MrRING
Android Futureman
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I was watching an episode of Seargent Cribb that involves seances and materialization and got to thinking how certain kinds of paranormal/fortean phenomenon seem to fall out of favor with society.
These days, we don't have many materializations in seances (or even many seances, period). We don't have many people claiming to channel the famous dead and complete various works they left unmade before popping off this mortal coil. We haven't had a good phantom gasser flap for a good while to my knowledge. Mysterious musical night sounds like drummers, trumpets and the like seem to not occur. And certainly the pre-Wright Brothers phantom airship seemed to have been completely knocked out of the sky by the sleek coming of the UFOs.
Other things seem to perpetually persist in terms of being reported, like modern-style UFO sightings overall, ghost sightings, the idea of mysterious creatures living around us, ESP and precognition, reincarnation, life after death (the white light).
So a thought: types of phenomenon that continues to be reported over a long period of time and over many cultures might indicate there is more of a fire beneath the smoke of reports indicating a real something or another is going on beyond the human mind. And if that is a true and interesting thought, maybe the reverse is true, that phenomenon which becomes less popular might indicate that it wasn't really there, or it was tied directly to something very localized and one-of-a-kind.
In any case, an idle thought!
These days, we don't have many materializations in seances (or even many seances, period). We don't have many people claiming to channel the famous dead and complete various works they left unmade before popping off this mortal coil. We haven't had a good phantom gasser flap for a good while to my knowledge. Mysterious musical night sounds like drummers, trumpets and the like seem to not occur. And certainly the pre-Wright Brothers phantom airship seemed to have been completely knocked out of the sky by the sleek coming of the UFOs.
Other things seem to perpetually persist in terms of being reported, like modern-style UFO sightings overall, ghost sightings, the idea of mysterious creatures living around us, ESP and precognition, reincarnation, life after death (the white light).
So a thought: types of phenomenon that continues to be reported over a long period of time and over many cultures might indicate there is more of a fire beneath the smoke of reports indicating a real something or another is going on beyond the human mind. And if that is a true and interesting thought, maybe the reverse is true, that phenomenon which becomes less popular might indicate that it wasn't really there, or it was tied directly to something very localized and one-of-a-kind.
In any case, an idle thought!