| There are many types of paranormal phenomena | | | | things. |
| which have been reported. What many of these | | | | For want of a better word, let's call this stuff alien. Not |
| reports do not do, however, is account for them. | | | | in the sense of little green men, but meaning simply 'not |
| Broadly speaking, paranormal phenomena can be | | | | of this world'. |
| divided into | | | | What dowsers have long been able to detect, some |
| - things seen | | | | very expensive detectors are now able to do. That is, |
| - things felt | | | | they can prove that there are radiations of energy |
| Things Seen | | | | which have an effect on people. This might go some |
| These can be anything from little flickers out of the | | | | way to explaining some of the paranormal |
| corner of your eye to figures just glimpsed quickly to | | | | phenomena. But it is by no means the whole answer. |
| some more persistent vision. The one we've had | | | | Assuming that science can now detect what are very |
| reported most often are two staring, red eyes! Usually | | | | subtle energies which have been sensed by humans |
| at night, when a person wakes up. | | | | for a long time, it makes sense to assume that there |
| Things Felt | | | | are other, even more subtle ones awaiting discovery. |
| This is a broader category and can include sensations | | | | The origin of these ones, however, probably is not in |
| of heat and cold, strange and unpleasant smells, feeling | | | | the soil, but in the cosmos. Off-world, alien energies are |
| you're being watched or are not alone, or just plain | | | | part of what we normally live in, like microwaves. But |
| uncomfortable. | | | | there is a difference, and it is crucial. |
| Now, most of us have probably experienced one, | | | | Rather than just being radiating waves of a certain |
| maybe two or even three of these things. Films, novels | | | | type of energy, these off-world ones can contain |
| and short stories thrive on these things. But the missing | | | | other information. They can contain, if you will, a |
| element in most of these descriptions is why do they | | | | consciousness. Such consciousness can be attracted |
| happen? | | | | by things happening here on earth. |
| For many people, it's just easier to say they are to do | | | | But it is important not to assume that such beings even |
| with ghosts and leave it at that. | | | | are aware of us as physical beings. Perhaps we |
| But blaming all this stuff on ghosts is far too easy, and | | | | register with them as something like a bad smell! |
| is probably very wrong. | | | | But to us, they register as a pair of glowing eyes or a |
| The most common cause of the paranormal | | | | feeling of being watched. |
| phenomena mentioned above is to do with the | | | | It is time to open up our minds to other things than |
| environment and the energies there. | | | | ghosts as the origin of paranormal phenomena. Such |
| We live in a sea of invisible things. Radio waves go | | | | experiences are strange, so why not accept that the |
| through us, microwaves surround us, electromagnetic | | | | cause of them could be equally strange? |
| fields constantly swamp us...and that's just the stuff we | | | | Who knows who or what is inhabiting the space |
| are willing to acknowledge! | | | | around and among us right now? What scientific |
| There are also plenty of other invisible influences which | | | | instruments cannot yet detect, our senses have been |
| science is less willing to admit to. For example, there | | | | telling us about for hundreds, if not thousands of years. |
| are strange currents of energy in the earth. There are | | | | Yet it's only recently that we have had the imagination |
| the planets and the sun and moon exerting their own | | | | to consider the wider implications. |
| influences. And, beyond that, there are other, stranger | | | | |