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    today’s production of films, ghosts and paranormal beings are a popular topic. However, even with today’s modern science, there is no legitimate proof of ghosts or spirits. When unexplainable things happen when no one else is around, the idea of a paranormal being might seem rational. Despite the speculation of the phenomenon, what exactly is paranormal activity and how do residual areas become haunted by these spirits? The terms “supernatural” and “paranormal” are often confused. Supernatural is relating

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    People claim to have had paranormal encounters while wearing Dr. Michael Persingers God Helmet. Given that the helmet exposes a weak magnetic field beside ones temporal lobes, this is very much possible. Persinger believed that electromagnetic changes in earths crust during earthquakes might cause unusual atmospheric phenomena. Considering that earthquakes do generate weak magnetic fields, he thought that individuals may experience paranormal phenomena in result. Creating the helmet, he put his experiment

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    Essay about If I See A Ghost Are My Senses

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    experiment carried out by the Toronto Society Of Psychical Research. They discovered that séance phenomena might be attributed, at least in part, to the same psychokinetic force that is commonly believed to be responsible for poltergeist (unquiet ghost) activity. They suggested that this force could be produced by the minds of the sitters, fuelled perhaps by their unanimous belief that such phenomena would occur during the séance. They theorized that the role of the medium was that of a placebo,

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    humans. This suggests that the scientific community might, in time, be able to accept the existence of the paranormal if any legitimate evidence were provided. However, it must be recognized that the dubitable position maintained by psychic phenomena within academia has not diminished its visibility in today's strikingly modern and generally discriminating society. That the study of psychic phenomena is so prevalent among respected members of our society is a testament to its durability despite continued

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    Research Issues in Parapsychology Essay

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    apparitions to the forefront of popular consciousness. Seances became popular parlor activities, and a lucky few made a decent living from the paranormal fancies of the Victorian Age. As these pursuits gained notoriety for their entertainment value, however, science sought to find fact behind them. It was around this time that the study of the paranormal began to emerge. This originally consisted of debunking the popular mystics of the day. Harry Houdini popularized this as he traveled the country

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    Paranormal Mystery: Can we really talk to the Dead? I see dead people! In the movie, The Sixth Sense, the little boy says the now-famous line, “I see dead people.” And in the movie he would see them with his physical eyes. They would scare him…and rightly so, jumping out at him in all their gruesome glory. But do some of us actually see dead people walking around among the living? Let’s find out… Difficult to believe People in nearly every culture have long believed that communication with the dead

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    Literature Review

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    anti-vaccination-Literature Review Student Name: Institution: Introduction Anti-vaccination proponents have largely embedded their energies in promoting doubt in parents, instructing forms of biomedical fear while capitalizing on their spiritual and paranormal belief naivety to enforce the same. These approaches are ensured to make it possible that even with any increase in people’s knowledge and evidence, their rational strength over anti-vaccine movements become a myriad.[Lewandowsky et al. 2013] Decision

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    outside of the body, these individual who experience such phenomena often are aware of their surroundings and can hear what is being said around them (Slick, n.d.). In turn, near death experience refers to the possibility of detachment from one’s body, a feeling of levitation, total serenity, security, warmth and absolute dissolution and the presence of light; usually associated with death (McRae, 2014). These are indexes for the paranormal. Out of body experiences could happen to anyone, but many

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    Poltergeist are loud supernatural ghosts that are not something you want to mess with. Have you ever had the bed shake unexpectedly? Or have the power go out when there’s a not even a storm? Or maybe even had some disappearing objects… Well this could be the result of a Poltergeist. We believe that Poltergeists are real. (MOLLY) Poltergeist hauntings have been going on for a very long time. Several historical poltergeist cases have been well documented. One of the first poltergeist cases was the

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    especially around Halloween. While other people strongly believe in life after death and provide scientific evidence to back up their claims. Then there are individuals who just aren’t sure what to believe when it comes to paranormal science. So, if you’re investigating into the paranormal, you can be as high or low tech as you want – depending on what your goal is.

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