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But most of the paranormal fits into most physical laws. Even if it depends on certain variables...
And yeah took that into consideration.

I don't know about surges in paranormal activity but I know that interest in the paranormal has certainly become more common.

This is evident in all of the ghost hunting, UFO, and cryptid specials that come on channels like Discovery, TLC, History, and Travel.

I personally think it's a good thing, at least in relation to cryptids.

I think it's the added interest that causes the excess activity if you ask me.

On a personal level, every year I get more and more sensitive the closer it gets to Samhain/Halloween/end of the harvest season.

But on the grand scale, I think it is a direct by product of scientific discoveries. Science creates as many questions as it attempts to answer-a wonderful and important thing. However, where science stops because there is not enough proof, the paranormal leaps into step and takes off.

No one said the world is going to end but the point I was trying to make was that the paranormal activity surges (if they are not caused by natural ebbs and flows) will change peoples views on the unknown therefore changing humanity into a more understanding and accepting people. I didn't state anything about the end of the world. I for one do not think there will ever be an end. I do think that there will become a better being then humans because humans have spent to much time being the supposed only known being in this universe. Kind of like everything advances and humans become an elder being where a new being becomes like us. Don't know if that made sense to anyone but I've had to much Mt. Dew.

As well, I do not think these surges of activity are due to an increasing interest into the paranormal or because of science. If you have supposedly seen and understand the unknown just because someone else comes to know the unknown does not mean the unknown surges. The unknown will not bend to the will of the known. If these are surges that are cause for other reasons then interest and science.

Edit add in- The world cannot possibly end. This world is a part of a universe which is threaded together with other worlds and universes. If one part vanishes so will the rest. That would be kind of silly to think that one could perish because all depend on one and one depends on all.

It's a possibility but I highly doubt that interest alone would cause a surge in activity. Even before these paranormal shows on tv people where interested in the paranormal. These surges, like I said, are most likely just ebbs and flows of the unknown. Just as humans ebb and flow along with nature, so does the unknown.

I think we all have different oppoins. But, no the world's not ending.... I think personally that the ghost attivity rises with your spirital power. The more the spirital energy you learn how to control the more spirits start to see an opening to the physical realm.
But that's only my theory.

i think josh is right about looking at it in smaller groups. like i've noticed more and more children having abilities that it took later generations like ourselves years to get, and that is probably in preperation for this "end of the world and begining of a new one" that you're all going on about. but i also think that the added interest is part of it as well. true the unknown will never bend to the known, but with more interest more people are learning how to control energy, and so more energy is being called to be used. And also because of all of this the schools of secrets and their students are getting more interest and being able to train more people.