An Introduction to Paranormal Psychology - with Chris French
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- Do ghosts exist? Is there any evidence for the paranormal? With millions believing in paranormal phenomena, it must either exist or be explained by psychological factors. Chris French introduces the field of anomalistic psychology, which aims to provide non-paranormal, scientific explanations of the seemingly unexplainable.
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Ever since records began, in every known society, a substantial proportion of the population has reported unusual experiences many of which we would today label as ‘paranormal’. Opinion polls
show that the majority of the general public accepts that paranormal phenomena do occur. Such widespread experience of and belief in the paranormal can only mean one of two things. Either the paranormal is real, in which case this should be accepted by the wider scientific community which currently rejects such claims; or else belief in and experience of ostensibly paranormal phenomena can be fully explained in terms of psychological factors. Chris French provides an introduction to the sub-discipline of anomalistic psychology, which may be defined as the study of extraordinary phenomena of behaviour and experience, in an attempt to provide non-paranormal
explanations in terms of known psychological and physical factors.
Chris French is Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research focusses on the psychology of paranormal belief and ostensibly paranormal experiences, the belief in conspiracy theories and false memories.
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Had sleep paralysis as a teenager, got dragged off the bed my face, strangled, bounced around the room uncontrollably floating, and led to the ability to put my arm through a wall and feel each layer of the wall - tried leaving 'evidence' for years, such as knocking a cup over, only to find no cup in the location when I woke up. Discovered loads of great reading material on out-of-body experiences by Robert A Monroe, Rosalind McKnight and others, so can see how these things can lead to a belief in all things paranormal, a difficult feeling to shake off. Now I think of it as the greatest sleep disorder ever but probably the cause of all ridiculous religious beliefs as well.
I used to have thos really bad and I would see what is known to me now is the old hag but she was a dark figured old lady to me then and she used to rub my eyes in circles smother me with a pillow I couldn't move or scream but when I tried she would move to the corners of the house and hide. I also could feel them ¿ sitting on my bed pulling my blankets off me and tighting them on my body. Super scary honestly
Amazing.... i look exactly like this guy. My double....
OooOOooooh... spoooOOOoooky! ;)
You have a doppelganger. ☺️
Cool!!!! I LOVE seeing someone who looks like me!! EDIT - HOLY SHIT he DOES!!
What a coincidence🌏haha
Wow it is true
I like this guy -- a true skeptic. Taking a negative stance on something that has no positive evidence, yet always open for positive evidence to prove his firm belief's wrong.
I have never on anything seen him accept anything. He is used on all those terrible shows to just poo with complete disregard. I draw no inference on him personally by this, he is being paid to gainsay anything presented to him so the show can pretend to be balanced, then there is the editing. I am about to watch his talk so I am not commenting on what he says here but he is to me (who agrees with him nearly all the time) the archetypal 'close minded critic'. Now I just think of it as his job but to those masses whose beliefs cover anything they hear he is a typical scientist.
Joker I take it you believe in the vast majority of the supernatural, huh?
he should dare himself in living in haunted houses nearby as research
Bose-Einstein
- so, if you heard someone say something to you with absolute clarity, and with a message that was absolutely relevant to the other person they were talking to, but no one was there, what would you think about that? If you closed your eyes, and saw the image of a person: how they were dressed: the timescale, area, and find out they had died, but then saw a photo of that person- knowing you never knew them, or anything about them. There are more examples, but it's just to give an idea.
Taking a neutral stance is being unbiased. This is skepticism. It may happen or it may it. It has to be proved to accept or deny a claim.
Something thought to be paranormal, if proved to exist, would then be called 'normal'.
@@loy7163 Yep that's kind of what I mean. Real science is about discovering the unknown. 'Paranormal' practitioners are all about sustaining the mystery, keeping things ambivalent and unknown, because actually there is no substance to be discovered. If magic was real, it would cease to seem like 'magic'.
@@asciisynth I like to think of it as things that disobey our known laws of science. Take for example something that ignores gravity.
Well, unless everything is magic… For example,, in your pursuit of proving the paranormal isn’t scientifically verifiable (which it isn’t….everything is natural, and super natural doesn’t really make sense any more than thinking man somehow outside of nature makes sense, but I know what you mean) you seem to be ignoring that…none of this is scientifically verifiable when you get right down to it. Science always requires that at least some things are taken on faith.
So, if it’s all “magic” how can you say that “magic” is less “magic” than …jump roping, let’s say. How does one jump rope? Explain it to me. How do I grasp the rope? My hand, how do I move that?
So I mean, just moving my hand is supernatural.
My friends grandfather died, he went to get a tattoo, the tattoo artist hadnt ever seen him before, didnt know his grandfather, him, his family, nothing. The tattoo artist goes "you granddads sister _____ was waiting for him to cross over, he's fine" she got his granddads sisters name right. Coincidence aint it.
Pattern recognition drives cognition. We look for patterns and find them, real, or imagined. Science does it, too.
I've actually suffered from psychotic delusions before, the help I received inspired me to study biopsychology, and so I speak with some authority when I say: There is a very wide gap between the scientific method and hypersalience through confirmation bias.
The point of science isn't to look for signals, it's to progressively and methodically eliminate the noise.
I hallucinate often from psychopompic hallucinations due to sleep paralysis, & from my kind of epilepsy.
I also have Tourettes and Aspergers. I'm SO glad science means I'm not burnt at a stake. 💗💗
@@timothybell5698 have you ever come across someone who experienced an overlap in timeline with another person/group of ppl in another city , more specifically following a traumatic event...? i can give an example..
first I ask....
