Disproving Psychic Abilities
Frederick Gimino asked:
Psychics provide an opportunity to explore a mysterious world that lies just beyond our five senses. Opening a door to the supernatural realm of spirits and other worldly phenomenon psychics hold the key to the future that is yet to be.
Some skeptics say psychics do not exist but many experts disagree. Considering the expansive collection of unexplained phenomenon, in the world, it is hard to dispute the possibility of psychic powers.
We do know that we only use about 10% of our brains resources. So, what is the other 90 % for? It would stand to reason that it has some function. Right? So, is it not possible that somewhere, in that untapped potential, resides a sixth sense?
A sense that allowed us to survive a much darker time when man was forced to compete with oversized predators and elusive prey. Only armed with the power of the human mind, steely wits, and an opposable thumb mankind was already a formidable adversary. However, the addition of keener senses or an additional sixth sense would have made humanity unstoppable.
The ability to sense, that which lies beyond our five senses, would have been an invaluable tool to early man. It may have allowed the survival of the human species, as we know it today. However, as time went on and living conditions became easier with the domestication of animals, honing of learned skills, and the ability to form agrarian societies these abilities may have atrophied.
Our psychic abilities may have atrophied to the point that they became anatomically and physiologically vestigial in nature. The genetic combination responsible for the psychic trait may now rarely appear except aberrantly, in a chosen few, whose genotype allows phenotypical expression of the dormant trait or traits responsible for psychic abilities.
Just because we do not understand something fully does not mean it does not exist. The possibility of psychic ability, in our mysterious universe, is still a plausible explanation for many unexplained phenomenon.
Even with all of the advancements over the last 100 years there is still much debate and speculation, in the scientific community, about a plethora of topics. From the big bang to evolution scientists agree to disagree.
It stands to reason according to the scientific method that until all the explanations, hypothesis, and theories regarding psychic abilities are disproved that it must be considered as a viable alternative explanation to recognized unexplained paranormal phenomenon such as deja vu, precognition, and clairvoyance.
Some scientists studying psychic phenomenon, in children, utilizing the Zener card test regularly encounter statistically significant data that suggests more than chance outcomes at work. In fact many children regularly defy the odds by scoring 30%, 40%, 50%, and 60 % accuracy on a test with a statistical mean of 20% by chance. If that were a drug trial being run and that was the incidence of death for participants the FDA would certainly consider that significant. Right?
In addition to genetic factors that may predispose children to exhibit psychic abilities human development may hold some clues as to the reason children seem to possess a higher degree of psychic ability than adults. Human development occurs in stages each with its own marked physiological characteristics. During childhood it should come as no surprise to find out that we have the highest number of synaptic pathways that we ever have during the course of our lives. Do these extra connections provide a medium to the psychic realm? Is our brain wired towards the paranormal at earlier stages of human development due to anatomical and physiological processes that are occurring during the first several years of our lives?
Furthermore, according to Comparative Embryology during the first 6 weeks of human development, in our mother’s womb, we go through an evolution of sorts. In fact up until the time we differentiate we remain almost morphologically indistinguishable from lower life forms, in the same phase of development. From a single cell to pharyngeal gill slits to lanugo (body hair in utero) to human morphology we comparatively exhibit similar traits to our animal ancestors.
Is it possible that this comparative morphology extends past the physical development of the human body and into our development outside the womb? Maybe, our cognitive development goes through an “evolution” of sorts were the anatomy and physiology of our minds comparatively resembles our ancient psychic ability possessing human ancestors.
So, the question becomes can we disprove all plausible explanations, hypothesis, and theories regarding psychic ability. Not can we prove psychic ability exists. In addition many skeptics spend their entire lives trying to prove that psychic abilities do not exist rather than trying to disprove their own explanations, hypothesis, and theories about its non-existence. This type of objective scientific inquiry is tainted with bias and must not be considered credible.
