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I recently read an article entitled "All in the mind" by Paul Chambers. You can find it here:

http://www.assap.ac.uk/newsite/articles/Mind.html

There was another interesting article here:

http://www.assap.ac.uk/newsite/articles/Near%20sleep%20experiences.html


These articles had a profound impact on me having experienced a fair number of the phenomena listed. So my questions are:

Whether supernatural or brain generated the experiential nature of the phenomena still exists. Do you think the expanding parameters of scientific understanding gives credence to the uncharted powers of the mind? Are all supernatural experiences generated internally? Or do you think application of the scientific method to the supernatural will result in verification of common beliefs such as external entities?

This article was written in 1999, I find it strange how this scientific knowledge has not become more commonplace and assimilated into popular understanding. What are the wider social ramifications of explaining the supernatural in terms of psychological and neurological dysfunction?

Nandor Fodor was way ahead of his time regarding just such subjects.

The functions of the mind, or "glitches" of the brain can well account for a large percentage of what is believed to be supernatural phenomena.. all one needs to look at is the fact that hypochondria can physically effect a person, and the placebo effect can "Cure" a person.

Between delusions, hallucinations, and biased observations you can explain 90 percent of supernatural.. paranormal experiences while the remanding 10 percent are more then likely hoaxes, or outright fabrications.

Also you can explain it by environment. I have seen on a number of occasions investigators found that hallucinations started because of various things in the household like faulty electrical boxes, fumes coming into the house because of stored paints and things like that. Most of the time a natural explanation to what some perceived to be paranormal/supernatural. No matter which view someone has it is all theory generally speaking if it cannot be explained by something I mentioned prior. We cannot prove either side of it; belief or non belief at this time.

My experiences were somewhat different. I would "see" and "hear" things and sounds when I was having a headache. I am a bit on the fence about the whole, " It's all in the Mind" thing. A part of me believes that the headache was a sign, a warning. But the other part of me says it's the headache that caused these things to happen. It's all sensory perceptions, I guess. We are all ruled by our senses. It is objective reality that is in question here, I'd say. I don't know much about the scientific aspect of this. What we perceive via our senses get stored in our brains. And when something triggers in our brains, the essence of what we sense gets projected into the real world. Which explains the majority of paranormal cases. Though I do know there are some real stuff around. With awareness, we somehow get the ability to"block" certain experiences. Have you watched the movie, A Beautiful Mind? It can get extremely surreal. There are many things that have not been recognised and accepted by the mainstream. And it will always remain so.

"scientific understanding gives credence to the uncharted powers of the mind" - I think that's ridiculous. There is more than 5 senses, but not a "sixth sense" so to say. There's things like sympathy, temperature, and so on and so forth.
I completely believe that "supernatural" things are in the mind.

Well, I reckon we're all suffering from mass psychosis.

I would recommend searching medical articles after the year 2005 when magnetic resonance imaging became the best way to study the human brain. Advances in neuroscience have left a lot of these phenomenon standing in stagnant waters of old school thought. While some of these theories are still relevant, I would rather see new studies with the use of MRI or even MRA, Pet Scans, etc to denote the areas of the brain becoming active. If a patient is delusional or hallucinating, it can now be detected and pin-pointed to a specific part of the brain, a neurological cause and effect.

It could be that the brain is not functioning properly, because of a lack of sleep, nutrients, etc. These factors can have effects on the brain and body, which causes people to become delusional about their experiences, which can lead people to making false claims, due to misinterpretations of the brain.

The mind is key to the true supernatural.

I think their is evidence that dark minds let something else in, and that pleading minds are cause reality to shift, or invoke other entities.

We know that we are swimming in a soup of invisible dark energy and matter. Most people find this difficult to imagine so here is a simple analogy.

Imagine the Galaxy is a silver bowl of brown minestrone soup, floating upon the Universal Sea.

In the soup are peas and bits of carrots, when stirred in a spiral they do not fly out into the Sea. They all spin around at the same speed in the brown soup.

Now we cannot see or measure that brown soup, but observation tells us it is there. We can see the carrots and peas spinning around in the visible spectrum.

It is logical to conclude the brown soup has lots of other ingredients under the surface, some of which are intelligent. They may well be adding to the salt and spices?