@AAH Replies - That's where the "methodically" part comes in.
Glad to see that there’s other people like me: atheists who don’t necessarily support paranormal causation but are deeply interested in it nonetheless.
Why you don't support paranormal?
@@Hhjhfu247 Possibly because every critical examination has shown that there's no evidence?
Weight till you find out that were spirit and not flesh and also most people experience and know we're all telepathic and after being born again or awakens and growing your spiritual senses you can travel in the kingdom of heaven or spirualy leav your body and could be right beside someone and they know know it and whisper in your ear and on there experience would be just another thought this is were they practice there works on you and try to turn you into a robot and use you and one day you find out that all the important people around you have been trasspassing on you in ways if you said it out louder you would be labeled crazy the truth is out there and the sad part is you want believe a thing I'm saying but that's the truth we are spirit not flesh and the part of us that is spirit can communicate, but the communication is not just auditory but emotion visions and thought this is when sonmeone tyres to enter your vessel and posses you and you find yourself in a war for your soul wake up athiest are asleep and are sedated by knowledge which keeps thew consinteated on knowledge instead of wisdom and ends up ignoring there spiritual self God bless jeus is real and watching everything you do well so are (they) !!! God bless
@@tincanblower bruh don't even try to explain it isn't needed and accepted in these quarters
If you play this video backwards you can hear a clip of Stairway to Heaven.
Spooky!
hehe
@@susan638 I would guess that they removed the forwards clip to avoid a copyright strike.
Is that a clever joke? so clever its like a ghost of a joke?
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@@Seal0626 ollllllllllllllllll
One of the best lectures I’ve watched, loved it! 🙌
Non conscious muscular movement or how I finished an entire bag of chips.
Non conscious muscular movement OR exactly how i beat my wife after a bottle of jack and some pills. How do i know? I consciously wake up and she's beat up but begging for the D.
-Alpha
bluto212 Lmao that’s a good one hehe me too!! Lol 😂
And how I can make handfuls of Italian cookies vanish!!!!! Bahahahaha
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@QQminusS you for instance ?
Tarot cards are interesting as they don't necessarily have anything at all to do with psychic or the other side etc. There are only so many situations that happen to people, and those cards are laid out to read situations, could be new job, new relationship, weddings etc... It will obviously resonate more than not. The one good thing about them is they inspire solutions to the situation that the cards portray, the he encourage people to discuss their issues and counselling then applies. They make a good psychological tool.
Yes, thank you. These things are tools - tarot, numerology, etc. They are not "beliefs."
Two of my experiences involved real people whom I saw and who spoke to me,and in both cases my life was in danger,and they saved my life,then these people simply disappeared.I would never have believed in anything like it.
I onetime saved some girl on the beach she was totally dead she OD’d and I gave her CPR until the ambulance came then I took off I was on vacation I had other stuff to do.
@@samsalamander8147 how did you know she OD'ed?
@@Mojokiss I watched the paramedics give her narcan after I gave her cpr for like 25 mins and she literally got up and walked off the beach also I’m an addict so I just know these things from experience I have been clean for 11 years or so I have a hard time keeping count of my clean date because I lied so many times that I have no idea but it’s been about 11 years since I touched any drugs at all.
@@samsalamander8147 wow thank you for that reply. I can see in your patterns of speech that you've been through a lot with your struggles and you are at peace.
I don't think I'm tripping when i notice this, but it seems that when he says choose one card and focus on it, then changes the slide. Each and every card is now different than the original set making you wrong no matter what card you chose.
Thanks for pointing this out-deceptive!
We did testing with those cards and found of all the things we tried they were least likely to be recognized by a psychic transfer
Great topic and speaker, thank you!
> Do ghosts exist - No
> Is there any evidence for the paranormal? - No
Growing up I thought it completely normal to "fly" after going to sleep. However as a teenager I started getting the paralysis thing and that awful vibration feeling and being aware of leaving the body. I had no control over it, and it caused extreme anxiety. 20s onward I learnt to just go along with it and study what happened, how the atmosphere was very thick, and how movement happened more on will than effort. You could touch a window or you could put your hand through it, at will. These sorts of things happened usually when very tired. However, late thirties it was discovered that I had quite a serious thyroid disease which wasn't picked up (which they said was since birth). Anyway, on being treated with levo thyroxine, the astral travel stopped. However, I still have very clear dreams of deceased family members, usually around times of stress. No way to prove ane no way to disprove these things.
what's real, the material world, or the mental world? ;) no one "knows"
I'm my dreams occasionally I can't fly but I can sort of float, very gently above the height of buildings which is really cool, it doesn't happen often and feels so real. Nightmares are more for children I find.
I have been using cold reading in my viva voce exams for a very long time to get good grades. It really works! My examiners, most often than not, think I know a lot while I just flunk the classes.
Seems like it may be easier just to study ?
Fabulous. Great link to share so I do not need to waste time to explain the basics. 😊. Congratulations Professor 👏. Thank you to the organizers for sharing it.
As soon as I heard the word skeptic I tuned out .
Same here. There's more on this earth and in this universe than we know or can explain.
One of the most interesting aspects of this field is the meaning and role that luck plays into our lives. Our brains being conditioned to think that we control chance and luck.
