When I was at University in 1974 I was involved in an experiment involving paranormal investigation. It involved a mock Tudor house that was built in the mid-60s but looked authentic, that had never had any paranormal activity connected with it and whose owner was very much alive as it was the professor conducting the experiment. Six University students were chosen who had expressed a belief in the paranormal and were given a fictitious backstory of the house. Which to the best of my recollection included the ghost of a murdered young servant girl and an apparition of a mysterious white lady who was said to haunt the house. To cut a long story short the six students stayed overnight in the house in which one reportedly saw the white lady another saw the servant girl and all of them said heard strange noises in the middle of the night which some described as faint voices or sobbing. I along with the professor who was there and of course, never witnessed or heard anything which shows that people who expect to see or hear something invariably make their mundane observations fit their paranormal expectations.
I keep forgetting that not all psychologist are clinical psychologists. I worked in nhs psychiatry for 37 years and it’s screwed my head. I get astounded that a psychologist can have a sense of humour as I thought they had it removed when they qualified but then I remember he’s not a clinical psychologist.
Great lecture. Really enjoyed it! I experienced sleep paralysis exactly once (that I recall) when I was 18 (over 30 yrs ago). Was associated with an out of body hallucination. Crazy. I had hypnagogic hallucinations a few times in my life. Most extreme/vivid was hallucinating a giant spider coming down from the ceiling. I literally lept (over my wife) out of bed. These are certainly exceptions. I generally have very enjoyable dreams.
Forget mind _reading,_ I have the power of *mind writing.* I can put words into other people's minds without even being in their presence. In fact, I'm doing it right now. To you. Spaghetti.
This channel should do a lot more videos on the paranormal. That's huge here in the United States. I'm watching from the US West Coast and am fascinated with this topic. Also, I researched the watch/clock thing, and he's kind of mistaken. People use both IIII and IV for watches and clocks. I'm a paranormal skeptic but I've had some paranormal experiences. I wish this video would explain them but it didn't. My search continues.
Back in the day, Yuri Geller was on television in the U.S. I remember my baby-sitter said some of her friends could bend spoons at home while watching Yuri on tv.
I have esperienced very vivid sleep paralysis several times in my life. Most of them have been scary, but one wasn't. In the dream i was taking a nap and was woken up by my husband arriving home with a friend and his dog. I tried to get up to greet them, but i was unable to. Then the dog came to me and started licking my face. The whole time i was unable to move or talk. Then i woke up and no one was there. I felt so bad because i wanted to pat the dog 😂
What about synchronicity as described by C. G. Jung? Simple things like reading and hearing the same word at the same time in a routine, that lets You flabbergasted, when You experience it. You can't unsee or unexperience it. In a way You have no clue, what it is, but a 'hello' from the universe. Life is bigger than science, thoughts are faster than light, and evolution isn't over yet. Have a good time!
More on Kanashibari. I see it as a valuable safety mechanism. You are prevented from acting until you are fully awake. Flailing around in a hypnogogic state is not personally wise . . . nor is it conducive to species survival.
I can appreciate how fun/fascinating the paranormal can be; I wish more people could entertain the idea that the science can be fun/fascinating and also useful.
Sleep paralysis is a gateway to lucid dreams, someone going through lucid dream could very easily claim it was alien abduction or astral projection, they feel very real.
Worse than inattention blindness is straight out denial of reality. Since watching many "idiots in cars" videos thanks to TH-cam I have noticed the occurrence of drivers who seem to ignore the reality of what their cars are doing. Many instances of drivers continuing to hold down the throttle pedal while their car crashes into other cars and buildings etc. are on TH-cam. I think these people are holding down the throttle while they intend to stop their car, thinking they are holding down the brake pedal. The fact that the car is still moving does not trigger the idea they are pressing on the WRONG pedal. So they press even harder on the throttle thinking they are NOT pressing hard enough on the brake pedal.
Yes, and look at MAGA people. A complete denial of reality because their leader AND news choice both tell them x which is opposite of reality and what they actually witnessed. Look how many MAGA believe that Jan 6th was Nancy Pelosi’s fault. This is not a political observation as much as it is how a repeated message can literally alter your perception of reality.
In the phrase "Fake Psychic" the word "Fake" is redundant. ESP and the rest of that malarkey have one thing in common: They ALL violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Here is what Arthur Eddington had to say on the subject: “If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations - then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.”
@@robinbrowne5419 Information transmission demands Free Energy, that is, energy that can be used for useful work. All messages can be converted into binary, a string of bits. The minimum energy required to transmit a bit of information is proportional to K*T where K is the Boltzmann constant and T is the absolute temperature. This K*T must be converted into heat at the time and place of reception of the information bit, over and above the energy required to transmit the information. The ONLY modality capable of reliable information over distance without accompanying transfer of massive particles is electromagnetism. This is readily detectable by ordinary equipment. Despite extreme attempts to detect electromagnetic information in alleged ESP experiments, none has ever been detected. Hence, ESP does not exist.
Liked and shared. In my view, the internet is for broadening. And this lecture is certainly out of most folks' intellectual comfort zone. The human susceptibility to suggestion was well demonstrated during the infamous Stanford Experiment. Zimbardo later realized that, in his search for truth, he'd traumatized folks who liked him . . . his Ted Ex is enlightening. My takeaway was: a doctor without conscience is a worse monster than any dinosaur. Dispassion is not a quality anyone with credulous minds in his care should possess.
Despite working as a researcher in stem, I'm entirely convinced that certain things that are conventionally referred to as paranormal do exist. The problem is that the tests described here are not in any degree fit to elucidate those, and people possessing those are very different from the "psychic celebrities" described here. One of those things, a less interesting one but illustrative of the problem of testing, is related to dreams. There is a couple of specific vivid themes in my dreams that I see before specific charged events in my life. In this case, I am open to the possibility that these are just coincidences, however there were no misses since I noticed the correlation some years ago and started to observe carefully. The events are rare, random and unlikely to occur within the framework of tests described here, such as a grant approval. How do you even build a test around that? The other things are yet less testable and not related to myself, but of one piece of "weird shit" I have become entirely convinced...
Randi's tests are designed in conjunction with the person tested to make sure the tests are testing what's being tested. So, they are testing what's in question.
@@thekaxmax Yes. But those are not the most difficult cases to test. It is easy to test the claim that every image in one's dream foretells an event in their future. Even more so because I think that most public psychics are swindlers. Now, if the claim is that some images foretell certain events, say a sudden death of a close one, it becomes quite challenging to test it. Furthermore, if people with true abilities exist, they would not necessarily go public and thus would not necessarily be findable by people who would want to test their abilities. The individual of whose abilities I have become convinced is not public and does not seek publicity. None of the debunks that I have seen for public psychics claiming similar abilities work here.
@@thekaxmax That's a fallacious claim that someone with real abilities would necessarily want to try to get that million dollars. Or that I would want to demonstrate something. In fact, I actually avoid interacting with the individual I mentioned above because of having become convinced of their abilities. Just saying that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, especially when the evidence is collected the way it is.
Bro science. But despite all this, over the years I've had more than one hundred out-of-body experiences while fully conscious. I guess you just can't fully account for it yet.
