Super Natural Activities
Parapsychologists use the term psi to
refer to an assumed unitary force underlying the phenomena they study. Psi is
defined in the Journal of Parapsychology as “personal factors or
processes in nature which transcend accepted laws” (1948: 311) and “which are non-physical
in nature” (1962:310), and it is used to cover both extrasensory perception
(ESP), an “awareness of or response to an external event or influence not
apprehended by sensory means” (1962:309) or inferred from sensory knowledge,
and psychokinesis (PK), “the direct influence exerted on a physical system by a
subject without any known intermediate energy or instrumentation” (1945:305).[6]
— Michael
Winkelman, Current Anthropology
Many supporters of supernatural
explanations believe that past, present, and future complexities and mysteries
of the universe
cannot be explained solely by naturalistic means and argue that it is
reasonable to assume that a non-natural entity or entities resolve the
unexplained.
Views on the "supernatural"
vary, for example it may be seen as:
- sindistinct from nature. From this perspective, some events occur according to the laws of nature, and others occur according to a separate set of principles external to known nature. For example, in Scholasticism, it was believed that God was capable of performing any miracle so long as it didn't lead to a logical contradiction. Some religions posit immanent deities, however, and do not have a tradition analogous to the supernatural; some believe that everything anyone experiences occurs by the will (occasionalism), in the mind (neoplatonism), or as a part (nondualism) of a more fundamental divine reality (platonism).
- incorrectly attributed to nature. Others believe that all events have natural and only natural causes. They believe that human beings ascribe supernatural attributes to purely natural events, such as lightning, rainbows, floods, and the origin of life.[7][8]
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