The Mentalist

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!’

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

atmosphere, Dick Tracey with a wristwatch he could make video calls on. What was once science ‘fiction’ is now science ‘fact’.

I think that it’s great to have science catching up, especially with the advent of quantum sciences and more open-minded scientific research. However, there may be a downside.

Humankind evolves via our imaginations, we imagine something, we may just get a perceptive glimpse of something and that is enough to spur us on, to investigate, study and experiment. Unfortunately, we then limit ourselves. If we explain something via science, we measure and weigh it, we wrap it up with a nice little label and pigeonhole it. “Oh, we’ve worked that one out, we no longer need to consider it anything important.”

If we see everything as a puzzle to be solved and then, once solved put it away, are we missing out on the magic? Are we limiting our beliefs about a certain thing because science has told us what it is?

I, for one, like a bit of mystery. I was once someone who

was not satisfied that something worked, I had to know how and why it worked, until I realised that I was limiting myself to someone else’s beliefs. The scope for advancement, for imagination, to evolve was squashed by imposing these limits on myself.

“Never lose the magic, the mystery, for it fuels our imagination and is the mother of invention.”

Let’s take the idea of Spirit Guides. The accepted definition around spiritual people is that a spirit guide, in western spiritualism, is an entity that remains as a disincarnate spirit to act as a guide or protector to a living incarnated human being. I’ve used spirit guides for a while now and the best example was when our clothes dryer broke down. Not knowing anything about clothes dryers and not wanting to spend the money on a new one, I meditated asking for a guide to come forth that could help me with information to fix the dryer. Next thing you know, I had taken the whole thing apart. I fixed it with a 15 dollar bearing from the hardware store. It has worked perfectly ever since.

Now that may seem paranormal, but maybe, just maybe, somewhere in my subconscious, I had information that I picked up watching a TV show or read somewhere. Somehow this information was stored at an unconscious level, and I accessed that information via meditation. That would sound more ‘scientific’, more acceptable to the everyday person. Either way, who cares? It worked, that’s all I am concerned about. I will continue to use spirit guides in this vein because they are very helpful and, by doing so, I am not limiting myself or my abilities, by thinking “Well, I just wouldn’t have that information in me. Call them spirit guides, angels, whatever, it’s just semantics. If I take the magic away by wrapping it up and labelling it scientifically then it may not work anymore and that is not something I wish to happen, they are just too handy.

In short, never lose the magic, the mystery, for it fuels our imagination and is the mother of invention.

ESPecially best wishes,

The Mentalist