I enjoyed that, and it was a very helpful description of sleep paralysis which I personally have experienced several times in my life
I am very much in favor of discouraging people from superstition and religious belief without proof... however, I did experience some things that could only be classified as paranormal, even though I am a very skeptical and rational person. I even consider that I could have hallucinated, except for the fact that everyone else in the house I was living in at the time also experienced the same things. I'm not talking about strange noises that could be wind related or house settling -- I'm talking about a humanoid figure standing in front of you and moving in ways that nothing living or substantial could possibly do. I still don't like to say that I saw a "ghost" because I don't know if I believe in that. I just know that it couldn't have been a living human being, or any other kind of natural object that science could explain.
Not being a jerk here because I believe you had an incredible experience. But when you say things like: "I just know that it couldn't have been [anything] that science could explain", this directly contradicts you trying to convince us that you're "very skeptical and rational". This is not how skepticism and science work. How can you *just know* it's something paranormal/supernatural/beyond the grasp of science? I think what you mean is, "I simply believe it is because I don't have an explanation for this." Just because we can't explain something, don't know something, or don't currently have the tools to investigate something doesn't mean we get to assume it's paranormal/supernatural/beyond science. Skeptics and scientists have incredible personal and shared experiences that they can't explain, but their response isn't, "This must be paranormal!" Instead it's: "I don't know what that is, and that's a great thing to admit because I'd love to find out." "I don't know how to investigate this or what tools I might need, but I'd like to try." "I may never learn what this thing was, and I'm ok with that because it means there's more universe yet to explore." Being a skeptic or scientist doesn't mean we deny that people have incredible experiences or that we deny the paranormal exists. However, part of being a skeptic or scientist does mean that we should doubt, or at least can't trust our subjective experiences and that we need to be open to the possibility that this could indeed be something mundane even if we can't currently explain it.
Sounds completely normal. You can't trust your brain 100%. When you get incomplete stimulus from senses your brain tries to fill caps and presents something that is not there in reality. Possible dangers are very high in priority and brains are good valuating other people, so no wonder we are seeing ghosts when having incomplete information at situation.
@@skiptalbot9638 talk about verbose--your response would have been far more effective at 1/3 the length. I don't know what (to take one example) the "ghost" phenomenon accrues to, but in contrast to your sloppy "subjective experiences" cop-out, try reading Martin's post: "[E]veryone else in the house I was living in at the time also experienced the same things." Do you have incontrovertible evidence that Martin's account is false? If so, present it; if not, be humble enough to say yourself that you have no explanation to contradict Martin's testimony
@@provosta When you're too blunt, sometimes you come off as arrogant, and then people just wall themselves off. I was trying to promote folks being open-minded. But I'll try to be less verbose for you. Your call for "incontrovertible evidence" is a shifting of the burden of proof and an argument from ignorance fallacy. I'm not saying Martin's claim of the paranormal is false, just pointing out it hasn't met its burden of proof, and it's not believable until it has. He and his roommates may have very well seen *something* but his claims that that it *must* be "paranormal" and that his roommates saw the "same" thing (or believe it to be the same thing) is unsubstantiated and unverifiable testimony, even if we had the roommates' testimony too. It doesn't get any more subjective than that. Subjective experience and testimony are some of the weakest forms of evidence, and do not merit justifiable belief in something as incredible as a paranormal phenomenon by anyone considered skeptical or rational. This remains just an unverifiable claim with a far more likely mundane explanation than a supernatural one until sufficient evidence presents itself to warrant otherwise. There are other possible explanations. Group delusions, mass hysteria, and manipulated memories are all well documented phenomena. Paranormal ghost-like phenomena are not, so we shouldn't default to this.
@@skiptalbot9638 still verbose; your faux Dr. Phil opener is particularly superfluous (are you a scientifically minded person or a wannabe social worker? a condescending lecture about "com[ing] off as arrogant"--all the 'richer' because the irony's lost on you). Was hoping your logic would be better than your...ahem...'counseling' sense; no such luck: "Argument from ignorance" does NOT apply to my reasoning, since I never argued that Martin's account was true--I pointed out that you have no way of knowing that his report was false; you simply attempt to explain it away by what you consider "subjective experience." You weren't there, have no direct interaction with/means to legitimately evaluate the credibility of Martin, or any evidence that refutes his claim beyond your own wits (such as they are). You don't have to "prove" anything re: Martin's account, but it is patently unscientific to dismiss it based on what legal argument refers to as "assumption of facts not in evidence": You don't know Martin's mental state, so the only appropriate response from a genuinely scholarly perspective would be to offer your OPINION (i.e. his story is "not believable"), but acknowledge in the selfsame breath that you cannot disprove Martin's testimony & other reasonable, clear-thinking people might easily find his story credible
Awesome talk. Keep it up!!
Really interesting talk.
Backward masking is so much fun. And, in honesty, some groups actually started doing it to mess with people looking for them lol.
Yes!!! Weird Al! XO
Enjoyed this tremendously!
Thank you man, great ... Your stuff is on very interesting theme. Priceless and incomparable to somewhat what TH-cam offers...
If you as a skeptic are claiming that these people who believe, are responsible for the out come, the flip side of that coin is, that you as an absolute skeptic had a much stronger influence on the out come than they did.
I like his humor ;)
Good speaker!
That effect of their muscles unconsciously moving the dowsing rods is pretty much the same as a Ouija board. They've actually done test with a Ouija board with a infrared and heat-sensitive camera to see the muscles did tense up to move the planchette
That doesn't immediately make it quackery though. If you're letting your sub conscience tell you where water is, it could notice things you won't, like the moisture on the breeze, the softness of the ground, or the subtle slump of the land. Rather, dowsing is terrible at telling where water IS, but may be good at telling what ground has had water. Not to say that dowsing is effective, but if you test for the wrong thing, of course you'll find nothing.
