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"why isn't anecdotal evidence taken seriously?"

Because people are awful data recorders. There are a very large number of ways that bias can be introduced via anecdotal pathways: misconceptions, misinterpretations, confirmation bias, etc.

"I know many people who have told me about out of body experiences, mediumship experiences. Should I disbelieve all of them just because they haven't been peer reviewed?"

Peer review isn't relevant here. What is relevant is that it's likely that they are human, and as humans they can be mistaken, incorrect, and fooled some of the time. Without any objective evidence that they are correct in their assertion, we cannot just *hope* that they are right.

"how can a subjective issue be proven objectively?"

The million dollar prize is not to prove any subjective issue. It is open to people with specific claims. It is not there to prove or disprove paranormal activities in general. As an example, someone that says they could reveal the contents of a sealed envelope reliably would be eligible, whether they say they are using ESP, morphic fields, quantum teleportation, or get told the answers from a ghost or alien. Only the result matters, not the manner of achieving it.

Just a quick response!

1) Life after death the soul is meant, of course, the body goes into decay, and then get it back again similar to the same likeness when it was on earth, God will make this wonder!

2) People who have experienced and lived through paranormal conditions are not so much noise, but they express their experience at the appropriate time on things supernatural, true, here science does not know a bat, if the scientists themselves are not directly involved them, the paranormal!

3) The so-called Astral is a meditation Mediumistic, or spiritualist, it is not true that the soul of the person who is meditating travels the astral dimensions of the cosmos, unless the traveler does not book a plane trip! LOL!

All clear on the question? Or are there still doubt?? Eh!

Anecdotes are evidence, it just doesn't rise to the level necessary to convince an open minded person of anything.

As far as being able to prove by demonstration something paranormal, it would be simple. One of the millions of people claiming to do telekinesis or astral projection could simply demonstrate it. How hard would that be?

Besides the Randi challenge, which many claim to be crooked, there are dozens of others offered world wide.

We might also ask why no astral projector is using their ability constructively? Certainly recent mine disasters could have used one of the millions that say they can do it, to help.

Your first example, if they can travel across town to a friends bedroom, why is he not searching for lost kids or anything else for, in his words, good. That, for me is a good enough reason not to believe him or her.

Anecdotal evidence is not up to the rigors of scientific inquiry. Not when you are looking at extraordinary claims such as the paranormal. We know humans are fallible, we know we make cognitive errors, we know we have biases. Anecdotes cannot be statistically analyzed as variables cannot be controlled for.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - personal anecdotes simply don't cut it.

Psychics and the paranormal are real and this is a true story that proves that! But people like James Randi will never bother to look into it because they are idiots!

Ghost and reincarnation are real!

I know for a fact that i have lived before! Many different people have seen the ghost (Bob) of my last life time walking around when i 'm asleep (kind of an astral projection)! And at least one person said that Bob had a silver cord protruding out of his stomach area.

One time back in about 1980 a woman named Cindy Bang came to work one day and told everybody about a strange dream she had. She said that the dream was very real. In the dream this guy named Bob came to her bedroom and was talking to her. She said that she couldn't see his face, but he was one of the guys that worked there in the factory(she worked in the factory office)!

She said that in her dream they were talking to each other about old times, and she was dressed up as a Southern Belle and going by the name Pat.

She said that Bob was dressed up in some kind of strange out fit (she didn't realize that it was a uniform of the Ohio Militia during the Civil War)!

This woman named Pat had been an Aunt of Margaret Mitchell that woman who wrote the book "Gone With The Wind" and she had gotten some of her ideas from stories Pat told her! That is one of the things that they had said in Cindy's dream.

I already knew from a vision i had in 1973 that in my last life i had been a Civil War vet. This was in Philipsburg, MT. and i had told many people about it including my gf at that time Cathy! Also there were many Mormons in the area and the Church of Mormon got interested for several reasons! One being that one person had seen my ghost Bob walking in the hallway of the hotel i lived in and it (Bob the ghost) opened the door to my room and walked right in. At that point in time i was sitting on the bed just kind of day dreaming. Cathy was in the room too but had her back was towards the door and she never saw anything.

Anyhow long, long story short (many years and many incidents) I never told Cindy that i was the guy in her dream(Bob) but i did tell some other people about it one being a woman named Carrie in 1987. A day or so later she went to the hospital for some reason. When she was there in the hospital she read the story about Cindy's dream in the Fargo Forum newspaper! I never read the story in the paper but many other people told me that they did.

Bob use to live where Whitehall, Ohio(Whitehall was built after WWII) is today and he was buried there but they moved him to Arlington cemetery back many years ago in the 1980s because of highway construction that went over the cemetery that he was buried in!

Also the home that Pat had lived in during the civil war was bought by the Church of LDS.

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