Parapsychology Quotes

“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

—address to the Society for Psychical Research in England”
― C.G. Jung

“With my ninth mind I resurrect my first
and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown.”
― Chandrakanth Natekar

“الترويض و التحكم كمثل تجربة عبور الطريق، يجب عليك المشي قليلاً لمنطقة الاختناق حتى تستطيع العبور سريعاً و سالماً؛ فالاختناق يولّد التباطؤ، و التباطؤ يولّد رؤية أوضح و حلول أكثر، و اختيارات أدق و أبرح..”
― أنور هاني, أبواب

“Perhaps the day will come when Western science is able to confirm the existence of immaterial forces and realms. Compelling research in the field of parapsychology indirectly points to this possibility, yet most people in mainstream science can't bring themselves to consider the implications.”
― Mark Ireland, Messages from the Afterlife: A Bereaved Father's Journey in the World of Spirit Visitations, Psychic-Mediums, and Synchronicity

“Most human beings come into the world and leave it with nothing to show they ever lived.”
― Tim Gilmore

“Behind a barbed-wire fence, a dirt road disappears into the distance in the pine trees and corners. Lost, dead roads, no ends or remaining purposes, power lines now dead and sagging and forgotten, grown high in weeds and young trees. The trees have entirely encased a speed limit sign, strange sight, nothing so pointless as a speed limit sign in the midst of dense woods, pointless and beautifully so.”
― Tim Gilmore This Kind of City Ghost stories and psychological landscapes

“The first, clearer, type suggests the musical pattern of theme and variations. The chosen theme persists through the six stages, in various aspects. The second type is more difficult to analyze. A recurrent leitmotiv is lacking here; instead six differerent stages whose connection is usually an inner one are joined together in mosaic fashion. But on both types, the so-called judgment is the tenor which is maintained through all the changes.”
― Hellmut and Richard Wilhelm Understanding the I Ching

“The science is clear: if psi exists, the most reliable way to see it is through the lens of statistics. As a result, believers should stop and think before ever consulting a psychic.”
― Steve Volk, Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't

“I have always disliked the term 'paranormal’ because it refers to anomalies — ‘abnormal’ phenomena not yet understood by science. It implies that psychic perception is something that exists ‘outside of what is considered normal'...This notion of ‘abnormality’ never sat well with me. I have spent too many years of my life being made to feel defective or ‘outside of normal,’ and I am no longer willing to consider my psychic abilities to be an ‘unfortunate anomaly.”
― Anthon St. Maarten, The Sensible Psychic: A Leading-Edge Guide To True Psychic Perception

“Your unknown fear is the region within you that an entire life's blueprint is based upon.”
― Bikash Bhandari

“Thoughts are energy. A drop of water, so cool and gentle can wear away a rock with repetitive drops. We are like rocks and our affirmations are like drops of water, wearing away the stubborn blocks within us one drop at a time. Repeating affirmations several times a day may be necessary in the beginning, depending on your need.”
― Sabrina Kastur, A Little Book of Affirmations: Scripts for thought habits

“It's time we speak about our natural psi abilities as easily as we discuss the weather -”
― Elly Molina , Children Who Know How to Know: A resource guide for helping children develop and utilize their powerful intuitive abilities

“When you know you know, you know. - Ana”
― Ana, Channeling_Ana: Book One of Channeling_Ana Series

“Psychics and mediums do not 'sense.' We perceive.”
― Anthon St. Maarten, The Sensible Psychic: A Leading-Edge Guide To True Psychic Perception

“My local library was whole shelves in the older children's section on vampires and demons — and not a single sensible psychic advice book.”
― Cassandra Eason, Everyday Psychic Defense: White Magic for Dark Moments

“Ask your dream characters questions.
They know something you do not know.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Of Morals

How many viewpoints could there be?
Surely not more than of him, you, and me.
Above myself the halo does fly high,
But what about this other guy?
I claw my way out and to victory,
But right behind me the struggle can see.
Must fly or must fall, but neither can have,
When quickly enclosed in darkness I am.
Shocked and amazed, they try to pull me to safety,
But stuck am I for the world to see.
A misery's end, enclosed in rules;
The gods, they laugh at us, us fools.
Our earthly desire our doom entrances,
Simply because it our 'living' enhances."

