PARANORMAL PREDISPOSITION?

     A question comes to my mind.  Are some folks more likely to believe in the PARANORMAL?  Is it a genetic predisposition?  A mental deviation?  A overactive imagination?  An open conduit to other levels of perception?  What is it that causes some people to experience the paranormal?

The Shaman will see you now

     In ancient cultures around the world belief in the supernatural was not considered strange, it was a GIVEN.  All the members of the community or tribe had some connection with the supernatural.  The people who had the greatest talents for understanding and utilizing the other world became Shaman.  These people often had the responsibility of maintaining not just the physical health but the spiritual health of their people.  A tribal Shaman often put his own life in danger to serve their people.  Many took "journeys" into the spirit realm using a variety of consciousness altering techniques to gain access.  In these "vision quests" messages or instructions were delivered to the Shaman often to help or warn the people. In other words, these Shaman were considered powerful people.  After many centuries dawned  THE AGE OF REASON.  Science and its empirical data could not quantify the existence of a "supernatural" world so it could not EXIST.  This stance has created a schism in the collective psyche of modern people.  A mass spiritual schizophrenia if you will.   Creating generations of "rational" people that have to have tangible proof of everything...but...but....wait for it....God MUST exist right?.....I mean Heaven is real RIGHT?....but NOTHING else.....no ghosts...no spirits...no witches....none of that Crazy stuff.  

Suffer the Little Children

     I have a theory.  Children below a certain age tend to have more paranormal experiences than adults because no one has told them they CAN"T.   Have you ever talked to a very young child?  The Easter Bunny. Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and even the big purple dinosaur are as REAL to them as their mother and father.  They believe in magic the way you and I believe in our cup of coffee.  Most young children have an "imaginary" friend and can hold complete conversations and "play" for HOURS with them.  So it is not surprising that IF  a spiritual world exists THEN children would be able to perceive it.  My own experiences with the paranormal began when I was a boy, but they did not END there..........