An Argument for Parapsychology.

Parapsychology is not a pseudoscience; it is a necessity. To withdraw from it is to take a medieval attitude towards a possibly more sophisticated development in science. That is contrary to the principles underlying science. The course of human history has seemed to be a reverse evolution, after a certain point, of what is called the Soul. The development of and increasingly exponential dependency upon the faculties of intellect, reason, and the scientific method have left the average human being feeling dead, confused, and marginalised in a society that seems governed by principles that only computers can comprehend. What is sacred is not rational; what is powerful must be analysed. This is a disaster, and every individual repeats this tapering of the personality which was the recent history of mankind in his or her life. Until one wakes up. Parapsychology seeks to reunite the ego with those predominantly subconscious factors that made life Glorious, Novel, and Informed not only in the infancy of the individual but in that of the race. One need not use the rational faculties to understand it; they are included as a small speck within an incontrovertible sense that the Universe is All Right; it makes sense, so one needs not make sense of it. Imagine what happens to all those poor, gifted children that wind up in the mental hospital diagnosed as schizophrenic for having perceptions requiring immensely intricate patterns of thought to begin to explain. What of the people who are misdiagnosed as bipolar simply for being so empathic as to feel "possessed" by other people's emotions all of a sudden? Without guidance, these kids will continue to believe that they are maladapted to a society that is maladapted to them. So many sensitive young people turn to drugs because society does not facilitate mysticism, but it is better to be a drug addict than to be condemned as crazy. Our attitude towards the "mentally ill" has hardly improved since the dark ages; it is still as villainous and cruel. Life at a merely rational standard that is content with the satisfaction of only the most banal impulses can naturally allow these villainies to happen: Forced medication is a method of forced drugging, and we have the pharmaceutical companies to thank for heroin and Xanax. With the advent of parapsychology and other alternative sciences, man makes another breakthrough through the wall of patriarchy, dogma, and one-sidedness. Yet this time it is not at the expense of another aspect of the personality to be ignored; it is in favour of it. dm.A.A.