Only when all the possible plausible explanations, hypothesis, and theories have been tested subjectively using the scientific method and disproved can any true scientist or skeptic state with 95% confidence that psychics and human psychic abilities do not exist.
Psychics provide an opportunity to explore a mysterious world that lies just beyond our five senses. Opening a door to the supernatural realm of spirits and other worldly phenomenon psychics hold the key to the future that is yet to be.
Some skeptics say psychics do not exist but many experts disagree. Considering the expansive collection of unexplained phenomenon, in the world, it is hard to dispute the possibility of psychic powers.
We do know that we only use about 10% of our brains resources. So, what is the other 90 % for? It would stand to reason that it has some function. Right? So, is it not possible that somewhere, in that untapped potential, resides a sixth sense?
A sense that allowed us to survive a much darker time when man was forced to compete with oversized predators and elusive prey. Only armed with the power of the human mind, steely wits, and an opposable thumb mankind was already a formidable adversary. However, the addition of keener senses or an additional sixth sense would have made humanity unstoppable.
The ability to sense, that which lies beyond our five senses, would have been an invaluable tool to early man. It may have allowed the survival of the human species, as we know it today. However, as time went on and living conditions became easier with the domestication of animals, honing of learned skills, and the ability to form agrarian societies these abilities may have atrophied.
Our psychic abilities may have atrophied to the point that they became anatomically and physiologically vestigial in nature. The genetic combination responsible for the psychic trait may now rarely appear except aberrantly, in a chosen few, whose genotype allows phenotypical expression of the dormant trait or traits responsible for psychic abilities.
Just because we do not understand something fully does not mean it does not exist. The possibility of psychic ability, in our mysterious universe, is still a plausible explanation for many unexplained phenomenon.
Even with all of the advancements over the last 100 years there is still much debate and speculation, in the scientific community, about a plethora of topics. From the big bang to evolution scientists agree to disagree.
It stands to reason according to the scientific method that until all the explanations, hypothesis, and theories regarding psychic abilities are disproved that it must be considered as a viable alternative explanation to recognized unexplained paranormal phenomenon such as deja vu, precognition, and clairvoyance.
Some scientists studying psychic phenomenon, in children, utilizing the Zener card test regularly encounter statistically significant data that suggests more than chance outcomes at work. In fact many children regularly defy the odds by scoring 30%, 40%, 50%, and 60 % accuracy on a test with a statistical mean of 20% by chance. If that were a drug trial being run and that was the incidence of death for participants the FDA would certainly consider that significant. Right?
In addition to genetic factors that may predispose children to exhibit psychic abilities human development may hold some clues as to the reason children seem to possess a higher degree of psychic ability than adults. Human development occurs in stages each with its own marked physiological characteristics. During childhood it should come as no surprise to find out that we have the highest number of synaptic pathways that we ever have during the course of our lives. Do these extra connections provide a medium to the psychic realm? Is our brain wired towards the paranormal at earlier stages of human development due to anatomical and physiological processes that are occurring during the first several years of our lives?
Furthermore, according to Comparative Embryology during the first 6 weeks of human development, in our mother’s womb, we go through an evolution of sorts. In fact up until the time we differentiate we remain almost morphologically indistinguishable from lower life forms, in the same phase of development. From a single cell to pharyngeal gill slits to lanugo (body hair in utero) to human morphology we comparatively exhibit similar traits to our animal ancestors.
Is it possible that this comparative morphology extends past the physical development of the human body and into our development outside the womb? Maybe, our cognitive development goes through an “evolution” of sorts were the anatomy and physiology of our minds comparatively resembles our ancient psychic ability possessing human ancestors.
So, the question becomes can we disprove all plausible explanations, hypothesis, and theories regarding psychic ability. Not can we prove psychic ability exists. In addition many skeptics spend their entire lives trying to prove that psychic abilities do not exist rather than trying to disprove their own explanations, hypothesis, and theories about its non-existence. This type of objective scientific inquiry is tainted with bias and must not be considered credible.
