It has been awhile and I can't even speak to my imaginary fan base because, well, I killed them off. So, what's new? My wife and I have applied to write for examiner.com, which has regional, amateur writers on different subjects submitting articles. Our subject would deal with the paranormal. Below, is the sample article we submitted with the application. We will also be getting another blog up and going, appropriately titled, Reaching Through the Ether. The web address will be, you guessed it, reachingthroughtheether.blogspot.com. And, here you go:
Typing Paranormal into Google will treat one to 64.8 million potential links to explore. A more modest search of Ohio Paranormal will result in 4.25 million hits. If the researcher of all things spooky and strange decides to dig into a good book on the subject, he or she can browse through one of Amazon.com’s 869 nonfiction or 517 history books on the Paranormal. With all of the videos, personal testimonies and words written on the subjects of the supernatural, alien encounters, outer-body experiences and a whole host of other topics, there is still no definitive evidence that anything exists beyond the materialist, physical world presented to us every day. Despite this, a 2005 Gallup Poll taken from a population of 3017 Americans, Canadians and Britons determined that 73% of those polled believe in at least one of 10 paranormal topics; including: extrasensory perception, haunted houses, ghosts, telepathy, clairvoyance, astrology, communication with the dead, witches, reincarnation, and, finally, channeling spiritual entities.
So, when considering the disparity in what “facts” exist regarding the paranormal and what people actually believe, what, then, is the elusive truth? Is the paranormal a relic of some primitive world that serves a person’s confirmation biases? The product of unyielding dogmas used by authoritative powers to maintain their constituents’ loyalties while simultaneously stunting the progress of society? Or, are these populist beliefs that those in power do not want to acknowledge? Beliefs that fall outside the realm that human being’s five senses can document and record? These are the questions the authors of this article, one a skeptic siding more with materialists and the other quite the opposite, seek to answer.
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I'm super excited to start this new journey with you!
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