In this book I explore scientific philosophy in relation to the paranormal and theorize about a paradigm shift involving it in a radically different perspective than most imagine. The real world consequences could challenge our secular society's laws and ideals, something Big Brother may not want to happen. But is the idea impossible in light of our modern day science? These are topics I explore in Divergent Philosophies.

1. Divergent Philosophies by Bill Gorton
Chapter 1: Sophistry and skeptics
Some skeptics I speculate are sophists with hidden agendas to influence the public through
claptrap and sophistry to reject and laugh at the idea of the paranormal. They exploit the
ignorance and defense mechanisms of people to make them biased towards the hidden
mysteries and complexity of life, so they perceive simple, conventional explanations as better
and reject the notion of the paranormal, which has implications of greater complexity than
conventional scientific understanding.
Nevertheless, logicians say a simple explanation isn't necessarily any more likely to be true
than a complex one in the complex world we live in. Sometimes there is no telling how
complicated a given situation can be in life, such as with forensic teams and the possibility of
planted evidence. Ockham's razor does have a useful application, but it is misunderstood as
meaning just because a theory is simple that gives it more merit. What it means in science is
when developing a theoretic model, entities (something non-observable or observable such
as dark matter, gravitational forces, or electrons) should not be unnecessarily multiplied,
rather than the arbiter between models. One example of an entity that was once non-
observable and theoretical but became observable with scientific progress is radio
frequencies. Adolf Hitler once said, "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and
eventually they will believe it." Hitler believed people were more susceptible to falling for a big
lie than a small one. Don't confuse simplicity with the truth.
What skeptics and mainstream (strong) atheists like to do is say everyone who has had a
spiritual or paranormal experience is merely hallucinating and is delusional. They might say
for instance that they cannot diagnose someone from the past, but if you delve deeper into
their minds you will find that is exactly how they explain such experiences by people

2. throughout history in their worldview, and I believe when analyzing the complexity of these
experiences, conventional explanations like it is hallucinatory falls short in explanation.
Many of them hide behind the veil of agnosticism, but essentially they are anti-theists
whose outlook on the world does not take serious consideration into possibilities outside what
is said by scientists, authorities, and the status quo on the 6 o'clock news. They don't
conceptually explore what it might mean if something otherworldly was behind these alleged
spiritual and paranormal experiences, and they matter-of-factly reject the notion outright
without any investigation into the idea, which is not scientific or philosophically minded.
They act like the only way to gain knowledge is in universities and laboratories, but in the
real world, people can attain a posteriori knowledge without verifying it with peer review,
scholarly journals. The fundamental error in this overly pedantic epistemology is that it is
contingent on the perfect world condition that everything important that is known by people is
known and publicly acknowledged by the mainstream establishment and academia. It does
not take into account that people can attain knowledge independently of a central authority,
such as the government or academia, which ignores the principles that helped define The
Enlightenment.
This should be especially weighed and considered, when taking into account that
mainstream scientists based on personal bias simply will not hypothesize on spiritual or
paranormal phenomena in the first place, hence as the notion is outright rejected, there is
very little testing or experimentation in the field. Those who do are sometimes attacked by the
scientific community and their integrity is tarnished. If something does not add up, it is not
categorized as paranormal and something requiring greater study, but rather simply labeled a
"mystery" or anomaly and pushed under the rug.
Therefore, this type of epistemology has limitations when it comes to the quest for the truth
and knowledge, and it is not the only way of acquiring it, as knowledge from experience--a

3. posteriori knowledge--is the cornerstone of all true knowledge and enlightenment. So if your
experiences do not cohere with the theories of the academic world, then perhaps they are
missing something, not you. Or in fact, they are (at least some of them) sophists, of unknown,
hidden agendas, intent on suppressing the truth, on clouding real discussion, and harnessing
the biases and emotions of the crowd to laugh at and even taunt those of us they wish to
render defunct who dare to challenge popular opinion. Furthermore, not everything known
from experience can be broadcast to the rest of society to experience and know as well, such
as eyewitness testimony of a crime, which is admissible in a court of law.
I'm not saying people shouldn't question their own beliefs; however, just as our perceptions
can be wrong and our senses can deceive us, scientific knowledge is fallible and can change
over time. People should question the validity of their own worldview based on their
experiences, reason, and knowledge, which goes for everyone, including die-hard skeptics. I
believe as a philosopher the admission of ignorance and ability to distinguish when you know
and don't know something is fundamental to the attainment of wisdom. As Pythagoras said,
"not wise but trying to be wise." Although having a lack of personal experience with something
does not prove a negative, it could prove some level of ignorance.
Paranormal semantically does not mean it is outside scientific laws and what science could
hope to address, or in contradiction with science, though all scientific knowledge is provisional
and always open to re-evaluation. Rather, it means something that is outside the scope of
normal human experience and beyond mainstream, conventional scientific understanding,
leaving room for the possibility with further study it could one day be understood scientifically.
When broken down, in Latin, para means above, outside, or beyond and normal means that
which is according to the norm, not unusual.
Just because we've never detected the source behind a paranormal event empirically
under a microscope does not mean it cannot be ascertained through rational means of

4. deduction something is there. In science many things can be indirectly determined, such as
the shadows of wobbling celestial elements moving around stars from thousands of light
years away, showing there are planets orbiting them, or the evidence for black holes, which
was indirect in the past. The same can be said in regards to the paranormal. Not getting into
EMF detection, which can be attributed to other things, the Vatican has a lot of documentation
actually in the field, such as the person under attack speaking in languages they do not know,
or being told telepathically information they had no way of knowing. Part of the problem is
people will discount it more as a possibility if there is a malevolent undertone to it.
Also, there is some scientific evidence for ESP, a subset of the paranormal, with
experiments conducted by renowned physicist Russel Targ at the Stanford Research Institute.
Various branches of the United States government supported the 20 million dollar program. To
summarize Mr. Targ's own words, scientifically speaking, "proofs" are not like mathematical
proofs that are a priori and absolute, but constitute as strong evidence that would be
unreasonable to deny based on probability or logic the supported argument. Before going to
look at the skeptics take on these experiments (confirmation bias), read Russel Targ's
book The Reality of ESP at a bookstore near you.
There is a boat load of evidence gone slighted and ignored, not because there isn't
evidence, or the information is invalid, but because people's beliefs and preconceived notions
about reality highly modulate their perceptions and opinions, and how they process
information. Plus if you begin from the starting point that it is impossible, then you won't even
seek out or look at the evidence that is there. It is information overload and cognitive
dissonance. Furthermore, not all knowledge is necessarily directly provable, such as the
distinction between a priori knowledge (independent from experience through logic) and a
posteriori knowledge (conditional on prior experience). Also, since the times of René
Descartes and Immanuel Kant it has been known that knowledge can be attained through

