by Todd Daigneault

Created on: September 01, 2010

Although I know strongly that paranormal activity exists, through experiences and research, I think there can be a case made against believing in it.  But this does not (or should not) denote debunking or skepticism in any shape or form.  Belief in something and actually knowing it exists, through hard proof and other mechanisms, are two different things. Belief can also be generated by knowing and understanding paranormal phenomena, too.  So the belief mechanism can be inextricably complicated and tricky at times.  It becomes a fine line.  We may believe in a God.  But we may never have seen such a celestial being, so do we know for certain?  We may take the word of the Holy Bible (or other sacred texts), but it is still a belief, based on faith, which is still the same thing.

As a paranormal researcher/experiencer, I have encountered many paranormal beings.  Does this mean I still cannot believe in it?  The evidence abounds, so as a researcher, my mindset has moved beyond the faith mechanisms into a belief backed up by proof.  That's a key difference that should be understood.  Believing in something-backed up by empirical evidence.  Although the debunkers will still try and rule the day.  But even their argument crumbles under the weight.  However, as a researcher, when confronted by strong evidence, we have to believe.  However, belief is tempered by a reality that although our world is just a sliver of the realities that are out there, as researchers, we know there still is not a full understanding of what is going on. 

We are trying to understand a phenomena that can be centuries ahead of our own understanding.  So believing in it is tempered by our own limited understanding of it.  A mechanism, at times tinged with faith, in our limited, perceptual view of things.  However, we know something beyond the explainable, the mundane, the prosaic is happening.  Even saying that, these phenomena can be as mundane as a weather system, or the ocean that can fuel it.  The fact should not sway our mechanisms-only enhancing them.  For we are discovering new things about our world all the time.  These phenomena could be as nat

Quantum physicists, through their formulas and theorems, state, unequivocally, that there are multiverses and other realities.  Although no scientist has yet to reach them, we know they exist.  A lot of paranormal activity is linked to quantum physicists, and slowly a case is being made for them.  We are moving beyond belief, faith, into the hard evidence of existence. 

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