DON'T BE SO SURE

Everyone knows that there is no such thing 

as the supernatural, right?

The brains of even young babies 

organize sensory information, 

supply what is missing 

and use the information 

to generate theories about the world.

As adults we continue to do that.

That process has led, not only to treasure,

but to new discoveries in science.

MY LATEST BOOK 

& THE GOD HELMET

A theory I proposed in my latest book to explain why we feel a presence in a haunted house was actually explored by science.

A Canadian neuroscientist named Michael Persinger 

has been studying the effects of electromagnetic fields on people’s perceptions of ghosts, 

hypothesizing that pulsed magnetic fields, imperceptible on a conscious level, 

can make people feel as if there is a “presence” in the room with them 

by causing unusual activity patterns in the brain’s temporal lobes. 

He created what he christened the "God Helmet."  

Wearing a helmet, generating a weak magnetic field, can cause a person to sense an unseen presence in the room.

Is it an illusion 

or merely the brain being amplified to sense what has been there all along?

Shades of hats made of tin foil!  

Maybe those poor people were actually onto something. 

SCIENCE HAS LIMITS

Questions that deal with supernatural explanations are, by definition, beyond the realm of nature: 

Hence, beyond the realm of what can be studied by science.

PATROLMEN HAVE TO DEAL 

WITH WHAT IS

There is actually a surprisingly vast number of paranormal encounters reported by law enforcement.

A young officer responding to a 5150 (a psychiatric disturbance) 

arrived to find an elderly woman who said  her son had taken drugs and was convinced 

that when he entered his room he could see an old man in a WWII uniform hanging on a noose from the ceiling. 

When the officer spoke to the son directly, 

the strung-out man claimed that he had been told not to enter the room by the spirit dwelling within

because it was the angry spirit’s father who was supposedly hanging from the ceiling.

The officer entered, finding no body.

At that moment, a veteran officer purportedly arrived on the scene, 

who told the other officer that he had been called to that very same residence years before 

to investigate a case of an older man who had hung himself there in that exact same bedroom. 

Apparently the victim had been a WWII veteran 

and had fully decked himself out in his old uniform before ending his own life on the noose.

It does make you wonder, doesn't it?  

Oh, has your dog ever stared into a corner 

in which you cannot see a thing?

What does it see do you imagine?