When it comes to the subject of psychics or "mediums" such as John Edward, most people want only to prove or disprove its existence. However, to prove or disprove this would be impossible because there is no scientific way to achieve either. When approaching such a sensitive subject as this, one should keep in mind a single question, is it reasonable to accept this as fact?
According to Peter Kor's third principle (2), such an extraordinary claim as being able to communicate with the dead makes us "question our understanding of ordinary events" and "such an extraordinary claim or view requires proportionate revision of conventional wisdom"(2). For example, if a friend in Florida calls to tell me that a polar bear was in his backyard, eating the wheel off his car but has since left, I should not simply accept this, because it questions what I already know to be fact. What I already know as fact in a situation like this is that 1) polar bears do not live in Florida because they are not comfortable in the heat, 2) polar bears certainly do not roam free in suburban areas, and 3) just because he said this happened doesn't make it real.
In order to accept this scenario as fact would cause us to have major revisions of our knowledge of polar bears, it would challenge us to question everything proven by the scientific research of polar bears. We thought polar bears could not comfortably survive in warm or hot climates, how could researchers have missed something as key as polar bears liking to live in warm (or hot) climates? That is one of the reasons why it is not reasonable to accept being able to talk to the dead as fact, it questions what we already know, and the revisions of our thinking and knowledge would be as great as the claim. It would change the grieving process, the need to "say goodbye" to loved ones, our entire concept of death and what happens after death would all have to be revised to support this great claim.
In the case of John Edward, a "medium" who says that he is able to communicate with the dead, because his claim is so significant, we should have a more meticulous inquiry than that of his claim. To follow Kor's fourth principle
Sagan said “more than a third of American adults believe that on some level they’ve made contact with the dead” (151). This figure is not hard to believe when one thinks about our need to believe in something greater than ourselves. People believe in superstitions and horoscopes because they want to believe in that something that is greater than themselves is
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Do not believe in anyone theories without questioning it. It is important to prove that someone has the knowledge of what they speak.
How many people who believe in the paranormal have you met? Probably a few, right? A good majority of the population believes in the paranormal, whether the reason for it is religion or actual experience, or otherwise. A lot of people, though, actually believe in the paranormal as a result of it being popularized by the media (CSICOP 3). Whenever the public finds a case even mildly out of the ordinary, like accounts of hidden realms or sightings of a ghost, it leads up to a sudden boom of believers (CSICOP 3). Among these are the few that dare to adventure this world of information we know nothing about; this world is the paranormal (SV;SV). Some of these could be psychic mediums, or fortunetellers, who are usually written off as crazy. There are also those called paranormal researchers. They investigate the paranormal to try to find a reasonable explanation for sightings or hauntings. It is a pseudoscience; the paranormal is seen as this because there hasn’t been any “valid” proof of its existence (GS;SS). Many of these people only aim to make paranormal researching a valid science. The fact is that it’s heavily influenced by colorful and flamboyant believers, reducing its credibility, so to speak, but as technology and attitudes in America have changed, so too has paranormal research.
feel the burden to prove they happen. It is now up to the skeptics to prove that near death
In Hamlet and the Ghost Again by John D. Rea, the author gains credibility by implementing ethos and refuting other authors’ claims, essentially strengthening his own. Rea begins by asserting his claim that Hamlet’s belief in the authenticity of his father’s Ghost is questionable and proceeds to provide historical evidence along with strong analysis. By acknowlegding the numerous and redundant works published pertaining to Hamlet, the author strengthens his argument by suggesting that his article raises a new idea, intriguing the audience causing them to read more, further establishing his credibility. The author cites a leading scientist of the 17th century who maintains that apparitions and ghosts of the dead are not the souls of the dead,
I was in the laboratory yesterday talking with my fellow colleagues when one of them suddenly brought up the peculiar observations he had lately found in the anatomy of a deceased hand. I was intrigued by his discussion of his discoveries and asked him if I could help him dissect it even more. He agreed and led me to his table where the hand was laid out on the table before us. My colleague told me the hand had been deceased for two days, but by the looks of it the hand looked to have been deceased for weeks.
