The Paranormal (Where is it now?)

by dhw, Monday, January 19, 2009, 12:40 (5547 days ago) @ BBella

BBella has kindly recounted another of her strange experiences, which I shan't attempt to summarize. - What interests me especially is the 4-year-old boy's dream about the blue house, which he described so vividly but obviously could not have known anything about. Once again, we're dealing with a kind of perception that transcends the normal. - You talk of vibrations. We can't perceive light waves and sound waves, but something outside us emits them, and there's machinery inside us that transforms them back into the images/sounds of the original. We needn't dwell on how absolutely astonishing this is (though I feel I should mention it), because in this context what springs to mind is the possible presence of other types of wave. There is, of course, no proof, but here are three interesting quotes from Wikipedia: - "The exact nature of this....is a matter of speculation."
"It is hard to imagine experiments to detect it in the laboratory."
"It has been noted that the names....serve mainly as expressions of human ignorance, much like the marking of early maps with 'terra incognita'." - Here are two more quotes: - "Natural objects obey the laws of nature, even those laws that we have not yet discovered." (George)
"One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and intelligence of their own, they are wiser than we are..." (Heinrich Hertz, quoted by George). - If the laws of nature are clever enough to devise such wonders as life, reproduction, sight, hearing etc., perhaps they can also create other means of perception and communication, as apparently experienced by so many of our fellow creatures, human and non-human. - The three Wikipedia quotes have nothing to do with the paranormal. The bits I left out are "dark energy", which some scientists believe makes up 74% of the universe, and "dark matter", which they think comprises 22% of the universe. There seems to be an awful lot of "terra incognita" up there. Maybe there's some down here as well.


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