Only when all the possible plausible explanations, hypothesis, and theories have been tested subjectively using the scientific method and disproved can any true scientist or skeptic state with 95% confidence that psychics and human psychic abilities do not exist.
Know the Shocking Unexplained Mysteries as Well as Paranormal Incidences at Profiling the Unexplained
November 12, 2009 by admin
Filed under Uncategorized
Vikram Kumar asked:
Humans are no doubt the most important creation of God. They are known for their intelligence and are regarded as the one who are in a position to do anything they want. It is often considered that nothing is impossible for humans. Humans are no doubt the most powerful creations who are capable to even destroy the whole world. Thus it looks like they are in a position to control everything but is it true?
Generally it be termed as true, but there are several unexplained mysteries as well as the paranormal incidences that make this sentence false.
History is said to have covered several things in its heart. There are several unexplained mysteries that compel one to believe that there is something even more powerful than humans.
There are several paranormal incidences that are enough to make one think about the life that is not visible in the eyes of normal man. The site by name of Profiling the Unexplained is created with a purpose to throw light on the other world. The purpose of its creation is to make one familiar about the topics of the paranormal as well as the unexplained mysteries.
There are several pages included in the site from where you can have the interesting information on several aspects that are paranormal as well as you can also have information on UFO’s as well as on unexplained mysteries and worth to mention several cases.
There are several incidences mentioned that are enough to make you bite your nails. The best part is that there are not just stories rather they are the incidences that carry some sort of proof with them. If you are interested in knowing about the unsolved crime cases, then too it is the perfect site meant for you. In order to increase the interest of the user, the site is built so as to include the cases or things not just from one place or country rather from all over the world.
It is a fact that internet is an ocean so there are abundant of materials related to the matter available on it just like what is published in the site. Then what is so important in this site?
The answer to this question is that this site is itself an ocean for the information and incidences related to unexplained mysteries as well as the paranormal incidences. In addition it contains the incidences that have some evidences associated with them for example the Unexplained Mysteries of the Miracles of Lourdes is there on the site with full description as well as the story. In order to add importance of the incidence even the facts are included so as to make the incident as real as possible.
Unlike other sites, where the motive is just to put any content and attract visitors this site is produced in order to make people truly aware of the cases that happened in the past and that have some sort of importance associated with them. There are several posts, articles as well as forums so as to have enormous views on the topic.
With the help of forums it is easy to have thousands of views on the topic so as to judge the relevance of the post. In addition, there is also facility of live chat available with the site so as to make one know the query for every doubt.
Humans are no doubt the most important creation of God. They are known for their intelligence and are regarded as the one who are in a position to do anything they want. It is often considered that nothing is impossible for humans. Humans are no doubt the most powerful creations who are capable to even destroy the whole world. Thus it looks like they are in a position to control everything but is it true?
Generally it be termed as true, but there are several unexplained mysteries as well as the paranormal incidences that make this sentence false.
History is said to have covered several things in its heart. There are several unexplained mysteries that compel one to believe that there is something even more powerful than humans.
There are several paranormal incidences that are enough to make one think about the life that is not visible in the eyes of normal man. The site by name of Profiling the Unexplained is created with a purpose to throw light on the other world. The purpose of its creation is to make one familiar about the topics of the paranormal as well as the unexplained mysteries.
There are several pages included in the site from where you can have the interesting information on several aspects that are paranormal as well as you can also have information on UFO’s as well as on unexplained mysteries and worth to mention several cases.
There are several incidences mentioned that are enough to make you bite your nails. The best part is that there are not just stories rather they are the incidences that carry some sort of proof with them. If you are interested in knowing about the unsolved crime cases, then too it is the perfect site meant for you. In order to increase the interest of the user, the site is built so as to include the cases or things not just from one place or country rather from all over the world.
It is a fact that internet is an ocean so there are abundant of materials related to the matter available on it just like what is published in the site. Then what is so important in this site?