@Dfg Sdfg -- This is exactly my point. The rods are a tool your unconscious mind uses to communicate with you. If you (and your unconscious mind) have trained to find water, the rods will help your mind tell itself what it needs to know. If you don't know, you don't know.
@@TlalocTemporal If you are unconscious you aren't going to find much but ZZZZ's. I've tried dowsing rods before and it did work. I know it worked because we later dug with an excavator. It was a waterline we were trying to locate and it was roughly 12 feet down. That was my first time trying dowsing. No one showed or told me how. I just held them loosely and let them do the work.
@@rodgerroy8090 -- That's great, but also anecdotal. It also shows that dowsing works (to whatever capacity it does work) not by detecting water, but by detecting land likely to have water.
@@TlalocTemporal I guess I should have mentioned that we were working next to a ditch with running water about 30 feet away, that ditch dumped into a small river about a hundred feet away. Yet it still showed me the location of that pipe. I'm not trying to prove anything or make up what I say, just saying it did work. I can't explain why because I don't know even though there was lots of water nearby.
regards to sleep paralysis, is feeling an entity creep up from your feet towards your face and actually feeling the distinct pressure of hands and feet pressing on either side of you while they crawl on the mattress still a false positive? Because i remember i was completely mentally awake that moment. Can't really tell if it was paralysis because i did not try and test to move even an inch due to fear. My brain's thought processes were 100% working.
He linked paranormal and psychological pretty well, and I have no doubts. But one question remains, what extent of a 'paranormal' needs to occur to convince people like him that there may really be some phenomena that physics cannot explain.
Regarding the “satanic“ messages it might be worth taking into account that, wheneverwe hear something that sounds like speech, we usually try to make sense of it because that's what our brains are trained to do. Furthermore, we seem to stick to the language(es) we know when we hear words in any other language. For instance, some German speakers will hear “Anneliese Braun“ instead of “all the leaves are brown“ at the beginning of “California Dreamin“, along with tons of other nonsense that often follows the “you won't hear it until you read it“-scheme. Just google “misheard lyrics“, it's hilarious. Great lecture btw, really had a good laugh!
Tis true, I always hear... 'What's that coming over the hill, is it a bus stop, is it a bus stop'?
30:50 Yeah, I once had a horrible experience with that before. I woke up and couldn't move, yet instantly felt like I was being watched and that something was there. Moments later, I felt something grab my leg, while a shadow moved across my bed. A few seconds later, I was able to move and thus instantly shot out of my bed and ran to the opposite side of the house.
Once the adrenaline wore off, I rationally pondered what happened and concluded--no matter how much my emotions were telling me differently--that I must have just been half-asleep.
I've had it loads. First time I had it I was petrified and genuinely thought it was a paranormal event. Totally understand why people mistake it for ghosts or alien abductions! But after I found out what it was it became an annoying inconvenience.
bujin1977 I realized it wasn't anything paranormal because nothing happened to me. it made no logical sense for something that random to happen, yet nothing came of it.
I had a highschool girlfriend that told me it happened to her regularly. She attributed it to some kind of evil spirit, I thought she was bit nutts.
Also in highschool, a guy told me about his "out of body" experience, I thought he was doing too much drugs.
Years later, it started happening to me, conscious dreams/night paralysis. I could see how they (or anyone but a hardcore skeptic) could attribute those to paranormal causes.
They feel absolutely real. But after being awake, there are usually little clues that show it was just a dream after all.
@@73majo50 sleep paralysis = gateway to lucid dreaming / astral projection
Hypnopompic/hypnogogic hallucinations. You can dream- super imposed over reality - for as long as 10 minutes after waking. It's crazy cool once you know what it is!! Paralysis sucks, but I've gotten great at breaking it without stopping the dream overlap - mini acid trips without the time commitment. XO
Very interesting. Great lecture.
Just some more anecdotal evidence here, I worked as a plumber in colorado for many years, and many plumbers, especially the utility crews, carried dousing rods. I have witnessed dozens of underground leaks and/or sewers located within a couple ft. via dousing, with 0 false positives. It was amazing the first time, for sure thought it must be coincidence, but eventually it became trusted as a reliable method of locating things underground.
No. You are just not counting the misses and only looking at apparent hits, so you lie to yourself about dowsing accuracy.
If it works, then great - all a dowsing rod or pendulum is doing is amplifying your own instinctive 'senses'. Some people can successfully so this with bare hands.
@@gmr1241 No, the rods work by ideomotor effect, they amplify your small muscle movements when you see that you are near whatever you are dowsing. When blindfolded, all dowsers fail as they need to see their quarry or they don't know when to twitch. They explained this in the video.
@@garymcleod6260 If you had read my reply you would have seen that that's EXACTLY what I was saying. The dowser senses what's there, the ideomotor effect comes into play and the rods move. The rods do not move by themselves or by magic. Radios don't work by magic. Mobile phones don't work by magic. X-ray machines don't work by magic. Televisions and computers don't work by magic.
Until you have fairly tested every single dowser in the world with MOVING WATER and found every one of them to fail then you and I will have to differ on that point.
can you send me your company details so i know never to ring you if i ever have a leak in Colorado?
