Psychics and scientists

I just got an invite to a psychic social. There are any number of gleeful comments I want to make.

I may have dipped into my strange experiences, times when synchronisity and chance seemed too perfect. It is a strange thing to talk about given my general lean towards scientific rigour. I admit the latter has been what has saved me from some of the madness of psychosis.

I have no conclusion. When a good case study is well documented and presented in a peer reviewed journal there is certainly the sort of evidence which would make a scientist want to read a little. The patient who diagnosed herself with brain cancer through the voice in her head, a voice which had never taken on any aspect of disconnection with her singular stream of consciousness identity, but to report this mortal danger. This case study is in the British Medical Journal.

That's some good shit for any scientist because a good theory explains all the facts. Real sciences like physics are evermore able to explain unusual phenomena but when it comes to the experience of human consciousness.

Herein lies madness in a way. Because many psychics are mad and many of the mad are psychic.

But the scientist in me questions. It thinks there is no proof and there are the problems of selective recall. I have tested my power and it often fails. Quite simply, if it predicts something right then I repeat the experiment. Chance and selective memory can make things which are insignificant seem relevant. For example some of the evidence related to global warming suffers from this. Statistics and science applied to psychic experiences, in my personal experience, often show something which doesn't work.

I am constantly bombared by a projection of reality internal which is distorted to offer levels of signifiance beyond the information presented. It is perhaps why I am so trapped to the actual meaning of words and actions in my life. I have to constantly struggle against these internal perceptions to present the external facade of normality.

I'm not alone in being like this.

But if I dipped into the subtle undertones of my internal esxperience I would feel psychic.