Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
The Supernatural remains ambiguous to society. Accordingly, many of us do not know what to make of other individuals who claim the power to see into one’s future. Some chose to ignore, while some choose to believe. ABC news reported on May 2010 that “The psychic industry is a $2 billion a year business… even after two decades of lawsuits, bad press and bankruptcies” (Noll). So something must be happening in the Psychic industry for it to stay so resilient. It must offer something. The question is: Is it a supernatural service?
That week on a cloudy Tuesday morning, I decide to drive up to the location. The cracked sidewalks in this section of the city do not see as many travelers as it hears noise form the zooming cars. Across from an old and practically abandoned Mix Bowl shop and next to decaying liquor store is the psychic’s location. The two story house made of wood painted beige rises over the shabby surroundings. Around, the property’s perimeter is a fence whose gate is left open. I get out of my car and approach the location. Facing out, to the street, a sign reads “Laura Psychic Palm Reading” with red roses painted in between. Its front lawn is intricately groomed. The grass on the property is in a growing, tender stage- radiating...
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... that’s what I’m here for.”
After meeting Psychic Laura, I am left to wonder what role psychics serve in society. Call it the super natural or call it the power of a needed ear. A psychic’s services merely respond to the need of knowledge for the unpredictable that some individuals seek. Perhaps people pay to hear what they want to hear instead of accepting the truth. A psychic fills this void in society, and perhaps, that is why the industry is still around. We have a need to seek a voice when feeling down, and when there is no one to turn to, a Psychic is a call away even if it means $10 a minute.
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In order to break the cultural norms of psychics, con artists, paranormalist and faith healers, James Randi debunks frauds by criticizing religion. As a debunker, Randi emphasizes that trusting fakers give them superiority to control a spectator’s
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In today’s rational and scientifically explainable world, it would be hard for us to believe in supernatural intervention in our every day lives unlike during the times of the Shakespearean plays. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, there are three examples of this kind of thing: one with the witches, one with a ghost of a best friend, and one with the a few apparitions.
And finally, be ready that this will not take place in one weekend system. It could get months or even many years to create the abilities to turn out to be a spiritual psychic medium. For numerous accurate mediums it is something they are naturally born with but there are other people who can find out it if the vitality and open head are there and ready.
When it comes to the subject of psychics or "mediums" such as John Edward, most people want only to prove or disprove its existence. However, to prove or disprove this would be impossible because there is no scientific way to achieve either. When approaching such a sensitive subject as this, one should keep in mind a single question, is it reasonable to accept this as fact?
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As long as one can remember, paranormal beliefs have always existed in human society. They are living in every man’s childhood and in every corner of human’s life. From the burning belief about Santa Claus’s gifts under a Christmas’s tree in the morning to a scary game about Bloody Mary and her coming back from the dead, it seems that people cannot help but draw themselves to these stories. Even when these beliefs fade, there would be a new one that eventually shows up. No matter how much science has progressed, the belief in paranormal phenomena still remains in society. Eventually, the question about paranormal phenomena seems pale in comparison to the human’s undying belief about such things. It is really hard to pinpoint an exact cause for human’s belief in the paranormal for only one cause is not enough; however, it is sure that psychological, sociological, and biological factors play an enormous role that contributes to this belief.
The universe, and what it means to be alive is almost impossible to define; yet that does not stop humanity from trying. “Lonergan’s philosophy of the human person reveals that being human means having an unlimited number and variety of questions about life and the universe.” (Morgan, 1996). There is no limit on the number and variety of questions the human person will ask, "the most subversive people are those who ask questions” (Gaarder), as a result there are many varied and opinionated answers. This essay will explore three different theories on how one might find answers to life's ultimate questions. At one point or another, every human being has asked the question why: Why am I here? What is my purpose? What is the point? It is in our nature as human beings to reason, to think, to ask, it is what separates us from the rest of creation, and with this ability to reason, we are left with one question: Why? Throughout history many have tried to answer this question, some have come to the conclusion that meaning is found through God, and one’s faith. Others feel that life begins meaningless, and it is up to the individual to give life meaning; then there are those who believe that life has no meaning, and we are all essentially, just waiting to die, "The meaning of life is that it ends." (Kafka).
To understand the forces which activate life and the so called mysteries of life has given rise to different endeavors but confusion, skepticism and despair still abound. How then are we to recognize the Truth? “Spiritual bread immediately refreshes, Truth revitalizes and Light animates.I had always believed that life would happen in the future… after I had achieved ‘something’. However what is that something – I am not sure even
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The paranormal is not what most people believe it is, “ghosts”. There is a wide range in
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