{"id":2855,"date":"2009-12-01T01:10:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T06:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2009-11-23T13:17:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T18:17:19","slug":"the-paranormal-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2009\/12\/01\/the-paranormal-path\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paranormal Path"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Normal Is The Paranormal?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When we think of the word “paranormal” our first thoughts are of ghosts, poltergeists, and haunted houses..\u00a0 This is a very good place to start, but there are so many ways the paranormal\u00a0can come\u00a0into our daily lives, even for those who do not go searching for such things.\u00a0\u00a0We all\u00a0in\u00a0some way has a brush with the paranormal more often than we realize.<\/p>\n

How often do we spill salt and toss a little over our shoulder, knock on wood, avoid walking under a ladder, or stay away from a cemetery at night?\u00a0 Some of us aren’t even sure why we do it, we just know it has to be done.\u00a0 Superstitions are just one of the many categories under the wide topic of paranormal activity.\u00a0 Depending on your cultural or religious background there are many potential outcomes to these “old wives tales”.\u00a0 Sometimes we fear we will have bad luck, become less prosperous, or even receive a strange visitor in the dead of night who has come to make a deal.\u00a0 There is no scientific proof that these things will happen, yet we continue to believe.\u00a0 Then, there are those who become so fascinated with these things, such as I, that we try them, test them and become enveloped with their origins.\u00a0 This is where ghost hunters are born. People who want answers and who are certain there is more out there than a mundane existence.\u00a0 So many ghost stories revolve around urban legend and folklore.\u00a0 How many people played Bloody Mary as a kid?\u00a0 There are quite a few interpretations of who Mary actually was and why she is so vengeful.\u00a0In fact that childhood party game can easily be considered the first paranormal investigation for a lot of us!<\/p>\n

Soon we graduate from a candlelit mirror and a toy store Ouija board, to digital voice recorders and EMF detectors.\u00a0 The important thing is to always keep an open mind and ask questions.\u00a0 Even if you think no one is listening you may be surprised.\u00a0 The unexplained is all around us, we need more people to push those boundaries and explore the unexplainable.\u00a0 Keep the childlike enthusiasm and inability to convince ourselves something isn’t real.\u00a0 Too much of our world and our history revolves around the paranormal. There is not one part of the\u00a0globe that does not hold countless tales of the spirit world.\u00a0 Research is key.\u00a0 I urge everyone to take a moment and think about different locations or landmarks near you that have a paranormal history.\u00a0 I believe you will find the paranormal is more normal than you thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How Normal Is The Paranormal? When we think of the word “paranormal” our first thoughts are of ghosts, poltergeists, and haunted houses..\u00a0 This is a very good place to start, but there are so many ways the paranormal\u00a0can come\u00a0into our daily lives, even for those who do not go searching for such things.\u00a0\u00a0We all\u00a0in\u00a0some way has a brush with the paranormal more often than we realize. How often do we spill salt and toss a little over our shoulder, knock on wood, avoid walking under a ladder, or stay away from a cemetery at night?\u00a0 Some of us aren’t even sure why we do it, we just know it has to be done.\u00a0 Superstitions are just one of the many categories under the wide topic of paranormal activity.\u00a0 Depending on your cultural or religious background there are many potential outcomes to these “old wives tales”.\u00a0 Sometimes we fear we will have bad luck, become less prosperous, or even receive a strange visitor in the dead of night who has come to make a deal.\u00a0 There is no scientific proof that these things will happen, yet we continue to believe.\u00a0 Then, there are those who become so fascinated with these things, such as I, that we try them, test them and become enveloped with their origins.\u00a0 This is where ghost hunters are born. People who want answers and who are certain there is more out there than a mundane existence.\u00a0 So many ghost stories revolve around urban legend and folklore.\u00a0 How many people played Bloody Mary as a kid?\u00a0 There are quite a few interpretations of who Mary actually was and why she is so vengeful.\u00a0In fact that childhood party game can easily be considered the first paranormal investigation for a lot of us! Soon we graduate from a candlelit mirror and a toy store Ouija board, to digital voice recorders and EMF detectors.\u00a0 The important thing is to always keep an open mind and ask questions.\u00a0 Even if you think no one is listening you may be surprised.\u00a0 The unexplained is all around us, we need more people to push those boundaries and explore the unexplainable.\u00a0 Keep the childlike enthusiasm and inability to convince ourselves something isn’t real.\u00a0 Too much of our world and our history revolves around the paranormal. There is not one part of the\u00a0globe that does not hold countless tales of the spirit world.\u00a0 Research is key.\u00a0 I urge everyone to take a moment and think about different locations or landmarks near you that have a paranormal history.\u00a0 I believe you will find the paranormal is more normal than you thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}