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..perhaps not all the things are part of the mind. The "things" happen, and the mind need to analyze this happening. Why is more often, that, the opinion of a viewer, is the one who decide what is hoax or supernatural. You see and the brain analyze, not the brain see, and then, you analyze. Confuse!!

Everything we experience physically, emotionally, visually or otherwise is experienced "All in the mind". We understand only what our biased and limited knowledge lets us understand; we are a product of our enculturation and understand according to that knowledge we possess.

I cannot believe I posted 'their' instead of 'there', actually that's a lie. Smacks wrist, note to self , do not post whilst wasted. On a personal note a view it as a challenge to create something new whilst having a blast. =)

Ahem, any-how, now back to theories.

I did like the mention of "seeing small"

When people Drone on and bore me to death about some c omplex matter on their mind (got it right this time , smiles)

They become small to me, visibly insignificant, I have already computed their reasoning, their conclusions, their mundane take on things.

Sometimes this happens in a few minutes, sometimes in 10 minutes.

It is actually quite disturbing watching their faces move and watching the annoying obvious bull spew forth.

I watch them dissapear down a long black tunnel hoping they will say something unexpected or interesting but they rarely do.

Now some on here will say I am being some wierd elitest, gotta nip that one in the bud. Not so, it just happens and it is my own unconcious mind that does so.

I can overide the program (with some effort) but why bother, my instincts and Quantum mind are normally well ahead of the game.

I am interested in anyone else who has the same condition ?

I have seen some things that made me think, Oh, my mind is just playing tricks on me!!... Such as, shadows, things out of the corner of my eye, etc.. Heard things that may or may not necessarily be there, ya know? But when it comes to me blatantly seeing something right in front of my face, no, I do NOT think that that would be all in my mind ;) So I do agree somewhat and do disagree somewhat. There are things in this world that I just can not explain and neither can science. Weird.

I know Russian physicists that believe thoughts are things and that the Universe is a concept within a greater being...we all add to.

If this is the case then lets have fun and Punch some holes.

Mind over Matter...

Weaklings need not Apply.

You "know" them personally or have just heard of them?
Names and details. Actual details, else there's no point posting that. Everyone's "heard" of someone that can "prove" those sorts of things - and yet no one can come up with legitimate and scientific fact.

With all of that said, I clearly don't believe in the 'power of the mind'.
I don't believe in crap like 'astral projection', or metaphysics.

"I find it strange how this scientific knowledge has not become more commonplace and assimilated into popular understanding" - that is because science is based on provable FACT. It is KNOWLEDGE. There's a HUGE difference between FACTS and idiots who think one thing. Take Homeopathy for example - Scientifically baseless, yet some morons STILL believe in it.
Just because you think it is true, doesn't mean it is.

Absolutely although if we unlock 100% of the mind if possible but still un-probable then we can do and experience things like never before in many ways. Just to be clear in the movie powder it said we could be pure energy if that happens or possibly be like gods. If you watch the movie Lucy she can control things with the mind and speak to others without saying a word. Keep in my these are just movies but the possibilties could be there who knows if we can tap full potential locked inside of us we could be like the show Tomorrow People.

Lucy was made to spoof the notion about that myth. Read snopes article on that way antiquedeted myth.

There are documented instances where the government has funded and encouraged psychic abilities such as remote viewing to spy on enemies

and after 21 million bucks spent the research of the data produced by the Sanford Institute ( not affiliated with the university) Russel Tarrg and his collages showed no significant info or credibility. In other words nothing better then chance.

This actually reminds me a lot of the movie "Lucy" starring Scarlett Johansen, and what the human brain is capable of if we reach 100% capacity. Right now we only use 10%. Imagine - just TEN PERCENT of our entire brains are being used! I think this is why the subconscious is still such a fascinating realm of the brain to study.

Paranormal phenomena I believe is instinctual. You "just know" when something is off about the energy of a place or person. With this article being written 15 years ago, there should be more technology out there that is able to sticky the link between what our brains perceive as paranormal versus what actually exists. I definitely want to look into this further - it's an interesting study!

The idea that we only use 10 percent of our brains is a myth, and urban legend nothing more. It was first imagined by a totally unscientific individual.
Go to snopes.com to read more. The movie Lucy is a movie that expoited the myth, which is what movies are fiction based.