The Forgotten Half of Humanity
There are so many questions in the world, but none as important as to the question of why, why are we here? I do not wish to address this question directly, only to fill in the parts that have felt emptied for so long. The feeling that we are all connected, in unexplainable ways. We've all have more than one experience that we can not explain. Some brush them off as coincidences, and others use them for as a landmark for faith. Some of these experiences can be labeled paranormal or psychic. It is these feelings and experiences that lead me to question whether there is more than phyical interactions at work during this human life. Such examples can be of telepathy, out of body experiences, clairvoyance (seeing the future or past), or just intuitions about people or places. There are claims by others that these exist, but in our western culture we just pass them by and pay no thought on the subject. These are passed by from thinking that they are mere coincidences or false impressions, but there are a growing number of people who are questioning our previous assumptions and proving that there is more to be looked at. The eastern religions and thought have been along this path for thousands of years, with the knowledge of ch'i, and a higher concisousness than this phyical body. It is easily believed and wide spread throughout the east, so why hasn't the majority of the west even given thought to these beliefs and examples. There is even a high number of people who would say they have had a psychic experience, so why do we go on with out investigating, we feel that such topics are a taboo in our western culture. These questions need to be addressed in order for us to evolve ourselves into a more human culture. What is it that we are missing as a culture or as a people, that we are so attached to the phyical and material world, in that we place so much on having a good job and the right car. Are these the things that are really important to our happiness and fufillment? Why are we satisfied with the spoon fed answers people give us, we don't go searching for different opinions. If I wanted to buy a car, I don't buy the one that comes to me first, because maybe that is the one that is more fallible, it wants you to believe its the best without looking at the others. I don't just buy that first one, I go out and search and see what's out there and base my decision off of that. Paranormal isn't heard or wide spread, it is not talked about on a daily basis even though it happens every day in our lives. It is just going out and learning about the things you question, and not taking one source or any one answer. Because in the west we have a way of limiting our information, the media and the social barriers can not allow new ideas or contrary ideas to be let in, because individuals will be questioning why we do the things we do in our country and why people have more power than others. So if its in our face and easily accessible, then it must be true, right?