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The Paranormal Goes Mainstream

The PARANORMAL GOES MAINSTREAM:

The BBC, NPR, the New York Times, and other reputable media now cover subjects that, only a few years ago, were considered off-limits in polite company. Now we can talk about extraterrestrials, spirit beings, God, and angels, and not be made to feel odd. What has happened? This articles addresses the very fact of the paranormal becoming normal and some of the reasons for this relatively new development.

Did you know that over eighty percent of Americans have long believed in the paranormal? Perhaps each of us was waiting for the other person to step forward. Eight out of ten of us believe that an extraterrestrial visited earth some 2,000 years ago, mated with one of our women and had a son. In 2007, the PEW Forum on Religion and Public Life found that 78.4% of us are Christian, 4.7% believe in other familiar faiths, and only 16.1% of us would be considered non-religious. A Gallup poll of 2006 found that 45% of us believe that God created us just the way we are, exactly the way the Book of Genesis says he did, and that we were never monkeys. Most of religion is based on belief in something for which there is no proof.  But religion had always been a special case of the paranormal. Humans have always believed that they were not their ultimate bosses.  Even trees, snakes, fire, the sun, and rivers too have been the ultimate bosses in some societies. Aliens in our midst or extraterrestrials or ET could be classified as one of the first cases of the paranormal that has been widely accepted.

A major factor in the increasing acceptance of the paranormal as part of civilized discourse has been the movie industry. ET, which came out in 1982, may have been one of the most influential of this movie genre.  Who can forget the lovable ET trying to call HOME! Aside from the movies, the year 1984 may qualify as the date when the subject of the paranormal began its climb from obscurity. In that year, a private, nonprofit organization known as the SETI Institute was established in the United States.  SETI stands for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. SETI’s mission is “to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe.”  One of SETI’s techniques, according to its literature, is to use radio telescopes “to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology.” In July 1991 in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, some very highly placed organizations and individuals put their names to a “Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence.”  This august body turned the work of SETI into a truly global endeavor.   Sponsors of SETI have included the International Institute for Space Law, International Telecommunication Union, International Academy of Astronautics, NASA Ames Research Center, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the US Department of Energy. 

Actually your taxes and mine have paid for a voyage of discovery, much as Queen Isabella paid for Columbus’s expedition to found a way to the Spice Lands. We have paid for Pioneer 10 and 11, spacecrafts that are, among other things, looking for other civilizations in outer space. Our messengers have crossed our Solar System and, probably, the Milky Way Galaxy and are now far beyond our imagination.  Pioneers 10 and 11 are carrying messages about us here on earth, to give our alien brothers and sisters some sense of who we are, what we look like, and what we consider important in our collective culture. Although this was, most probably, not with any malice, our Pioneers are carrying a skewed idea of who we are. Both have male and female figures that have Caucasian features and no illustration of a black or Asian person, even though these two are human’s most prevalent renditions.

While Pioneer 10 continues its search in the outer limits of our galaxy, some scientists believe that we may be searching in the wrong places. In a British documentary on SETI that aired on April 26, 2010, the famous astrophysicist, Stephen Hawkins, went so far as to say that “intelligent aliens almost certainly exist” and to warn against trying to communicate with them.  Hawkins was also quoted in the Wall Street Journal of April 17, 2010.  An even more comprehensive discussion of Extraterrestrials was hosted by NPR’s On Point program with Tom Ashbrook on April 28, 2010. The program was entitled: “SETI, Hawkins and Alien Contact” and featured scientific luminaries such as Paul Davis, a theoretical physicist, cosmologist and astrobiologist at Arizona State University; Astronomer Jill Tarter; and theoretical physicist Sean Carroll of Cal Tech. I would not be surprised if this program had one of the highest audiences of On Point in a while.

Another stone on the edifice of the paranormal was erected by theoretical physicist Ronald Mallett of the University of Connecticut who, in 2006, published his trail-blazing book: “Time Traveler.” I had the honor of attending a lecture by Dr. Mallett at MIT in 2006 after his book was published.  Having lost his father when he was only 10 years old, young Mallett turned his grief into an unquenchable search for the science of time travel in hopes of, one day, being able to travel back in time and be with his father again. Dr. Mallett spent all his professional life as a physicist, pushing the frontiers of mathematics and physics and culminating with the discovery of a working theory of time travel.  His mind-bending work can be found on his web site at UConn. Dr. Mallett credits his desire to see his father again for giving him the motivation that kept him off the streets and “the state penn and led him to Penn State instead.” What his work shows is that the paranormal may simply be the subject matter for which the science is not yet known. 

