Between Science and Religion Lies truth

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We have all experienced something that we could not explain. Whether it was deja vu, someone calling us when we were thinking about them or having a dream that later became a reality. Sometimes we brush this off as false because we can’t explain how it happened through conventional means using our five senses. Not only that, Kripal talks about how he also defines these experiences or occurrences as being an outlier to the normal in both the context of science and religion. Now why is this important and what does this mean for us. This means that by some way we have another sense that we can’t quite explain or how exactly to get in touch with. Before you say that this is crazy let's look at how other senses work. Let's use the sense touch as a comparison. I had only had my sense of touch and touched something that was wet. I could say that it at least has some association to liquid. Someone else who has the same sense could do the same and get the same conclusion. Now let's jump back to this sixth sense. How can two different people come to the same conclusion about something that hasn’t happened yet or something they shouldn’t know about. I am not saying that everyone has some kind of connection like this but, I am suggesting that there is something that has warned both parties about what is going to happen. This is common enough that there are multiple books written about this and movies. So in conclusion there is something else an intuition or something that humans have to let us know about things we wouldn’t or couldn’t possibly know about.


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