(12-09-2010, 01:44 PM)Focus123 Wrote: Blue field entoptic phenomenon
Can you elaborate?
(12-09-2010, 01:44 PM)Focus123 Wrote: Questions: Is an OBE considered Paranormal?
Is the Vibrational State Paranormal?
Good questions. Mainstream scientists assert that OBE's are nothing more than neurons firing. Since neurons fire when a person experiences an OBE, then they assume that the physical neurons firing are the cause of the experience.
Which of course flies in the face of a standard scientific axiom: Correlation does not equal causation.
It may very well be that there is a physiological response (neurons firing) when a person has a paranormal experience. But that doesn't mean it isn't a paranormal experience! It is just as plausible that the paranormal experience caused the physiological response, and in fact more plausible, because the random factor is removed.
Another area of dispute with the mainstream scientific community is the placebo effect. It is conclusively proven that the placebo effect exists, but they cannot explain the mechanism by which a person's free will triggers a physiological response. That elusive connection between physical and paranormal.
Having had many paranormal experiences myself, I absolutely believe these experiences are authentic. If some of them happen to also coincide with a physical response, then I would say the physical is responding to the metaphysical, not the other way around.
A measurable physiological response, if present at all, does not negate a paranormal cause.