Fascination with the Paranormal

    I’m interested in many things including mental telepathy, clairvoyance and things like that; however, I consider these as natural, not occult. I think that our minds emit electrical impulses that are transmitted through the air in mental telepathy. An EEG can register these electrical bursts and record them. We know that sound travels in waves to our ears which interpret them, and I believe that impulses from our brains may also travel through the air like sound waves and radio waves. If we have the right reception, as most of us do, I think we can interpret them and that is what we call mental telepathy. Thought of this way, I don’t see it as paranormal. I conducted some experiments with this in the past and found the following:

   1. I can transmit better than I can receive. If I know you are sending a message I put my own ideas as to what you’d send into the mix and the makes me inaccurate. I start to guess and that gets in the way of receiving. However, if I don’t know you are sending a message, I believe I’d receive it without problem.

   2. I can send a message to you that you are thirsty for example but I can not make you drink. You are no more apt to react to my suggestion given telepathically than you would be apt to react to it if it was given verbally. All I can do is to make you think that you’d like something to drink. Also, it’s subject to normal restrictions. If you are at work say, with no break in sight, you wouldn’t be able to go get a drink even if you thought “I’m thirsty.”

   3. I also found that focusing on a picture of the person to whom I want to send a message helps; if I have no picture then I try for a picture in my mind.

   4. I’ve  learned that I need to keep the message going without break until I can feel a mental connection. It might take fifteen minutes or more, but you should not give up.

    As for clairvoyance, which is an ability to pick up vibrations from objects, to see something hidden, or to view things from a distance, I’ve done some experiments with that also. Again, I think that somehow everything is connected and that if we are a-tune to it, we can pick up the information. To me it’s more of a scientific inquiry than an occult one. In my experiments with these things I’ve had some interesting experiences.

    I used to practice “seeing” the mailbox and counting the mail in it before I went to get the days mail. It’s amazing how often I was accurate. I’ve also tried to see cards to determine if they are black or red but I don’t do as well with that. Occasionally when I focus exclusively on another person I “know” things that I have no way of knowing externally. It just comes to me and has never been proven wrong. However, I doubt that I could make it happen.

    Among the  things that I can not explain I’d include the fact that, I can not explain why the picture of my son Deron fell off the wall twice just before his death. Perhaps it was a coincidence, but it felt prophetic at the time and even more so after his death. I also had disturbing dreams in which he was ill, leading up to his crib death, but the doctor could find nothing wrong with him.

     My mother used to talk about things happening as a “token” of things to come. She always said that a wailing sound, which she called the cry of a banshee, would for-shadow a death.. Fortunately I never heard that cry which was said to sound like that of a woman screeching.  My father talked about ghosts and claimed to have seen the ghost of his father after he had died. He also talked of a piano that would play itself without anyone present.

     I never saw a ghost myself although I’ve now written two books with ghosts in them. I find that everyone seems to love a good ghost story. I wonder why that is. Do we become fascinated with what we fear, or is it just the great unknown? Why do I write books with ghosts in them when I’ve never seen one? Perhaps it is only that I write what the public wants, but maybe not.

    Recently I saw crowds of people lined up to take a ghost ride through a cemetery. This was actually a historical event with rein actors representing actual people who were buried in the cemetery, so it wasn’t that scary, but why do people volunteer to be scared? It’s a mystery to me. Although I have a great desire to know how things work, I don’t want to be scared. I would not want to be psychic in the way psychics are portrayed and have to live through the death of others or to see traumatic and horrible events unfold in front of me.

    I did live in a house once which others were convinced was haunted. It’s true that my TV turned itself on a couple of times, my toilet flushed with no one there, and I woke one night with a touch light near my bed flashing on and off in my eyes. My scientific mind said it was probably a power surge or a short in the wiring. I asked a neighbor about the history of the house and she said that a couple lived there right before I did. They fought constantly and there were bruised ribs and broken wrists from their battles. One night the man, who was intoxicated at the time, apparently fell over a coffee table and died. She speculated that he might have had help falling. Upon further discussion, I learned that they slept in separate bedrooms and the one I used was his.

    As for me, during the four years that I lived there, I had numerous burglaries and I nearly died from an injury incurred on my job. I say this to tell you that my luck during that time was less than good. My neighbor speculated that the ghost of the man who’d died there might think I was his ex-wife because we looked a little alike.

   To conclude my observations regarding the paranormal, I don’t know what I think about the things I label occult such as ghosts, witchcraft, and the like. Maybe yes, maybe no; but I believe there are scientific reasons to think that things like mental telepathy and clairvoyance exist. I try to remain open to new information.