Isn't the definition a little broad for the conversation? I mean paranormal activities doesn't have to mean ghosts and aliens etc. Like i had a "paranormal" experience many years ago while watching TV alone at night on the couch. had the remote next to me and accidentally knocked it the 10-15 inches there was down to the floor. I searched for like 30 minutes for this stupid object the size of my freaking hand but it was just GONE. I said to hell with it i must be too tired to focus my eyes or something I'll find it tomorrow. The next day i did a complete spring cleaning. No remote, but whatever i got a new one and got on with my life. 2-3 month later i come home from work one day and find the damn thing laying there plain as day on the floor right in front of the couch covered in dust as if its been there since i dropped it. THAT is paranormal. Never heard any conspiracy theory or ghost story to explain that one away. I never even met one who experienced anything like it- And you know, to make things even more strange, when i tried to use the remote after it turned back up, i discovered that exactly from the middle down there was no response from the controls while the top half still worked fine... I don't know what the hell was going on there. If anyone got a half-way sensible theory id be ecstatic.
I am not given to belief in paranormal events, nor am I a complete skeptic based on a vivid dream of my mothers death 3 months before it happened when I was 14 years of age. There was no prior illness which suggested her likely demise and the contents of the dream were replicated in precise detail in the events on the day she died, so clearly in January 1971 long before I had ever experienced a video recording. I knew as the events unfolded that I had seen this in the dream and who arrive. I have mentioned this to very few people in the 53 years intervening. It is the only time I have ever seen future events and I don't need anyone to tell me it was real or otherwise. The study of false memories is very important to understanding how victims of childhood abuse are distinguished from are, for whatever reason, faking. Criminal abusers first defence these days is "False memory syndrome" and a failure to convict for a lack of supportable evidence is preventing cases coming to court and protecting abusers.
I agree that paranormal abilities have never been proved by good science. I am extremely sceptical and yet I know someone who has had visions since they can remember and even had trouble distinguishing between visions and reality when very young. I agree what they see goes against all credible experiments yet they advise people of their visions and they have never been wrong. They can be incorrect in their advice which is based on judgement just like any of us can be but if they have a vision they has never yet been wrong going all the way back to their childhood These visions are completely involuntary and it’s totally different from all the tests I have read about where psychics are tested for voluntary tasks in which they claim a special ability I suppose it’s possible the person I know is being deceived in some way but interestingly they hate having this ability which is also unlike anyone I have heard who has been tested This ability to have visions is a terrible burden for the person who sees terrible things and feels due to their conscience they have to advise those who are the victims of the wrongs seen in the visions That’s not an easy thing to do and involves risks
I had this experience 5 weeks ago. I was working at my voluntary job in a retail shop. I went for my coffee break which I have in the storeroom. I selected a mug and put it on the table. I looked for the coffee (a large tin) and I couldn't find it. My colleague also went into the storeroom, I followed her, and she couldn't find it either. She gave me a small jar from the shelf to use. I went back into the storeroom and I immediately saw the tin of coffee on the table with its big white lid off, it was super obvious. No other person had gone into the room, and there would have been no reason for anybody to take the tin of coffee out when the kettle is in the storeroom. Bear in mind we had both seen the bare table. Explain that. Unfortunately all the paranormal experiences I have had are unique and random and are therefore not in any way open to scientific scrutiny.
@@iseriver3982 In this case you don't even need another colleague. It happens so often that I don't find something, ask my wife and then she finds it in plain sight where I've just looked for it. Yet, I do not share your overall denial of things that are not explainable by present-day science.
@@iseriver3982 It does preclude scrutiny when it can't be repeated. Repetition is crucial to scientific validation. And as I explained the coffee on the table when it was there was extremely obvious, there was absolutely no way it could have not been seen. You don't look at the position of a large known object and only see the bare surface underneath it. It was a 500g tin of coffee with its white lid off doubling its area covered.
Paranormal is a contradiction in terms as it applies to science. If it is part of the natural world (which circumscribes social constructs of concepts such as “normality” in any meaningful sense of the word) - then it can be an object of study and there is nothing “para” about it, because it is a phenomenon that can be accounted for or reliably predicted using current positive knowledge. If it is not part of the natural and social world - then it is beyond the scope of scientific inquiry, (as well as being horribly short on evidence and meaningful definition) pending proper evidence and reasons to think that something aside from the natural world is even possible. But … the word normal is a problem to begin with since the word “paranormal” suggests some ontology of what resides ”outside the normal” but normality is simply a social construct, as a concept and as a cultural reality and a messy and certainly not ontologically singular concept at that. On that view “paranormal” simply comes to mean something like “para-sociolingustic”, which I am sure does not have quite the mystique that some people crave as it would apply to all other naturally occurring phenonema. Well what then if we reduce it to psychology of experience then? Surely then we can speak of experiences outside the normal? Well - you still have the problem of pinning down “the normal” and a loose reference to “the mundane & quotidian” or some proposed pattern of averages won’t resolve that. Now we are talking about extrapolating from subjective experience with all the troubles that entails, notably the fact that subjective experience is fully capable of delivering experiences that feel very real while in fact only being “real experiences” at the level of the individual brain. Well what about observations that cant be currently explained? They are simply that. Observations that can’t be currently explained. The vast majority of such obervations are answered over time one way or the other. Meanwhile, why jump to conclusions about them? Especially seeing as such proposed observations usually seem to never really transcend the level of subjective experience in terms of evidence, there is usually always some human middle man whose account we have to trust on its own, with no access to independent verification, which puts us right back with that problem.
Something that's jumped out to me as a possible explanation for (some/early) "alien abduction" experiences is the practice of "starlight tours". The name is deceptively innocent - the practice itself is of police (notably canadian police with indigenous victims) abducting people who are publicly intoxicated and driving them out to the middle of nowhere, effectively trying to use the cold night and open countryside as a murder weapon. This very terrestrial practice would explain seeing lights (the lights on a police car), the experience of physical abduction, and the stereotype of a supposed abductee making that claim after shuffling in the worse for wear following a night's drinking or drug use. Even "being probed" is consistent with documented abuse by police.
After more than a hundred years of skepticism, criticism, comment and suggestion ESP experiments have only gotten better conducted and more robust. They are currently getting 5-7% above chance. Subconscious experiments get better results, for example the invoked potential experiments. All this stuff will be the mainstream science of the future.
Being a skeptic at heart, I find his lecture lacking of substantial empirical evidence supporting his claims. Psychic powers have never been proven to any degree of satisfaction.
I am almost half away into the talk- he is a skeptic clearly. Besides, to use the lack of proper objective evidence of psychic powers to conclude that it’s not real is one step too far. It could be that we don’t understand the objective reality behind psychic experiences. It is the claim of a supernatural phenomenon being a reason that needs to be rejected. It merely means that there is no causation measured. But there is probably a genuine explanation for some people’s psychic experiences- neurological etc. My point is- don’t negate the observations just because they don’t make sense. That would bias your own conclusions I think.
@@anandhbalakrishnan3190 so test better. It's why Randi's tests are designed in conjunction with the person tested to make sure the tests are testing what's being tested. So, they /are/ testing what's in question. Don't think they're right, get out and prove it.
