Harvey, try reading about quantum physics sometime. Contemporary scientists have pretty near agreed upon the odd and sobering fact that time and matter simply may not exist as we have always thought they did...

The idea that something must yield itself to a quantified "proof" in order to be accepted as true is problematic, to say the least.

For example, one of the main arguments against the efficacy of herbal remedies is that they have not and in some cases cannot be "proven" to be effective (and so remain unregulated by the FDA), but ONLY because the scientific testing grounds, set up for synthetic drugs and those manufactured in a laboratory, cannot encompass the many variables inherent in botanical substances. This includes differing concentrations of various chemical constituents which vary from crop to crop, given variations in weather, climate, soil, growing conditions, harvesting, drying and preservation tachniques, etc. But just because science cannot effectively measure the effectiveness of these substances in ways that suit their methods, doesn't mean they don't work...Ask anyone who has used chamomile to sleep, guarana to be more alert, willow bark for a headache, raspberry leaves for menstrual cramps, fennel for an upset stomach...

In much the same way, psychic phenomena are unquantifiablle according to standardized methods of measurement or testing...and so, in many cases, will remain "unproven." This makes them no less real.

I find it hard to believe that any human being could be on the planet for any length of time and not have accepted that a whole lot happens to us that we simply don't have a cut and dried explanation for...