Inexplicable or Paranormal events- What have you experienced, or read?

Wow that's alot of questions. I'll try to answer all of them, though I don't promise anythin' 'cause I'm feeling kinda ill today. Hmm..well as a self-professed witch and Investigator, the former for three years now, and the latter for only a few days currently..I can say that I've had experiences which can be classified as 'supernatural'. And though science preferrs not to dabble in the 'occult' I'd like to say it has an easy time of proving it. One of the problems, I think, is that one book or two isn't usually enough to explain something so very much bigger than we are. The world, everythin in it, and what have you. Most of science thinks that we've already learned nearly everything there is to know about the world..and so many people believe the same. That if something exidts they would've read about in some science magazine..and this is one of those terrible misconceptions which most of soiety whole heartedly believes without trying to back up. Admittedly the new age market is not all good. You have to know where to look usually to find the truly knowledgeable books (like you said, spirituality can't be bought for 19.99..it takes a life time of learning, and the better books tell you that). I've been fortunate enough to find a few, and the rest I gleam from experimenting and the internet. If you want to find a whole lot of information you just believe everything you read from the internet lol..but if you search long enough you can find some excellent websites as well. But like always one or two sources is not enough. You can't learn everything you need to know from a book and a few websites..everything has to e backed up, checked, studied, experimented with and most of all experienced to truly learned one of the least explored and accepted sciences in the world. Outside of the U.S. it's probably somewhat easier..there's shamans in Africa..an island of 'witches' in the philipines..where you can easily find someone to learn with/from..and then you ahve to seperate what's superstition and truth. It's hard but someone who truly wants to learn can do it..and it seem to get easier the more you know, to learn something. But it never gets truly simple lol. Thermodynamics tells us that though things beyond our planet affects us, all the energy on earth is mostly native to our planet. All kept inside and constantly changing, being reused and created..ALL the time. I'm talking about ALL the kinds of energy there is..and there s quite afew..including I think, the energies accounted to the 'supernatural'. Physics tells us that what we think and feel affects the world around us. Science truly does nothing to back us up..but conventional people will tell us that it simply can't exist. Most religious people will tell us it can't exist since they believe it's unnatural or if it DOES exist since they don't understand it, it's 'evil'. My personal beliefs, spirituality, and experiences..well I don't believe they're that much hindered by cultural norms. A few probably but it'spart of being human I think..our fellow human beings and enviroment will always stop us from thinking, feeling, or doing something..no matter what century or realm of being we're on, or how much we try NOT to be affected by things. As long as we're alive we'll always have this problem in all likelyhood. But this doesn't mean we CAN'T see a spirit or feel enlightened..but enlightened doesn't mean all powerful or all knowing..at best most people can achieve mere moments of this sensation and hope to learn a few things from it..but it takes our whole lives to even have a glimmer of understanding about the world around us..from the supernatural (which I'll include science in)..to how the human mind functios..our history..mathematics..there's just SO much we have to learn that we can't even hope to learn it all in one life time. As for what I've read..well I've read several religious books where they dictated what I could and could not feel or know. Which has mostly been wrong. The Bible among them -- no, I'm not saying the book is flase, even though I personally believe a majority of the pages ARE..I won't dare try to dictate someone else's experiences..espcially if mine could concieveably be compatible with this or that religion. Everyone's different. s for what I've experienced..well, I'm not sure where to start..there's been quite a few. Practicing magick'd be at the top of the list..seeing ghosts, fairies, Shadow beigs (which I inadvertantly created I discovered in the end..but won't go into that..), I've done past life regression..I have dreams which sometimes tell of the future and my life is pretty much guided by my intuition..'feeling' what's the right or wrong thing to do..or how a person truly idespite their demeanor. There's just a lot of things..for me it's since I was young..and I've only more recently over the past few years begun to try to understand it.. um..I think I answered all your questions lol.

first of all I think there is a confusion of categories here- that -once acknowledged -may make this an earier subject to apprehend. Some call it right brain-left brain by way of distinguishing the different ways of conceiving of certain experiences. Everyone has seemingly inexplicable kknowledge and experience. William James collected the results of interviews a century ago ina book called Varieties of Religious Experience- many of which were of ehightened awareness, but in that time- many of his subjects could not find words to describe the feelings -and experiences except in the context of the divine, things related to a God sense, etc. Which doesn't limit nor does it invalidate the point of what these people were describing. Its a nice book for starting out. There are many writers of arcane development who were trying to express the concepts. Our general difficulty is referred to in the writings of Neitzche, who talked about this being a time of Appolnian thought, and that in the normal cycling around of change, we would come to Dionysian thought. He went on to explain that what kind of intellectual development boys are programmed to have, or have by nature is concrete as opposed to abstract, empirical as opposed to intuitive, militaristic and mechanistic. And in many ways we see that this is plausible. That this is the dominating attitude throughout our educational, legal, political and religious traditions.The Dionysian, is just the opposite and attributed to women, or female thinking. He suggested it was biological- women being nurturers aall that. I think strong arguments can be made against this all being unique to genders. Considering the era in which he wrote, and so forth- I'm ready to excuse that part of his framing of his symbolism. WE can and do intuit most of what we communicate. People who study these things, teach that verbal expression is 7% of the way a message is conveyed. The rest is partly body language, voice infection, and in the case of written information,intuition. That's 93% of what I'm saying getting across to you -whoever will in fact read it. Less than 7% because the vocabulary of far too many people is sadly far too small. Needlessly. New Age by its very name is a promise to some of a softer world, a minor validation , a chance to develope and use- that part that others cannot so easily control. I have no criticism of it. As a witch, I feel sad when other witches criticize some a fuzzy bunny witches, or new agers- tsk. We are all in it for the elusive truth. Its an elastic reality-(see Einstein)and by the way start tracking the physicists working on the M theory. It really is what we THINK it is. I'm not accustomed to lopening up this way- talking from deep inside about what I know and think- I hate to imagine no one will wade through itor answer.Whew.

Even though you have written quite a lot here, I am not sure where you are going with this discussion. First it seems that you are advocating things beyond "normal convention," but then you say that "new age" thinking is not scientific. It seems that "new age" thinking would be more open to the type of ideas that you are suggesting (paranormal experiences for example). There are things that science can and cannot explain (or should I say that haven't yet been explained in scientific terms, which doesn't mean that they won't be explained at some future date). I think we need to be reasonable people, using science as the basis for our decision making. If something happens to us that is beyond what can be explained by science, that doesn't mean it isn't real (or our reality). I guess that's about all I have to say for the moment. Maybe someone will come along and understand what you're trying to get at, and I can follow along better from there.