5. rational means and not just empirical, and both are necessary tools for understanding reality.
It only takes a few verified paranormal events scientifically to knock down the deck.
Through deduction, you can make an indirect determination, and through inductive reasoning,
you can argue that if this is true in these cases then in cases of similar phenomena, it is also
likely to be true. Such a paradigm shift influencing fields of psychiatry and neuroscience could
drastically change and challenge mainstream society's perceptions of the world. This is why I
think it is possible that on some level of our establishment there may be those who want to
suppress such information from getting out, as well as inhibit its exploration, as it could create
hysteria and be a threat to national security, giving the federal government the right to
suppress knowledge of it--similar to the occult in which the knowledge is meant to be secret
and only for the elect, hence my warning of the sophist.
The above illustration is an optical illusion of a duck/rabbit. It shows how information can be
looked at in a radically different way in a paradigm shift. According to Thomas Kuhn, a
paradigm is the underlying assumptions and intellectual structure upon which research and
development in a field of inquiry are based. A paradigm shift is where the general
assumptions and intellectual structure changes and there is a shift in understanding and
thinking about a phenomenon in a given field.
Paradigms have turned out to be wrong in the past. For instance, Einstein's Theory of
Relativity predicted an expanding universe, but he discounted the idea because it went

6. outside his paradigm of a static universe. Einstein considered this one of his biggest blunders.
I hold to the Buddhist view that reality as a whole is unquantifiable by the human intellect
and, therefore, its reflection must be distorted to make its key properties more prominent in
the formalization of an ideology. This is a well-substantiated view, as imagine having to know
every grain of sand at the shores of every continent. The world is just too much to
comprehend in all its parts, nonetheless all at once as a whole.
The complexity of the world we live in is more to me than that of mathematics and ones
and zeros like binary code. It cannot be conceived by a mere mathematical formula that can
be shown on the pages of The New York Times and be directly provable and self-evident to
all, at least at this time. Understand this in your quest for comprehension of something bigger
than yourself. But bit by bit you can retain pieces of information from it--choose its pieces--
your rooks and bishops wisely. For your views are a reflection of yourself, what you live for,
and for some, what they die for.
They can make and break a person, and send them to the heights of lucidity, to the depths
of insanity. Some choose to focus inwardly, whereas others outwardly. Some embrace their
egos, others by worldly passions, to take part in the theater of life, the theatrics and drama of
it and be lost in its aesthetics. Others examine it, its fundamentals, its general assumptions,
its mistakes and its constructions. Existentially I'd like to say it is up to you to decide, but this
is not always the truth. Some people's destinies are brought about by circumstance, others by
will. Some wander aimlessly, whereas others seemingly have vision and conquest.
We are not all alike, but are we not all a piece of the puzzle to what is human? To find the
key to understanding ourselves in a singular sense, must we not also consider the greater
sphere and range of human experience and its creations and manifestations in the plural?
Just the same as we can be a reflection of the world around us, can the world not also be a
reflection of who we are ourselves, and if so, do you like what you see, both inside and out?

7. Chapter 2: Scientifically conceivable in the 21st
century
I hold to the view that the brain is analogous to an electrochemical computer, which is a
view backed up by modern neuroscience, hence theoretically, the nonhuman element behind
paranormal experiences must be tapping into the brain to manipulate consciousness,
potentially on the low electromagnetic spectrum (ELF), enough to pass through a faraday
cage and follow anyone anywhere, which is one theory some parapsychologists have in
reference to the paranormal. Similar things have been achieved in linking the brains of rats
and even tapping into a cat's visual cortex with a brain-computer interface, as well as
transferring information with humans such as with auditory brainstem and midbrain implants
for the hearing impaired, bypassing the five senses. Another technology that has been under
development is called Microwave Hearing, which is a wireless technology and is a form of
bone conduction (a proven technology) that taps into the inner ear canal. I am a proponent of
the EMF theory on the method of delivery, though there are others.
Furthermore, an international team of researchers has achieved verbal communications
between humans via computer brain-to-brain interfacing. In the experiment, the sender
thought of the words "Ciao" and "Hola." Through binary code, this was sent to the visual
cortex of the three receivers' brains as a form of flashing lights, which was then decoded by
the receivers into language. It was done with EEG scans for the sender and TMS helmets for
the receivers. It was accomplished without invasive surgery, at a span of 5,000 miles via the
internet, and with a transfer rate of only 2 bits (0.25 bytes) per minute.
The significance of this is the effects that can be created with neurotechnologies can be
used as an analogy to make the concept more scientifically conceivable, and through
analogical inference, it could provide insight into the mechanisms of telepathy in paranormal
events. For instance, what bats can do with echolocation, man can do based on a similar
principle with radar technology. So each one can be used as an analogy to understand the

8. other.
An analogical inference is the line of reasoning that if two things have shared properties,
then they may share a further property. This mode of reasoning is used in everyday life. For
instance, in case-based reasoning, a refined approach of analogical inference, a mechanic
may find that two different cars share common denominators in symptoms. From this, he can
conclude the same problem may be the root cause for both cars' symptoms.
I believe paranormal phenomena are not merely the imaginings of broken minds and can
be dissected, explained, and understood. The paranormal is at the heart of religion and the
formation of spirituality, and I believe from such experiences knowledge at least of the
paranormal itself can be attained; however, as these experiences tend to be more internal it
cannot always be shown to the outside world for what it is: shit that exists whether you like it
or not.
There are assumptions in the paradigms of mainstream science in which they stretch
conventional explanations beyond the realm of validity, trying to explain away the holes in
things they cannot sufficiently explain or recreate in a laboratory based on their own devices
and worldview; assumptions in which they discount possibilities like the notion there are
beings apart from our world having an effect on man and his world; and assumptions that
everything can be viewed under a controlled setting like you were looking at bacteria under a
microscope, or dealing with lab rats. It is my hope this book will trim the veneer, leading to an
expansion of human thought and perception of reality.
At the heart of discovery is not a laboratory setting, but exploration and investigation, which
follows different laws than the clean cut exterior of everyday life where you watch the 6
o'clock news and consider yourself in the know. It is the drive, the desire to know with an
impartial mind, not accepting what was first thought as a child, but the world that has been
expanded by new experiences that is the heart of maturity and higher truths.

9. Here are some sources on neurotechnology and psychotronic technologies that can tap
into the brain and even influence the human mind, all of which are searchable online. I also
advise watching the CNN special titled Electromagnetic Frequency Weapons from 1985,
which can be viewed on youtube in part 1 and part 2.
Farber, Dan. "Scientist Controls Colleague's Hand in First Human Brain-to-brain Interface."
CNET. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Apr. 2014.
Mcdermott, Nick. "Telepathy Is Real! Scientists Develop Mind-reading Implant That Links
the Brains of Rats in the US and Brazil." Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 01 Mar. 2013.
Web. 07 Apr. 2014.
Seth, Anil. "Warning: This Article Involves Brain-to-brain Interfacing." Theguardian.com.
Guardian News and Media, 28 Aug. 2013. Web. 07 Apr. 2014.
Starr, Michelle. "Brain-to-brain Verbal Communication in Humans Achieved for the First
Time." Yahoo! News. Yahoo!, 03 Sept. 2014. Web. 12 Sept. 2014.
Thomas, Timothy (Lieutenant ). “The Mind Has No Firewall.” PARAMETERS, US Army War
College Quarterly - Spring 1998." PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Spring
1998. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Apr. 2014.
Whitehouse, David. “Looking through cats' eyes.” BBC News. BBC, 10 Nov. 1999. Web.
07 Apr. 2014.

