jambo372 said:
No - my whole family isn't into the paranormal - neither is my Gran although she does have a sister who's a Medium , but I don't think she really believes in what her sister says . I do attend spiritualist churches often though . I have always had a streak of belief in spirit witthin me - I used to frighten my Mum telling her there were people in my room , then one night this person appeared to me . I had wanted to go to a Spiritualist Church for a long time , then one night I decided to go just to see what it was like - the Medium was Ina Brown ( mentioned above ),at first I was undecided about whether or not to believe - but when she spoke to me I did , since then I've not been able to stay away from the place . I first became interested in psychokinesis when I saw a film of Nina Kulagina moving a variety of objects across a table under the observation of investigators . I then saw a program in which Uri Geller fixed watches just by tapping them & staring at them - a friend of mine had a broken watch , I asked them to let me see it , I tried to repeat what Geller had done - to my horror it worked . I originally believed in Geller until skeptics persuaded me of otherwise .
Thanks for being so frank about this.
It looks as if (in common with most believers) your own personal experience has had more of an effect on your beliefs than family/peer-pressure. I can fully understand how such experiences could lead you to an interest in the paranormal -- to look for explanations or answers.
Now, clearly, you don't believe that Geller has paranormal powers. You say you were disabused of this idea by skeptics. Yet you still accept Nina Kulagina as having displayed genuine psychokinesis.
Now, here is the hard part --
what in particular makes you disbelieve in Geller, but believe in Kulagina?
Would you be willing to describe the experiences you had in more detail, and would you be willing to consider alternative explanations for them? Remember, I only ask you to consider, not necessarily believe them. I do not think anyone would mock your experiences. Many here have had similar experiences that they once thought were paranormal, but decided that there were other perfectly rational explanations when these were given to them.
Then, given more options, you might still decide that the paranormal explanation suits you best. That is your right. But at least listen to the other side of the argument. as you did with the Geller issue. If you do, I doubt anyone here would fault you, if you remained convinced that your experiences point to the paranormal.
BTW, have you heard of the Psychic Barber chappie in Glasgow (I think)? He seems to be making a name for himself.
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