Frank Goad
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If you can thing of one paranormal experience that would prove the paranormal to someone.What would it be?
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What is the best way to prove the paranormal to someone?
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Heyo
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Seeing a meta study of peer reviewed articles about a phenomenon which comes to the conclusion that that phenomenon is now established science - while being sober.
Subduction Zone
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Frank Goad
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I think a near death experience.
dybmh
דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש
a lot of people have those and attribute them to natural causes.I think a near death experience.
let's think outside the box... shapeshifting would be a good trick for proving the paranormal. walking through a wall... lighting your fingers on fire by snapping or clapping ...
let's see what else
well the whole fig-tree thing in the Bible would probably work. a creative mind can come up with lots of proofs. They're all impossible and that's the point.
I think a near death experience.
Nah, my dad's had a few of them, to the extent of actually dying 3 times and coming back to life only because god is a lousy poker player. In real life the reason he is alive today is because of the expertise of the emergency crash team, to whom i will always be grateful.
I think a near death experience.
Materialists will attribute that to a brain in trouble and proof of nothing more.
The closest you could come is in controlled laboratory experiments.
“After a century of increasingly sophisticated investigations and more than a thousand controlled studies with combined odds against chance of 10 to the 104th power to 1, there is now strong evidence that psi phenomena exist. While this is an impressive statistic, all it means is that the outcomes of these experiments are definitely not due to coincidence. We’ve considered other common explanations like selective reporting and variations in experimental quality, and while those factors do moderate the overall results, there can be no little doubt that overall something interesting is going on. It seems increasingly likely that as physics continues to redefine our understanding of the fabric of reality, a theoretical outlook for a rational explanation for psi will eventually be established
Dean Radin Parapsychologist
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I want to see someone levitate and then get stuck to the ceiling then fall on the bed as it shakes and spins around and around.
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You just need evidence.
dybmh
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nice... that was my answer too. post #4.
Almost anything paranormal should do the trick, unless it is only momentary. If it is momentary then you can doubt it has happened.
Do it. In public. Then do it again.
I don't know. Even if you were able to levitate or whatever you might call paranormal, you would have to demonstrate it and then differentiate and distance it from known physical phenomena while providing evidence it isn't some previously unknown physical phenomenon. But probably many people would believe you if you just tell them you can read minds, predict the future or speak to the dead, so maybe you don't need to worry about proving it.
Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
I'd dare to tell a skeptic to spend the night at the Crescent Hotel & Spa in Eureka Springs, AR, or at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO. If they choose to stay at the Crescent, then I'd suggest that they request room 218 and go on one of the late-night ghost tours. I have never been to the Stanley Hotel yet, but it is definitely at the top of my bucket list. To be honest, I have had far too many experiences with the paranormal over the last fifteen years to pin-point just one. However, if I were to choose one, then it would be the Crescent.
I have never left the Crescent Hotel without having gathered evidence of the spirits who are there, whether it was through the use of my ghost-hunting equipment or direct contact with the spirits, and these interactions were observed and confirmed by other living people. In fact, I've investigated the Crescent five different times in the last two and a half years (give or take), and I'm planning to go back in January and perhaps even before then. The Crescent has turned out to be my favorite haunt (pun intended) by far, and this hotel is special to me because it is where my husband had his first paranormal experience, which made him a genuine believer.
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Honestly? Nothing comes to mind. But the reason for this is worth exploring a bit.
Nothing comes to mind in part because I can't be certain about the other person's understanding of paranormal, or, on a broader level, the ontological assumptions that underpin their worldview as a whole. If their framework for understanding reality is mapped in certain ways, it will be variously possible or extremely easy to present someone with something.
Secondrily, I don't use the term "paranormal" to describe any of my religious experiences that, to some, would fall within that category. I'm a Pagan, a Witch, and a Druid... not a paranormalist. I approach these phenomena from an explicitly Pagan/Druid framework and use terms consistent with my tradition, which typically differ not just in label but in substantial understanding.
And then get accused of fraud like psychics and physical mediums.
HonestJoe
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Nobody is denying the experiences (excluding any outright lies or frauds), it is the causes that you are claiming are "paranormal". The way that would be demonstrated would be exactly the same way as literally any other claim would.
First you need to define a clear hypothesis for the proposed cause, which generally doesn't happen in this field. Only once you have that can anyone assess all the available evidence to determine if it is consistent with the hypothesis or not.