Highly unscientific if you ask me. Inattention or absorption? He instructed the viewer to ignore the black ones & only pay attention to the white, those who didnt see the red cross were simply highly focused on the white, as per instructions so those people have the ability to focus quickly and accurately on what they are supposed to be looking at, not everything else around it. Try highly focused instead of inattention. That’s just one example. As for the numbers on a clock, I can’t remember that last time I saw an analog clock let alone recall or even have paid attention to the detail of how the number four is depicted so I would simply make an educated guess based on Roman numerals, unless I specifically knew otherwise. It is ENTIRELY IRRELEVANT!!! Likewise, being told a story re a house then left in there all night in a strange environment(as per not their usual) & let their imaginations go nuts in the dark & you will get what is planted in the way of suggestion. Not an example of paranormal experience. Just an example of suggestibility. What about explaining or investigating true examples of the paranormal or knowledge of the future. And the real question is - is it actually paranormal or just rare occurrences, because it’s rare we name it paranormal, which technically I suppose it is. It very probably is not paranormal given quantum mechanics & field theory - now THAT’S paranormal according to our so called normal expectations. Entangled particles, collapse of the wave function, instantaneous exchange of information, no such thing as particles at all & they are simply quantities of energy developing in an energy field which then react with another energy field. According to physics there is no direction of time in their equations, so in mathematics there is no future or past - and maths rules! If the maths says its possible then it is, if the maths says its not possible then the physicists rule out the theory. So there is no future as we envisage it -problem is we actually live that as we age. What a conundrum! My question then regarding all this is - what then does that make time? What if the future is something that all ready exists and future perceivers are simply perceiving an instance of that? Why does that have to be freaky when physicists are developing their theories based on Schrödinger’s cat?! The quantum field theory posits that everything holds a super position of being all possibilities until it is observed & no one blinks at this, yet if someone predicts something with the full expectation that it will occur & it does you call that freaky! This guy is saying that if you cannot produce this perception on demand then it doesn’t occur or exist. Where is his proof or evidence? That is simply his opinion because it has never happened to him. Psychology has nothing to do with it. When these events of perceiving the future happen to a person without their wish for it to occur - it simply happens to them out of the blue so to speak, how does he explain that? He can’t. He didn’t even approach anything of the like. Disappointing talk!
NO Chris... and this is my key bugbear with this "test" When you are given a directive (white letters hitting edge of screen) you are NOT asking us to observe ALL OTHER THINGS other than the white letters. In following the core requirements of the test, we purposefully disengage the function you say we exhibit.
Exactly. In the original test I think the observers were asked to count how many times the white shirted team touched the ball. So they switched the black shirted team out of the equation. The 'gorilla' was black....on the monochrome film.
Dr French I watched your presentation with interest and a smile and thought it was very informing. But I have to ask: Have you ever forayed into religious claims? And applied the same mix of scrutiny and psychology to those? I would love to hear you talk about that!
What a fascinating lecture. I particularly like Chris French's approach to these subjects. Keep an open mind, always think that you might be wrong. The difficulty must come after working for decades and finding rational explanations for all the strange things our minds do, and still cling onto that, 'but I might be wrong'. I can think of many sectors of society who should watch this and realise that they are victims of themselves, but of course, they wouldn't as they are convinced that they are infallible. I would ask them to listen to Chris, and consider that they may be wrong. Anyway, TH-cam is clearly part of the matrix and I must get back to finding the key to getting out of it!
WHO AND/OR WHAT AM I? DO 'I' EVEN EXIST? Consider the following: a. I am a human as defined by humans. b. I am an energy based quarkelectronian as modern science claims that all matter is made up of quarks, electrons and interacting energy and I am made up of matter and interacting energy. c. I am a being of 'light', 'if' my current theory of everything is correct whereby the 'gem' photon is the energy unit of this universe that makes up everything in this universe, including space, time and numbers. (Currently dependent upon the results of my gravity test). d. "I" do not even actually exist but eternally existent space time exists as me, currently in the forms as above. * I exist and yet "I" simultaneously do not exist, dependent upon perspective. But yet, do "I" not truly exist in absolute truth reality as only eternally existent space time exists as all things in absolute truth reality? * "I" can mentally change between perspectives thereby experiencing existence from those various perspectives. "My" mind continues to expand, but is it truly 'my' mind that is expanding or is it eternally existent space time's mind that is expanding? In absolute truth reality, it would seem to be the later. * 'To Be or Not To Be'. I am both, 'I Am and I Am Not.' But I Am Not it appears more than I Am. * Consider also: If asked the general question, 'What do you know?'. My current answer would be, 'Not much compared to all that can be known.' (I Am Not, More than I Am). It's humbling. * Is it truly any wonder that the flow of energy in the universe affects species? We are the universe experiencing itself. * Question: If 'I' never actually existed in the first place, how could 'I' ever die? * Added Note: Now, 'assuming' the above is correct, that 'I' do not even actually exist but that eternally existent energy exists as 'me', and that 'my' consciousness, memories and thoughts are actually the universe acting through the form of 'me': a. I have yet to acquire any 'new' knowledge via this supposed connection that cannot be explained by 'normal' means. (In other words, besides things I learned or intuited). Even my theory of everything and other ideas are due to study and critical thinking. Nor can I magically fluently speak a language that I have not already learned. (In other words, no magical connection with the 'universal consciousness' at this time can be noted). Although, what is 'intuition' but possibly consciously perceiving something that one did not consciously know, understand or have wisdom in beforehand? Is even 'intuition' a gateway into universal knowledge, understanding and wisdom, all done with basically the mind alone? b. I have yet to be able to manipulate reality with my mind alone, my physical body is necessary to manipulate reality. c. While I can imagine being elsewhere in this universe, it does not appear that I can actually take just my mind actually there. (My mind is where my body is). d. Doesn't mean I will stop trying, just have not noticed the above as occurring as of yet.
47:40 I can Confidently say that I saw Photographic proof that the Bali Bombing(s) Did indeed Occur, on that day, 12 October 2002 but NOT Sept 11'th 2001 I actually know the Journalist who captured the event, who *Was* an American National but was Refused access back into the USA and had his American Passport Voided by Homeland Security. I can't divulge his name Publicly but it has been quite some years since we communicated.
2:55 how much could be attributed to other things such as conditioning/pavlovian response training, hypnosis, subconscious suggestion and signaling/gaslighting? The DSM manual indicates that any and all paranormal activities are a psychiatric disorder. Which does put Exorcists/Voodooeines/Revivalists/Seers etc. in an awkward position.
Very true. The main problem is most people believe either what they're told or what they want to believe, sometimes both. They will fight to the death for their particular ideas, without doing any research - though often, if they do, they'll only read research which agrees with their belief in the first place and say they've looked at all sides of the argument. They then declare they have made an 'informed choice'. Hmm. Come across this a number of times with a number of subjects.
I had dreams of future events, and people i had not yet met when i was a child, for many years, and then met those peoople years later in real life. So i know for a fact that there are odd phenomenon that are real. When i was around 10 years old i was wondering why and how i could dream of something, some place or a conversation, and it manifesting in the future. Then i watched a short 5 min introduction of einstein that a kid channel had with cool graphics and cartoons, and in there, they explained how according to him, the past, the present and the future, all exist and reside on the same membrane, which he dubbed "space-ttime". Since that day, i assume the reason i, and many other have been able to percive future events as kids, is that for some reason, when something happen, weither in the past, the present, or the future, it can ripple outward on the space-time membrane, and be picked up in the past, present or future, by people sensitive to those ripples. But i never thought it was "supernatural", since that day, i really assume it is some sort of quantum phenomena. The point is, premonition is real, remote-viewing is real, and probable a host of other weird phenomenas. And they all probably have a scientific explanation in the quantum realm.
Paranormal or Coincidence? I dreamt that I hit my head with a huge concussion when I was sitting on the roof of a car on a street and I was awakened by the impact of my dream (frightened to the core)... the next day on the news: "an employee of the cleaning and garbage collection service dies of a blow to the head when he was sitting/standing on top of the truck due to the impact with a bridge above him". Same city of living.
I'm pretty sure that neither dreaming nor hitting heads on things counts as paranormal. One is normal biology, the other is physics. And standing on top of a bin lorry while driving under a bridge is just natural selection.
21:18 I’m curious about how this inter correlates with consciousness. I have a theory about frequency waves, which you’d think would affect accuracy of predictions. Like radio waves - you can’t get every station at once.
