ANY deity, Christian or otherwise, beyond all measure of doubt. I've personally never seen any proof of the Christian God's existence during my life.

But being an empath (or a "sensitive"), I've had countless experiences - many of them physical, visual - with the paranormal that, to me, are irrefutable proof of the existence of spirits, poltergeists, demons, and other entities.