Enduring importance of the paranormal

Skeptics, rationalists, disbelievers, get ready to sharpen your arguments. Is the existence of another world or worlds just wishful thinking? Are ghosts, the soul, the paranormal all hogwash? Yet such questions notwithstanding, can anyone battle with their importance? More than ten of the world’s topnotch, most distinguished universities such as Harvard, UCLA and Princeton considered them important enough to conduct paranormal studies in their labs. Some like the University of Arizona have even expanded their research. Curiously, one of these universities was, it seems, “embarrassed” by the results. Writing in the Hauntist, Sasha Brown-Worsham revealed last year that for almost 30 years, the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) project at the Princeton University looked into ESP and telekinesis. “Officially the university is embarrassed by the work, but the reality is it was affirmative. ESP exists.”