While scientists like Hawkins believe that aliens may already be among us, many ordinary folks believe that their own deceased relatives live on in a spirit dimension and are not aliens.  A growing number of Americans believe that they can communicate with their deceased loved ones through channeling. Reincarnation and contact with the dead have recently been given more credibility by reports of Brian Weiss and John Edward.

Brian L. Weiss graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University and went on to complete a medical degree from Yale University.  His interests have included the study and treatment of depression and anxiety, sleep disorders, and brain chemistry.  He is Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. In his book, Many Lives, Many Masters, Weiss details his experiences with a woman named Catherine who was one of his patients.  Catherine had come to him for treatment of anxiety, panic attacks, and phobia. Under hypnosis, Catherine uncapped the mysteries of birth, the dying process, in-between states, re-incarnation, and the wider world of the spirit.

John Edward, author of After Life, Answers from the Other Site, is an internationally known Psychic Medium whose work is documented in his book that was published in 2003 with a foreword by Larry King of the television program “Larry King Live.” One of the startling reports of Mr. Edward in his book has to do with the work he did, connecting families with their loved ones who had perished on 9/11 when the Twin Towers fell. Because most of the deaths had been so sudden, it appears, many loved ones really needed to connect with family members to tie loose ends before moving on.  Apparently, Mr. Edward does not need any special music and dance, or the dimly lit room with an overpowering smell of incense that many of us associate with the occult. He seems to be a walking window to other dimensions and to life beyond the grave.

To these reports I can add my own experience of visiting and conversing with the deceased relatives on many occasions when I was growing up in rural Zimbabwe and again in the last few years when I visited my siblings.  On one occasion I wanted to fill in some gaps in our genealogy, so what better way than to get it from the people who had been alive at the time. Each time the family would sing the songs of the ancestors; monotonous music intended to quiet the mind sufficiently to open it to the dimension of the spirit. In my family only one of my siblings was able to reach this state, and the ancestors would come through and carry on extended conversations. Because of this personal experience, I do believe that there is some kind of existence beyond death or that there are intelligent entities in this or other dimension that are not readily visible or accessible to us.  But I am not convinced that all the spirit visitors who were channeled by my sibling were my deceased relatives. I had always doubted this.  Once when I was a teenager, I asked a visiting spirit: “Are you my real great grandfather of flesh and blood who ———-.”  Before I could complete my question, I was stopped dead on my tracks by family members who had fear on their faces.  I was told never, ever to ask such questions again.  It was clear that there was danger in questioning the authenticity of the ancestors.  I complied, but my curiosity never abated. It was curious to me that we never had a visitor that we had known in the physical life. There were always relatives who lived years before our time. We could not question them on obscure facts that they would have known, if they were who they claimed to be.

I do not believe that the ancestors were multiple personalities that psychologists and psychiatrists can now explain. I actually believe that they were intelligent life forms from another dimension who were able to cross over when my sister was properly tuned, but I doubt that all of them were related to us or that they had once been biological.  I think we were sometimes duped.  I think some of my visitors were spirit imposters. On the other hand, Edward seems to have had convincing evidence that the deceased were who they said they were.

I have never lost the capacity to be amazed about what humans can do. But I have also been keenly aware that the real hero is nature itself, including us. Some of our most impressive achievements have been in emulating or augmenting nature.  From our natural ability to see and hear, we have learned to make movies and to share news of distant lands as they happen.  We watched humans land on the moon and heard them describe what they saw.  From the birds we have learned to make airplanes that tear through the sky, taking us across oceans as if we were migratory birds. From the workings of our brains, we have created computers that are dramatically expanding our capacity to map the genetic code, to fight diseases, and manage our cities, towns, and countries.  It may turn out that our future technologies will tap into our souls and augment our capacity to travel through time, to communicate with our dead, and to see God. Equally plausible is that we may not need any technology at all.  Our own brains may already be wired to peer behind the veil of this physical universe we know.  What we call paranormal today may, some day, be ordinary aspects of nature.

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Dr. Sondlo Leonard Mhlaba is the author of: WITH OR WITHOUT GOD, LIFE’S MYSTERIES CONTINUE, subtitled: Ruminations on God, Life, Spirits, Reincarnation and the Future of Humankind.

About the Author

Dr. Sondlo Leonard Mhlaba is the author of WITH OR WITHOUT GOD, LIFE’S MYSTERIES CONTINUE/Ruminations on God, Life, Death, Spirits, Reincarnation and the Future of Humankind.  He was raised in Zimbabwe and educated in Zimbabwe and the US.  He became a US citizen in 1990.  Dr. Mhlaba and his wife Nancy live in Massachusetts.  They have four daughters. 

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