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    I, Paranormal
    I, Paranormal
    I, Paranormal
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    I, Paranormal

    By Anthony North

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    There are so many short essays on the Paranormal here, it's phenomenal! I have a simple approach. Taking an initial sceptical stance, I see what's left; and from there I build a new Theory of Everything where the Paranormal becomes essential to us and the universe. So if you like my words, I'm behind you. Spooky.

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    PublisherAnthony North
    Release dateSep 19, 2012
    ISBN9781301551804
    I, Paranormal
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    Anthony North

    Thinker & Storyteller****7,453 Words to Save the UK and I,Writer are now FREE. Scroll down to find them.*****1955 (Yorkshire, England) – I am born (Damn! Already been done). ‘Twas the best of times ... (Oh well).I was actually born in the year of Einstein's death, close to Scrooge's Counting House. It doesn't mean anything but it sounds good. As for my education, I left school at 15 and have had no formal education since. Hence, I'm self-taught.****From a family of newsagents, at 18 I did a Dick Whittington and went off to London, only to return to pretend to be Charlie and work in a chocolate factory.When I was ten I was asked what I wanted to be. I said soldier, writer and Dad. I never thought of it for years – having too much fun, such as a time as lead guitarist in a local rock band – but I served nine years in the RAF, got married and had seven kids. I realized my words had been precognitive when, at age 27, I came down with M.E. – a condition I’ve suffered ever since – and turned my attention to writing.Indeed, as I realized that no expert could tell me what was wrong with me, I began my quest to find out why. Little did I realize it would last decades and take me through the entire history of knowledge, leaving me with the certainty that our knowledge systems are inadequate.****My non-fiction is based on P-ology, a thought process I devised to work with patterns of knowledge, and designed to be a bedfellow to specialization. A form of Rational Holism, it seeks out areas the specialist may have missed. I work from encyclopaedias and introductory volumes in order to gain a grasp of many subjects and am not an expert in anything, but those patterns keep forming. Hence, I do not deal in truth, but ideas, and cover everything from politics to the paranormal.When reading my work I ask only: do I make sense? Of course, an expert would say: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I agree. And an expert has so little knowledge of everything.I also write novels and Flash Fiction in all genres.

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      I, Paranormal - Anthony North

      I, Paranormal

      By Anthony North

      Copyright Anthony North 2012

      Cover image copyright, Yvonne North 2012

      Smashwords Edition

      No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission

      Other books by Anthony North

      Beginning in 2019 I’m publishing 14 volumes of my fiction, inc 7 novels in most genres, & 21 works of non-fiction covering cults, politics, conspiracies, religion, disasters, science, philosophy, warfare, crime, psychology, new age, green issues & all areas of the unexplained, inc ufology, lost worlds and the paranormal. Hopefully appearing at the rate of one a month, check out the latest launch at my bookstore at http://anthonynorth.com or buy direct from Smashwords for all devices at: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/anthonynorth

      In addition to the above, you may like my ‘I’ Series – 8 volumes of flash fiction (horror, sci fi, romance, adventure, crime), 4 volumes of poetry & 5 volumes of short essays from politics to the unexplained. Available from same links as above. Also check out my bookstore for news of my books out in paperback.

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Ghostly Insanity

      Possession: Demons and Angels

      Premonition Alert

      A Paranormal Consensus

      Storytelling and the Paranormal

      Emergent ESP

      How To Explain Mediums

      Paranormal Therapy

      Psychic Children

      How To Explain Entities

      Emergence and the Paranormal

      Can Entities Hurt

      Psychic Syndrome

      How To Be Psychic

      Why Sceptics Are Sceptical

      Life Is Just A Great Big Poltergeist

      The Mystical Seven

      The Bubble Universe

      The Planet God

      The Eternal Now

      Paranormal Reality

      Coincidence and the Thought Path

      Cosmic Synchronicity

      About the Author

      Connect With Anthony

      INTRODUCTION

      There are so many short essays on the Paranormal here, it's phenomenal! I have a simple approach. Taking an initial sceptical stance, I see what's left; and from there I build a new Theory of Everything where the Paranormal becomes essential to us and the universe. So if you like my words, I'm behind you. Spooky.

      GHOSTLY INSANITY

      Here, stated briefly, is my basic theory of ghosts. The world is how it is, but how we view it is dependent upon our inner thought patterns. Hence, what we actually ‘see’ in the world is not necessarily what it is really like.

      If what you see is different to what others see, then what you are seeing is a hallucination. And such hallucinations could be more common than we think. I would argue we have them all the time.

      So many things can change our view of reality.

      Typical is feeling tired or emotional. At such times our attention on the world lessens; and seeing the mind continues to work, it fills in the gaps, thus making up its own mind as to what’s out there.

      I class this as a ‘brief moment of decalibration’, and I’m sure this is when most ghosts appear. But to write ghosts off as simply a process of hallucination is to do them a disservice.

      The mind is far more reactive than we think.

      The world is full of information, and we only consciously appreciate a tiny amount of the information we actually input. The rest goes straight to the unconscious.

      Known as cryptomnesia, there are times when some of this information can surface into consciousness, and when this happens, we are unaware of the actual source of the information.

      It could come from anywhere.

      Typically, from a book read and forgotten, or a news report years ago – even a forgotten conversation. However, it is far less chaotic than it seems to appear.

      Similar to a search engine, visiting a certain location, or being prompted by a coincidence, the unconscious can allow the memory to surface - and if this combines with a moment of decalibration, a ghost can be seen based upon the information, thus giving it further validity.

      This applies across the world of ghostly experience.

      For instance, visiting a known haunted location, previous forgotten memories of something read can

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