Wormwood
Member
Hi all, my name is Billy. I'm from the States, and I'm a musician, amongst other things. I was raised in a Protestant household, but have more or less shed the title since. However, it pretty much sums up my metaphysical beliefs for most of my life leading up till the last year or two.
The reason I got into the subjects everyone here has such as parapsychology and the whole lot, was because of a existential crisis I feel into not too long back. Somehow or another, I was exposed to the whole skeptic movement and was just overwhelmed with their hostility and criticisms. Much of it was just in the rhetoric, but it made me wonder for the first moment in my life: "Am I the crazy one?"
So I started looking around at all these things skeptics bashed and even flat out denied. PSI/ESP, survival of consciousness, etc. I was drawn to Skeptiko after a couple months of researching and loved it's forum. So I started an account in July but didn't start posting till now, as my interest in the subjects talked about here kind of wane on and off. But I really look forward to posting finally.
I guess you can consider me a proponent, but not the most confindent one (on a personal level). Mainly just because I'm a born worrier and a little unsure of myself sometimes when I shouldn't. I'm spiritual but wouldn't call my self a new ager. I tend to think of myself as a idealist of one kind or another.
Anyways, happy to be participating in the forum finally!
For those of us here who believe ( know)there is something else aside from the material realm, we attempt to wean through the data and try to make sense of it. It’s confusing and difficult to know what to make of it mostly. But there is so much consistency and spillover in in the content of experiences reported and studiedin several different areas, that we one is able to learn a fair amount about the other side, while still remaining largely clueless. At least that’s what I believe.