A moment if you will?

Question

Say that you believe you have a paranormal experience that unbeknownst to you has a totally natural explanation. For an example, say you are seeing the Northern Lights, but you don't realize that is what it is and you think you're seeing the earth's aura. Would you want to know the truth or would you want to believe you had this magical experience, even if it wasn't true?

Answer 1

Personally, I would always, always, ALWAYS want to know the truth on something like that. If it can be explained using normal explanations, I will readily discard any paranormal explanation that exists.

However, the explanation needs to be accessible. Talking about atmospheric bombardment wouldn't make much sense if I didn't know what bombardment was, or if I didn't believe in or know about an atmosphere.

Magical experiences happen to me all the time. I consider sunsets magical. I consider time with my family magical. Magic, to me, is the experience of awe, and and anything that's awesome is going to brighten my day. For me, knowing the science doesn't diminish the magic, it enhances it.

Answer 2

i think the real question is whether it is or is not the earths aura, well why couldnt it be, technicly all auras are is just a set of coloured energy that is unique to the being coming from it. And since everything produces and made up of energy could it be the earths aura? and its only viewable at certain places in the world because i guess you could call them earths sensitives spots? (if you dont have any form of the second sight i mean) so give me solid proof now that it is or isnt the earths aura

Answer 3

I'd definitely want to know the truth.  In fact, I have always tried to debunk my own paranormal experiences by trying to figure out a logical explanation or thinking something was just my imagination.

Answer 4

I would want to know the truth.   That is one reason that I spend so much time and money investigating paranormal claims.   So many skeptics think  that we just sit around imagining ghosts and telling stories.   That isn't what paranormal investigation is about.   Most of us are out there seeking the truth.

Answer 5

everything we have ever thought was magical will eventually get some explanation that may or may not get debunked by "science" later on in our experience....so truth is ever evolving why not just be happy with the experience and stop looking for explanations to anything...that is what you are here for...the experiences

Answer 6

I would want to know the truth.

Answer 7

Oh definitely the truth, I am like a little detective.

The Aurora Borealis, the one thing I must see, top of my list.

Answer 8

I can say I'd want to know the truth....but I remember how happy I was when I believed in Santa Claus. The more I find out the "truth" ...the more life turns from technicolor to black and white.  I think there are things we NEED to know...and things we DON'T need to know. There are a lot of truths I wish I had never found out. Paranormal things happened to me. I wish I'd known the truth about some of them before I had so much of my life destroyed by them. That's not to say that SOME of them weren't true. Even THAT truth bothers me....that some of the paranormal things were real. I just wish nothing paranormal had ever happened to me. But it did...and I'm here to try to understand it. Hope this makes some sense.

Answer 9

The truth, for sure, it's far more interesting.

Answer 10

Oh, I definitely would want to know the truth.  A natural explanation lifts life from ho-hum gray to scintillating color.  I've had lots of spiritual experiences, but I've also been a biologist .  Consequently I see the spiritual as being quite natural.  We don't need manufactured fantasy explanations to dress it up.  Reality has its own magic.

Answer 11

You just refuse to believe that it is the Earth's aura because you are a close minded skeptic afraid of the truth!

Answer 12

s***w the Earths "aura", I just want to know the truth of where sweetmommy has been all my life.......

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