User:Northern Cold Black Metal

Black metal fan (obviously). Long time naturalist and skeptic, have been around in many places under many different names. I have the right to remain anonymous.

I regret some of my previous behaviour. I no longer attack paranormal believers or their beliefs, just the data. I would like to cooperate with them when I can to help them learn about various historical cases. I will accept to being wrong if I am wrong. I am a nice guy if you get to know me.

In the process of writing a long essay on fraud in psychical research. I believe deception has been wide-spread. This is my last involvement ever on this subject, after this I will not be researching this field anymore.

I do not believe in spiritualist mediums, spirits or any psychic phenomena or any religious/superstitious beliefs. I remain open-minded on the possibility of survival after death (even though this is unlikely), but that is all it ever could be a belief, there is currently no science to support this idea. However, if this changes I would change my opinion.

Anything to do with "spirits" to me has been refuted (I have read too much into this subject and uncovered so many cases of fraud). I would have more respect for parapsychology, if more parapsychologists acknowledged the cases of fraud in spiritualism. As has been pointed out by many critics of parapsychology most of its proponents are not well read in conjuring or magic literature. They have poor understanding of the methods of deception and trickery.

I used to be interested in metaphysics, philosophy and eastern occultism from a skeptic perspective but these rarely interest me today. Have many other different interests now.