The answer to this question is that this site is itself an ocean for the information and incidences related to unexplained mysteries as well as the paranormal incidences. In addition it contains the incidences that have some evidences associated with them for example the Unexplained Mysteries of the Miracles of Lourdes is there on the site with full description as well as the story. In order to add importance of the incidence even the facts are included so as to make the incident as real as possible.
Unlike other sites, where the motive is just to put any content and attract visitors this site is produced in order to make people truly aware of the cases that happened in the past and that have some sort of importance associated with them. There are several posts, articles as well as forums so as to have enormous views on the topic.
With the help of forums it is easy to have thousands of views on the topic so as to judge the relevance of the post. In addition, there is also facility of live chat available with the site so as to make one know the query for every doubt.
A Paranormal Books website–an online business example
martyettington asked:
My website is called M.K. Ettington Books (mkettingtonbooks.com) and is designed to showcase Spiritually related books and related products.
I decided to start write my own books on spiritual and metaphysics titles.
The first one I wrote was titled “Immortality: A History and How to Guide”.
Since it was a self published in both printed and digital forms I decided to setup a webpage for this book and bought a domain name for it (immortality.us.com).
In the months that followed I decided to add more related books on subjects like prophecy, happiness, enlightenment, and the paranormal usage of the scientific method.
As I wrote each book I also added a new webpage and domain name for each book then tied them all together.
This approach started to give me some related content on the same website so that if a visitor was interested in one topic they could see the other related pages and might buy those too.
I started selling a few books but the volume was still pretty low.
After a few months of writing and adding individual webpages I realized that I had an interesting theme and should start adding other related content.
At this point I started adding a series of categories in a left margin menu and populating those categories with products and services.
The categories included Immortaltiy, Prophecy, Happiness, and other related areas such as meditation, metaphysics, personal favorites and lots more.
The addition of these categories took my theme to a new level so that spiritual seekers could find multiple offerings related to the original core of books I was selling.
I got the additional products for these new categories by signing up as an affiliate for Amazon.com and Clickbank. Both these organizations offer thousands of products that you can resell and makes commissions up to 75% per sale.
I also bought some digital product packages like the IProfit Ebooks which gave me more products with full resale rights to offer on my site.
After that website expansion I realized I needed to spend more time on marketing my products and services.
(I was also reading a lot of websites and ebooks on how to improve and market websites at that time also.)
The new marketing work included publishing free ebooks, writing ezine articles, and the best one–setting up my own opt in mailing lists.
These lists have evolved into both email lists with lots of information and freebies, and ecourses on specific interests.
Although ECourses take some time to put together, they are very good to have.
In addition to providing useful free information and downloads to persons taking the ecourses, they also explain to those students why the product the ecourse is focused on have good value and they should consider purchasing.
I also started looking for good pay per click traffic generation sites. After trying several I found a really good low cost traffic generation program at 7Search.
Traffic increased on my site but I was still only getting sporadic sales.
Finally, I found that rewriting my webpages with a stronger orientation towards what readers interests and issues are was a key to generating stronger conversions of clicks to sales. This made my site profitable.
I also added additionalcontent such as links to many sites on Ebooks related to spirituality, and Paranormal Groups which lists many groups available on these subjects to let users build an online community in their interest areas.
In the process of educating myself I had developed a lot of interests in internet business and affiliate money generation tools, but these tools didn’t fit with my original website theme of “Paranormal Books and related areas”.
This was when I decided to launch a new website titled makingmoney.us.com/index_files/ecoursebus.htm)
Although I still have a lot of work to do in building sales and profitability I’ve learned several useful lessons:
1) It helps a lot to have your own products which you are excited about. This excitement comes through in your webpages to get prospective customers excited too.
2) Building a website theme around your core interests helps to build traffic which will also cross sell related products.
3) Opt in email lists are critical for building lists of subscribers who are interested in what you have and want to learn more. Most studies say you need to touch up people seven or more times before they will consider buying your products and services.
