"Science as it exists today will never admit openly to any paranormal ability because science despises the idea of creation."
I don't think this generalization stands.
A lot of people are scientists because they *love* creation. Many scientists are scientists because they have an avid curiosity about the world and really want to know it, to explore it.
They are often fascinated with life and the processes of life. They are more passionate about actual creation, about what is, than someone who is attracted to fantasy and magic.
Scientific types are held in the grip of reason. When I was a child and was exposed to science and scientific theories, I was amazed. Unlike religion, this stuff actually made sense, and it put mankind in the middle of things. It was up to us, with our limited intelligences and resources, to figure things out for ourselves. No God, no spiritual authority held dominion over reason and what we could discover and use.
More than one skeptic, I think, really wants to believe in the paranormal, but they can't, because it is repugnant to their reason. People for whom the rationality of a claim is their litmus test, based on what they know to be factual, simply cannot believe in that which does not make sense to them, that which is not founded upon what they know to be fact.
Some skeptics are hateful and venomous, and they make the biggest impressions, unfortunately, but many are good people with depth of feeling.
I can commiserate with people who have had bad experiences with doctors, unfortunately their jobs seem to do something to the minds and hearts of some. These do have tunnel vision.
While my brother was in a coma they denied that he could respond, because "people in a coma are unresponsive." When we indicated that he did respond to verbal requests, they said we were seeing what we wanted to see. But it was plain to us, through experimentation, that we could get him to respond.
Every inch of the way, they were wrong in their pessimism. My brother progressed regardless of their predictions of doom. He never really was good at doing what he was told. I guess doctors do it to protect themselves.
While I am all for people seeking whatever means they find necessary to better their lives, I am not convinced by the "you need to be believe" argument. I don't need to believe in gravity in order to sense its effects. I don't need to believe that food is nourishing in order for it to sustain me, nor do I need to believe in the affects of poison in order for it to harm me.
My beliefs can alter my sensory perception, certainly, but as a reasonably open individual, I have never witnessed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that paranormal phenomena are real.
I suspect some may be, but I still have my doubts.
I certainly believe, however, that the mind can affect the body. I've witnessed it in my own experience, and it has been backed up by studies. I believe that Chi Kung and other energetic forms are simply the mind affecting the body.
I am, however, not going to rule out the possibility that this "energy" may really exist. But as of now, it remains a grey for me.
I also seriously doubt that people can make clouds form and disperse with their minds. I used to believe that I could do it when I was a kid, but I know that it was because at that time in my life I felt helpless and worthless and wanted to have some special power that would make me feel special. I was fooling myself.
In order to believe a huge claim like that, I'd have to see it for myself several times.
