I read a magazine called Fate Magazine. It is awesome!!!! If you love anything paranormal, this is the magazine for you. I've been a subscriber for eight years now and I have never been disappointed! Go to Fatemag.com
Anyway, in this month's issue there was a letter from a reader describing an article that was written in
Psychology Today magazine entitled Magical Thinking by Matthew Hutson. You can access the article at:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20080225-000003.html
Here's a portion of the article:
You wouldn't want to be at the skeptic end of the spectrum anyway. "To be totally 'unmagical' is very unhealthy," says Peter Brugger, head of neuropsychology at University Hospital Zurich. He has data, for example, strongly linking lack of magical ideation to anhedonia, the inability to experience pleasure. "Students who are 'not magical' don't typically enjoy going to parties and so on," he says. He's also found that there's a key chemical involved in magical thinking. Dopamine, a neurotransmitter that the brain uses to tag experiences as meaningful, floods the brains of schizophrenics, who see significance in everything, but merely trickles in many depressives, who struggle to find value in everyday life. In one experiment, paranormal believers (who are high in dopamine) were more prone than nonbelievers to spot nonexistent faces when looking at jumbled images and also were less likely to miss the faces when they really were there. Everyone spotted more faces when given dopamine-boosting drugs. Brugger argues that the ability to see patterns and make loose associations enhances creativity and also serves a practical function: "If you're on the grassland, it's always better to assume that a tiger is there."
So what it's saying is, just because you don't see ghosts doesn't mean they don't exist. And also, if you don't believe in something other than what is totally apparant and tangible, you're not a very happy person.
But hey, I didn't say it - they did a study on it
Both my girls are out at sleepovers again tonight. I'm going to set up my DVR tonight. It's crazy the clarity I get on this thing: the fan is on in the hallway, but I can still hear the windchimes clanging outside in the breeze! I've had the EMF detector on for a while now, but no beeps.
All right, I have another story; it's my DH's story. In fact, we submitted it to Fate Magazine and they published it. The publisher of Fate "wrote" a book with all sorts of different stories in it and my DH's is included. I've tried to copy it, but it's not letting me. If you go to the link below, you can read it.
It's on page 99, On The Midnight Shift, of the book, My Proof Of Survival. Check it out:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/073...h_pop?v=search-inside&keywords=Ed+Thorgersen#
Grab some popcorn...it could be fun!
It's a topic that really has no grey area, isn't it?