Fascinating talk, thank you. I worked in higher education, and in such an institution i worked; they had ALZ (Active Learning Zones) or libraries for each department, and what i found most interesting was that in the SEN (Special Educational Needs) department, their ALZ had books on the paranormal, such has Ufology, ghosts, etc.... then the penny dropped!
Dr John Mack of Harvard did not find anything psychologically anomalous in his hundreds of alien abduction experiencers. He maintained they were healthy regular people from all walks of life, having extraordinary and often baffling experience, such as missing time. However, more recently Dr Garry Nolan of Stamford has found consistently enlarged differences in size in the brain caudate and putamen, through MRI studies of experiencers.
If you listened, he pointed out that there are a number of mental characteristics that are common among people who think they've been abducted but not common among people who don't think aliens exist. So yes, he did find psychologically anomalous characteristics in those people. And there are non-alien explanations for their experiences.
There’s non so blind as will not see. Chris has never had what he refers to as a paranormal experience so how, with his clearly visible sub conscious bias, is he ever going to be convinced? By their very nature they are rationally unexplainable, unique and thus not repeatable and bear no relation to the fairly obvious examples he uses, like baby mind readers or dream psychics or Uri Geller (I mean fancy using him!). So, nice a gentleman that he is, he never goes outside his comfort zone; never talks about, for example, vision dreams, near death experiences etc. So sorry Chris; I’m 76 and a retired surveyor and have had 2 completely unexplainable paranormal experiences, both with witnesses and I know you’re wrong :-)
No, not insane. There are many things on earth that are, so far, unexplained. I have witnessed unexplained phenomena. I don't need it explained, it just happens to some people.
@@thekaxmax Well Rupert Sheldrake is a special case in the sense that he claims to be a scientist who talks about telepathic morphic (I don't even know what that means) fields and so on.
What I find fascinating is the phenomena of young children remembering past lives. Some of their descriptions turn out to be real if the videos I’ve seen are to be believed
Hi Chris, excellent presentation and story-evidence-narrative. What do you think of the CIA’s Project Stargate saga? Would you accept logically that as we don’t know the nature nor possibly origin of consciousness that sleep paralysis, just as an example might be a consequence of something that is happening in another dimension of reality? There’s also lots of things other than sleep paralysis that can be investigated in the same style to provide more clarity. Please reach out to me and we could write a paper maybe?
I think all activity is normal and emerges due to us being of and within the quantum field. We can sense fear and joy. Then we let our imaginations go wild and make up supernatural stories.
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Happily collecting obvious strawmen and bashing onto those. Perpetuating stereotypes. Short-sightedness and presumptuousness. Some scientismic sleepwalking to make the audience feel comfortable, I guess.
Allah created Jinns. Get with the program and stop wasting your time. Stop the invocation of Jinns and stop wasting your time. Get with the program. You are better than that.
'Anomalistic psychology'....a wonderful tool for soaking up academic funding which would otherwise fund parapsychology. I love French's use of 'suppressio veri'....James Randi the Great Skeptic. Yet another uncritical exposition of his 'Million dollar challenge' as proof of the non-existence of ''Paranormal forces'. Will the debate ever move to a state where it's discussed honestly? Apparently not in the RI....
I had a real paranormal event when 2 friends and me decided to use a Ouija board .. it happened it was real and I'm not interested in ever trying to replicate it but there really was not a natural or scientific explanation
Repeat it without touching the planchette. While one or more people are touching the planchette the result are inadmissable because you cannot exclude operator interference from the results. If a spirit can move your arm it can certainly move a lightweight planchette without an issue.
It's amazing how so many are so quick to dismiss 'paranormal activity' as fraudulent. But just remember...science cannot explain a single moment of you. There does not exist any science anywhere anyhow that can explain how I produced a single letter of a single word of a single sentence out of this entire post. And that is a simple fact (anyone who wants to dispute this claim is entirely free to produce the evidence [it doesn't exist]). That does not mean that every subjective experience of any kind is legitimate...but don't use the excuse that science can somehow explain it. It cannot. Not ANY of it. Period.
This lecture looks at a lot of things that have been described as paranormal and explains them with science. It is not trying to say that everything that has ever been reported as paranormal is false. The phrase ‘single moment of you’ is meaningless word salad.
@@AL-YT-comment There's nothing vague about it. You exist. Take a single moment of you (right now....for example)...and find me someone, anyone, who can even begin to definitively explain what is going on. Not only can nobody accomplish such a thing...nobody can come within light years of accomplishing such a thing. And yet...you are happening. This moment is happening...and somehow (nobody knows how) you do not self destruct or go crazy.
His roman numeral clock is not quite accurate. This example was popular in the 70s and I did a report in high school about it. Clocks are both IIII and IV and in terms of actual use by ruins found from Roman times, IIII and IV were used the same amount approx. In fact the addition method (IIII) is used just as often as the subtractive method (IV) in artifacts.
What about modern clocks? Have two in my house and never noticed before and actually went to see after having them for many years and watching this video. I was surprised that both of mine were IIII.
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When I was at University in 1974 I was involved in an experiment involving paranormal investigation. It involved a mock Tudor house that was built in the mid-60s but looked authentic, that had never had any paranormal activity connected with it and whose owner was very much alive as it was the professor conducting the experiment. Six University students were chosen who had expressed a belief in the paranormal and were given a fictitious backstory of the house. Which to the best of my recollection included the ghost of a murdered young servant girl and an apparition of a mysterious white lady who was said to haunt the house.
To cut a long story short the six students stayed overnight in the house in which one reportedly saw the white lady another saw the servant girl and all of them said heard strange noises in the middle of the night which some described as faint voices or sobbing. I along with the professor who was there and of course, never witnessed or heard anything which shows that people who expect to see or hear something invariably make their mundane observations fit their paranormal expectations.
I keep forgetting that not all psychologist are clinical psychologists. I worked in nhs psychiatry for 37 years and it’s screwed my head. I get astounded that a psychologist can have a sense of humour as I thought they had it removed when they qualified but then I remember he’s not a clinical psychologist.
this is why counsellors need counsellors. It's what my stepfather set himself up as, some time ago.
Great lecture. Really enjoyed it!
I experienced sleep paralysis exactly once (that I recall) when I was 18 (over 30 yrs ago). Was associated with an out of body hallucination. Crazy.
I had hypnagogic hallucinations a few times in my life. Most extreme/vivid was hallucinating a giant spider coming down from the ceiling. I literally lept (over my wife) out of bed.
These are certainly exceptions. I generally have very enjoyable dreams.
My greatest adventures are in dreams.
Fiction. Saved you all 1 hour 😊
Thank you
Watching your presentation now ❤️
Did you listen to it?Just curious
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That's not the point - the point is how you check that.
Forget mind _reading,_ I have the power of *mind writing.* I can put words into other people's minds without even being in their presence. In fact, I'm doing it right now. To you.
Spaghetti.
Bolognese
Junction
@@lsb2623 - The fact that you're replying to words I put in your head _confirms_ the claim. In fact, I've just done it *again.*
Whatever you do, DO NOT think of a female rainbow colored unicorn.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!
Everything is made up, we have proved it.
~Yours, science.
I'm a total fringe paranormal believer, well within SOME reason anyway... but this was a charming and very good debunking! a great watch.
This channel should do a lot more videos on the paranormal. That's huge here in the United States. I'm watching from the US West Coast and am fascinated with this topic. Also, I researched the watch/clock thing, and he's kind of mistaken. People use both IIII and IV for watches and clocks. I'm a paranormal skeptic but I've had some paranormal experiences. I wish this video would explain them but it didn't. My search continues.
