the
mentalist
by Jason D Varga
Para ‘Normal’ - Never Lose the Magic According to the dictionary definition, Paranormal: Adjective; Denoting events or phenomena that are beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. Let us contemplate this for a moment. Those of us who have experienced, or have knowledge of the paranormal, are sometimes ridiculed by those who have not; they say that the paranormal doesn’t exist because science hasn’t proven it exists. My answer to that is ‘...Yet!’ 32
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It is BEYOND the scope of scientific understanding at the moment and, as we know, science is everchanging, ever-evolving and one day what we see as magical and unexplainable will be explained away. Therein lies the rub.
“I had to know how and why it worked.” However, science catches up slowly with things that were once considered supernatural, paranormal or magic. For example, when the sun would disappear and the day turned to night in the middle of the
afternoon: an eclipse was once considered a supernatural event, until astronomical science explained it away. When the primitive medicine man used ‘magical herbs’ for healing, those same herbs were investigated and synthesised by chemists and have now become part of our standard pharmaceutical, medical establishment. When those ancient healers used trance states to help people with their mental, emotional and physical health and now we recognise them in our own psychological sciences. All these instances and so much more that were once considered ‘magic’, are now part of our everyday lives. I remember my grandfather telling me about science fiction books he would read as a child, about cars that could go faster than 100 miles per hour , rocket ships that could leave the earth’s
