I think you are missing the point here. You can call activity anything you want. And, I agree for the most part that pop culture definitions usually rule the day. This isn't about "opinions". I'm not trying to argue who is right or who is wrong. This is about defining and creating a model to move Parapsychology into the realm of science. I think you missed my post above about that. And, the parapsychologists who have been recognized for their work in trying to do so are the ones who are trying to define and create a vocabulary that is believable to the scientific world. Pioneers in the field of metaphysics crossing over to the scientific model, if you will.
I don't think that's going to happen in my lifetime, so I don't personally care all that much. But, for the sake of the future of metaphysics and bringing it to the masses and believablilty....
Now, where was that thread about trying to verify OBE, testing it, defining it (as Robert has with the term "RTZ") and helping to bring it to the masses as a provable truth? Or, should we just leave the future of it to the whims of the mystics? Am I the only one seeing the parallels here?
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