- D. M. Shiro (D.M. Shiro)”
― D. M. Shiro, The Moral Consideration of Good vs Evil

“The moral consideration an individual must establish typically comes down to the declaration that one would never commit such an atrocity - a telling of one's moral character in society - but typically also a lie; for one cannot presume to know the reasons or conditions leading to immoral actions without first understanding that many can easily be manipulated into committing even the most heinous of acts while believing their own position to be righteous. Whether due to familial obligation, work, or love - a person may usually be persuaded to do the devil's bidding.”
― D. M. Shiro, The Moral Consideration of Good vs Evil

“[When testing psychic abilities of normal people who claimed no psychic powers, J.B Rhine found that] success rate deteriorates if you undertake prolonged experimentation. As with telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition experiments, J.B Rhine observed that this decline effect reflected the subject's loss of interest. [...] And as with other ESP experiments, the degree of belief in your powers can prove significant. Rhine found that sceptics again scored below what you would expect from chance alone.”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, Your Psychic Powers: A Beginner's Guide

“Oamenii au nevoie de un cuvânt bun, spus la momentul potrivit, într-o formă potrivită. Au nevoie de sfaturi și idei practice, pentru a se dezbăra de vechile mentalități și deprinderi, de obiceiuri proaste…”
― Pavel Coruț, Inimă de român

“There is a hidden beauty in all suffering that leads to catharsis and transformation.”
― Ray Catania, You Are Still Alive, Now Act Like It: Empower, Elevate, and Enlighten Your Consciousness

“Though there is no such thing as ghosts, paranormal experiences are often rooted in truth, which usually turns out to be of a psychological or environmental nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“There is nothing supernatural about visions - or to be more accurate, contrary to traditional belief, it's not messages from some extraterrestrial domain. Visions are indeed messages from a mysterious realm alright, but like the everyday realm of human perception, the transcendental realm as well is creation of brain chemicals. I won't go into details here, as I already did that in my early days. One of my earliest works, Autobiography of God, contains a detailed analytical account of the neurobiology of transcendental experiences. However, the question is not whether there is an explanation, the question is, is it worth explaining! Because, while sometimes the lack of explanation facilitates superstition, some things are better left unexplained - such as, love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Ghost Sonnet (Parapsychology 101)

Do you believe in ghosts, someone asked.
Plenty mysteries to unfold, I replied.
Most cases, commoner curiosity gives in,
supernatural explanation is convenient.

Thus mysteries become paranormal,
despite being born of a natural world.
Question is not, is there an explanation,
but how far are you willing to unravel!

In short, there is no supernatural,
only natural yet to be understood.
If human mind perseveres long enough,
every mystery soon reveals its truth.

Bluntly put, there is no ghastlier
ghost than a wicked personality.
We are the gods, we are the goblins,
of our own elaborate story.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“In short, there is no supernatural,
only natural yet to be understood.
If human mind perseveres long enough,
every mystery soon reveals its truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Neurons are the birthplace of God, neurons produce all ghosts and goblins.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“When human beings lack a sense of identity, they often do apparently pointless things, simply to give themselves a sense of existence-through-action; this could explain the apparently aimless mischief of the poltergeist.”
― Colin Wilson, Poltergeist!

“The Final Enigma (Sonnet 2002)

Consciousness contains the cosmos,
cosmos contains consciousness,
all rooted in specks of jelly,
firing in frenzy inside our head.

When neurons fire, we see light,
lack of oxygen conjures a tunnel.
Nearing death, hallucinogens kick in,
thus we experience kingdoms mythical.

Neurons forge the fabric of reality,
within neurons our paradise is born.
Neurons concoct our fabled purgatory,
thus our strong beliefs rule perception.

Neurons are the birthplace of order,
within neurons order comes to end.
Neurons are the root of mindlessness,
as well as the instrument of mend.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“At least being aware of nothing on the surface implies one is aware of something underneath.”
― todd rohrer, Haunt Signal