the paranormal

Below is a brief description of what we believe the "paranormal" to mean.

Paranormal is a term used to describe anomalous events, the scientific investigation of these events is called parapsychology. Any form of science is constantly acquiring knowledge and understanding. Science does not stand still, it is a constant learning curve and sometimes there are mistakes and false claims made. For example, in 1850 the German psychologist Johannes Muller stated that science could never discover the speed of the nervous impulse; two years later Hermann Von Helmholtz did. When Earnest Rutherford was a student his tutor told him ‘not to bother taking up physics because scientists had a complete picture of the nature of matter and only the final details remained to be settled’; Earnest went on to split the atom.

There are many such examples and I could go on and on but it shows how even the most scientific people can get things wrong and be biased. This ‘false’ perception of events can last for a number of years and takes a great deal of changing. Science does not deal well with genuine anomalies that challenge these established views and these anomalies are the basis of parapsychology. What is not acceptable to parapsychologists is a view point, often come across in science, ‘if something ‘paranormal’ contradicts physics it simply cannot exist’!

This is not a viable point of view. In the 18th century, following the pronouncement of the great French chemist Antoine Lavoisier that ‘there were no stones in heaven and that none could therefore fall to earth’, museums removed all meteorites from their exhibits. This seems ludicrous now, yet parapsychologists who discount anything that challenges physics is simply telling us that ‘stones don’t fall from heaven’ again.

Ref; Hans J. Eysenck et al. Explaining the Unexplained, (1993) Multi media books LTD.