Back in the day, Yuri Geller was on television in the U.S. I remember my baby-sitter said some of her friends could bend spoons at home while watching Yuri on tv.
Yury Geller used spoons made of Galium - a metal that is very maleable at room temperature. 😂
My niece had the same experience.
I have esperienced very vivid sleep paralysis several times in my life. Most of them have been scary, but one wasn't. In the dream i was taking a nap and was woken up by my husband arriving home with a friend and his dog. I tried to get up to greet them, but i was unable to. Then the dog came to me and started licking my face. The whole time i was unable to move or talk. Then i woke up and no one was there. I felt so bad because i wanted to pat the dog 😂
What about synchronicity as described by C. G. Jung? Simple things like reading and hearing the same word at the same time in a routine, that lets You flabbergasted, when You experience it. You can't unsee or unexperience it. In a way You have no clue, what it is, but a 'hello' from the universe. Life is bigger than science, thoughts are faster than light, and evolution isn't over yet.
Have a good time!
Pseudoscience and poppycock.
More on Kanashibari.
I see it as a valuable safety mechanism. You are prevented from acting until you are fully awake. Flailing around in a hypnogogic state is not personally wise . . . nor is it conducive to species survival.
"I just believe in me,
Yoko and me,
That's reality"
Facts
I can appreciate how fun/fascinating the paranormal can be; I wish more people could entertain the idea that the science can be fun/fascinating and also useful.
Don’t categorize this as hard science. No matter how you try to slice the bread. It is not.
Sleep paralysis is a gateway to lucid dreams, someone going through lucid dream could very easily claim it was alien abduction or astral projection, they feel very real.
Worse than inattention blindness is straight out denial of reality. Since watching many "idiots in cars" videos thanks to TH-cam I have noticed the occurrence of drivers who seem to ignore the reality of what their cars are doing. Many instances of drivers continuing to hold down the throttle pedal while their car crashes into other cars and buildings etc. are on TH-cam. I think these people are holding down the throttle while they intend to stop their car, thinking they are holding down the brake pedal. The fact that the car is still moving does not trigger the idea they are pressing on the WRONG pedal. So they press even harder on the throttle thinking they are NOT pressing hard enough on the brake pedal.
Yes, and look at MAGA people. A complete denial of reality because their leader AND news choice both tell them x which is opposite of reality and what they actually witnessed. Look how many MAGA believe that Jan 6th was Nancy Pelosi’s fault. This is not a political observation as much as it is how a repeated message can literally alter your perception of reality.
In the phrase "Fake Psychic" the word "Fake" is redundant. ESP and the rest of that malarkey have one thing in common: They ALL violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Here is what Arthur Eddington had to say on the subject:
“If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations - then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.”
In what way do they violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics?
@@robinbrowne5419 Information transmission demands Free Energy, that is, energy that can be used for useful work. All messages can be converted into binary, a string of bits. The minimum energy required to transmit a bit of information is proportional to K*T where K is the Boltzmann constant and T is the absolute temperature. This K*T must be converted into heat at the time and place of reception of the information bit, over and above the energy required to transmit the information. The ONLY modality capable of reliable information over distance without accompanying transfer of massive particles is electromagnetism. This is readily detectable by ordinary equipment. Despite extreme attempts to detect electromagnetic information in alleged ESP experiments, none has ever been detected. Hence, ESP does not exist.
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In my view, the internet is for broadening. And this lecture is certainly out of most folks' intellectual comfort zone.
The human susceptibility to suggestion was well demonstrated during the infamous Stanford Experiment. Zimbardo later realized that, in his search for truth, he'd traumatized folks who liked him . . . his Ted Ex is enlightening.
My takeaway was: a doctor without conscience is a worse monster than any dinosaur. Dispassion is not a quality anyone with credulous minds in his care should possess.
I put it like this:
Dispassion and passion are not antonyms.
The opposite of Dispassion is Compassion.
Despite working as a researcher in stem, I'm entirely convinced that certain things that are conventionally referred to as paranormal do exist. The problem is that the tests described here are not in any degree fit to elucidate those, and people possessing those are very different from the "psychic celebrities" described here. One of those things, a less interesting one but illustrative of the problem of testing, is related to dreams. There is a couple of specific vivid themes in my dreams that I see before specific charged events in my life. In this case, I am open to the possibility that these are just coincidences, however there were no misses since I noticed the correlation some years ago and started to observe carefully. The events are rare, random and unlikely to occur within the framework of tests described here, such as a grant approval. How do you even build a test around that? The other things are yet less testable and not related to myself, but of one piece of "weird shit" I have become entirely convinced...
Randi's tests are designed in conjunction with the person tested to make sure the tests are testing what's being tested. So, they are testing what's in question.
@@thekaxmax Yes. But those are not the most difficult cases to test. It is easy to test the claim that every image in one's dream foretells an event in their future. Even more so because I think that most public psychics are swindlers. Now, if the claim is that some images foretell certain events, say a sudden death of a close one, it becomes quite challenging to test it. Furthermore, if people with true abilities exist, they would not necessarily go public and thus would not necessarily be findable by people who would want to test their abilities. The individual of whose abilities I have become convinced is not public and does not seek publicity. None of the debunks that I have seen for public psychics claiming similar abilities work here.
@@iampdv That's why Randi had that lovely enticing million dollars out and, so far, 100% unclaimed.
Got evidence otherwise, demonstrate it.
@@thekaxmax That's a fallacious claim that someone with real abilities would necessarily want to try to get that million dollars. Or that I would want to demonstrate something. In fact, I actually avoid interacting with the individual I mentioned above because of having become convinced of their abilities. Just saying that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, especially when the evidence is collected the way it is.
@@iampdv so demonstrate in a better way. And it can't be fallacious considering the number of people who've tried for it.
I just love sceptics ... especially scientific ones 😊
Bro science. But despite all this, over the years I've had more than one hundred out-of-body experiences while fully conscious. I guess you just can't fully account for it yet.
paranormal activity is good for entertainment... I enjoy it much... Lord of the rings, Harry Potter, X files, and paranormal activity stories...
I prefer spook stories to UFO stories.
Lord of the rings?
Isn't the definition a little broad for the conversation? I mean paranormal activities doesn't have to mean ghosts and aliens etc. Like i had a "paranormal" experience many years ago while watching TV alone at night on the couch.
had the remote next to me and accidentally knocked it the 10-15 inches there was down to the floor. I searched for like 30 minutes for this stupid object the size of my freaking hand but it was just GONE. I said to hell with it i must be too tired to focus my eyes or something I'll find it tomorrow. The next day i did a complete spring cleaning. No remote, but whatever i got a new one and got on with my life.
2-3 month later i come home from work one day and find the damn thing laying there plain as day on the floor right in front of the couch covered in dust as if its been there since i dropped it.
THAT is paranormal. Never heard any conspiracy theory or ghost story to explain that one away. I never even met one who experienced anything like it- And you know, to make things even more strange, when i tried to use the remote after it turned back up, i discovered that exactly from the middle down there was no response from the controls while the top half still worked fine... I don't know what the hell was going on there. If anyone got a half-way sensible theory id be ecstatic.
Sorry, just had to Google roman numeral clocks for sale. The IIII and IV are 50/50- evidence based 😅
I did the same and got IIII being twice as likely as IV on a sample of around 30 images.
