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    Paranormal Progress

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    Paranormal Progress What if the paranormal can help us progress as humans? What if the data and the people that align with the paranormal are trying to help us? These are some questions that I have had about this information. If these abilities or beliefs can help us progress medically, spiritually, and in technology, then they should be taken seriously. Paranormal can help us progress, we just need to accept it. Medically I believe this could be a breakthrough for mankind. In Jeffrey Kripal’s book, Authors of the Impossible, there is a chapter that I felt helped enforced my opinion. In the chapter, “Returning the Human Sciences to Consciousness”, Kripal talks about endoscopy and exoscopy. Endoscopy is “inside-sight” and the somnambulist…

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    HAUNT Paranormal was founded by three women, Jennifer Woodward-Proffitt, Adrienne Harless, and Ashley Sturgill on June 13, 2005. Since then, these fearless females have led their team of paranormal investigators through St. Albans on several occasions. It was on one of these occasions that several members of the team were witness to the manifestation of a shadow person. This anomaly presented itself on the first floor of the building, near the women’s isolation ward. “The team had just left…

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    Let the Paranormal Be the New Color in Our Life The paranormal have become a hot topic among people, among the young and heated debates are right on their way. Those paranormal things such subjects as alternative medicine; conspiracy theories; ghosts, the undead, and the paranormal, UFO’s and alien abductions; urban legends; and psychic abilities. However, those paranormal are no any scientific merit to prove it is true, but it is the key to open human’s new sense, and let human to image it and…

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    Paranormal television is a genre of reality television. Its scope comprises purportedly factual investigations of paranormal phenomena, rather than fictional representations found in such shows and movies as Scooby-Doo, Ghostbusters, and Rentaghost. In the print media reports of supernatural occurrences have always been common. When TV became more and more popular stations needed to find way of differentiating themselves. Starting in the 1960’s TV stations began to feature ghost stories. This…

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    Why do writers choose paranormal power as their topic instead of other more daily stuffs? As Kripal mentioned in his article, the mystical movement is in late 1962, and the mutant mythology is in 1963. A great amount of classic books and great writers appeared at that time. I believe that in that inevitable trend, more writers tried to do some experiments in the fiction and mystery book field, just like what is happening right now. “Authors and artists of popular culture commonly report similar…

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    Every child grew up hearing cliche ghost stories, but there’s more to the tales. Ghosts aren’t necessarily silly, fearful beings said to be conjured up. Spiritual energy is very much a real thing and exists in the world today. Incorporeal figures, commonly known as ghosts, consist of residual energy from life that has passed away. The belief of ghosts is almost always seen as an opinion depending on the person. The debate on whether they are real or unreal is extremely common; however, without…

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    1. Introduction 1.1. Definition of paranormal tourism Paranormal tourism is apart of a dark tourism, which falls under the category of alternative tourism; paranormal tourists are individuals who travel with an interest or belief in the supernatural phenomena and inexplicable events (Haynes, 2016, p.1). These eccentric individuals travel to places that claim to have this unusual occurrences happening within. Dark tourists are travellers who visit sights associated with death and suffering…

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    However, this is not to say that the concept of the paranormal is a new one. Paranormal experiences have been documented since human beings began keeping records. The interpretation of a paranormal experience is largely influenced by an individual’s religion. Religion is a concept that does not have one simple definition. Over the years, religions have and will continue to change and develop as more is explored. Robert Bellah, a religious scholar and sociologist, focused much of his work on the…

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    Paranormal America

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    This chapter from Paranormal America is dedicated to discussing what the paranormal is and how to define it. The authors begin the chapter by explaining the difficulty in naming the phenomenon of the paranormal. The list is seemingly endless and diverse, which includes the words such as: “supernatural,” “metaphysics,” “pseudoscience,” and “New Age” (Bader, Mencken, and Baker, pg. 20). The definitions of these words are not concrete and are often used interchangeably. People would make the…

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    the text, "Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories," Ambrose Bierce tells his audience of paranormal activity that has happened in all of the ghost stories. Some of the stories are related to the spirits of the dead, and the other ghost stories are related to the disappearances of the living souls. The implied message in the, "Army Apparitions," text is paranormal activity is not just in haunted houses or scary places, it can be everywhere. This text includes examples of paranormal…

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