Respect within the paranormal community, like any other community, is something that takes time to establish, and after maintaining a nine year presence on the web, you come to understand the ins and outs of where you might find acceptance and where you obviously will not.
Within the realm of the paranormal exists numerous sub categories where each has it’s own unique following of believers and skeptics alike.
Alien Abductions, Angels, Animal Mutilations, Anomalies, Apparitions, Ball Lightning, Bigfoot, Chemtrails, Close Encounters 1st Kind, Close Encounters 2nd Kind, Close Encounters 3rd Kind, Cryptozoology Behaviors, Cryptozoology Sightings, Deja vu, Demonic Possession, Dowsing, Dream, E.Ts, E.S.P, E.V.P, Elves, Fairies, Feral Species, Ghosts, Ghouls, Gnomes, Hauntings, Healings, Hybrid Species, Incubus, Indigo People, Magick, Mediumship, Missing Time, Mothman, New Jersey Devil, Night Terrors, Occult, Orbs, Ouija Board, Out of Body Experience, Paratography, Phantom Black Cat, Phantom Black Hound, Phantom Human, Plasmoid Phenomena, Premonition, Poltergeist, Psychic Phenomenon, Rods phenomenon, Séance, Shadow Beings, Shamanism, Star Seed, Stigmatized Property, Strange Falls, Succubus, Synchronicity, Trance Mediumship, Ufos, Vampires, Werewolves, and Witchcraft.
And that’s not even a complete listing, but it does give you some ideal as to the overall diversity of the paranormal where each topic contains people who have dedicated themselves to the fullest extent of exploration regarding their chosen interest where folks like myself made it a point of gaining and encompassing every category in their search for the ever elusive missing piece of the anomalous puzzle.
It’s generally very difficult to acquire any level of acceptance within this highly selective community where rampant jealousies and underhanded competition seem to be the preferred method of doing business instead of there being more of a cooperative venture between the many groups and organizations in existence today.
But human nature being what it is, does seem to produce some rather negative behaviors in people, behaviors which never need be enacted nor even considered because everyone holds the power within themselves to express something more positive where I believe the problem is that society in general has become indifferent because by becoming indifferent it then doesn’t need to concern itself with having to handle emotional issues which then may promote feelings of failure and or vulnerability’s.
And especially during times of hardship will you find this the greatest of societal infliction, where then the distribution of acceptance and respect towards each other become the very least of our concerns.
Which in and of itself is sad.
For then what suffers most is our sense of self worth and human dignity.
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Director J. Burkhart is an independent, innovative, psychic medium paranormal researcher with more than 30 years field experience involving anomalous, cryptozoological, diabolical possessions, hauntings, indigenous shamanic, and ufological exploration.
Society is organic. The ebb and flow of Nature within our confluency of consciousness is more than apparent. Nature of humanity is a paradox: while we look within, we see outside ourselves; all the while, what we “see†is our fear of the one question that begs truth. The carnal hunger and insatiable thirst for the answers we know we cannot have. I think, therefore I am… (have we met before?).
There is no reason to feel shame or pride, for these emotive thoughts – tangible feelings for most – are a setting sun from our past. A subterfuge of thunderhead clouds; a veritable storm waiting, building in climax, of precipitation and probable action. In other words, our intention is that we feed off the fear. We hunt ourselves within its grip. And when the climax is released – when the doubters and promotional artists of pain are done hunting, the objective is never met. Hence, the need to lash out upon an organization, misunderstood perhaps, such as Rochester Paranormal. The warrior has no burden; his load is light – and his journey is known to him. Fear is a tool which the astute soul makes his own and wields as a worthy weapon when necessary –
If a true leader is there, there will be a following of intrepid students. A true leader, not yet an alpha, will subconsciously welcome negative feedback from those who wait to attack. That is his or her intention, at least until they look in the mirror and begin to actualize the path they traverse. A true leader is comfortable in his or her own skin. Perhaps perceived “weakness†can be transmuted into a positive asset. Power has one face with many expressions; still it is one face, without gain. The soul needs nothing, yet it bleeds.
Or perhaps a passage from the Tao Te Ching would suit thy fancy:
Hold yourself back from filling yourself up, or you’ll tip off your stand. You can hammer a blade until it’s razor-sharp and in seconds it can blunt. You may amass gold and jade in plenty, but then the more you have, the less safety. Are you strutting your wealth like a peacock? Then you’ve set yourself up to be shot. You bring about your own disaster because you let it be known that you’ve got too much. Let go, when your work is done. That is the way…
Blessed Be.
“rampant jealousies and underhanded competition”
Amen to that. I experience the same darn thing.
One important note you didn’t mention are the “cliques”. Just like high school, they’ve all got their cliques and if you’re not in it, you’re set on the outside.
Reading a lot of what I post I tend to see the cliques. The paranormal community has them as does the UFO community. Communities of any kind should never have clicks because they’re just that – a community.