the number of people who believe in tha paranormal

...is frankly staggering.




thats a much cited gallop from 2005 compared with other studies done by universities.

similar studies have repeatedly shown similar results with belief in different things shifting up and down depending on different influences, such as film and tv.
like after the xfiles hit belief in aliens soared.
or after the exorcist belief in demon possession hit a high etc.

whats pretty consistent is that about 70% of people will report believing in at least one of the phenomenon above.
any opinions on that?

I believe in a sorta soul type thing. i think there is something much more powerful about the human mind than people think.

This is a pretty accurate measurement of the number of the abjectly stupid people in the world.

Frankly,I thought the numbers would run higher.Then again,I run into a number of people who don't believe in any of those things at all. I think people do want to believe in something and lots of times science and/or religion don't have all the answers. Ideally,everyone should search out and find the answers to their life questions for themselves.

a quarter of people believe in telepathy? really? They prob got confused and didn't know what it was.

well i believe in it but to be honest i didnt expect that many people to have owned up to it.

I'm not sure what it shows...other than people WANT to believe in something...anything!!

I'm sorry, but someone has got to post it, it might as well be me.



All those who believe in psycokenisis, raise my right hand.

i suppose as much as anything it shows how people can form strong opinions on issues when they don't really have alot of information.

Well take telepathy for instance. We know (fact) that thoughts are electochemichal, so for someone to "read" someone elses thoughts, there would have to be a transferance of energy from one brain to another. This would be detectable with modern equipment. Regardless of how low the signal was, the scientist would detect it.

There is no telepathy...yet.

Come back next year (maybe) when we start putting micro chips and circuits under the skin, and I might have a different answer.

i wouldn't hold my breath for a mind reading machine
and if one were possible and made it would do nothing to back-up claims that someone can do it with their mind.

most likely it'd make the premise more ridiculous.

Not mind reading as such...more a sort of in-built phone.

(forget mind reading, nobody focuses their thoughts long enough to be read.)

I believe in some of these things, others I'm not so sure. Psychic ability - the ability to see or hear ghosts, is something that I believe some of my friends and family can do. I believe the people on the tv less, but I did hear one day on tv thesay that more and more people are developing an ability to be open to - I don't know what you'd call it - other types of energy I guess. She said more and more people are discovering a psychic ability of some kind - mainly to be able to sense the presence of loved ones who have passed away.

I don't have any of these abilities and I can't help suspecting my life is happier and less complicated for it. As several other posters here have mentioned, real life is wonderful & complicated enough.

I do believe in good and bad energy though, and that some things like trying to communicate with whatever 'spirit' happens to be floating around at that moment, can be bad energy. There are a lot of good people who have died, but some evil people too.

For psychics who try to get in touch with 'the other side' I believe it can bring bad energy into their lives. I know a few people with some psychic ability who intentionally ignore what they see and hear around them, and truly wish they were without this ability - they have seen and heard plenty of bad as well as good.

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sorry, i don't know what that means