Andrew W.K. on Believing in the Paranormal

Understanding the paranormal, in a sense, is to reckon with the idea that we will never fully grasp it. We are forced to accept that there is an infinite well of knowledge about the world we don’t possess. We are especially uncomfortable when asked to engage with realms of human experience that don’t fit within the accorded norms. This part of the human story is roundly mocked in academic circles and dismissed quickly by cynics—despite the rumored existence of these types of phenomena being at the heart of the human experience for all of recorded history. 

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