10. Chapter 3: The bigger picture
I hold to the view that in the bigger picture reality is cohesive and that on some level things
share relationships and universals between them and comprise a larger whole, which ties into
the contingency argument for one Ultimate Reality that I go over in the next section. This is in
accordance with scientific thought. For instance, the idea that reality is cohesive as a whole
has a correlation with the law of non-contradiction. Take for instance the paradoxical scenario
of what would happen if an immovable object were hit by an unstoppable force. The
consensus is the two objects could not exist in the same universe, as an object truly
immovable cannot exist if there is an unstoppable force and vice versa.
The idea that there are relationships and universals between things also makes sense with
modern scientific advancements. For example, matter can be converted into energy, which
can be seen in nuclear fusion inside stars, and energy can be converted into matter, which
has been done with particle accelerators. This has some correlation with metaphysical
monism; however, I do not believe in the idea that everything is just one substance or
principle. Although I argue there are universals between things in nature and reality, I don't
claim it is just one substance or principle, as there could be multiple principles and/or
substances making up the Ultimate Reality.
By the fact these entities can communicate with us shows we share universals between us
or else we could not interact, as I would argue communication necessitates a common
denominator. In order for there to be communication, there must be some "common ground"
between both parties to relate with one another. Even if there were something that shared no
universals with us, it would be immaterial because there would be no way for us to
understand one another enough to interact effectively, and so such a scenario would not
apply to this situation.
Just as a bird flies naturally based on its own appendage within the confines of science and

11. the natural laws of the universe, man can do with his ingenuity technologically speaking with
aircraft. In this sense, neuro-technologies like computer brain-to-brain interfaces can be used
as an analogy to make the idea of telepathy scientifically conceivable, which is how spirits are
said to communicate. Based on a modern scientific understanding of the brain, in order for
spirits to connect to the human mind, they would have to tap into the brain, which in turn could
be measured scientifically.
If these beings were spirits, it would not necessarily mean they can't be scientifically
understood. In science, it is known that we have a limited field of perception and that there
are things outside the range of our five senses. Energy can't always be seen with the five
senses just like the spiritual, which is how it contrasts with the physical; however neither can
electromagnetic energy, which when decoded can carry information, just like the electro-
chemical processes inside our brains, but electromagnetic energy does not defy the laws of
nature--it is a part of it, as even our brains emit electromagnetic waves. So perhaps they are
subject to some of our scientific laws.
The bigger debate is whether these beings are in coherence with natural laws. Are they
bending the natural laws of the universe, or are they actually in accordance with them and
with advanced scientific understanding their relationship to our world can be understood?
Based on new developments in neuroscience, at least when it comes to telepathy, the
manipulation of consciousness, and even the manipulation of body parts, it is not in
contradiction with what is known about the brain and what is theoretically possible. For
humans, it would require neurotechnology and brain-to-brain interfacing via a computer like
University of Washington researcher Rajesh Rao accomplished where he was able to
manipulate a person's hand through the internet to type on a keyboard. For something other
than human, possibly by its own natural mechanisms, these effects could be accomplished.

12. Chapter 4: The undertones of my philosophy
Syncretism
I believe some religions were inspired by contact with what I call a "nonhuman element"--
something sentient of an unknown origin and nature. The idea that the concept of the spiritual
and paranormal originally started off as merely the product of mankind's wild imagination, but
was later validated in some form as a reality by Judaism and Christianity is incoherent. In
addition, the idea that religions were created solely by humans globally as a scam to control
the population, even among populations isolated from one another until more recent history, is
disconnected.
Furthermore, there can be comparisons found between mainstream religions like
Christianity and Hinduism. For instance, both have trinities, and the devas and demigods of
Hinduism can to some degree be compared to the angels and saints of Catholicism. The
same could be said for Nirvana and Heaven. In this sense, syncretism is congruent to the
premise some religions were inspired by contact with something paranormal or not human.
If an idea makes sense and is useful, I use it and modify it if needed to fit my scheme of
things. I try to avoid logical fallacies like ad hominems by not attacking the messenger and
just analyzing the idea for its worth. I take the approach of syncretism philosophically and
draw wisdom and insight from different past and present cultures and ways of thinking.
Instead of a nationalistic worldview, I try to formalize a vision of the bigger picture by looking
at world civilization as a whole and all of mankind.
This is not necessarily in contradiction with Christianity. For instance, Saint Augustine said
there was spiritual truth in other religions, but the distinction he made was Christianity is the
highest order of truth. Also, Saint Thomas Aquinas considered the reasoning of some pagan
philosophers predating Christ as a steppingstone to the Christian faith.

13. Contingency argument for an Ultimate Reality
The contingency argument is that just as we derive from our parents and could not exist
without their existence preceding us, so does our world in present times have a contingency
on something else that came before it. Perhaps in another form like how proponents of M-
theory say nature and the universe are going through cycles that have taken different shapes
and forms throughout time even preceding the Big Bang.
The Ultimate Reality would be the necessary being and unconditional reality of which
everything is contingent on in order to exist. Some say the Ultimate Reality is matter and
energy and scientific principles like physics. On the other hand, monotheists would say it is
God, some of whom would term The Absolute, which would be an eternal, non-contingent
being that is self-aware and transcends our limited, relative, conventional range of
experiences.
Psychology and the theoretical
UFO sightings can be used as an interesting example of how people can give different
explanations for unexplained phenomena. For instance, in the St. Clair Triangle sighting over
Illinois, there were multiple witnesses, some of whom were police, of a UFO the size of a
football field hovering over the ground and emitting no sound, and then flying off in various
directions at accelerated speed. Semantically speaking the acronym UFO just means
unidentified flying object. That said, some would explain this as being an experimental
aircraft; others would say it was an alien aircraft because its description and maneuvers were
so far beyond any known current aircraft on the books, and others would explain it as a mass
hallucination.

