http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percnt.htm
I don't believe in any of the supernatural. However I do believe that objective reality is not a concept that applies to the human brain and as such there are a lot of experiences that people cannot equate to normal everyday experiences, and so will put down to 'the supernatural' when nothing of the sort occured. Sleep paralysis is a good place to start when considering these things: http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/S_P.html
(which incidentally I experienced for only the second time in my 28 years last night and it's a bizarre and psychologically uncomfortable feeling).
(or you could just go take an acid trip and see where it leads you, but I wouldn't recommend it myself )
UFO's vaguely intrigue me on the basis that if even a small percentage (<1%) are actually alien spacecraft, then the implications for physics are huge. However, when I go back and look at some of the evidence of UFO's that exists in the books that my Dad bought during the 60's, they're so comical it defies belief. As such, I tend to suspect that 100% of UFO's are really just unidentified flying objects (and even then I suspect a large proportion aren't even flying).
I don't believe in any of the supernatural. However I do believe that objective reality is not a concept that applies to the human brain and as such there are a lot of experiences that people cannot equate to normal everyday experiences, and so will put down to 'the supernatural' when nothing of the sort occured. Sleep paralysis is a good place to start when considering these things: http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/S_P.html
(which incidentally I experienced for only the second time in my 28 years last night and it's a bizarre and psychologically uncomfortable feeling).
(or you could just go take an acid trip and see where it leads you, but I wouldn't recommend it myself )
UFO's vaguely intrigue me on the basis that if even a small percentage (<1%) are actually alien spacecraft, then the implications for physics are huge. However, when I go back and look at some of the evidence of UFO's that exists in the books that my Dad bought during the 60's, they're so comical it defies belief. As such, I tend to suspect that 100% of UFO's are really just unidentified flying objects (and even then I suspect a large proportion aren't even flying).