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Gender: Female
Status: In a Relationship
Age: 32
Sign: Aquarius

State: Ohio
Country: US
Signup Date: 2/4/2007
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 
"Every day, there is quality research being carried out on ESP, telepathy, precognition, psychokinesis, and other assorted parapsychological phenomena at universities and private laboratories around the world. These phenomena have fascinated mankind for ages, but so little of the research findings have been presented to the public in a responsible way. It seems that as the methodologies employed by parapsychologists become more refined, the wider becomes the chasm between the researcher and the public that he or she serves.

My particular area of research these days has to do with hauntings. Everybody likes a good ghost story, right? But sometimes when I try to describe my particular approach to this fascinating subject, I find it difficult to connect with my audience. It has almost gotten to the point where I don't discuss my research interests at all. There has to be some sort of middle ground between telling a good ghost story, and discussing the intricacies behind the scientific study in a a way that confuses readers or makes them sleepy. Honestly, I have yet to find it. For me, starting this blog is the beginning of the search for that middle ground."

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My intended audience is the (educated) general public...anybody who has an interest in parapsychology and has passed a college science course or two. Still, I've been criticized that the material is too dense. I'm working on it.

I don't think that the 'ghost-hunter' community is as homogeneous as you suggest. Just as parapsychologists have a variety of approaches to the paranormal and varying levels of belief, so too do paranormal researchers. A lot of paranormal researchers are curious about what is going on our laboratories, and what is being written in those journals that most people can't afford.
 
Posted by Public Parapsychology on Friday, February 29, 2008 - 4:43 PM
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