Tag Archives: Trauma and the paranormal

What if Your Paranormal Experiences are Connected to Childhood Emotional Abuse?

Exploring paranormal beliefs in subjects with a history of trauma, abuse, and/or neglect. If you grew up like I did, moving from place to place, even country to country, you know what instability feels like. If you grew up ignored, abused, or traumatized by dysfunctional parents, you know what fear feels like: fear of intimacy,Continue reading “What if Your Paranormal Experiences are Connected to Childhood Emotional Abuse?”

Creating Your Ghosts . . . and Your Hell

There is this nagging question that I have asked myself for years. Do we create–at least in part–the paranormal phenomena that we later claim plagues us? Or that intrigues us? What, exactly, is the relationship of what is “out there” as objective, disembodied intelligence and “in here”, a product of our own consciousness? Is there,Continue reading “Creating Your Ghosts . . . and Your Hell”