14. All of these explanations have some validity and are logically possible, although there was
a police photograph of the UFO in this case, making a hallucination less likely. You may think
a mass "hallucination" is out of the question when it comes to strange phenomena like this,
but the test for a hallucination is just a sensory experience that is not empirically based, which
could be argued to be the case for some religious based visions perceived by masses of
people, such as the Miracle of the Sun in Fatima where a large amount of people in a
designated location witnessed extraordinary solar activity that, if actually occurred in an
empirical sense, would have been seen by millions. This does not, however, rule out it was a
projection in the mind, which could be argued to be the case for St. Bernadette with whom
had visions of Mother Mary when masses of people around her did not perceive it at all.
When it comes to mysterious phenomena like this, I argue it is based more on people's
psychology and not necessarily their intelligence alone that will determine which stance they
will take. Sometimes there isn't any clear answer, but multiple conceivable ones to choose
from. Still, people will argue saying their explanation is the only valid one and laugh at the
person who deviates from their view on the matter, and laughter can be a defense mechanism
when something challenges the way a person views the world. Sometimes in life, there is no
clear answer, and when things are left open to interpretation, we get to see how different we
as a species can interpret information, and yet we all have different skills and traits adapted
for different areas of processing to put on the table, which some would call neurodiversity. In
one situation a person might turn out to be right about a matter, and in other cases, he or she
might turn out to be wrong.
It is not that the concept of aliens or god(s) turns people into wackos, it is the ambiguity of
the unknown. When there is ambiguity there can be radically different perceptions between
people of what a specific phenomenon is, but just because a perception is divergent from
convention does not mean it is invalid, nor does it mean there is anything inherently "wrong"

15. with the person if he or she does not turn out to be right, for we've all made errors of
judgment. Moreover, just because there is disagreement between people who perceive
mysterious phenomena, does not mean it is merely a figment of their imaginations, such as
when it comes to UFO sightings. This goes down to the definition of a delusion in a medical
sense, which is partly just to go against the general consensus of what society deems to be
valid and invalid; however, this can change over time and is also relative to the civilization.
According to Carl Sagan, true science is to question the conventional wisdom of society.
Thus, this could be partly why it is said there is a thin line between genius and insanity.
Furthermore, it is our experiences that help mold our views on life. If you saw a UFO doing
what I described, it might alter the way you look at the world, especially if you were of a
younger age and not set into your ways of thinking. Also, the more detached you are from a
situation, the less of an impact it will have on you, such as if you just heard the testimony of
an unexplained phenomenon like a UFO, rather than witnessing it for yourself. The
experience itself is the fundamental part of the equation that cannot be easily quantified by
pen and paper or word of mouth.
Something can accord with logic, but that does not mean that that logic will resonate with
your own experiences. Without commonality of experiences, some common denominator
between people, communication is impossible. To reach to certain logical deductions it
sometimes requires certain experiences first, such as a posteriori judgments like the idea that
you can't always judge a book by its cover, or that inner beauty is greater than external
beauty. This is what could be called wisdom because it cannot always be taught; you
sometimes have to learn it from personal growth and real world experience. From the
experience one can interpret and analyze it, but until you've experienced it for yourself how
can you fully judge something so intimate to another person? For instance, how could you
judge what a sunset looks like if you're blind?

16. Moreover, conservatism is just a majority rules vote that can often be proven wrong.
Resorting to this as a point of an argument is a logical fallacy called argumentum ad populum
and does not prove a person's position. To quote Arthur Schopenhauer, "All truth passes
through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted
as being self-evident." In this sense, it is the ones with atypical psychologies for processing
information, unaffected by societal biases and prejudices, and/or people with a different range
of experience who bring new discoveries to the forefront.

17. Chapter 5: Notable people who have made possible contact
Thomas Edison told Westinghouse Company that Nikola Tesla was a crackpot and his
theories and technology had no scientific merit because his theories came to him in visions
and hallucinations, but Tesla did claim some of his ideas and theories came to him in flashes
of light during his many hallucinations. It was first brought on by illness as a child. He is
quoted as saying in regards to his hallucinations, “Like a flash of lightning and in an instant
the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand
secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that
one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence” (Nikola
Tesla).
Tesla at his hotel in New York would care for pigeons, and his favorite pigeon was a white
dove that would come and visit him every day. In moments of delirium, Tesla believed this
pigeon to have a mystical knowledge and the ability to communicate with him, and he
declared to friends that he was in love with her. Here is a quote from Nikola Tesla on this
white dove out of the biography PRODIGAL GENIUS: The Life of Nikola Tesla by John J.
O'Neill:
"Yes, I loved that pigeon, I loved her as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. When
she was ill I knew, and understood; she came to my room and I stayed beside her for days. I
nursed her back to health. That pigeon was the joy of my life. If she needed me, nothing else
mattered. As long as I had her, there was a purpose in my life."
"Then one night as I was lying in my bed in the dark, solving problems, as usual, she flew
in through the open window and stood on my desk. I knew she wanted me; she wanted to tell
me something important so I got up and went to her. As I looked at her I knew she wanted to
tell me--she was dying. And then, as I got her message, there came a light from her eyes--
powerful beams of light."

18. "Yes, it was a real light, a powerful, dazzling, blinding light, a light more intense than I had
ever produced by the most powerful lamps in my laboratory. When that pigeon died,
something went out of my life. Up to that time I knew with a certainty that I would complete my
work, no matter how ambitious my program, but when that something went out of my life I
knew my life's work was finished."
It was stated by Dr. Herman Oberth, the father of modern rocketry: "We cannot take the
credit for our record advancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped."
When asked by whom, he replied, "The people of other worlds." Interestingly enough, some
people have made a connection between Nikola Tesla's visions of the dove and the Holy
spirit. In the biblical account of the baptism of Christ, it is written, "...he (Jesus) saw the Spirit
of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him...” [Matthew 3:17].
Similarly to Nikola Tesla, Philip K. Dick believed a pink beam of light sent him telepathic
information that he thought came from a sentient being. In one example, seemingly it sent a
message to him that his infant son was ill with a right inguinal hernia. Philip rushed his son to
the hospital where his suspicion and his diagnosis were confirmed. It required immediate
attention, and the doctor scheduled the operation to treat it the same day. His friends and
family supported this account after his death, and schizophrenia was one of his diagnoses.
Moreover, Socrates talked to what he said was a daimon--a mix between a mortal and
God--essentially making it a demigod. He said it guided him throughout his life and was
responsible for what made him unique, in his own words stating, "The favor of the gods has
given me a marvelous gift, which has never left me since my childhood. It is a voice which,
when it makes itself heard, deters me from what I am about to do and never urges me on"
(Socrates). The entity only gave negative admonitions, such as warnings about potential
outcomes. His friends would often seek it for its advice. Socrates was known to engage in a
frequent inner dialectic with his daimon.

19. Also, Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician who made significant
contributions to mathematical analysis, infinite series, continued fractions, and number theory,
and he claimed his mathematical findings came to him in visions within surreal dreams from
the Hindu Goddess Namagiri. In the visions, he reportedly saw scrolls of complex
mathematical formulas. His mother had a vivid dream of this same Goddess in which she was
instructed "to stand no longer between her son and the fulfillment of his life's purpose." This
was about Ramanujan leaving India to study math in England. Ramanujan was known to say,
"An equation for me has no meaning unless it represents a thought of God." He also had
been reported as remarking that he saw all religions as equally true.