Excellent presentation Dr. French. I've don't work on pipeleaks, household and commercial throughout my 62 years. I've notice that when you are around a pipe or valve, it make a high frequency buzz or ring that or ears pick-up. Some people complain about their toilets keep running and the noise bothers them. It is usually a small leak or leaking valve that seems to be making the noises. Get information Dr. French.
I can only relate to a personal experience with dowsing: I bought this piece of land that had a stream just outside its limit, and wanted to know where to have a well dug within my land. Hired a dowser who dowsed while driving in the land and, while making sure I was looking at him in the process, used his little bar and pointed to a place in the land. Some days later, I hired a company specialising in wells and asked them where I could dig the well: they said "It's dead obvious: just as close to the stream as you legally can!". That was the point the dowser pointed at right before leaving with his money. Dowsing is the art of selling an ability you do not have, while hiding knowledge you do have about geology and water.
I don't really know about those people but I have Some weird shit experience with something I can't explain. It triggers depression, fear and frustration only won't be able to figure.
That bit at the end is the same experience I have with the manic street preachers lyrics played forward.
Barnum statements are amazingly fun to use on people!!
Quite a few symptoms of sleep paralysis match slow carbon monoxide poisoning. Just to be sure, speak to your gas supplier, or perhaps have your chimney checked.
That no friends joke really resonated with me
I thought of 35, then almost changed my mind to 37. That is really interesting.
Simply Brilliant.
And skeptic
Dowsing or however it's spelled. I was a locator for the local gas and energy company and we often had issues with the detection equipment we used. Gas lines have current run through a wire that traces the line, underground power lines of course are live and active at 60 Hertz. When the equipment failed we would take a marker flag that was made of ferrous metal, bend it a few inches up and tear the flag off then hold the rod in a way that lets it freely move.Mind you this is one single metal rod. When you pass over a live line, the magnetic field created by the alternating current will pull the rod in line with the direction of the flow of current. It's pretty standard in the industry and is very easy to verify with someone else's equipment. The issue is, anything that creates a magnetic field will pull the rod, cable line, phone line, a microwave, any transformer, water lines, ect. We did this mostly just to waste time while we waited for someone else to show up with a new receiver or transmitter.
You say magnetic field - it's certainly *some* kind of field. I was given to understand that it's simply an antennae for what the human body can detect anyway.
Directly under this video, I got an ad for a free tarot card reading. Surely they knew I wasn't going to click it.
Guess they weren't really psychic....
dont quit the day job mate
A fun topic for discussion... it always amazes me how ethnic, religious and cultural relics still remain in today's catalogue social behaviour. Apparently the 'science' of statistical analysis successful dispels any nostalgic attachment to past belief systems. 8:01 Informative and fun!!!
How to say fun twice without any left in your life
We wouldn't even enjoy Christmas if we took that approach. Our cultural and social life is built on religious thinking and traditions.
I liked hearing his perspectives. A health of dose of skepticism is always appreciated. His point about coincidences certainly has merit in most situations, but I think it's hard sell to dismiss all premonitions as just a matter of probability. I've dreamt about a few experiences over the years that are just so extraordinarily unlikely that it's very hard to think statistics were even a factor.
were they like astral projection or OBE?
He should dare himself in living in haunted houses nearby as research
Ashutosh Kumar Can you come back here and argue with my comments please?
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Hes visited so-called haunted houses in a tv show in Britain.
I find paranormal stuff interesting but it's impossible to believe in lol. Great lecture
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Electronic Medium - Just a girl
Why? Are you a con artist?
My OpenMind - Hmm no...are you?
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orange pulp go to a haunted place yourself... ive visited an abandoned insane asylum w/ friends when i was younger, the stuff you can catch w/ a camera but not the human eye is incredible
I'm skeptical about even my own skepticism
I like this man.
I fell into the 1/3 of the population on picking the odd numbers and the 7 of Hearts, great fun, although it really meant nothing to me. Like him I picked 5, changed my mind and went with 7, that was a laugh. Very entertaining subject matter put on by a great entertainer. I like his sense of humor.
great points!! but we don't know everything, keep an open mind.
Yeah, but just because we don't know everything with certainty doesn't mean we don't know some things with almost certainty.
Another words It's not we don't know everything, therefore Anything Goes.
We know a lot of things with Incredible Precision such as the shape of the Earth. , the forces of physics that make up our solar system the Earth and all the people on it. We know the atoms, molecules of everything we are made of. We know every pathway of metabolism For not only humans, but for an incredible amount of organisms.
What we do know is staggering so It's also good to be. Aware of And confident in the incredible achievements of science
. After all, we're on computers and the internet and smartphones and we have incredible. Medical and technological achievements
We certainly don't know everything and they're presumably will always be more to learn but let's not just say there for anything goes
. What we do know? With almost complete certainty gives us an accurate picture and allows us to rule out an Incredible amount of nonsense that people try to argue has some realistic chance of being true.
When more than one sober person experiences (sees/hears) something in great detail, and at the same time, something that is clearly "impossible" (according to the known laws of physics), and not in the context of a "magic show" or any other sort of "demonstration", or on any special occasion, etc., it matters not whether you call it a "shared hallucination", as was my own first thought, or the corn-ball word "paranormal". It was something, however ethereally present, that was not supposed to be there.
In my long life I have had exactly 2 experiences like that - each entirely different. Each shared. In my opinion, anomalous events do occasionally occur. I don't think of that as highly significant, by the way. Climate change, and the 6th great species extinction are highly significant. The odd anomalous event not so much!
