Posted by anthonynorth
I cover so many areas of the paranormal in my theorizing that it can often seem that it is all un-coordinated. Yet most of my ideas fall clearly into an overall pattern. But trying to grasp the specifics of a ?holistic? system gives the impression of chaos.
So I thought it was time to state the basics of my overall ideas on the paranormal. In effect, what follows is a bottom line assessment of what I think the paranormal is, and how it works.
It begins with known effects.
These can be in sociology or psychology, and are well mapped out in themselves. However, I think society, culture and mind work together to produce an emergence that is more than the sum of their parts.
This effect, which I call psycho-sociology, arguably becomes, of itself, a lower level of consciousness that taps a more universal consciousness at the information level of the subatomic, with effects of the subatomic thus affecting the large scale we experience.
The result is a communal database.
We can all tap into this, and when we do, we can access information that is more than our own. Rather, it is a storehouse of universal memory and experience.
It works like a search engine. Key words or thoughts produce like information. But bearing in mind the fact that the subatomic is the building block of reality, emergence means that ?information? can actually turn into action in the world.
This gives us the whole array of paranormal experience.
The information element is what we know as extrasensory perception ? a form of information transfer. Hauntings and possessions are low level infiltrations causing reality shifts.
Mind over matter abilities become a deeper penetration into changing realities, which may involve physical manipulation, or simply the appearance of it. Premonitions of the future become probability calculations based on the information within the system.
How is this paranormal system accessed?
This is an important question because life appears to be not paranormal. I argue that man became man psychologically because he needed to ?concentrate? on a task in hand due to technology, beginning when he first fashioned a branch.
He broke his link with instinct, and his mind evolved into a conscious (for the task in hand), and an unconscious (the memory store). Increasing information in the outside world pushes this store further away. It therefore follows that when information is reduced ? the altered state ? the store comes closer to the conscious, thus allowing access to the paranormality within.
Of course, much of this is unproveable, and it remains a speculative hypothesis. At the lower level of research, I work with concepts such as cryptomnesia, multiple personality, hysteria, the split brain, hallucination, semiotics and more.
But my methodology argues that these are simply the lower level of understanding ? the specifics, if you like ? prior to the convergences that lead to emergence. It is their coming together that is yet to be explored.
When they come together, I think we approach states that can be found within the overall theory above. And when this occurs, the difference between the hypothesis, and what we class as ?supernatural? influence, is one of language and interpretation alone.
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008 ... aranormal/
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