The Reality of Death Dealing with the death of a loved one is one of life's most challenging obstacles. The pain and suffering that a person goes through cannot be fully understood unless experienced firsthand, like people that have experienced death through abortion. However, for some who have experienced death in war, death is something more like a game, where it is feared, yet made fun of in hopes of lessening the truth of reality. In the short story, “The Things They Carried”, by Tim O’Brian, the author demonstrates his attempts to make death less real through tactics like telling stories about the dead as if they were living, joking about zombies and conceiving the dead as items instead of people.
Harry Houdini once said, “What the eyes see and what the ears hear… the mind believes.” This quote was stated by one of the greatest escape artist and illusionist of all time, and it reveals his secret. The human mind is structured to believe what it sees and fear what it does not see. An example of this is contacting the dead. Contacting the dead has been around for many centuries. Throughout the ages people have made several “devices” to contact the dead, but only spiritualists were able to. This changed in 1890 when the Ouija board was invented. An Ouija board is a board filled with letters, numbers, and a planchette. This invention changed everything by letting families contact the dead. Now, normal people could communicate with the
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As long as one can remember, paranormal beliefs have always existed in human society. They are living in every man’s childhood and in every corner of human’s life. From the burning belief about Santa Claus’s gifts under a Christmas’s tree in the morning to a scary game about Bloody Mary and her coming back from the dead, it seems that people cannot help but draw themselves to these stories. Even when these beliefs fade, there would be a new one that eventually shows up. No matter how much science has progressed, the belief in paranormal phenomena still remains in society. Eventually, the question about paranormal phenomena seems pale in comparison to the human’s undying belief about such things. It is really hard to pinpoint an exact cause for human’s belief in the paranormal for only one cause is not enough; however, it is sure that psychological, sociological, and biological factors play an enormous role that contributes to this belief.
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Many people in the world today believe in paranormal phenomenon such as apparitions, orbs, and even ghosts. This belief is rapidly increasing because of the popular ghost-themed websites, TV shows, books, and documentaries. Multiple ghost exposer’s text’s show supposed evidence that these things called ghosts are in fact real. Multiple ghost hunters in these texts use many devices, in particular electromagnetic ones, to help explain the reasoning behind the paranormal appearances; they explain that based upon Einstein’s laws of energy, ghosts can form from a dead person’s body because of the energy lost is then transported from the dead to a ghost. However, Benjamin Radford, a LiveScience contributor, in his article called “Do Einstein’s laws Prove Ghosts Exist,” claims that “ghosts cannot possibly evolve from electromagnetic energy” (Radford). Radford uses logical reasoning, credible
Before anyone can form a solid opinion on what they believe to be real or not real, it is imperative that he/she becomes knowledgeable on the many different types of psychic abilities. The most general terms include ESP, clairaudient, clairvoyance, and clairsentient. ESP, or Extra Sensory Projection, is the awareness of events and information that are external to the psychic and that are gained through senses. Being clairaudient means that a person has the ability to hear beyond the physical hearing, such as music, voices, and various sounds. Being clairsentient means that a person has the ability to feel or sense beyond physical touch. This includes gaining information through heightened senses, intuition, or "gut feelings". Clairvoyance is having the ability to see beyond just the physical sight. This could be in the form of telepathy or precognition. The psychic may receive information from symbols, pictures that just appear in the mind, or overlays (seeing the past and present at the same time). A common way for clairvoyance to be seen is through telepathy. Telepathy is the ability to hear another person's thoughts, ideas, etc. A person with this capabi...
First of all, There are people in this world that can communicate to the dead,. It is called Spiritism. “Spiritism is the belief that the human personality continues to exist after death and can communicate with the living through the agency of a medium or psychic.” (“Spiritism”, 2017). There is a working teacher who shared her experience as being a medium through a book. Some things she encountered while being a medium was, “And then suddenly, as I was