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A book about the paranormal should open with a sense of wonder and delight. Therefore I am deliberately leaving my more critical comments for later in the book. Chapter 1 takes us without preamble straight into the astonishments of the 'alternative universe' that breathtaking world which somehow exists in complete contradiction to the universe our normal senses discern around us. The alter- native universe is in fact not part of this objective universe. It is somewhere else.
The notion of 'somewhere else' is very hard for us to grasp, let alone to define. Still more difficult is the fact that while we are very definitely in and part of this present objective universe, we are also, fitfully, in touch with that other universe. So in some sense, apart from being here, we are also simultaneously there as well.
Nevertheless, it is not the case that the alternative universe is mysterious in itself. It is mysterious only to us. For our nervous system is poorly equipped to understand the para- normal. As I sometimes remark, it is not that god is inexpressible, it is only that we are incapable of expressing him.
The alternative universe I should really say universes of the paranormal do have their own laws and their own coherent existence. It is the case, however, that these in no way resemble those of the objective universe. They simply bear no relation to the rules of every day. This, in brief, is why the application of science and the scientific method to the paranormal not only produces no results, but rather literally causes the phenomena to disappear.
