05/28/2026
Escaping Your Own Mind
People often ask what is the hardest part of the paranormal field and while many people will jump to the ridiculous drama, I would honestly answer, escaping our own minds. Growing up we are taught what is real and what isn't. A child's "imaginary friend" is a perfect example. Watching a child have a conversation with someone that can't be seen surely must be just them occupying themselves with their own imagination, right? Over the years I have heard that thought repeated in some form or fashion but was it accurate? In some cases, of course, but not in all the cases!
There seems to be comfort in believing that only what you can see and hear is real. However we can only see less than 1% of the light spectrum and hear only a small portion of sound so to assume there can't be anything else there is really a false belief that we have grown up with. Young children tend to display more events of interaction with someone unseen then adults. These interactions are not merely the child having a tea party with Mr. Bear, but a full blown two-way conversation with someone, something, unseen by those observing the event. This includes body gestures such as shaking their head from side to side as the seemingly answer no to a question or statement not heard by others. For the adults observing such behavior, they find it more comforting to say it's just the child's imagination rather than face the real possibility that "Pop-Pop" or grandpa is actually there.
Most of us grew up believing that the rules of physics apply 100% of the time, but do they? How can physical items disappear and reappear either in the same place or somewhere different? This absolutely happens. Its such a common occurrence but we tend to attempt to dismiss such activity. An example would be like placing your car keys at a regular location such as a coffee table. The table is free of anything else but your keys. You get ready to leave and move to the coffee table to grab your keys only to find that they are not there. You search the house, your pockets, the table, the floor, multiple times only to eventually find the keys on the coffee table (where you know you have searched numerous times). Plenty of readers know exactly what Im referring to.
Just because something can't be explained by logic, which is our limited understanding of the world in which we live, does not mean its not real. You can choose to believe or not to believe but again it does not make it less factual. It might make you more comfortable, yet you will simply be less informed (unwilling to believe what can be possible).
People love to use the phrase about what can be scientifically proven as if our science has been able to prove everything around us, not by a long shot. Science is basically being able to recreate a set event or outcome, repeatedly (mathematically). Now consider that everywhere on this planet, people from all different backgrounds, beliefs, religions have experienced the "paranormal" (repeated over and over mathematically) does that make it impossible that the paranormal field is real?
People can debate the way that I have stated things above, but in the end, unless they are willing to accept that there is so much more that can be possible, they will not be truly open to learning.
Just a thought.
Robert Murphy
