Kansas City Paranormal Studies is there an ‘out there’, out there?

-cap’n casper, founder of KCPR

‘Ghost Hunters’, ‘Paranormal State’, and ‘Hauntings’. These are just a few of the cable programs centered around modern interest in the paranormal. In recent years, the rise of public concern with regards to the paranormal has skyrocketed not unlike the spiritual movement during the turn of the twentieth century. The last couple of decades have given birth to a ‘new-age’ unlike any other. Amidst growing concerns about the welfare of the planet, the animal kingdom, and humanity in general many people have turned to spirituality and mysticism as a means of making sense of current events. This attention has begun to diminish even further the serious nature of true paranormal research. Many of the cable programs and psychics currently in the mainstream are doing nothing to prove to academia the validity of what earnest researchers are trying to accomplish in the field.

On the other hand, we are entering an age in which a certain segment of the scientific community is beginning to come into line with the etheric nature of the paranormal. Quantum physicists continue to make discoveries and create theories that support the nature of life beyond life that the mystics have known for centuries. As the ideas of these pioneering scientific minds make their way into print and television, more and more people are exposed to them. The caveat to this however, is that many find the ideas and concepts of Quantum physics so far detached from the daily human experience that it seems difficult to reconcile intuition with everyday events. Then, as these scientific ideas are repackaged as something more emotionally driving (such as ‘The Secret’ ) they are labeled as fantasy or ‘wishful thinking’. ‘Great minds’ of science and psychology many times dismiss them as ‘hocus pocus’ and the like. Because these advanced ideas are sometimes hard to grasp in a meaningful way, many flock back to the cheap thrill of being scared by a good ghost story.

This is what I see as the ‘pervasiveness of para-maina’. Mainstream media ‘ivestigators’ rarely (if ever) produce any meaningful results. They ‘analyze’ their ‘evidence’ and come up with little more than a garbled voice tape or moving object on camera. While these are indeed incredible and perplexing results, so many investigators lack that vital piece of information : how. I believe it to be taken as fact that ‘paranormal’ events do occur and that they do so on a regular basis. I also believe that these are wonderous and incredible events worthy of our full attention. I also believe though, that very few ‘investigators’ are doing what they can to answer the real questions of the paranormal. How do these events occur? What are the underlying mechanics of the paranormal? What types of processes are at work, and how do we make sense of them? Environmental readings, recordings, and videos are all valid methologies, but more is needed.

What I propose is a more thorough integration of quantum theory and experimentation into paranormal research. This will be no small undertaking, but if more serious researchers come together united by a common goal I believe we can all benefit from the expansion and understanding that our findings will provide.

I will be writing soon about some new equipment and methodologies that I will be experiementing with in the coming months, so stay tuned!!

Thanks for taking the time,

Cap’n Casper

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