I am not given to belief in paranormal events, nor am I a complete skeptic based on a vivid dream of my mothers death 3 months before it happened when I was 14 years of age. There was no prior illness which suggested her likely demise and the contents of the dream were replicated in precise detail in the events on the day she died, so clearly in January 1971 long before I had ever experienced a video recording. I knew as the events unfolded that I had seen this in the dream and who arrive. I have mentioned this to very few people in the 53 years intervening. It is the only time I have ever seen future events and I don't need anyone to tell me it was real or otherwise.
The study of false memories is very important to understanding how victims of childhood abuse are distinguished from are, for whatever reason, faking. Criminal abusers first defence these days is "False memory syndrome" and a failure to convict for a lack of supportable evidence is preventing cases coming to court and protecting abusers.
James Randi was the goat at exposing these frauds. RIP
I agree that paranormal abilities have never been proved by good science. I am extremely sceptical and yet I know someone who has had visions since they can remember and even had trouble distinguishing between visions and reality when very young.
I agree what they see goes against all credible experiments yet they advise people of their visions and they have never been wrong.
They can be incorrect in their advice which is based on judgement just like any of us can be but if they have a vision they has never yet been wrong going all the way back to their childhood
These visions are completely involuntary and it’s totally different from all the tests I have read about where psychics are tested for voluntary tasks in which they claim a special ability
I suppose it’s possible the person I know is being deceived in some way but interestingly they
hate having this ability which is also unlike anyone I have heard who has been tested
This ability to have visions is a terrible burden for the person who sees terrible things and feels due to their conscience they have to advise those who are the victims of the wrongs seen in the visions
That’s not an easy thing to do and involves risks
I had this experience 5 weeks ago. I was working at my voluntary job in a retail shop. I went for my coffee break which I have in the storeroom. I selected a mug and put it on the table. I looked for the coffee (a large tin) and I couldn't find it. My colleague also went into the storeroom, I followed her, and she couldn't find it either. She gave me a small jar from the shelf to use. I went back into the storeroom and I immediately saw the tin of coffee on the table with its big white lid off, it was super obvious. No other person had gone into the room, and there would have been no reason for anybody to take the tin of coffee out when the kettle is in the storeroom. Bear in mind we had both seen the bare table. Explain that.
Unfortunately all the paranormal experiences I have had are unique and random and are therefore not in any way open to scientific scrutiny.
Something being unique or random doesn't mean it isn't open to scientific scrutiny. You didn't see the coffee, that's all.
@@iseriver3982 Or some other colleague was playing a practical joke.
@@phillee2814 such a reasonable assumption to make, no need for supernatural nonsense that literally makes no sense.
@@iseriver3982 In this case you don't even need another colleague. It happens so often that I don't find something, ask my wife and then she finds it in plain sight where I've just looked for it. Yet, I do not share your overall denial of things that are not explainable by present-day science.
@@iseriver3982 It does preclude scrutiny when it can't be repeated. Repetition is crucial to scientific validation. And as I explained the coffee on the table when it was there was extremely obvious, there was absolutely no way it could have not been seen. You don't look at the position of a large known object and only see the bare surface underneath it. It was a 500g tin of coffee with its white lid off doubling its area covered.
Paranormal is a contradiction in terms as it applies to science.
If it is part of the natural world (which circumscribes social constructs of concepts such as “normality” in any meaningful sense of the word) - then it can be an object of study and there is nothing “para” about it, because it is a phenomenon that can be accounted for or reliably predicted using current positive knowledge.
If it is not part of the natural and social world - then it is beyond the scope of scientific inquiry, (as well as being horribly short on evidence and meaningful definition) pending proper evidence and reasons to think that something aside from the natural world is even possible.
But … the word normal is a problem to begin with since the word “paranormal” suggests some ontology of what resides ”outside the normal” but normality is simply a social construct, as a concept and as a cultural reality and a messy and certainly not ontologically singular concept at that. On that view “paranormal” simply comes to mean something like “para-sociolingustic”, which I am sure does not have quite the mystique that some people crave as it would apply to all other naturally occurring phenonema.
Well what then if we reduce it to psychology of experience then? Surely then we can speak of experiences outside the normal? Well - you still have the problem of pinning down “the normal” and a loose reference to “the mundane & quotidian” or some proposed pattern of averages won’t resolve that. Now we are talking about extrapolating from subjective experience with all the troubles that entails, notably the fact that subjective experience is fully capable of delivering experiences that feel very real while in fact only being “real experiences” at the level of the individual brain.
Well what about observations that cant be currently explained? They are simply that. Observations that can’t be currently explained. The vast majority of such obervations are answered over time one way or the other. Meanwhile, why jump to conclusions about them? Especially seeing as such proposed observations usually seem to never really transcend the level of subjective experience in terms of evidence, there is usually always some human middle man whose account we have to trust on its own, with no access to independent verification, which puts us right back with that problem.
Something that's jumped out to me as a possible explanation for (some/early) "alien abduction" experiences is the practice of "starlight tours". The name is deceptively innocent - the practice itself is of police (notably canadian police with indigenous victims) abducting people who are publicly intoxicated and driving them out to the middle of nowhere, effectively trying to use the cold night and open countryside as a murder weapon.
This very terrestrial practice would explain seeing lights (the lights on a police car), the experience of physical abduction, and the stereotype of a supposed abductee making that claim after shuffling in the worse for wear following a night's drinking or drug use. Even "being probed" is consistent with documented abuse by police.
After more than a hundred years of skepticism, criticism, comment and suggestion ESP experiments have only gotten better conducted and more robust. They are currently getting 5-7% above chance. Subconscious experiments get better results, for example the invoked potential experiments. All this stuff will be the mainstream science of the future.
Being a skeptic at heart, I find his lecture lacking of substantial empirical evidence supporting his claims. Psychic powers have never been proven to any degree of satisfaction.
I am almost half away into the talk- he is a skeptic clearly. Besides, to use the lack of proper objective evidence of psychic powers to conclude that it’s not real is one step too far.
It could be that we don’t understand the objective reality behind psychic experiences. It is the claim of a supernatural phenomenon being a reason that needs to be rejected.
It merely means that there is no causation measured. But there is probably a genuine explanation for some people’s psychic experiences- neurological etc.
My point is- don’t negate the observations just because they don’t make sense. That would bias your own conclusions I think.
Wow this person just made up a whole other lecture to criticise huh
His claims are that paranormal claims are rubbish. Read the book title again.
@@anandhbalakrishnan3190 so test better. It's why Randi's tests are designed in conjunction with the person tested to make sure the tests are testing what's being tested. So, they /are/ testing what's in question.
Don't think they're right, get out and prove it.
Did you even watch the lecture? Also, I can move my hand with the power of my mind. And I can put these words into _your_ head.
