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Parapsychology “ the simple mention of his name shoots a diversity of automatic thoughts - evaluative, rapid and brief that usually not the result of a deliberation or reasoning, but rather seem to sprout automatically - in the common one of the
persons from the thoughts associated with the field of the magic - religious, esoteric, spiritualistic thing, between others happening for the thoughts with a content marked by the skepticism in his different levels happening with minor frequency thoughts which mental images are those of
scientific studies or of laboratory.
It is not difficult - much less new - to know why the word “ parapsychology “ is a shooter of the most varied thoughts in the
population in general, this stems from multiple factors that they include from the cultural environment up to the academician, being one of the principal ones the absence of a physical explanation of the phenomena that he studies that in conjunction with the anomalous character of his
experiences they are the perfect ingredients to prepare a culture medium broth that facilitates and promotes the appearance of the patter and ignorance at popular level about this one, giving cause for the story of histories and experiences that are speculated about around him and which veracity is altered often by personal exaltation, spectacular publications or missed persons, doing that at present especially in the popular ambience, the parapsychology is considered to be a bottomless booth or tailor''s booth where it fits everything mysterious, strange, inexplicable, magic or hidden, appreciation that is for more saying incorrect or erroneous since this one studies very concrete anomalous phenomena.
Nevertheless in spite of earlier mentioned and of the notable efforts of the limited one but enthusiast group multidisciplinary many of these grouped in Parapsychological Association (PA) and despite the recognition of the same one in 1969, for American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one still finds rejection on the part of the publications specialized of other disciplines, acceptance of university dissertations on these topics and it is not considered in the university curricula, being common that the parapsychology is considered to be a pseudoscience, being still able to listen in the academic circles and scientific questions as What has achieved the parapsychology in the last 100 years of investigation?: one has managed to know the functioning of PSI? What his applicability is practical? between other many questions of different caliber and with different intentions that are shot cruelly to earlier mentioned group of researches of Psi.
It seems that the future of the parapsychology is discouraging and far from reaching the acceptance or respect inside the science. But for the persons been interested in the parapsychology these difficulties are the fuel that feeds the engine of his scientific curiosity, which cannot leave of side the exploration of this
PSI that breaks with everything the scientific existing paradigms up to today. This Psi that does not fit inside the materialistic current so established in the classic
sciences where there is demanded that “extraordinary affirmations need extraordinary evidence “ beginning popularized by the skeptic Carl Sagan.
Then who would be The Challenge of Parapsychology in my modest opinion, I believe that it is necessary to shake off for a moment of this mentality excessively experimentalist, there is not doubt that the application of the scientific method is the correct way to reach the goal of position to the parapsychology inside the bastion of the traditional sciences and the surest way of keeping on doing of economic funds to subsidize the investigation.
But also it is necessary to rest in contributed the studies of spontaneous cases on the general population, with this I am referring to the high valuation of incidence of cases of papsychological experiences brought in the population, recent studies realized by the company Gallup have showed that 60 % of the world population has had at least once in his life a paranormal experience, the same ones that differ from the hallucinations, illusions false of memory or other psychological experiences of type. The majority of institutes of parapsychological research from the whole world receive an important demand of persons'' help that have had this type of experiences and that the same ones find disorientated, worried, emotionally destabilized or at the worst in crisis due to the influence that these exercise in his emotional, physiological states and behavior. It is based on this population that little he is interested in the current state of the investigations that explain the existence and/or functioning of Psi or that are his true experiences or not, and whose worries are directed in the impact that these experiences generate in his daily life and that consider to be so real as that it might cause any other problem in the material world.
It is so the parapsychology faces problems of diverse nature, but as in the majority of the behavioral sciences with clinical specialization (p.e. psychoanalysis, psychiatry, etc.) the need becomes imminent that in a future from major force and propulsion to the investigation and professionals'' training of the health in the therapeutic collision of the experiences psi, to be able to work with the common people who needs help due to these experiences that the classic psychology has ignored, underestimated or ridiculed, perhaps thus we are already approaching such a longed practical application of PSI in the daily life.
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