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Unexplainable happenings. Who has not experienced the effect of something that falls outside the realm of rational thinking? Perhaps something inconsequential - like knowing the name of a person you could not have met before. Or something astounding- like one's car breaking down just in time to avert a traffic pile up a few minutes down the road? 
Religious and ceremonial rites. What purpose do religious and other ceremonial rites serve? Did they first develop by happenstance in reaction to an immediate physical need - like a grain harvest? Or to something more remote - like the use of unseen forces to a purposeful intent - a monarch's coronation rites to ensure the rule of the throne, or the preparation for a life beyond the grave. 
Many unseen energies stimulate and influence us. The living quarters we occupy, the media, a piece of jewellery. Ever present, astrological energies stimulate our thoughts and feelings. Countless imponderable forces surround us. From ancient times, the occult scientist has recognized their suggestive impact. C.C.Zain People are not superstitious because they believe in unseen forces, but because they have an irrational dread of them....numerous people are very superstitious, for they greatly exaggerate the influence certain things exert." |