Highly unscientific if you ask me. Inattention or absorption? He instructed the viewer to ignore the black ones & only pay attention to the white, those who didnt see the red cross were simply highly focused on the white, as per instructions so those people have the ability to focus quickly and accurately on what they are supposed to be looking at, not everything else around it. Try highly focused instead of inattention. That’s just one example. As for the numbers on a clock, I can’t remember that last time I saw an analog clock let alone recall or even have paid attention to the detail of how the number four is depicted so I would simply make an educated guess based on Roman numerals, unless I specifically knew otherwise. It is ENTIRELY IRRELEVANT!!! Likewise, being told a story re a house then left in there all night in a strange environment(as per not their usual) & let their imaginations go nuts in the dark & you will get what is planted in the way of suggestion. Not an example of paranormal experience. Just an example of suggestibility. What about explaining or investigating true examples of the paranormal or knowledge of the future. And the real question is - is it actually paranormal or just rare occurrences, because it’s rare we name it paranormal, which technically I suppose it is. It very probably is not paranormal given quantum mechanics & field theory - now THAT’S paranormal according to our so called normal expectations. Entangled particles, collapse of the wave function, instantaneous exchange of information, no such thing as particles at all & they are simply quantities of energy developing in an energy field which then react with another energy field. According to physics there is no direction of time in their equations, so in mathematics there is no future or past - and maths rules! If the maths says its possible then it is, if the maths says its not possible then the physicists rule out the theory. So there is no future as we envisage it -problem is we actually live that as we age. What a conundrum! My question then regarding all this is - what then does that make time? What if the future is something that all ready exists and future perceivers are simply perceiving an instance of that? Why does that have to be freaky when physicists are developing their theories based on Schrödinger’s cat?! The quantum field theory posits that everything holds a super position of being all possibilities until it is observed & no one blinks at this, yet if someone predicts something with the full expectation that it will occur & it does you call that freaky! This guy is saying that if you cannot produce this perception on demand then it doesn’t occur or exist. Where is his proof or evidence? That is simply his opinion because it has never happened to him. Psychology has nothing to do with it. When these events of perceiving the future happen to a person without their wish for it to occur - it simply happens to them out of the blue so to speak, how does he explain that? He can’t. He didn’t even approach anything of the like. Disappointing talk!
NO Chris... and this is my key bugbear with this "test"
When you are given a directive (white letters hitting edge of screen) you are NOT asking us to observe ALL OTHER THINGS other than the white letters. In following the core requirements of the test, we purposefully disengage the function you say we exhibit.
Exactly. In the original test I think the observers were asked to count how many times the white shirted team touched the ball. So they switched the black shirted team out of the equation.
The 'gorilla' was black....on the monochrome film.
Dr French I watched your presentation with interest and a smile and thought it was very informing. But I have to ask:
Have you ever forayed into religious claims? And applied the same mix of scrutiny and psychology to those? I would love to hear you talk about that!
paranormal is paranormal.
What a fascinating lecture. I particularly like Chris French's approach to these subjects. Keep an open mind, always think that you might be wrong. The difficulty must come after working for decades and finding rational explanations for all the strange things our minds do, and still cling onto that, 'but I might be wrong'.
I can think of many sectors of society who should watch this and realise that they are victims of themselves, but of course, they wouldn't as they are convinced that they are infallible. I would ask them to listen to Chris, and consider that they may be wrong.
Anyway, TH-cam is clearly part of the matrix and I must get back to finding the key to getting out of it!
Excellent presentation. I would like to know more.
WHO AND/OR WHAT AM I? DO 'I' EVEN EXIST?
Consider the following:
a. I am a human as defined by humans.
b. I am an energy based quarkelectronian as modern science claims that all matter is made up of quarks, electrons and interacting energy and I am made up of matter and interacting energy.
c. I am a being of 'light', 'if' my current theory of everything is correct whereby the 'gem' photon is the energy unit of this universe that makes up everything in this universe, including space, time and numbers. (Currently dependent upon the results of my gravity test).
d. "I" do not even actually exist but eternally existent space time exists as me, currently in the forms as above.
* I exist and yet "I" simultaneously do not exist, dependent upon perspective. But yet, do "I" not truly exist in absolute truth reality as only eternally existent space time exists as all things in absolute truth reality?
* "I" can mentally change between perspectives thereby experiencing existence from those various perspectives. "My" mind continues to expand, but is it truly 'my' mind that is expanding or is it eternally existent space time's mind that is expanding? In absolute truth reality, it would seem to be the later.
* 'To Be or Not To Be'. I am both, 'I Am and I Am Not.' But I Am Not it appears more than I Am.
* Consider also: If asked the general question, 'What do you know?'. My current answer would be, 'Not much compared to all that can be known.' (I Am Not, More than I Am). It's humbling.
* Is it truly any wonder that the flow of energy in the universe affects species? We are the universe experiencing itself.
* Question: If 'I' never actually existed in the first place, how could 'I' ever die?
* Added Note: Now, 'assuming' the above is correct, that 'I' do not even actually exist but that eternally existent energy exists as 'me', and that 'my' consciousness, memories and thoughts are actually the universe acting through the form of 'me':
a. I have yet to acquire any 'new' knowledge via this supposed connection that cannot be explained by 'normal' means. (In other words, besides things I learned or intuited). Even my theory of everything and other ideas are due to study and critical thinking. Nor can I magically fluently speak a language that I have not already learned. (In other words, no magical connection with the 'universal consciousness' at this time can be noted).
Although, what is 'intuition' but possibly consciously perceiving something that one did not consciously know, understand or have wisdom in beforehand? Is even 'intuition' a gateway into universal knowledge, understanding and wisdom, all done with basically the mind alone?
b. I have yet to be able to manipulate reality with my mind alone, my physical body is necessary to manipulate reality.
c. While I can imagine being elsewhere in this universe, it does not appear that I can actually take just my mind actually there. (My mind is where my body is).
d. Doesn't mean I will stop trying, just have not noticed the above as occurring as of yet.
47:40 I can Confidently say that I saw Photographic proof that the Bali Bombing(s) Did indeed Occur, on that day, 12 October 2002 but NOT Sept 11'th 2001
I actually know the Journalist who captured the event, who *Was* an American National but was Refused access back into the USA and had his American Passport Voided by Homeland Security.
I can't divulge his name Publicly but it has been quite some years since we communicated.
2:55 how much could be attributed to other things such as conditioning/pavlovian response training, hypnosis, subconscious suggestion and signaling/gaslighting? The DSM manual indicates that any and all paranormal activities are a psychiatric disorder. Which does put Exorcists/Voodooeines/Revivalists/Seers etc. in an awkward position.
Very true. The main problem is most people believe either what they're told or what they want to believe, sometimes both. They will fight to the death for their particular ideas, without doing any research - though often, if they do, they'll only read research which agrees with their belief in the first place and say they've looked at all sides of the argument. They then declare they have made an 'informed choice'. Hmm.
Come across this a number of times with a number of subjects.
I had dreams of future events, and people i had not yet met when i was a child, for many years, and then met those peoople years later in real life. So i know for a fact that there are odd phenomenon that are real. When i was around 10 years old i was wondering why and how i could dream of something, some place or a conversation, and it manifesting in the future. Then i watched a short 5 min introduction of einstein that a kid channel had with cool graphics and cartoons, and in there, they explained how according to him, the past, the present and the future, all exist and reside on the same membrane, which he dubbed "space-ttime".
Since that day, i assume the reason i, and many other have been able to percive future events as kids, is that for some reason, when something happen, weither in the past, the present, or the future, it can ripple outward on the space-time membrane, and be picked up in the past, present or future, by people sensitive to those ripples.
But i never thought it was "supernatural", since that day, i really assume it is some sort of quantum phenomena.
The point is, premonition is real, remote-viewing is real, and probable a host of other weird phenomenas. And they all probably have a scientific explanation in the quantum realm.
Paranormal or Coincidence? I dreamt that I hit my head with a huge concussion when I was sitting on the roof of a car on a street and I was awakened by the impact of my dream (frightened to the core)... the next day on the news: "an employee of the cleaning and garbage collection service dies of a blow to the head when he was sitting/standing on top of the truck due to the impact with a bridge above him". Same city of living.
I'm pretty sure that neither dreaming nor hitting heads on things counts as paranormal. One is normal biology, the other is physics. And standing on top of a bin lorry while driving under a bridge is just natural selection.
fascinating!
21:18 I’m curious about how this inter correlates with consciousness. I have a theory about frequency waves, which you’d think would affect accuracy of predictions. Like radio waves - you can’t get every station at once.