I totally agree with him as far as skepticism is concerned.
I find this really entertaining for some reason, I felt the need to share that. Lol
It is the water, drawing the person to it. New science has proved, that water is aware, and it has memory, and much, more than just sustaining all life on the planet. Like an entity, a life force, in a purposeful + necessary partnertnership, with all else in existence on earth, a major part of it also. We live in exciting times. Thank you for sharing your views and knowledge gained thru hand on experience . Very interesting, please keep us posted!!
Cheers!
Maggie
Did you see the water experiments - I think The Hidden Messages in Water and What the Bleep do We Know? Masaru Emoto. Google him - it's fascinating.
This just affirms my reasons for loving Penn & Teller
Do they do anything psychic. They are the worlds great tricksters and I love watching them as well
Magnetohydrodynamics might explain the tests done when actually finding water that is moving...but not when stationary.
Was about to comment that static water dosent have the charge a stream has
@G C Prior knowledge of the static water would have biased the test...must use double blind method for best results. We use magnetic induction coils and amplifiers to communicate with cave explorers through solid rock...surface receivers can hear the water turbulence!
The dowsers agreed to the test and thought they would succeed, the. Invented ad hoc explanations when they failed. If their results depended on static charge, they would be detecting a lot of other things in the environment, not water through soil and rock
OMG I GOT 7 AND 37, IM SO CREEPED OUT AHAHAH NOOOOOOO
Magic 🤔
yeahhh :(((
Me tooooooo .... but he says it's nothing to do with paranormal or psychic .... but something quite lame 😯
Mathew Wayne haha you high
Did you just fall on your keyboard?
I don’t believe anything without proof, but I believe there is/are some thing/s beyond science and human mind
And where is your proof of that! You're kind of talking out of both sides. ! You say you only believe in what's proven and then immediately after you just make some vague claim, but don't provide any proof. . If things are beyond the human mind. Then we can never have any proof of that. So you just violated your first premise?
Like you're opinion you barmpot?
how do you rationalise those 2 opposite beliefs ?
Do you have any evidence for that belief?
@@origins7298that comment was not well worded. But if you study Kant for example he sets out there is the world of experience from which we draw our knowledge, but then there is also the world we can access via reason. For instance our mind understands that two parrael lines which go on for infiniy will never converge, that's not something we need to empirically check, reason tells us it's true. Kant also observes our ability to experience the world is limited by the nature of our sensory equipment. So humans will never experience real 'reality' in some sense. So for Kant at least this opens the door for the possibility of a soul or afterlife but it remains only possible so his philosophy leaves to Agnostism.
Hm, a bit of constructive criticism. It would be interesting to hear what French has to say about a controlled study that seemingly turned out in favor of the psychic claims, like Russel Targ's Project Stargate.
Also, regarding ouija boards and similar stuff, proving that it is the muscles of the participants that move the things is not a sufficient proof of no paranormal activity - you have to prove that those movements are not a result of something paranormal being able to puppeteer willing subjects. Especially if you assume it's something incorporeal like ghosts, who therefore should have some difficulty directly interacting with material objects, but may have just enough juice to cause some electromagnetic shenanigans.
Personally, I would prefer a test focusing on the (in)ability of the test subjects to extract information that the participants couldn't have known otherwise, which would allow a clear proof of something definitely happening or not happening.
Which brings me to how he tested the psychics. First of all, it is unclear what the normal rate is at which people of any particular kind should be (un)able to identify a personality reading that is objectively about them. This alone makes the test pointless, since you don't know what the chance rate of success should be without factoring that in (presumably making it lower than pure chance, since pobody's nerfect).
Secondly, it becomes increasingly difficult to choose correctly which reading describes you best the more choices you have to differentiate between. That's why the choice should ideally be a binary one, a pair choice, between one correct and one incorrect reading (see Thurstone's law of comparative judgment). Three-way choice, like in the Carlson's test of astrology, is already problematic, let alone a five-way choice.
Thirdly, without explaining what the psychic readings were like (what type of information they included), it is impossible to judge whether it had any chance of success at all, and therefore to assign any weight to the result of the test. Which means that it should never be left out from a presentation or summary of the test, but somehow always was left out from every presentation of any such test that I've ever seen on TV, including this one.
PS: I may only have a master's degree in political science, but as French said, none of this is exactly rocket science.
Since you have a master's degree you shoud know: you can't prove that black swans don't exist, making your demand impossible thus "proving your point" that paranoamal still can exist.. somehwere, like a black swan.
If I gave you a proof that no paranomal puppeteer is there you could say: yeah maybe now, but what if a paranoamal activity was here yesterday and manipulated everyone to play with the bord? And maybe the testet subjects ar inable to locate water veins and tell the future, but you didn't test everyone - maybe soemone could do it!
Nobody could prove you wrong. This is how believes work after all, let it be ghost or gods or the ability to locate water veins.
@@MrsSanguisa black swans do exist
Very Powerful
Any recommended books on the topic of ghosts, sleep paralysis and so forth?
Not exactly, but there was an interesting documentary on youtube about 'ghosts' on the London underground and one guy said that 'intrasound' (very low frequencies) can make people feel that something spooky is going on as well as produce grey entities in one's peripheral vision. I think some vibrations and waves can explain some of the things.
Ghostology: The Art of the Ghost Hunter by Steven T Parsons.
