Boris,
Come on, man...just climb out of the box for just a second. Just a little baby step out; like just poke your little toe out for just a second. Just answer this question for me, yes or no...Is it possible that an unobserved dimension exists?
When I asked myself that question I had to say yes.
Is it statistically probable that an unobserved dimension exists, given only our current level of scientific understanding of our universe?
When I asked myself that question, I had to admit that our current knowledge base was obviously just scratching the surface. I know, for an observable fact, that scientific advancement has been increasing at an increasing rate since I've been alive. I also know that there is an entire universe out there that we know virtually nothing about. That's a fact. And I also know that given what there is to know, we have only scratched the surface regarding this very planet that we live on, and about our very own selves and each other. Not to say that we don't know a lot, but I would argue statistically that there is much more learning to do. Sooooo, I had to say yes.
Ok, then and only then do you DARE to take the risk of factoring in the incredible ABUNDANCE of testimony, witness, AND OBSERVABLE DOCUMENTATION OF EVIDENCE, of what we call "paranormal" activity, which I have also seen many times on TV for crying out loud. It wasn't that long ago that I saw an entire prime time TV special that was devoted to collecting the very evidence that you keep blindly argueing does not exist. The show was created by a journalist who was extremely skepital of all of these weird events that were being reported of all over the place. He wanted to see if he could get it on tape, and collect PHYSICAL evidence, and he did. Of a statue of Jesus crying tears of blood. The statue was inspected by a frickin' TEAM OF ATHEIST SCIENTISTS. They went so far as to cat scan the thing, and found absolutely nothing. There were no devices, no perforations, no pumps, no chemicals, just blood. The blood was taken to a lab and put under a microscope. It was found to be human blood. That of a woman. They also filmed a woman who went through something called stigmata. Suffering the emotional and physical pain that Jesus did when he was crucified. It wasn't a trick, ok Boris? The camera was on her the whole time. There were plenty of witnesses there, and it wasn't something that was easy to watch. The reporters there, and the crew were truly stunned, and could not believe what they were seeing. This woman was definately not having a good time or getting rich off of anything. Even if she was, could you still explain it? No, there is no way to scientifically explain it as of yet. And though there does exist a scientific explanation for it yet undiscovered, it can not explain why it happened. The question of why is what I really wish you would focus some of that brain power of yours on. You're a smart guy, and you deserve to ask yourself the big questions in life.
You brought up the suggestion of schizophrenia, so let me ask you, do you think that when I say that when I pray, I actually hear God answering me in my head, that I'm suffering from the same "delusions" as a schizophrenic? Is there some type of physical condition that brings about these delusions? I'm sure that if there was, you would know what it is. Some type of abnormal brain activity documented in psychiatric patients? If there is no such physical evidence in some cases, such as my own implied case, then let me offer up a possible explanation in the form of an account of a personal experience. Several years ago, not long after my husband and I first met actually, he suffered an apparent "nervous breakdown". I use that term loosely, as I'm not quite sure how to describe what went on with him. All I know is that one night he was himself, though noticably emotionally upset over something legitimate that I won't mention and is irrelevant, and the next morning when I woke up, he was not himself at all. He continued to be "not himself" for maybe two months or so. And it seemed that as quickly as he had slipped into it, he slipped right out of it, and hasn't returned since. His behavior during this time was such that I did not forsee a continued romantic relationship with him in any sense at all. We had gotten very close though, and I couldn't help but notice that his good friends did not want anything to do with this new behavior of his. It was pretty bad, to the point where he had frisked a couple of them when they came to his house, he couldn't work, he wouldn't eat, and he said things that didn't make any sense. He was completely wired, and obviously paranoid, but without reason. To the point where he thought someone may be watching through the TV or that everyone (me, his friends) were in on some conspiracy. I felt awful for him. He drove his friends off (I'm sure you're familiar with how well men deal with emotionally intense situations), and he was alone and basically trapped in the house with his parents, who were immensely worried about him, and scared. So I used to visit him. We'd just sit on the porch and talk. He would kind of pop in and out. What he said would make a little sense, then it wouldn't. He said things like, "I don't like anything that's red." What do you say in response to that? Or one time, some guy that was out in his front yard about 8 houses down on the opposite side of the street was getting loud with someone on in his house or on his porch or whatever, and my husband somehow thought that had something to do with him??? Got real nervous and defensive. He wouldn't sit next to me on the porch swing. Like I said, previous to this, we had been very close. I certainly wondered what could be going on in his head, but I had to admit that the behavior was definately paranoid. So anyway, I hung around, and when I was out on the porch with him, and every day actually, I prayed for his healing in Jesus's name. Like I said, he snapped right out of it, and hasn't returned since. Not too long ago, I was talking to him about aliens, not that he's really all that interested in aliens, but I was telling him about how they are apparently able to talk to people telepathically. Like they would just hear a voice in their head. Or maybe I was talking about prayer. I'm not sure, but he said to me, "I've heard voices in my head before". I about fell off the couch. He doesn't talk much about, or take much of an interest in all this paranormal, spritual, alien stuff like I do, so it surprised me when he said it. He said that he heard them when he was sick. In particular, he told me of an evening when he was at his sister's house, and he was laying on the floor watching TV, and he said he kept hearing, "Go ahead and just kill yourself. Go ahead and kill yourself." Repeated over and over, he's not sure how long, but without realizing it, he said that apparently he started repeating it out loud to himself, until his sister heard him and said, "What the hell did you just say?!" And he said he kind of snapped out of it, but looking back on his behavior during that time, I would say this was probably not the only occurrance of hearing these "voices". If it were his own voice, then wouldn't he have said, "I should kill myself"? I think that something actually was talking to him. I think that a weakened emotional state or spiritual state or even a physical state such as with drug addition leaves a person very vulnerable to what I would refer to as spiritual suggestion. Actually, I would agrue that the suggestion itself is what perpetuates it's own acceptance, in a cyclical way, to the point where the suggestion is so intense that one would actually hear a voice in their head. The suggestion would have to be accepted though, kind of invited to infiltrate our minds through a negative or weakened state of our spirit. The same is true when you are strong in faith in the Lord and you pray, you are inviting his message to you. So, basically what I'm saying is that I think demons were messing with my husband. I also think that the fact that I prayed for his healing to God in Jesus' name that it healed him. At the time, though I really had no verification, I did feel that he was being messed with spiritually, by something evil, and I prayed for his protection from it. It worked. It works, Boris.
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God loves you and so do I!
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