paranormal

Look over there, it’s a rainbow! I cannot grab it nor place it in a jar. There were however many that seen it that day, peering between the mountains, as if it was connecting something. I suppose it had to be a rainbow because that is what I was told it was. Just like most other things, I am told and taught that things I see are real or not. Although I am confused, who said or decided that the rainbow was real. This is where the journey began, deciding what real means to me. There is a growing belief in the paranormal according to gallop polls the National Scientific Foundation recently compiled. Just because there is an interest does that mean that the paranormal should be studied? Why is it that the paranormal is the outcast to science? Is science the only source or form of learning, knowing, and teaching? The challenge of paranormal studies should not be dismissed on the basis that there is no proof or evidence. History and science both have taught us that belief can be wrong.
First, look at belief as a reason to study the paranormal. There is no evidence or proof to deter some beliefs. Religion as an example, there is no physical proofs that God exists. Those that believe in God do not require seeing, only that their own ideas of living through his guidelines, which are views of the writer in books. Faithfully, those believing go to church on Sunday and study his practice. The writers of religious materials have reached many throughout time, with just a desire to believe to back it. In the article, “Let’s get metaphysical; Belief in paranormal rises in decade” Jennifer Harper of the Washington Times reports on the 2002 National Science Foundation’s gallop poll. Harper states,
“Beliefs in psychic healing, ESP, haunted houses, ghosts, aliens, communication with the dead and astrology has increase in the past decade. About 28 percent of us, for example, thought houses could be haunted in 1990. That figure has since increased to 43 percent” (2).