Path to Paranormal

In my course of research on Indian belief system about spirits and ghosts, I found out that  various schools of thoughts exist in Indian society, about the concept of ghosts among  believers. Some believe that, people experience paranormal phenomena because of the  weak planetary positions in their astrological horoscope. Some believe that it is all the result  of karma, while most of the people also believe that chanting mantras can keep evil spirits  away. People  often wonder whom to believe, and whom not. But one thing that becomes clear after  hearing all the stories and views of thousands of people that I have met during 3 years of my research in India, that they all are right! How? It is because in most of the haunting cases, ‘belief’ is the main ghost. And it is only belief that can get you rid of any problems in life, such as evil ghosts. With this, I don’t mean to say that genuine paranormal cases do not exist. They do. But however, in...

Most religions claim that there is more to the self than the brain. The traditional understanding is that human sentience and selfhood are conveyed via some kind of nonphysical substance, often called a "soul." Though the soul is far out of favor with most contemporary philosophers, a few distinguished scholars defend and scrutinize the idea of a self that is founded on the souland extends beyond the physical and could survive after the body dies. Even so, those scholars diverge on the concept, with some saying the soul is crucial to personal identity, though perhaps it cannot be separated from the physical body. Another idea is that the soul is an "information-bearing pattern" that connects the living self with the afterlife person who lives forever. One must "pick out subjects of experience — not just by the experiences they have, not just by the physical bodies with which they are associated" but also with "separate mental entities for which t...