There is no coincidences. You always experiance what you are supposed to experiance, and not something else. And yes, of course everything is connected with each other. The universe is using you as an instrument in many cases. It's all about making the choices. It's just multiple choice, since you dont have free will. But the more you know the more and better choices you can make
It's really great to understand the paranormal activities and phenomenon with paranormal psychological skepticism. Chris gave good examples of cold reading, Barnum effect, sleep paralysis, hypnotic regression, top-down processing etcetera. But I cannot find the reason that there are many people who can move things and do other stuff just by concentrating on it, it's also termed as psychokinesis. The definition says to exude energy from your mind to move or re-shape a physical object without handling it in any physical manner. How is it possible then? And why only a few people can do it. The second thing is which I read it in a book was that, dreaming is just like a war between consciousness and non-consciousness, and visual image production system of brain is selectively activated in sleep, my question is why the brain's memory mechanisms are so seriously disrupted during sleep that we cannot escape bizarre mental experiences that would otherwise occur only during madness?. Overall it was a great video, learned a lot from it.
I experienced poltergeist phénomènon at three différents occasions ! I was sad ,sligthtly dépressif at each event ! And i know it happen to many other peoples too !
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My only rebuttal would be to view the experiment as you would the double slit experiment where a certain point of measurement breaks the wave function and causes different results... Still good vid
The only weird thing that's really happened to me was one day in early September I went into my back garden and my watering can was upsidedown on the grass. I never leave it upside-down, I'd used it the day before I'm sure. Its quite a large metal thing so I dont think it could have blown over, if it had it would have blown onto its side.
Its possible it was a cat but im suprised the cat had the strength to flip it, I think more likely a fox maybe?
There's a couple of other more ghostly things in my family but I didn't fully witness.
Have such people read anything by Eysenck, in particular Explaining The Unexplained?
Amazing
Cool! This was far more interesting than I expected it to be. This guy knows me so well! He guessed my numbers, read out my unique personality. It's amazing! :p
Well, to be fair, I guessed he'd ask about the 9 of clubs just before he asked a two digit number. I started with 22, like most of you and was like, odd? Damn it... Different digits? What's wrong with 22? I like 22. Just let me have 22, man! Fine, I'll take 37. Wait, the 7 was used, maybe he meant 35.
Also: "She is _still_ in this position!"
That cracked me up so hard XD
Great video. I'm trying to think of some other examples of difficult experiments to perform under observation. I believe it's important to keep an open mind. Dismissing the paranormal outright is probably nearly as bad as believing every bump in the night is a ghostie or ghouli. Something is clearly happening in some instances, but we don't know what it is yet because it can be difficult to reproduce. How am I supposed to reproduce the time my can of paprika upended itself on my kitchen counter without anyone or anything within 10 feet of it? Or the time a box of reading material scooted under my nightstand seemingly by itself? Then there's the time I watched my cat while he watched my unplugged game controller slowly made its way across the table all on its own... All I can show is my perception of reality at that time, and you can only take my word that those things actually did happen.
I'm here because I think my pet pigeon has powers
Me too
We need to talk
@@layfonbishop9109 dude i have 3cats what do u think
@@Sajid_Hossain195 My cat was very good at ice skating but then it tricked me and said I'm Satan's disciple
@@Sajid_Hossain195 Bro I was at macdonalds the other day but I didn't have enough for a cheeseburger so I went round the corner and sold my soul quick ting. The burger tasted a bit magical though no lie
There was an SNL skit back in the day involving Satan and a tool shed, "anything goes." lol.
I knew an old fella years ago, Brian Hunwick, who was a water diviner in his younger years. He too was adamant other powers were responsible for his abilities, he called them for what he thought they were, not God or gods, but demons.
Hah! *cough**Acorah**cough* :D
Interesting talk.
He avoided the topic of vivid sounds or images that have been experienced simultaneously by two or more people - without drugs lol.
Exactly!
Vivd sounds and images experienced simultaneously (or separately) *with* drugs is a much more interesting area of investigation.
We all heard the same vivid Satanic lyrics in the backwards song, clear as a bell. We all had that feeling of recognition upon seeing the faces. We all have the same deluded brains. It is not so hard to believe that multiple people would see or hear something strange with a perfectly rational explanation, and then interpret it in a similar enough way that suggestibility would take care of the rest. If someone's perception doesn't match up so well with a group, they will most often question their perception and go along with the group, as has been proven by experiments. He didn't "avoid" it, there is an extensive range of pseudosciences and paranormal experiences.
Username checks out lol
I finally find a job that i can do investigate the explained to seek out the unanswered questions an to maybe find the truth.
Last night i fell asleep looking for my sister's old coworker on Facebook whorr cousin is my doppelganger. Thought of her for the first time in a decade....
I thought the other night it was very late and I heard a noise coming from my kitchen and then time seemed to have changed
As we know it. I can’t really explain but it was peculiar to say the least. I’m beginning to think the lady who
Lived at this one bed flat before me is still here!? My ( for another example) bed headboard felt as if someone had
Deliberately bashed into it around 2am in the morning but I live alone it’s not the only incident there are others
I just thought I’d mention these.
I had the same sort of experiences in a house I lived in 10 years ago. Others witnessed some of the occurrences. Many of the examples happened in broad daylight when I was fully awake, cleaning house, cooking, putting away groceries, or reading.
A good number of "dowsers" who charge money for it in fact have rare decades- or centuries-old local maps that show forgotten wells or streams that have long since been covered over. A farmer hires them to find a spot for a well, they look at their 150-year-old map to find the likeliest spots, and voila, all that remains is the performance.
