Experiments

Movement I , Wassily Kandinsky I was struck by something John Tenney said in a recent episode of What's Up, Weirdo – that the prefix para means beside or next to . So, the paranormal is just that: what is "next to" normal .  I had also just finished Tobias Wayland's Strange Tales of the Impossible , and one of the themes running through the book was how we don't know how to interface with or interpret the paranormal . “Normal” is mainly a function of the degree of exposure to something. Of course, for most people, UFOs, bigfoot, ghosts, and more mysterious phenomena like the Mothman are not common – not normal.  While many people believe in these things, the average person doesn't encounter them often, certainly not in daily life. The para-normal becomes such because it's not familiar to us in the way our local weather and wildlife are, for example.  Having given these thoughts a chance to percolate in my head, I realized that viewing modern and contempo