Do you believe in supernatural/paranormal?

[Jaga]

I was just fixing a cheesecake and watching Larry King on CNN. He invited a couple of psychics who earn their living by telling people about their future, past and being a medium between their clients and their dead relatives.

Do you believe in paranormal? I do not mean - believing in God. Did ever of you ever visited a psychic?

I do believe that sometimes somehow we are guided by spirits from above that somehow can give us the messages about some of the future? I do believe that there are good souls there but .. I do not believe that psychics who take money for their "work" really are the right media...

[george]

Not including you Jaga. However i noticed that most people who believe in paranormal are people who don't believe in any kind of religion at all. Reminds me of GK Chesterton's quote " Those who believe in nothing will believe in anything"

[Jaga]

George,

this may be true because these psychics do not really want to talk about any specyfic god just the "the God".

[rdywenur]

Yes I do. Since I am a Scorpio it is in my blood to be psychic or is that psycho....LOL ;D

Ocassionally I have been to a psychic for fun. I don't believe in them but do feel there are people that are truly psychic.

I also feel maybe there is something to the spirit world but not really into that myself.

I was raised Catholic and beleive in God but also have very strong feelings since a child and they happen so how do you explain that.

[sciwriter]

I believe in the paranormal in that some people are eons ahead in evolution and use mental telepathy to ommunicate with other live humans, not dead spirits; e.g.:
www.alexa.com/browse?&CategoryID=379

I don't believe that Art Bell haS connected to the paranormal.

[Bob S]

;D I believe in God, The Holy Ghost, Jesus, The Blessed Virgin and the Angels. even though I have never been contacted by them. As a matter of fact, I have never been contacted by ghosts, ghouls or goblins and have never saw any. If a ghost visited me perhaps I could believe they existed. If anything supernatural did occur to me than I could believe or in the case of God, it would strengthen my belief. ;D

[Jaga]

Now then, I have been visited by a friendly and very curios spirit on many occasions, and it was very irritating to me as a person. Yes! It always occurred at night, while I was trying to sleep. Still to this day, I only am able to sleep for two hours at a time, then toss about, drink a glass of milk and return to bed. At that time, my sleep pattern was even worse.

Charles,

pray for this soul. I am usually very scared of nothing but whenever I lived by myself in the apartment I never had these types of occurences. But I had a roomate for a half of the year - so I should not be scared and then.. I was woken up a couple of times seeing a shadow of somebody. Of course I am not sure - that may be just a shadow but... I was scared and I should not be since I was not alone, there was a roomate in the next room. I do not know the history of this place.

[suzanne]

No, I don't believe in any kind of paranormal or supernatural beings. I do believe in karma, however.

[george]

One more important point of this subject. Do some people believe in the paranormal because they want to believe in it? Thats a most important question, because i think if one WANTS to believe in something it will come true in their eyes.

[varsovian]

You accept the existence of the supernatural only when you have an experience.

I grew up in a haunted house and felt the presence of my dead mother for many years.

We had one poltergeist, which stopped when I grew up, and one apparition.
The poltergeist once hit my mother, she told me about it. The apparition appeared to my mother and my brother (then aged 3 - he came downstairs and asked who the "men in grey" was).
I believe my dead mother saved me from 2 road accidents by making me act completely out of character immediately before the events. This last thing is a matter of belief though - and I am happy for cynics to reject it. She also appeared and talked to my wife-to-be (who then went to the family photo album to confirm her suspicions as to who it could have been - they'd never met), and to my aunt. This one was funny, she came back from the dead to tell my aunt, "Sheila, those diets never did me any good."
We also had phantom cigar smoke reported by a workman in the house. That spooked him because he knew he was alone. I remember a glass bottle exploding once: can lemonade bottles explode on their own? Possibly, I must find out.
When my parents bought the house, the last comment from the departing ex-owners was "We're leaving you Len, but he's harmless."

[nancy]

You accept the existence of the supernatural only when you have an experience.

I agree - an experience (or several, such as varsovian has had) will make a believer out of you. It did me - I had a few experiences in the year or so after my mother died. A couple of months after she died, I was driving alone, when the car was filled with the scent of her perfume. I nearly drove off the side of the road! The scent stayed with me most of the day, then cleared once she decided (?) she had had enough of the the Museum I had gone to visit. The whole experience really shook me up, but prepared me for the other ones that happened later

[rdywenur]

Oh Nancy I had an experience similar to that too. A few years ago my brother put their poodle to sleep. (I had gotten the puppy for the kids and was just as attached) Shortly after she was put to sleep one day I was sitting on my sofa reading a book and all of a sudden I smelled what smelled like doggy breath. I swear. I looked up to see if my patio door was open and if possibly some scent blew in but the door was closed. To this day I felt it was her saying good bye.

[Jaga]

rdywenur said:

Oh Nancy I had an experience similar to that too. A few years ago my brother put their poodle to sleep. (I had gotten the puppy for the kids and was just as attached) Shortly after she was put to sleep one day I was sitting on my sofa reading a book and all of a sudden I smelled what smelled like doggy breath. I swear. I looked up to see if my patio door was open and if possibly some scent blew in but the door was closed. To this day I felt it was her saying good bye.

This is so interesting. I wish there was some afterlife for animals also!

By the way, just yesterday I watched parts of "uncovered Egypt" or something like that on history channel. They were talking about how Champollion discovered the hieroglyphs, its meaning and also the meaning of Egyptian culture.

Simply speaking and of course using simplifications - The main reason why egyptians faraons were buried in this pyramid is to achieve the rebirth for themselves and their people. Egyptians strongly believed in afterlife - without having any God's revelation really...

the symbol or rebirth is like a cockroach

[rdywenur]

I hope you mean a beetle (scarab)...cockaroach sounds so grose. Yuk!!!!