Why do you feel people should believe or disbelieve in psychic abilities?

Answer 1

Traditionally people in general have believed in psychic abilities such as telepathy and clarivoyance. Many people who don't think of themselves as "psychic" nevertheless believe they have had some form of experience where they knew something for which they could produce no rational explanation.

The real question is are there people who have more highly developed abilities, and are all the claims - including those of everyday "non-psychic" people - actually explainable in a logical rational and materialistic way?

While many skeptics have attempted to convince the world that there are no legitimate scientific examples of psychic ability, this is from the actual truth. In fact, there have been literally hundreds of replicated experiments conducted by credentialed academicians all over the world for about a century now. These results have been published in peer-reviewed, scientific journals, such as the Journal of Parapsychology and the Journal of Consciousness Studies. The data clearly shows that some psychic abiltiies, such as telepathy and clairvoyance (today known as "remote viewing") is quite real. So denying it today is nothing more than a last-ditch effort by skeptics to try to convince the world that psychic abilities are not real because skeptics say so.

Skeptics have used science to validate their counterarguments against psychic abilities and phenomena. But Science has changed in the intervening century since the rise of Materialism. Materialism is the dogmatic thinking that only that which can be measured or detected is real and therefore worthy of scientific inquiry. Skeptics - who are mainly materialists - say that psychic abilities and phenomena are not measurable and are therefore not real. They try to explain these phenomena using materialistic counter-arguments. But there is now a problem with this tactic. Materialism has now been scientifically demonstrated as an invalid way to explain reality. It is no longer rational to use classical physics and Materialism as the sole determinant of the validity of any anomalous claim about reality.

The reason for this change in science over the past century is the rise of Quantum Mechanics. Quantum mechanics is the modern basis for all of Science. Once thought simply to be an adjunct and uninteresting side area of study, during the 20th century it has been found that everything in the Universe is in some way grounded in Quantum Mechanics. One of the most important experiments in Quantum Mechanics is the Dual Slit Experiment. And this experiment, as it has evolved over the past century, has now demonstrated without question that an external material objective reality cannot be the sole basis for the reality in which we live.

Briefly, it has been found that it is possible to alter or destroy ancillary information about an experiment and is so doing alter the material outcome of the physical experiment. This should not happen in an objective reality that is solely materialistic. Information has to be connected to the structure of reality in some way. Exactly how this works is unknown. But what is known is that it is no longer satisfactory to rely on a "common sense" materialistic interpreation of reality when examining anomalous claims about reality, such as those of psychic abilities and phenomena.

In the end, each person will believe what they want. And when you think about it, each of us must arrive at our own version of truth. It is not the role of any person or group, self-appointed or otherwise, to dictate truth to anyone else. There do not appear to be any "priviledged few" or "keepers of the truth". There is no need to police statements made by anyone to protect the world against a supposed "rising tide of irrationality". This is the job of each individual. And now that it is clear that there are no easy answers - it is more important than ever for each individual to make up there own minds with no thought or concern for what anyone else thinks.