By Mort Amsel (Reporter)
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If you watch much paranormal television, you’ve probably noticed a trend. On television, many of the “serious” paranormal teams refuse to consider psychic information in their investigation because it isn’t scientific. Ironically, this trend away from engaging psychics in paranormal investigation flies in the face of research conducted by the true pioneers of scientific paranormal investigation – parapsychologists and psychical researchers.

Parapsychologists have engaged in scientific paranormal research using the scientific method under controlled conditions since 1882. In that time, one of the main things they have established with regards to “ghost” research is this: all research involving ghosts is actually psychic research because all ghost events are psychic events. For more information on this, you can read my previous post, Paranormal Phenomena Identified. 

 

Parapsychological science has established that, in order to truly study ghost phenomena, one must engage psychic abilities. Therefore, refusing to acknowledge psychic contributions during a television paranormal investigation simply doesn’t make sense.

Psychic Energy – It’s No Big Deal

I firmly believe everyone has psychic abilities. I’m in good company on this. Psychics like Edgar Cayce and paranormal scientists (parapsychologists) like Barry Taff and Loyd Auerbach have all made similar statements. Nearly everyone can relate at least one or two of those uncanny “coincidences” that occur in life – knowing who is going to call just before the phone rings, etc.

The problem for most of us is we simply refuse to tune into it because it doesn’t make sense given the current skepticism surrounding psychic abilities. It’s still considered a little bit fringe to believe you may be psychic, even though I believe everyone is. Intuition is actually a normal and necessary part of the animal kingdom. Intuition helps smaller and weaker animals evade predators. You can read more about intuition in my article for Paranormal Underground, embedded below. 

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