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Originally Posted by MattFYF  Taking into consideration what all of the scientific research says, my personal believe is that psychic phenominon is always misinterpreted normal events that have perfectly rational scientific bases. We might not know everything, but given the body of evidence that's been established, we can pretty much say that what X person is experiencing has a fairly good chance of being based off of Y.
For example, Penn and Teller did a great ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! episode with a part on Near Death Experiences. (The audio and visual is off a bit, but you only really need to hear what they're saying!) They went into an explanation on how people subjected to the G-Forces in those wacky G-Force machines (not sure what they're called) could have the same types of experiences that people with standard Near Death Experiences have. Apparently cutting off blood supply to your brain could make you hallucinate! So we can "recreate" Near Death Experiences just like people experience them - what once was thought to be a "psychic" phenominon is now just a normal variation in what could happen in a human's life, given X circumstance. |
Perhaps, but even if you can reproduce the
effects of a given experience, that doesn't necessarily disprove the possibility of any potential causes for such an experience. Besides, not all NDEs happen in circumstances where one would expect blood to be cut off from the brain.
Just out of curiosity, though, how similar are we talking, here? The vast majority of NDE's have a specific set of phenomena which are usually reported by those who experience them. To be sure, exposure to extreme gravitational forces can certainly cause hallucinations in the right circumstances, as can the cutting off of blood to the brain in general, but not all hallucinations are alike.