Quote: (07-21-2016 02:03 PM)thoughtgypsy Wrote:
It presents a great deal of support, including the ubiquity of the phenomena in many different independent cultures, for the notion that most cases of sleep paralysis cannot be simply dismissed as a mere physical condition.
The urge to dismiss sleep paralysis as a purely physical phenomenon comes from the same impulse as the need to insist that all mystics are epileptics, all demonic possessions are Tourette's syndrome, all inexplicable healings are spontaneous remission (a phrase with zero meaning, even less than the power of prayer), and all predictions are confirmation bias.
There is a lot of unexplainable stuff out there. Dismissing it reflexively, quoting your gospel verse about St. Occam and his holy razor, does nothing to explain anything.
This stuff is worth exploring.
“The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of its parents.”
Carl Jung