Because if your not asking HOW, and WHY on all your investigations, all your doing is just sitting in the DARK!
On this page we will look at what's real, and what's explainable.
This is CGC® educating the public about the paranormal. What is real, and what is explainable. Most paranormal groups are serious about the truth. Stop Paranormal Frauds is just one of those groups. They tirelessly go after paranormal groups that cheats people out of their money, cashing in on peoples fears, and faking evidence. We are going to look at Evidence, Equipment, and new ideas that are reshaping the paranormal world.
Is it a GHOST?
Last night when I was sleeping, I thought I was having a dream, but now I'm not so sure, it felt so real. It was like I was above myself. I was laying on my bed and I was being held down by my wrists and ankles, something very heavy was on me top of me. I tried to move and I tried to yell but I couldn't. Then, just as I woke up, it was gone and I felt very strange and could hardly breathe. I stayed awake for hours thinking what was it?
Sound Familiar? LEARN WHY!
Let's take a look at the medical reasons WHY some of us believe in these Phenomena. LIKE: ORBs, Ghost Box, etc...
Pareidolia (pærɨˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-doh-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records played in reverse. The word comes from the Greek para – "beside", "with", or "alongside" — meaning, in this context, something faulty or wrong (as in paraphasia, disordered speech) and eidōlon – "image"; the diminutive of eidos – "image", "form", "shape". Pareidolia is a type of apophenia.
Apophenia is the experience of seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.
Anthropomorphism (/an·thro·po·mor·phism/ an″thro-po-mor´fizm) is any attribution of human characteristics (or characteristics assumed to belong only to humans) to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts, such as spirits or deities. The term was coined in the mid 1700s. Examples include animals and plants and forces of nature such as winds, rain or the sun depicted as creatures with human motivations, and/or the abilities to reason and converse. The term derives from the combination of the Greek (ánthrōpos), "human" and (morphē), "shape" or "form".
Simulacrum (sĭm'yə-lā'krəm, -lăk'rəm) Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory - PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA - it is the map that engenders the territory. (Baudrillard, 1994, p. 1)
- a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- Psychosomatic: It's a question of substituting the real as signs of the real.
Origin
1599, from L. simulacrum "likeness, image, form, representation, portrait," dissimilated from *simulaclom, from simulare "to make like" (see simulation). The word was borrowed earlier as semulacre (late 14c.), via O.Fr. simulacre.
Paranormal Research
As Paranormal Researchers we know our mind can play tricks on us. CGC Researchers go through specialized training to identify the difference between knowing it's real, or knowing when it's our imagination. We incorporate Psychological safeguards in our training. We teach techniques for choosing logic over fear, and physical fact over psychological illusions.
Paranormal Term
Matrixing (mey-trik-sing) When the mind starts seeing familiar patterns in things. Like when you look at a cloud and see familiar shapes like faces and animals that's matrixing. The human mind has a natural tendency to interpret sensory input. To make logic out of the abstract. A term used by Paranormal Researchers.
Rorschach inkblot test, the Rorschach technique, or simply the inkblot test) is a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both.
