Forums: Science and Scepticism

 What do you think of E.V.P.? Do you think it’s real or fake?

i myself have a spirit box and to be honest it does seem to work, but part of me thinks is it just picking up signals from radio or taxis.

would be interesting to hear your views.

All metaphysical phenomena (all) are characteristics, traits, abilities or experiences of our spiritual nature, emanating from our souls.

 I came across this article (apparently written by a scientist) on why we can’t see God. It is a scientific explanation about all the dimension. To be honest, most of it flapped over my head. In other words, I could not understand what he was talking about. Maybe I ought to read it again when I am not feeling so sleepy.

 Having almost become an atheist myself, I feel sort of lost. Religion was a strong part of my life for so many years. Now that there is no religion, no god, no ghosts, no afterlife, no nothing, I am at a loss. What then is the meaning and purpose of life? How does an atheist define the meaning of life? What motivates him/her to go on with life? 

Wikipedia defines the supernatural as pertaining to an order of existence beyond the scientifically visible universe. The supernatural manifests itself as a belief and faith of the intervention in the natural course of nature, suggesting the existence of a consciousness, purposefully doing the intervening.

Richard Wiseman is using Twitter to carry out an experiment to find out if there’s any substance to claims that some people are "remote viewers" – able to psychically identify a distant location without being shown or told where it is through conventional means.

What is the scientific evidence to support the survival of the consciousness after death. This could overlap with hauntings, mediumship and even re-incarnation, all important topics within the paranormal field, hinged on the belief of life after death. So, is there any evidence?

This year we had the worst earthquake in the UK for the past 20 years, not that I felt anything up north here on the west coast. It did get me thing though. What are the links between fault lines and the paranormal if any? Earthlights/UFO’s are apparently sometimes seen around fault lines.

When two people independantly see an apparition at the same time could it be some kind of mass hallucination and are they really seeing exactly the same thing?

The suggestion was recently made that using pen and paper to record an experience after you had it is not good enough.  They suggested that it could take a few minutes to write an account of the experience in any detail and by then the event would have been processed and annalysed too much to make it a good record of the event.  They suggested a dictophone should be employed so that the