Showing posts with label Bigfoot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bigfoot. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

My ambiguous stance regarding some paranormal topics.

I've been told that when it comes to some paranormal topics that I'm very ambiguous about where I stand.  There is a reason for this and it is mostly because I'm not sure where I stand on a lot of things.  I believe that the UFO phenomenon is a reality.  However, I do not know what is causing it.  I believe that Bigfoot may exist but we won't know for sure until we find one.

There are some topics that I'm less ambiguous about because I have more knowledge or experience with them.  ESP and PK are two things that I am a strong believer in as I've seen the research that supports both and I've had personal experiences with both.  Magic(k) is another thing that I believe in (to some extent) as I have some experience with it.  In all of these cases, I don't claim to have the absolute answers of how they work; I just know that they do.

Another reason that I hold to some ambiguity is that I don't want to shove my opinions down other peoples' throats.  I'd rather just give my readers the information and let them decide for themselves (which I hope they do anyway, regardless of how I feel about a topic).

I guess the point of all of this is that if you see that I'm not taking a solid stance on some topic or other that it's not because I don't care about it or don't know anything about the topic; it's because I'm trying to remain as impartial as possible for the reader or because I simply can't say for certain.  Who can really say much for certain about the paranormal anyway?

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Eastern and Western Monsters Are Surprisingly Similar



In light of this information I would like to pose a question.  Are the monsters of different cultures so different because of some complex psychological aspect of humanity or because these creatures actually existed (or still do exist)?

To the present day there are sightings of Bigfoot-like creatures all over the world, from the United States to Russia to China.  Dragons are another cross-cultural cryptid.  It seems that if Bigfoot/Yeti/Sasquatch is an actual creature then it still exists in remote places, but what about dragons?  Did they exist at one time and went extinct?  Were they just figments of our imaginations?  Maybe the legends of dragons actually come from large lizards left over from the age of the dinosaurs such as the creatures reported in remote parts of the African jungles.

What I’m getting at is that we should consider why such different cultures have such similar monsters.  Are we wired to invent the same creatures or did these things actually terrorize us in the distant past?  Personally, I think it could go either way.  The similarities are definitely eerie.  What do you think?