4) ECourses are wonderful value for both the students who signup and to make them aware of the benefits of your products and services.
5) A strong theme on your website which you can build the business around is a good idea. Think about this carefully before you start your website.
Good luck on starting your own profitable internet businesses.
Best Regards,
Marty Ettington
mkebooks@ecsassoc.com
http://mkettingtonbooks.com
My website is called M.K. Ettington Books (mkettingtonbooks.com) and is designed to showcase Spiritually related books and related products.
I decided to start write my own books on spiritual and metaphysics titles.
The first one I wrote was titled “Immortality: A History and How to Guide”.
Since it was a self published in both printed and digital forms I decided to setup a webpage for this book and bought a domain name for it (immortality.us.com).
In the months that followed I decided to add more related books on subjects like prophecy, happiness, enlightenment, and the paranormal usage of the scientific method.
As I wrote each book I also added a new webpage and domain name for each book then tied them all together.
This approach started to give me some related content on the same website so that if a visitor was interested in one topic they could see the other related pages and might buy those too.
I started selling a few books but the volume was still pretty low.
After a few months of writing and adding individual webpages I realized that I had an interesting theme and should start adding other related content.
At this point I started adding a series of categories in a left margin menu and populating those categories with products and services.
The categories included Immortaltiy, Prophecy, Happiness, and other related areas such as meditation, metaphysics, personal favorites and lots more.
The addition of these categories took my theme to a new level so that spiritual seekers could find multiple offerings related to the original core of books I was selling.
I got the additional products for these new categories by signing up as an affiliate for Amazon.com and Clickbank. Both these organizations offer thousands of products that you can resell and makes commissions up to 75% per sale.
I also bought some digital product packages like the IProfit Ebooks which gave me more products with full resale rights to offer on my site.
After that website expansion I realized I needed to spend more time on marketing my products and services.
(I was also reading a lot of websites and ebooks on how to improve and market websites at that time also.)
The new marketing work included publishing free ebooks, writing ezine articles, and the best one–setting up my own opt in mailing lists.
These lists have evolved into both email lists with lots of information and freebies, and ecourses on specific interests.
Although ECourses take some time to put together, they are very good to have.
In addition to providing useful free information and downloads to persons taking the ecourses, they also explain to those students why the product the ecourse is focused on have good value and they should consider purchasing.
I also started looking for good pay per click traffic generation sites. After trying several I found a really good low cost traffic generation program at 7Search.
Traffic increased on my site but I was still only getting sporadic sales.
Finally, I found that rewriting my webpages with a stronger orientation towards what readers interests and issues are was a key to generating stronger conversions of clicks to sales. This made my site profitable.
I also added additionalcontent such as links to many sites on Ebooks related to spirituality, and Paranormal Groups which lists many groups available on these subjects to let users build an online community in their interest areas.
In the process of educating myself I had developed a lot of interests in internet business and affiliate money generation tools, but these tools didn’t fit with my original website theme of “Paranormal Books and related areas”.
This was when I decided to launch a new website titled makingmoney.us.com/index_files/ecoursebus.htm)
Although I still have a lot of work to do in building sales and profitability I’ve learned several useful lessons:
1) It helps a lot to have your own products which you are excited about. This excitement comes through in your webpages to get prospective customers excited too.
2) Building a website theme around your core interests helps to build traffic which will also cross sell related products.
3) Opt in email lists are critical for building lists of subscribers who are interested in what you have and want to learn more. Most studies say you need to touch up people seven or more times before they will consider buying your products and services.
4) ECourses are wonderful value for both the students who signup and to make them aware of the benefits of your products and services.
5) A strong theme on your website which you can build the business around is a good idea. Think about this carefully before you start your website.
Good luck on starting your own profitable internet businesses.
Best Regards,
Marty Ettington
mkebooks@ecsassoc.com
http://mkettingtonbooks.com
