gabriel
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I agree. If Bob's case was unique, we could dismiss it, but such accounts are numerous and widespread. They are usually accompanied by commentaries which state, "science tells us these these can't happen", as here, whereas science tells us no such thing. It can only say there's no known mechanism for such manifestations, which isn't the same thing at all.I wonder if the apparition was visible to other people or just Bob ?
There are so many cases like this one. I can totally understand that when the paradigm is changed and ghosts are accepted by 'everybody', how it becomes 'self evident' very quickly.
Maybe at some time in the future we will look back at threads like this one and say "what were we like?":)
Of most interest to me, is the way such reports are dismissed by skeptical apparatus until one could believe they never happened. Repeat on a grand scale, and anyone encountering such things for the first time could easily believe they'd all been comprehensively debunked by a better theory, whereas they have merely been sidelined from serious scrutiny. No one is saying we can absolutely know what happened in Bob's case, but there are a sufficient number of similarly compelling accounts by expert witnesses to suggest a consistent phenomenon.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/23/living/crisis-apparitions/index.html
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