20. Chapter 6: The spiritual and physical reborn
People do have powerful spiritual experiences, but this affects people from a number of
religions. Take for instance the surreal experiences of Srinivasa Ramanujan who saw all
religions as equally true, or the experiences of Nikola Tesla who was Christian. Gandhi
claimed he experienced the still small voice from within, and Catholic saints have also had
their own experiences with what they consider to be of Divine origins, such as St. Bernadette.
So what is going on with religion and these experiences I consider to be a mystery.
Even if you talked to a "supernatural" being and it tried to tell you what was going on that
by itself wouldn't prove anything, because it would have to be confirmed via rational or
empirical means in order to constitute as knowledge. I believe this is the reason there is such
division on religious issues because people get different messages and blindly believe what
they are told. I also think people are sometimes fooled into believing in things because of a
strong intuition, which could involve an external influence of their mind.
I would argue the same effect a spirit would create in a person's mind to give him or her
clairvoyant knowledge can also be used to misguide him or her into an illusionary state of
reality, which is why I am skeptical about occult beliefs that lack rational or empirical support. I
use the word illusion instead of delusion because it implies a “magician” and deception in a
sense of the word. I don't believe in psychic ability. In my ideology, a psychic is an
antenna/receiver and an external intelligence apart from him or her is the broadcaster and
real observer/gatherer of the unseen information, and just like a television broadcast, not
everything on it can always be trusted. This means it still requires sufficient rational or
empirical support because it cannot be relied on with the same level of certainty as sensory
input. Remember, the art of propaganda is to mix lies with truth. Some tactics said to be used
by evil spirits in modern terms can be described as psychological warfare (PSYWAR), which
is any action used to evoke a desired psychological response in people.

21. Furthermore, just because it would not traditionally constitute as empirical because the
experience stems from something bypassing the five senses does not mean that knowledge
of the paranormal itself can't be attained. Through rational means it can be achieved,
although the further you go beyond the realization something more is going on than meets the
eye metaphysically the less certain it becomes. For instance, Anneliese Michel, who was
possessed according to the Catholic church, showed indirect evidence more was going on
than what could be empirically verified by speaking in Chinese and Latin while under
possession, languages she did not speak according to friends and family, which was audio
recorded and translated by someone who was bilingual.
As a consequence of my epistemology, some may ask if it is possible for someone, such as
a Saint or mystic, to know God. My answer is yes and no. They do not empirically know there
is a God, but based on a relationship you can know someone, so in that sense, it is
technically possible to know God here on Earth.
I'm not purely subjective or objective in my spiritual approach. If subjectivity only guided it
there would be no such thing as a heretic, and if empiricism only guided it, there would be no
concept of spirituality in the first place, although since I believe in intellectual autonomy I do
believe people can attain knowledge beyond a central authority, such as a church. That said,
I'm a rationalist when it comes to my own experiences.
According to rationalism, which inspired the enlightenment, the closest we can come to
absolute knowledge is what we experience in the confines of our own consciousness. As
René Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." Also, we do not directly experience the external
world for what it is, but a mental image of reality, and it takes rational means to distinguish
whether a mental phenomenon in our minds stems from something that is internal or
external, to begin with, and I would argue those who experience communication from the
beyond are using similar standards for determining it is external as they would for a telephone

22. conversation, except what they're experiencing is more sophisticated, although it is not
empirically based in a traditional sense of the word.
Furthermore, knowledge can be acquired through intellectual autonomy, which is to attain
knowledge by personal means of first-hand experience, exploration, and applying reason.
This is what defined The Enlightenment in which there was a shift from knowledge being
solely judged and acquired through a central authority to intellectual autonomy. So just
because mainstream universities don't acknowledge the paranormal does not mean those
who claim to be of that realization are invalid in their assertion.
Moreover, the “supernatural” often has an effect on people’s mental faculties. For instance,
a Christian after praying may feel some of the fruits of the "Holy Spirit", such as a state of
peace. I argue this would be by influencing their mental faculties by tapping into their brain.
Simply put, I argue that “spirits" hack the mind, at least “evil” ones, whereas the good ones
could be argued to be more of a technician of the mind, but either way, I argue this requires
nothing against the laws of nature to achieve.
As I've gone over before, neurotechnologies make the effects of possession and the
paranormal scientifically conceivable. According to neuroscience, the brain is analogous to an
electrochemical computer and can be influenced and even tapped into via neurotechnologies,
technologies that interact with the neurons of the brain like tiny microprocessors that are
responsible for maintaining our consciousness, and I am simply applying analogical inference
between spiritual and paranormal experiences and the effects that can be created through
these technologies to argue both may share a fundamental mechanism of causation and,
therefore, be within the realm of science to understand.
Technologies and animals can work on a similar principle and designs can be drawn from
nature, the most obvious example being a bird and a plane. If the same were true between
what we can do through technological means and “spirits”, it would definitely make people

23. think different about religion and the supernatural, because it would cease to be supernatural,
and this could even imply we share scientific universals between us and they are from an
extended part of the natural world. To some, this would be in accordance with one of the
Byzantine prophecies coming from the Orthodox church in which it was prophesied that
knowledge of the spiritual and physical will be united into one understanding. To others, this
would mean that “spirits” are more like aliens than how we previously viewed them. At the
moment, there is more room for debate as neuroscience continues to blur the boundaries
between science and the supernatural.

24. Chapter 7: Schizophrenia
I'm not convinced the experiences of all 'schizophrenics' are entirely hallucinatory in nature.
"We actually have a profound ignorance on the specific molecular mechanisms of
schizophrenia,” says Dr. Pablo Gejman, director of the Center for Psychiatric Genetics at
Northwestern University. They don't actually understand what is happening in the brain of a
schizophrenic. Its neural mechanisms are not understood. 30% of them have no response to
medication and 60% continue to hallucinate regularly while on meds. Medications for
schizophrenia were discovered by accident and luck to help rather than through the process
of discovering the supposed disease's source in the brain and then refining a drug to repair it.
Moreover, their mechanism of action in schizophrenia is largely unknown.
There isn't much about the brains of people labeled with schizophrenia to go on. Some of
them (not all) have a slightly different structure in their brains, but that isn't an illness or even
necessarily a condition in and of itself, and the causes and mechanisms of these minor
differences some schizophrenics have are not understood. One thing to take into
consideration is that people with neurological and cognitive deficits are of a higher likelihood
of schizophrenia, and nothing has been established to form standardized clinical tests for
schizophrenia other than through anecdotal word of mouth diagnosis.
I believe it is possible that in some instances their brains are being manipulated and
controlled. For instance, they find with EEGs abnormal activity in the brains of some
schizophrenics, such as their frontal lobes having less neural activity. I theorize their frontal
lobes are being inhibited from fully functioning to make it easier to control and delude them
through techniques such as thought insertion, potentially through tapping into their brains on
the EMF spectrum. Modern transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has proven parts of the

