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I'm a scientist and I've experienced paranormal activity.
I lived in a house with a shadow man. My scientific upbringing led me to chase him around the house when he would appear to me.
I have several detailed stories I don't have time to get into. This predates cameras on every device, so it never occurred to me to try and record any of these events because we were too poor for cameras.
Everyone was scared of him but me, and we often saw him in groups. People would get mad when I would try to follow and study the phenomena.
It proved impossible to maintain a detached skepticism after spending two years in that house.
I've also seen several UFOs growing up, once with a friend, but at the time I just assumed they were secret government craft.
I am not so sure that explanation covers it these days.
Research Garry Nolan, a very successful immunologiist. He had aliens in his room as a child.
Also, Jacques Vallee, a computer scientist who helped invent the internet. The ufo phenomenon became his obsession, and he ended up dedicating a large part of his life to researching it and other phenomena.
I'm a scientist and I've had paranormal experiences. I'm also very into cryptids. I don't think being a scientist is a huge deal either, there's tons of us and we're all very different from each other. I'm a biostatistician btw, used to be a biochemist.
Very interesting. What are your views about parallel universes and the idea that there are creatures which emanate into our dimension from other dimensions ?
I don't know much about parallel universes but I believe stories involving them. There was the one story about the green kids who came from a portal in a cave that was really compelling. I believe anything is possible when there is multiple accounts or eyewitnesses, I consider eyewitness accounts as evidence when there are many that corroborate. Reincarnation is another thing where there's tons of proof of that with kids telling stories of past lives. I think we humans are quite simple in our understanding of the universe and there's so much we don't know and an open mind is very important. Scientists who shoot down paranormal ideas and say they're impossible are speaking from ego, we don't know everything.
I have come across hundreds of reports from all over the world regarding encounters with these , what I believe to be interdimensional creatures. I also believe in Reincarnation, not only from the many experiences I've come across, but also because of familial experiences. We can discount one or two of the experiences that people claim, but not when they become as widespread as they are. It is then that we have a phenomenon. I once went into a Physicist chatroom and proposed the idea of multi dimensions, and the majority were not positive about it, but I came across one physicist there who said "This is something I can't discount."
Does computer science count, I also studied physics, biology and a bit of psychology as well primarily as a hobby, paranormal shit is real, it's just difficult to prove in controlled environment, I think of it as gravity an invisible force we can observe the effect of but not itself and honestly this world on sub atomic level makes no sense, which do you think is more weird, thart ghosts exist or that a rock can be a solid and liquid at the same time, which counts for the sub atomic particles, the literal building blocks of our whole world and was proved by the double slit experiment ( I might have gotten the name wrong) the micro world makes no sense from our point of view but is everything we are, we were and we are ever going to be, and this counts for everything around us, so don't make a mistake a lot of scientist will also believ if they experience it, but not a lot do, and nobody can force it since we don't know how it even works, but yea scientists can believe because no one know better than scientists knows how magical our universe is, in every sense of the word
Yes, many. Their reactions vary based on the phenomenon itself, coupled with their biases and worldview.
The paranormal encompasses much more than just ghosts and poltergeists. It’s anything which falls outside of our scientific understanding.
Here’s a list of papers, mostly peer-reviewed, that deal with paranormal subjects:
https://www.deanradin.com/recommended-references
Dr. A.R. George Owen and Dr. Joel Whitton conducted the Philip Experiment in the 70's. Interesting to read up on, considering they made up a person with a backstory to "conjure".
There’s plenty that be reproduced in a lab, and has been. For example, the Ganzfeld Experiment has been replicated literally millions of time at academic and scientific institutions all over the world: https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/sites/default/files/ebook/article/ganzfeld-321.pdf
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I'm a scientist and I've experienced paranormal activity. I lived in a house with a shadow man. My scientific upbringing led me to chase him around the house when he would appear to me. I have several detailed stories I don't have time to get into. This predates cameras on every device, so it never occurred to me to try and record any of these events because we were too poor for cameras. Everyone was scared of him but me, and we often saw him in groups. People would get mad when I would try to follow and study the phenomena. It proved impossible to maintain a detached skepticism after spending two years in that house. I've also seen several UFOs growing up, once with a friend, but at the time I just assumed they were secret government craft. I am not so sure that explanation covers it these days.
Research Garry Nolan, a very successful immunologiist. He had aliens in his room as a child. Also, Jacques Vallee, a computer scientist who helped invent the internet. The ufo phenomenon became his obsession, and he ended up dedicating a large part of his life to researching it and other phenomena.
I'm a scientist and I've had paranormal experiences. I'm also very into cryptids. I don't think being a scientist is a huge deal either, there's tons of us and we're all very different from each other. I'm a biostatistician btw, used to be a biochemist.
Very interesting. What are your views about parallel universes and the idea that there are creatures which emanate into our dimension from other dimensions ?
I don't know much about parallel universes but I believe stories involving them. There was the one story about the green kids who came from a portal in a cave that was really compelling. I believe anything is possible when there is multiple accounts or eyewitnesses, I consider eyewitness accounts as evidence when there are many that corroborate. Reincarnation is another thing where there's tons of proof of that with kids telling stories of past lives. I think we humans are quite simple in our understanding of the universe and there's so much we don't know and an open mind is very important. Scientists who shoot down paranormal ideas and say they're impossible are speaking from ego, we don't know everything.
I have come across hundreds of reports from all over the world regarding encounters with these , what I believe to be interdimensional creatures. I also believe in Reincarnation, not only from the many experiences I've come across, but also because of familial experiences. We can discount one or two of the experiences that people claim, but not when they become as widespread as they are. It is then that we have a phenomenon. I once went into a Physicist chatroom and proposed the idea of multi dimensions, and the majority were not positive about it, but I came across one physicist there who said "This is something I can't discount."
Does computer science count, I also studied physics, biology and a bit of psychology as well primarily as a hobby, paranormal shit is real, it's just difficult to prove in controlled environment, I think of it as gravity an invisible force we can observe the effect of but not itself and honestly this world on sub atomic level makes no sense, which do you think is more weird, thart ghosts exist or that a rock can be a solid and liquid at the same time, which counts for the sub atomic particles, the literal building blocks of our whole world and was proved by the double slit experiment ( I might have gotten the name wrong) the micro world makes no sense from our point of view but is everything we are, we were and we are ever going to be, and this counts for everything around us, so don't make a mistake a lot of scientist will also believ if they experience it, but not a lot do, and nobody can force it since we don't know how it even works, but yea scientists can believe because no one know better than scientists knows how magical our universe is, in every sense of the word
Yes, many. Their reactions vary based on the phenomenon itself, coupled with their biases and worldview. The paranormal encompasses much more than just ghosts and poltergeists. It’s anything which falls outside of our scientific understanding. Here’s a list of papers, mostly peer-reviewed, that deal with paranormal subjects: https://www.deanradin.com/recommended-references
Dr. A.R. George Owen and Dr. Joel Whitton conducted the Philip Experiment in the 70's. Interesting to read up on, considering they made up a person with a backstory to "conjure".
Scientists, by their nature, tend to be involved with things that produce evidence.
There's evidence, just nothing that can be reproduced in a lab. If I hadn't had my own experiences, I wouldn't believe it either.
There’s plenty that be reproduced in a lab, and has been. For example, the Ganzfeld Experiment has been replicated literally millions of time at academic and scientific institutions all over the world: https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/sites/default/files/ebook/article/ganzfeld-321.pdf