I'd love to see this guy in conversation with Rupert Sheldrake, in particular on the subject that people appear to know (para-normally?) when they are being observed (a phenomena for which there seems to be a lot of statistical evidence).
Well some people are very suspicious and act all the time as they are being observed. But I will look it up.
I read about this (sorry, can't remember the book), and it is a thing, but if you look at their feet instead for their back or the back of their head, then they don't sense it as much.
Why would anyone assume that Guessing a number, or any number of numbers would offer definite proof that there is or isn't such a thing as "The Paranormal"? So typical of people who have already made up their Mind about something!
No wonder Skeptics, (Sceptics) are held in such esteem.
2:38 Exactly what I thought of...
2:48 I thought of 35 but changed my mind as well. I fucking love psychology.
4:20 I take it your eyes are drawn to the one in the middle, meaning it's the one that stands out the most, making you pick it.
The card trick works differently. Maybe pick a different card next time. ;)
Pick a different card next time. In fact, remember more than one if you can. ;)
Oh fuck, that is clever.
The one about cards he uses a different but similar set. Remove a card and flip all the suits I think.
At 4:20, the trick is that ALL of the cards are different (and of course there's one less). So, no matter what card you choose, it won't be there in the second half.
Just a note here: I guessed 37 was going to be the number and here's the reason.
He mentioned 3 in the first experiment, and he said the answer was 7 in that same experiment.
Queens, Another One Bites The Dust. Played backwards during the same lyrics. Clearly sez. "Decide to smoke marijuana."
Blue Oyster Cults song Godzilla. Played backwards during the repeated lyrics of the word Godzilla, clearly sez. "Satan is a horse shoe. Worship Satan."
I did this with my own albums back in the 80's. I selected the auxiliary switch on my turntable and spun the record backwards with my finger.
The BOC album gave me a jolt of spine tingling fear and I immediately pulled it off the player and smashed it over my knee.
I kept the Queen album. The Game. And within less than a year, decided to start smoking pot.
Hehe.
I'm high, I thought the number 37 and as soon as I did he said "37" I got startled
This tells me one thing about you and one thing only, you're prob very hot.
I respect skepticism just as I respect strange beliefs. there are infinite chaos type (butterfly) effects that MAY influence many things that can be, supposedly, ruled out of legitimacy by double blind trials or scientific trials of efficacy, etc.
Sometimes, it's just impossible to know for sure. What skepticism IS good for, is knowing something is easily recreatable and reliable in many circumstances FOR sure. So it's not quite the same thing as ruling something completely out...
Many paranormal or strange things may be true and just be EXTREMELY circumstancial or observer based or something. as we do know for a fact, the observer does influence absolutely material results concretely. this knowledge was gained with the double slit experiment. So who knows what results are influenced by in some cases. Sometimes a reliable person giving a subjective accounting is worth listening to.
I think there is water in the ground, under the sand filled bottles.
I am 65 so I'm not a phone addict as like the youngsters can be. Nevetherless something puzzles me : very very often, when I switch on my phone, the hour is what is called in french "heures miroir" for instance 08hO8 13 h 13, 17 h 17... I'd be curious to understand why... Before dying my father had promised, if possible, to send me signs... Perhaps is it the way he has choosen to tell me death is not and ending but a new chapter ?...
Please add English subtitles...
I really loved this.I have had sleep paralysis all my life. Its exactly like he explained it . Very scary. The one about led zepplin was amazing✌😷
Didn't know that Led Zeppelin is *that* great!
I experienced poltergeist phénomènon at three différents occasions ! Realy ! And i know i'm not the only one !!!
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Gun Creep oh yes? Many paranormal experiences. Very creepy ;)
I have a poltergeist in my place. It unplugged a sawzall from an extension cord, coiled the cord up, unplugged the cord and placed it under the outlet. It also turned off the switch operating the outlet. This was done when a friend and I were using the sawzall, right by our feet and neither one of us noticed it until I went to pick up the sawzall again and use it. He freaked! I laughed.
*things* have emotions attached to them. One trinket will give you good emotional memories and another will give you bad emotional memories. These paranormal experiences are just an extension of that.
@@robynannan7015 i have this phénomène when i'm dépressif / sad ! I read that it often happen to migrants who are homesick ! It was the case for me, on the two first events . Thé third time was when my little doggy passed away ! I was sooo sad ,maan !!!
Well , what i mean is ,it could realy be our own life-force ,or soul, or spirit ...,and not a foreign spirit ! But i know that ghost apparitions existed "for real " ! Some of my family members ,including my mom had have some apparitions !
@@zerofuks416 Well, i was not so much affraid from the event ,bizarrely...
@@guncreep9905 I was depressed most of my adult life from toxic parenting, the books I have read on it says that there is a connection between child abuse and empaths & narcissists.
It seems to be a major part of my life force. I've read it is a blessing and a curse, I could write volumes on the curse part; I'm waiting on the blessing part.
I live with a poltergeist in my home, after doing a sage cleansing, which is a Native American remedy, it calmed way down, but it is still here. My dog senses it more than I do.
It is possible there is a connection with the Empathic phenomenon, I dont know.
Im really sorry to hear about your dog, we get really attached.
not to mention that if they were searching for water, the dowsing rods would point to themselves and other people because we are about one-third water...
Everything all in our minds
Anybody trying to figure out the trick of cards?
Intuition did help our ancestors to find food in modern times we don't need intuition anymore but it still exist