25. brain can be shut down and activated via electromagnetic fields and can create cognitive
deficits. Auditory parts of the brain being more activated while hearing voices could be
explained by that part of the brain being targeted with auditory signals, which would
theoretically make sense to target parts of the brain associated with processing sound for
auditory transmissions if you were going to do it for real.
Basically, some psychiatrists argue that since in some cases abnormal areas of the brain
are active during spiritual and paranormal experiences, the experience is stemming from the
person's own brain and psychology. Although it should be noted that the neural substrate (a
part of the nervous or brain system that underlies a specific behavior or psychological state)
of "hallucinations" in schizophrenia is unknown. That said, since based on modern science
experiences are processed in the brain, if a person were being telepathically manipulated
most likely something abnormal would show up in a brain scan of it. Scientists are not taking
into account the possibility that it could be a transmission to the person's brain and a
manipulation of his or her mind, which as gone over previously is now scientifically
conceivable, hence their paradigm of thought is outdated.
One theory on the structural differences in the brains of some people labeled with
schizophrenia after the onset of it could be explained by the biological effects of their brains
being accessed, influenced, and controlled telepathically. There are differences that take
place based on environmental factors. For instance, the auditory cortex of a person who is
deaf is underdeveloped even in cases the hearing loss has nothing to do with the brain.
Essentially brain anatomy changes as a result of which neural pathways are being used, and
if a portion of the human body is not being used it atrophies, such as with muscle tissue. The
same is true with the brain. This can be seen with feral children, who are permanently stifled
in development from lack of stimuli. They also find with cab drivers there are changes in their
brains that take place related to navigation. Furthermore, there is also the factor of the

26. psychiatric medications themselves given as treatment for schizophrenia and their potential
negative biochemical effects on the brain, and all scientific knowledge is provisional and
always open to re-evaluation.
They largely do not understand what is labeled as schizophrenia on a molecular and neural
level; this is an alternative theory, which deals with its complexity in some instances and
correlates with actual testimony. This theory is an unexplored and untested theory and could
create a paradigm shift in science as we know it. It also makes the human brain simpler and
the world around us much greater in complexity. It should also be noted that in some other
cultures where there is strong belief in the supernatural people labeled with schizophrenia
reintegrate better into society and have higher recovery rates than in the western world. One
argument given to the contrary of this is that in these developing countries it is less
competitive than the western world; however, this is faulty reasoning because life should be
more difficult in a poor, third world country than a rich, industrialized nation.
To put this into perspective, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), funding into
treating schizophrenia under the premise it is merely a disease based on grants, contracts,
and other funding was $232 million in 2013 alone, and yet it is still not understood. In contrast,
there is no funding into understanding this type of phenomenon based on the alternative
theoretic model that it in some instances involves a remote influence of the brain by an
external source, which ignores the testimony of many people labeled with schizophrenia.
Potentially in some cases something biologically about them opens a natural “doorway”;
potentially in some cases, something about them neurologically or mentally is making them
targets for this, such as their psychological or neurological archetype. I believe the nonhuman
element's motivations may to a degree be rooted in fascism and Social Darwinism. Their
strategy appears to be PSYWAR.
I am essentially using analogical inference between what is labeled as schizophrenia and

27. paranormal experiences. There are common denominators, such as people labeled with
schizophrenia seemingly experiencing something communicating in their consciousness, or in
some cases seemingly controlling their bodies, such as speaking through their bodies, or
seemingly having an influence of their thoughts and emotions. Based on these common
denominators with what is traditionally thought of as the paranormal, or from a religious
standpoint demonic oppression or possession, I argue both experiences involve a similar
mechanism of causation. It is true a phenomenon can have more than one cause, but
considering the shared properties and the sophistication of each experience, there is an
anomaly in the idea that the mechanisms of causation would be so radically different.
I then go further from my position that each share a similar mechanism based on specific
features and using inductive reasoning argue that in the case of schizophrenia, based on its
common denominators with paranormal events and the evidence that follows from that, it in
some instances goes beyond being just a disease. In some cases a chemical imbalance
could be involved, or that a chemical imbalance is entrained into the person's brain, but when
it comes to the more surreal experiences, I am not convinced it is hallucinatory in nature.
Right now psychiatry has done this in reverse from my position, but as I pointed out before,
there are anomalies in this view, and there is extraordinary documentation by a number of
sources on this subject, including from the Vatican. Hollywood has given a grandiose
portrayal of paranormal events, involving blood gushing out of the walls and beds shaking a
few feet off the ground; however, in the actual documentation, it is more of an internal type of
experience than visual. As an example, the depiction of a bed shaking is actually more of a
vibration of the bed.
An appeal to Christians

28. It was the common belief in the time of Jesus that people with whom society would
consider schizophrenics today were possessed or under the influence of demons. According
to the New Testament in the Bible, Jesus expelled demons from over 20 people. At that time,
there were no cars or airplanes for him to search them out. He just walked from town to town,
which implies it was a common occurrence. This view may be closer to out of the rabbit hole
than the psychiatric view that there is no external source involved. Some make the argument
populations were denser in biblical times, but there were also far fewer people on the planet,
and it is also relative to what area of the globe you are talking about in modern times, rural or
the city, where there can be even denser populations in modern times.
It is interesting how if you hear a malevolent voice you are insane; however if it is
benevolent, you are spiritually gifted and perhaps even a saint. Funny how if you see
something that is not there you are crazy, but if you don't see something that is there you are
stupid or blind. To the crazy person, others are stupid and blind. To the stupid and blind
person, others are crazy. Which would you rather be?
Drug induced experiences
In cases where drugs induce the spiritual or paranormal experiences, it could be because
the drugs created an altered state of consciousness and brainwave pattern that attracted the
activity or opened a "doorway" in their brain to the paranormal being. This concept has a
correlation with other cultures that will use drugs our Western society calls hallucinogens to
open doorways to the mystical and spiritual realm. This idea also has a correlation with some
Christians who believe this is possible and that drugs can open you up to malevolent forces
and temptation.
Furthermore, the Gnostics would also use drugs our Western society would call

29. hallucinogens to induce mystical experiences and attain esoteric knowledge. In Asia shamans
will use these drugs to form a connection with other realms, which could help explain why so
many people in our society that is ignorant of this element are damaged by these drugs or
have "bad trips," because they have not gone through the special spiritual preparation that
shamans and other spiritual people do before using them. Note though that the typical
experience on mushrooms, for instance, is radically different than that of schizophrenics.
The Lesser Key of Solomon
In demonology, Dantalion is the 71st of the 72 spirits of Solomon. He is said to have the
ability to read and control a person's mind and make him or her believe anything he desires,
which in some cases could help explain what is behind delusions in a psychotic episode, as in
the occult it is believed these beings have the capacity to create irrational thoughts and
feelings in the human mind, and through the power of "invocation" it is believed they can be
summoned by humans for assistance.
Psychiatric diagnosis and a reasonable doubt
The Rosenhan Experiment is a good example of how psychiatric diagnosis can falsely
diagnose a person as it is not as much of an empirical science as some think. In the
experiment by psychologist David Rosenhan, he sent 8 different healthy associates to gain
admission to 12 different psychiatry hospitals, falsely reporting they heard a voice that said
"thud"--something mentioned nowhere in the DSM. For all "pseudopatients," even though
they were told to behave and respond normally despite the voices, they were diagnosed with
serious psychiatric disorders and admitted to mental institutes for an average of 19 days,

