Scientists and the Paranormal

Plenty of people study paranormal experiences, but when those business relationships come up from outstanding members of the scientific community might they be even more than significant? Scientists are trained to be objective, and those that range the top of their community have got had their objectiveness endorsed by their peers.

Renowned Victorian men of science Sir William Crookes, Sir Joseph Oliveer Sir Oliver Lodge and Aelfred Russel Sir William Wallace among others were all committed advocators of Spiritualism.

Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, laminitis of Jungian analysis and conceiver of the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator, held a deep involvement in the paranormal and had respective experiences himself. Once a patient was describing a dreaming in which she was given a aureate scarab. At that minute Carl Jung heard a tapping on the window pane. On gap the window a beetle flew in. The beetle was a scarabeid and its desire to come in the room was contrary to the creature's usual habits.

On another juncture Carl Jung was discussing his involvement in the paranormal with his coach Freud, a skeptic. As Sigmund Freud was speaking Carl Jung felt a unusual sense experience in his diaphragm, then came a loud study from the bookcase. Carl Jung remarked to Sigmund Freud that the noise was an illustration of the phenomena they were discussing. Sigmund Freud remained skeptical, but Carl Jung predicted a additional study would follow in a moment, which it did.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a famed head-shrinker who made her name in heartache and decease counseling. In her future career, after much experience with decease and mourning Kübler-Ross became interested in near-death experiences and developed a strong belief that consciousness somehow survived the decease of the body.

In her book "On Life After Death" Kübler-Ross tells how, on returning to her business office after giving a lecture, she met a woman, a former patient who passed away 10 calendar months before. She says: "This was the longer walking of my life... I even touched her tegument to see if it was cold or warm, or if the tegument would vanish when I touched it. It was the most unbelievable walking I have got ever taken, not knowing why I was doing what I was doing. I was both an observing head-shrinker and a patient."

The adult female even complied with Kübler-Ross's petition to compose a short letter to a common acquaintance.