The Churches' Fellowship Journals

"Supernatural events recorded in the Bible such as appearances of angels, and prophetic and apocalyptic visions, can be interpreted as instruments of divine purpose and revelation.

But today perhaps people need a more rational understanding of how such things could happen. What ideas within a framework of Christian faith, that meet the requirements of experience and reason, will help us understand the paranormal? There are three well known general hypotheses accounting for psychic events. Firstly, there is the notion that they are due to projection of aspects of personality; for example, poltergeist phenomena are usually considered to be produced by a particular person, such as a frustrated child around the age of puberty. Secondly, there is the idea

of telepathy: for example, the findings of experiments in thought transference without physical

means. Thirdly, there is the concept of disembodied spirits; mediums usually claim their communications come from spirits on the 'other side'. Is it possible that all three hypotheses  personality, telepathy and spirits – are implicated in all parapsychological phenomena?"

- An exerpt from Personality, Telepathy and Spirits from The Christian Parapsychologist.