30. even though they said after being admitted that they felt fine and the voices were gone. At the
mental institutes the patients were documented by staff as behaving mentally ill, despite other
patients suspecting they were researchers or journalists and sane. They were not allowed
release until they admitted they were mentally ill and agreed to take antipsychotic medication,
despite having no objective medical evidence of mental illness.
The premise of psychology is that human behavior can be predicted. This is necessary for
it to qualify as a science, as it must be testable. Yet in psychiatry, there is no adequate test for
mental illness. Hundreds of different mental illnesses are put into the DSM by voting and raise
of hand, not actual physical evidence. If it were taken seriously, mental illness would be an
epidemic in the 21st century, and what would that say about our society?
I am reminded of the Martha Mitchell effect, in which a psychiatrist or mental health
clinician will falsely write off a person's perceptions of real events as delusional, merely for
being improbable, such as reports of organized crime or surveillance. The term was based on
Mrs. Mitchell, wife of Attorney General during the Nixon administration after she reported the
White House was engaged in illegal activities and she was written off as mentally ill. A
psychiatrist on this topic said, "The struggle for definition is veritably the struggle for life itself.
In the typical Western two men fight desperately for the possession of a gun that has been
thrown to the ground: whoever reaches the weapon first shoots and lives; his adversary is
shot and dies. In ordinary life, the struggle is not for guns but for words; whoever first defines
the situation is the victor; his adversary, the victim. For example, in the family, husband and
wife, mother and child do not get along; who defines whom as troublesome or mentally sick?
Who first seizes the word imposes reality on the other; who defines thus dominates and lives;
and who is defined is subjugated and may be killed" (Dr. Thomas Szasz). As the saying goes,
just because you're paranoid, does not mean no one is out to do you harm, or you don't have
enemies, so keep an open mind about people with different perceptions than you--you don't

31. know for sure what they've experienced, and that goes for seemingly kooks as well.
Could there be a shred of truth behind those epitomized as insane by our society, such as
some of those who have been labeled with schizophrenia, something underlining their
experiences beyond a mere disease? Based on their correlation with the paranormal, I think it
is very possible, and as this is Divergent Philosophies in relation to experiences outside the
norm, it is noteworthy to put here.
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33. Chapter 8: Food for thought
I think some atheist philosophers try to over-quantify things and etch things into stone
based on a limited understanding of God, reality, and humanity. People will say for instance
that since God is omniscient there can not possibly be free will. I think they are making this
judgment based on an extremely limited understanding of what is known about God (if he
does exist) according to religion.
There is also a limited amount of understanding of what humanity and reality are. This can
be seen in the "scientism" of radical behaviorism, or the modern atheistic craze of moral
nihilism. Essentially this I believe stems from a worldview of realism. From my perspective,
realism is thinking within the confines of what is known (or what we think we know), and I take
the stance of Plato that this is essentially saying the walls of your "cave" are all there is and
there is nothing outside the confines of your five senses, which is not scientific and
philosophically minded.
I believe in not putting all your eggs in one basket. I believe in exploring a multitude of
possibilities, which requires creativity to explore all conceivable possibilities of what will one
day be known and understood, like Einstein put when he said, “Imagination is more important
than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while
imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
This is the mindset of what is required to expand on human understanding and forming a new
hypothesis or theory about life and reality, whereas realism is more the mindset of applied
knowledge.
As an analogy, when playing chess, do you only explore one possibility of a move your
opponent might make, or do you explore multiple possibilities and take each one to its logical

34. conclusion conceptually? A more thoughtful and well-rounded view of the board is needed to
make wise decisions in the game of life. I believe there are multiple ways of looking at the
world, and the more society projects or mandates only one worldview philosophically, or has it
as a prerequisite to achieving rank or influence in the society's hierarchy, the closer it gets to
totalitarianism and fascism.
There is also the dissection of knowledge and axioms. Is what we consider common sense
today true? Are our premises accurate? We deduce things based on these foundations of
understanding, and if these factors are inaccurate, so are likely our deductions from them. As
my philosophy professor put it, "common sense is often common, but rarely makes sense." I
believe the admission of ignorance and ability to distinguish when you know and don't know is
fundamental to the attainment of wisdom. As Pythagoras said, “not wise but trying to be wise.”
As an analogy, if you are playing a puzzle and some of the pieces do not fit, do you try to
force them to fit or ignore it as an anomaly, or do you take apart the present pieces and try to
form coherency? This is the mindset of my ideology. It is deconstructionism and a renewal of
previous ideas under the lens of modern science and philosophy. I'm just exploring
unconventional possibilities and their meanings and implications conceptually speaking. It is a
baseline that is easily comprehensible for making sense of reality and in potentially getting
scientific results in understanding paranormal phenomena.
My view of cohesion can be applied not just to reality as a whole, but the human brain
itself. Through an expanded understanding of what are the natural mechanisms in the human
brain and how it works by means of brain mapping and neuroscience, unnatural activity in the
brain can be pinpointed and deduced as stemming externally from it as a manipulation. Even
if these beings were from outside the confines of our reality, their effects on the natural world
can still be measured, in this case inside the human brain. This strategy has similar principles
to figuring out if a computer is being hacked: you don't have to directly see the hacker to

35. detect by looking at the computer's processes that it is being manipulated.
Furthermore, in the future with computer brain-to-brain interfacing, the layman will be able
to experience other people's seemingly spiritual and paranormal experiences. Allowing the
general public to experience other people's experiences with this first hand, may add the
necessary part of the equation in a way that transcends language to show more is going on
with these experiences than meets the eye. An international team of researchers has
achieved verbal communications between humans with computer brain-to-brain interfacing,
and it was their conclusion that it will be perfected in the not-too-distant future. This could also
lead to the paradigm shift.
In addition, through thoroughly checking the electromagnetic spectrum around someone
experiencing telepathic interaction/manipulation, it should be possible to lock on to the signal
and even decode it based on the EMF theory of the paranormal. So what I am proposing is a
working and testable hypothesis. It would just take the best and the brightest--along with
cutting edge science--but it would be cheaper and more frugal than a trip to Mars to find
sentient life, and, in my opinion, more fruitful, unraveling the mysteries long thought dead of
spirituality and the paranormal, and laying speculation to rest.
At one point Einstein could not think of a way his theory of relativity could be tested and
needed outside help to prove it. These kinds of road blocks still go on in the sciences today.
For instance, in cosmology scientists are yet to come up with a way to test M-theory.
However, Stephen Hawking considers it the best candidate for the theory of everything and
believes there is a strong philosophical argument for the theory. At one time, black holes were
considered just a "theoretical curiosity," but were later on validated by science, which
expanded our understanding of the cosmos
The people who are ultra conservative and don't want to touch these types of issues are
just afraid of criticism and being wrong. The people who never venture out of their "caves" or

