The Coming Age of Weird

Here’s a little known fact: the majority of people in the US and the UK believe in some form of paranormal reality or phenomena—quite independently of their educational backgrounds or whether they believe in God. What’s more, surveys show that many, many people claim to actually have experienced one or more of those phenomena.

This is consistent with at least a century worth of psi research that has shown beyond any reasonable doubt that some of the paranormal stuff is real, whatever the explanation or nature of these things turn out to be.

This begs the question: if most people across education levels think the paranormal is real, why has “official academia” always been so incredibly hostile towards it? Mind you, many (if not most) important individual scientists and academics were interested in these things and even thought they were real; it’s official science that has been at war with anybody looking into it for a long time....<<<Read More>>>...