What are frequency waves? Waves have a frequency and a wavelength, but 'frequency waves' seems to be just a tautology.
Fascinating talk, thank you. I worked in higher education, and in such an institution i worked; they had ALZ (Active Learning Zones) or libraries for each department, and what i found most interesting was that in the SEN (Special Educational Needs) department, their ALZ had books on the paranormal, such has Ufology, ghosts, etc.... then the penny dropped!
Remarkable
I am not convinced.
Thanks!
Dr John Mack of Harvard did not find anything psychologically anomalous in his hundreds of alien abduction experiencers. He maintained they were healthy regular people from all walks of life, having extraordinary and often baffling experience, such as missing time. However, more recently Dr Garry Nolan of Stamford has found consistently enlarged differences in size in the brain caudate and putamen, through MRI studies of experiencers.
The jury isn't still out, all claims of alien abduction are false.
No, it isn’t! 😹
There's no way anyone has ever been abducted by aliens. The only reason people think different is because they're either liars or ignorant.
If you listened, he pointed out that there are a number of mental characteristics that are common among people who think they've been abducted but not common among people who don't think aliens exist. So yes, he did find psychologically anomalous characteristics in those people. And there are non-alien explanations for their experiences.
what book?
There’s non so blind as will not see.
Chris has never had what he refers to as a paranormal experience so how, with his clearly visible sub conscious bias, is he ever going to be convinced?
By their very nature they are rationally unexplainable, unique and thus not repeatable and bear no relation to the fairly obvious examples he uses, like baby mind readers or dream psychics or Uri Geller (I mean fancy using him!).
So, nice a gentleman that he is, he never goes outside his comfort zone; never talks about, for example, vision dreams, near death experiences etc. So sorry Chris; I’m 76 and a retired surveyor and have had 2 completely unexplainable paranormal experiences, both with witnesses and I know you’re wrong :-)
What about the videos of shadow bastads?!?
si elles existent, c'est vraiment du vrai n'importe quoi se qu'il raconte 👎
“…then how do we explain the experiences that people have?“ How about insanity? 🤪
No, not insane. There are many things on earth that are, so far, unexplained. I have witnessed unexplained phenomena. I don't need it explained, it just happens to some people.
_"Paranormal activity: science or fiction?"_
*Fiction.*
Rupert Shedrake and Deepak Chopra were not mentioned.
can't take the time to name all the tens of thousands of fakes
@@thekaxmax Well Rupert Sheldrake is a special case in the sense that he claims to be a scientist who talks about telepathic morphic (I don't even know what that means) fields and so on.
Neither were any respected figures who took such phenomena seriously in the past - CG Jung for one.
@@user-zc4yd9ss7h ...respected _despite_ their ideas about the non-existent, of course.
Neither was I
All psychology is abnormal
What I find fascinating is the phenomena of young children remembering past lives. Some of their descriptions turn out to be real if the videos I’ve seen are to be believed
No they're not 'remembering' anything. :)
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Good evening. It's all fiction. Good night.Thank you for attending.
fiction; next question
But. What is science 👻
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Paranormal
Are Fact , I’ve experienced several
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prove it
Well one day my Arse was on Fire for No apparent reason
Explain that
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Psychology, Perhaps the most useful subject.
The subject with least replication
Not really,not anymore.
As soon as any speaker mentions "in my book" i exit the video. Its all presented for £££££
3:04, "scepticism is at the heart of the scientific method", unless you are talking about climate change
The supernatural is real.
It doesn't give anything like supernatural. All is natural!
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Prove it, show me repeatable verifiable evidence.
The proof you seek will come when an experience of your own forces you to accept that life is a lot more complex than you currently believe.
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Hi Chris, excellent presentation and story-evidence-narrative. What do you think of the CIA’s Project Stargate saga? Would you accept logically that as we don’t know the nature nor possibly origin of consciousness that sleep paralysis, just as an example might be a consequence of something that is happening in another dimension of reality? There’s also lots of things other than sleep paralysis that can be investigated in the same style to provide more clarity. Please reach out to me and we could write a paper maybe?
Paranormal activity: science or fiction? why phase this as a choice? just call it Science-Fiction that leans more to the fiction side.
leave science out of it. It's all just made up, as he covers.
I think all activity is normal and emerges due to us being of and within the quantum field. We can sense fear and joy. Then we let our imaginations go wild and make up supernatural stories.
Fiction
Did you even listen to what he says say
@@crazywileycoyote Watching now, however by definition it cannot be science.
@@johncarter1150 nope Philosophy is word games and psychology is almost a science, However paranormal activity is Psudo-science, Not real.
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Happily collecting obvious strawmen and bashing onto those. Perpetuating stereotypes. Short-sightedness and presumptuousness. Some scientismic sleepwalking to make the audience feel comfortable, I guess.
Allah created Jinns. Get with the program and stop wasting your time. Stop the invocation of Jinns and stop wasting your time. Get with the program. You are better than that.
'Anomalistic psychology'....a wonderful tool for soaking up academic funding which would otherwise fund parapsychology.
I love French's use of 'suppressio veri'....James Randi the Great Skeptic. Yet another uncritical exposition of his 'Million dollar challenge' as proof of the non-existence of ''Paranormal forces'.
Will the debate ever move to a state where it's discussed honestly?
Apparently not in the RI....
What an embarrassing RI Lecturer. This is so far from the Faraday concept.
Balderdash or poppycock?🤔
I had a real paranormal event when 2 friends and me decided to use a Ouija board .. it happened it was real and I'm not interested in ever trying to replicate it but there really was not a natural or scientific explanation
Repeat it without touching the planchette. While one or more people are touching the planchette the result are inadmissable because you cannot exclude operator interference from the results. If a spirit can move your arm it can certainly move a lightweight planchette without an issue.
Psicologia e afins é só preconceito.. Quando na história isso deu certo?
evidence?
Probably the most boring RI lecture I've ever seen.
It's amazing how so many are so quick to dismiss 'paranormal activity' as fraudulent. But just remember...science cannot explain a single moment of you. There does not exist any science anywhere anyhow that can explain how I produced a single letter of a single word of a single sentence out of this entire post. And that is a simple fact (anyone who wants to dispute this claim is entirely free to produce the evidence [it doesn't exist]). That does not mean that every subjective experience of any kind is legitimate...but don't use the excuse that science can somehow explain it. It cannot. Not ANY of it. Period.
This lecture looks at a lot of things that have been described as paranormal and explains them with science. It is not trying to say that everything that has ever been reported as paranormal is false. The phrase ‘single moment of you’ is meaningless word salad.
@@AL-YT-comment There's nothing vague about it. You exist. Take a single moment of you (right now....for example)...and find me someone, anyone, who can even begin to definitively explain what is going on. Not only can nobody accomplish such a thing...nobody can come within light years of accomplishing such a thing. And yet...you are happening. This moment is happening...and somehow (nobody knows how) you do not self destruct or go crazy.
32 secs since it's posted. I'M QUUICKKKK
You can now go back to sleep!
Thats what she said
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You must be parabnormal
Psychic!
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@@johncarter1150 no just a cringebot 😅
His roman numeral clock is not quite accurate. This example was popular in the 70s and I did a report in high school about it. Clocks are both IIII and IV and in terms of actual use by ruins found from Roman times, IIII and IV were used the same amount approx. In fact the addition method (IIII) is used just as often as the subtractive method (IV) in artifacts.
Ben?
What about modern clocks? Have two in my house and never noticed before and actually went to see after having them for many years and watching this video. I was surprised that both of mine were IIII.