36. cross the lines of their box in fear of making a mistake or public scrutiny are not the ones who
bring discovery and progress. It is the minds of people like Thomas Edison who tried a
hundred times until getting it right. Moreover, sometimes when one does venture out of their
cave, having thought they knew so much about its interior workings, they find out it was not a
cave at all, but a prison and the ones who persuaded them not to leave were the guards. For
the will is the seed to action; if you control another's will, they are enslaved. This is the work of
the sophist, to imprison the mind with an agenda not in accordance with the truth or true
mystery of life.
Moreover, understanding the multiple meanings of words, defining your terms, and taking a
premise to its rational conclusion is the art and craft of philosophy and the essence of logic.
Also, there are more ways of looking at the world and the paranormal than the Christian
standpoint, or hive-mind atheist one, nonetheless one's national identity when it comes to
other religions and cultures of society

37. Chapter 9: The social impact
To restate my view, I believe in a nonhuman element of an unknown origin and nature that
is behind paranormal experiences throughout history and is implicated in the spiritual and
metaphysical realm. What these entities are exactly is unknown to me, but it is likely that they
do not come from our planet, and by the word entity I use in a broad sense that could mean a
number of different things. I believe they go by many different aliases, depending on what
religious lens you view them under, and I believe they have inspired the development of some
of our world's religions and likely also have a presence in the occult. Further, the paranormal
is the category I put interaction with these beings under, as their surreal interactions with
humans, such as through telepathy, qualifies as beyond the realm of ordinary human
experience, which until up to modern times was inconceivable scientifically.
My ideology about a nonhuman element I believe is compatible with the world's religions,
and even atheism, as you could view them as aliens, possibly of the same evolutionary
processes that helped form us as hominids, and theoretically, they could be using clandestine
technologies like perfected psychotronic technologies to achieve their telepathy and
influences on consciousness. In modern times humanity has lost belief in these types of
forces, as the psychiatric establishment has been keen to categorize any type of paranormal
or spiritual experience as hallucinatory--psychiatry playing mental gymnastics with jargon to
write these types of experiences off as such, going by primitive visual images of the electrical
activity and anatomical characteristics of the brain. To the general public, they auspiciously
act like they understand schizophrenia and that we are close to a breakthrough; however, if
you read the fine print in their scientific journals, they openly admit they have a profound
ignorance on its molecular and neural mechanisms.

38. To break it down further, the test for a "hallucination" since the conception of the idea has
been consistent throughout time: the person hallucinating has an experience not shared by
those around them. That is entirely it in a nutshell. The fatal flaw with this is that if the
experience is telepathic and is bypassing the five senses, then, of course, others around them
would not share in its experience. Therefore, this test is illegitimate in truly addressing the
question scientifically of whether a person is experiencing some kind of telepathic
communication from another intelligence. In modern times, it is a perceptual fact that if a
person hears a voice that no one else can hear, he or she is hallucinating, but this may
change, and it also used to be a perceptual fact that the earth is flat. Furthermore, day to day
life is not a laboratory setting; experiences in daily life cannot be easily recorded and
broadcast for others to experience, so it is speculative to say the least, and like seen in the
Martha Mitchell effect, helps at times to enable organized crime and corruption in the system.
If I am right that these telepathic beings exist, it would call into question the whole mental
diagnosis of those labeled with schizophrenia; however, even if that were true in every case I
do not believe in doing away with psychiatry. The more you understand a situation, the better
you are able to counteract it. I believe psychiatry can be revolutionized with this new
understanding. As I wrote before, it could be something about the brains of at least some
people labeled with schizophrenia that attracts the attention of or opens up a doorway to
these entities, such as a pre-existing chemical imbalance. Also, there may be a correlation
between the atypical neurology of those on the autistic spectrum and this kind of activity,
which could work in a similar fashion. The more we understand the true nature of the positive
and negative symptoms in play for these individuals, the more we can fight to close the
doorway if that is the case.
In modern times, the mainly used treatment for people labeled with schizophrenia is
pharmaceutical drugs. This is because they found that psychotherapy is less effective. The

39. flaw I see in this is the psychotherapy is geared towards the perspective that the person is
merely imagining the phenomenon they are experiencing. Through expanded understanding
of the situation, instead of what in many cases could be essentially brainwashing now, I
believe many of them could be greatly benefited from cognitive therapy in better grasping and
analyzing what may really be going on in their minds, which would in return give them true
coping skills and support tools.
This idea is in accordance with what we find in some other cultures where there is strong
belief in the supernatural. In some of these cultures (under a more accurate view in my
theory) they have higher recovery rates and reintegration into society. I believe knowledge
has fruits and this is the positive effect of such a principle in plain sight. By unlocking the
mysteries of the paranormal and its impact on our society, culture, and history, it would make
people think clearer about the world around us and I believe bring the dawn of a new age.
Furthermore, the suppression of knowledge puts internal negative constraints on a person's
freedom and interferes with their autonomy and self-determination, which is a form of
oppression or slavery. That is why an open society is imperative for people to self-actualize
their potential and have the American dream be attainable for those who have the skills and
drive to succeed.
So what would be some of the problems in such an open society? One issue would be
criminals trying to get out of prison by claiming they had been "possessed" or under the
influence of a malevolent entity. On the other hand, pretending these beings do not exist is
potentially a greater danger. I think it has a worse impact on society, because if people were
fully aware of the definitive possibility they may be under the influence of such forces, it gives
them a chance to reject it as part of their psyche and fight its influence, even seeking help if
needed without being stigmatized.
The other problem is the pandemonium such a revelation may cause. It would likely be

40. more of a terrifying affirmation than the idea of alien abduction. Paranoia would grow over key
demographics, such as those a part of secret societies and the occult coming from the
Christian right wing, but in America there is freedom of religion; however, as a word to the
wise, codes of silence only enable organized crime and potential tyrants to control society.
Such questioning is healthy in regards to who we want as our elected officials, and if it is
known that in their secret society they are potentially connecting with other realms and
gaining esoteric knowledge and ideology from it outside the confines of peer review, it is
something to be suspicious about in a truly open society.
Whether they call them spirits or aliens, there are millions of people today who are under
the realization of a nonhuman element having a presence in our world. Humanity will prosper
from its confirmation. Progress requires change and a re-examination of the facts as a
prerequisite and should not be feared. I end this book with the words of Thomas Jefferson: "I
have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind
of man."