Has anyone ever experienced something paranormal? Describe the event or experience.?
Q. Paranormal is an umbrella term used to describe a wide variety of purported anomalous phenomena. According to the Journal of Parapsychology (Parapsychology Association), the term paranormal describes "any phenomenon that in one or more respects exceeds the limits of what is deemed physically possible according to current scientific assumptions." The term is derived from the Latin use of the prefix "para", meaning "against, counter, outside or beyond the norm." Many see the term paranormal as synonymous with parapsychology, which deals with psychical phenomena like telepathy, ESP, and survival studies like ghosts. However, the paranormal also includes subjects considered to be outside of the scope of parapsychology, including UFOs,… [cont.]
Asked by elcycer - Fri Sep 1 00:30:40 2006 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I am a normal intelligent 58 year old man who has travelled a bit and have seen and experienced many amazing things. Only once in my life did I witness an event which to this day is unexplainable. In 1973, while fishing 25 miles off the florida coast with four of my friends, we all saw an event which both amazed and frightened us all, and these guys didn't scare easy. The sky was clear and cloudless and there was about a two foot chop all day. About three p.m. a bank of absolutely black clouds came from the ocean horizon, the entire ocean went flat as glass, and a small patch of thick fog appeared about 300 yards east of our boat. This all happened within one minute. The sky was black,but there appeared a very visible object inside the fog. [cont.]
Answered by Raptor - Fri Sep 1 01:34:07 2006

How does true septicism in science reclaim itself from the reductionist true believers?
Q. Incredible level of vitriol and ego inflation in the various organizations is appalling. How can we return to academic dialogue and an analytical rational mindedness when they have lowered the level of discourse to the epithets and snarling contempt inherent in the Skeptical Inquirer. We should be as skeptical of "So called proven theory as new and radical ones.Most theory fail at somepont when a better paradigm mathematically comes along. To accept the big bang unequivocally, with its 100 year old search for dark matter and more patch's than windows XP,and yet totally ignore the many proven instances of anomalous phenomena is not being skeptical.
Asked by steve e - Tue Nov 13 12:32:15 2007 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. You forgot misanthrope.
Answered by l3utman - Thu Nov 15 09:27:35 2007

The universe appears to be infinite but anomalous. Then how can parallel universes exist?
Q. A parallel universe would appear to require the existence of supernatural phenomena that we cannot comprehend with our limited sensory perception. If that's the case, are we then trapped in a finite existence through sheer cosmic accident?
Asked by steve e - Sun Sep 30 00:04:36 2007 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Quite right. We would not be able to detect or perceive parallel universes, nor would they be able to detect or perceive ours. If they exist, they will always be a theoretical reality, not an objective one. But superstring theory postulates the existence of other universes (a multiverse) outside our own universe. Its not so much a supernatural phenomenon the way we define that as it is "extra-natural" in that its beyond our ordinary experience but possible in advanced physics.
Answered by poldi - Sun Sep 30 00:09:57 2007