Is the paranormal serious or just for fun?

Question

Do you think most people who use it believe it has real supernatural power? Or do users view it as just some psychological game.

If you have consulted horoscopes, palm reading, psychics, numerology, tarot, (wicca?) etc. - what do you expect to get from it?

Answer 1

At the risk of being taunted by other answers, I defiantly believe in the paranormal! I've had real experiences with them and no I am not crazy or imagining things!

Answer 2

I do not know if the paranormal takes itself serious, and I doubt if anyone else takes it seriously either.

         I look at horoscopes for the fun of it and sometimes it is quite correct.

      In 1965  my mothers horoscope  said she was going on  a long journey and that was the day we set off from England to migrate to Australia.

Answer 3

the horoscope readings, psychics or tarots can be taken very tongue in cheek with me, yes their are some very good psychics but the frauds give all of them a bad name and theres alot of frauds ready to grab money from the greiving however i dont view the paranormal as any sort of game as ghosts, spirits and hauntings are very real and i take all of these very seriously.

Answer 4

I don't believe this "section" has any supernatural power. Some people come here expecting to get a psychic reading. That's not what this section is about.(to MY knowledge).

I'd like it to be a serious section...but with some lightheartedness (because you need to laugh sometimes when you're getting too deep into paranormal things)

  There are lots of people on here who have had lots or experiences and I think they want help understanding them. There are also people on here who know a lot about the paranormal...from ghosts to UFOs  and everything in between.

There are also several skeptics on here who don't believe in these paranormal things.

Then there are some people who just pop in to make fun of us.

So ..all this makes for VARIETY!!

Answer 5

I think some people try to make a joke out of the paranormal/supernatural.But the truth is that the paranormal/supernatural is very real.

I know there are a lot of fake psychics out there,but one time my family went out on a limb and called a psychic hot line.She was able to tell us some extremely personal details about our lives,things that we had never discussed with anyone else.She gave us a reading on our futures and most of the stuff she said came true.

Answer 6

This is very serious!!! If you dont know what your doing you better find someone who does. Its not just in peoples minds i have proof that spirits or ghosts are real. Dont be surprised if you take a picture and see something you cant explain. I have a keen sence I can tell what a person is feeling but they dont say anything. I dont know what it is but this stuff is real! Dont mess with what you cant see becouse it can come back to haunt you!

Answer 7

Most people involved with it take it seriously. Personally, I read tarot cards for myself and occasionally friends.  It is a tool through which one can read possible outcomes and identify influences surrounding a particular issue.  It's a source of more information.  I would never use it as my only source of information and it absolutely does not predict the future.    Also, while I am also Wiccan, that has nothing to do with my tarot reading.  Wicca is a religion.

Answer 8

I take it seriously although sometimes it does work out that there is nothing paranormal about it.  That is why I investigate claims of the paranormal.  If someone contacts our group, they have concerns.  Afterall, it took alot to make the first contact for fear that they would be labeled unstable etc.  We treat each client and case with the same concern and make a determination based on what we find during the course of the investigation.

Answer 9

Paranormal doesn't imply one thing alone. Ghost, hunting's, Bigfoot all sorts of things fall under the realm of the paranormal. I believe in the possibility of ghost and hunting's. I have an interest in investigation it.

Answer 10

It depends. Many people that study parapsychology  (which includes things considered paranormal by some) do not regard ESP and PK as supernatural but rather as natural human abilities that have not been fully described (or understood) by current levels of science. In that sense the paranormal is taken quite seriously. (link below)

In another sense (and I don't know if I would use the word game to describe it) others do study the psychological aspects of experiences that seem paranormal. For instance sleep paralysis and the tradition of the old hag has been seriously studied from a human experience approach (link below). From that perspective it is no game but it is not supernatural it is a psychological phenomena.

I read my horoscopes in the paper (and real horoscopes involve much more than your date of birth) as a motivator. If it says I will have a great day I try to do so. If it says I will have a bad day I wonder how they got it so wrong that time.

Wicca is a religion with it's own set of rituals, beliefs, etc. and should not be included in with horoscopes and palm reading as such thing as palm reading is a technique and Wicca is a belief system (just like Catholic, or Buddhist).

Psi

Answer 11

The Paranormal is in our gene code...servival instinct.

Answer 12

I come for the latest scuttlebutt, but mostly I'm interested in the 'amazing but true' stuff, and not the hokey made-up stuff. The 'real' things are ghosts and ufos; Atlantis, bigfoot, loch ness and horoscopes are fiction.

Answer 13

Yup, I'm a true believer as well. Why? Because I AM a pschic; I experience every day things science couldn't possibly catch with the use of some gadget. It's not a game to me. It's a way of life, and a very large part of who I am.

What do I expect to get out things like palm readings and tarot or angel card readings? Insight. :)

Peace love and light

Answer 14

I think there are those who are true believers, those who are optimistic believers, those who are marginal believers, those who give it no thought, those who are disbelievers.

Some take it very seriously.  Some make a point to not take it at all seriously.  Some dabble for fun, as with horoscopes.

Answer 15

paranormal is never fun-it is serious and is sometimes dangerous

Answer 16

Hello Penny

I am a psychic & I have no powers.

I do have natural psychic abilities that I have spent years developing & dedicating time to.

It is not a game, it is an extension of us all as spiritual beings.

Pam

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