I'm an American living in Europe, teaching computer graphics at a small university. Until I was about 15, I was headed towards becoming a scientist, then abruptly switched to art. I became a professional commercial artist a few years later, and worked in print, television, comic books, films, and video games, always as an artist.
My interest in psi derives from my own psi experiences, of which I have had many. When I was young (up to about 20 years old) I ignored them, no matter how surprising they were, and maintained my atheism at a fairly militant James Randi-esque level. However, my wife got me to start recording some of the incidents that happened, and after a while I had so many examples of oobe's, precognition, premonitions, pk, and remote viewing that I could not honestly explain them away as anything but what they appeared to be: psi.
Having had these experiences myself means that I do not have to take someone else's word for the existence of psi, I know it is real because I've experienced it myself. On the other hand, because most people do not have these kinds of experiences (or they aren't telling if they have), I become the guy who is the first hand account for someone else, or the person whose credibility is questioned. James Randi himself has weighed in on the subject because we have a mutual friend, a physicist who has been a part of a couple of these psi experiences in my life. Randi's unreasoning, irrelevant, and bizarre suggestions typify for me the skeptical community. It was in an attempt to find some kind of level-headed alternative that led me to discover skeptiko.com and this forum.
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Last edited by paqart; 02-18-2010 at 08:04 AM.
Reason: clarification, "his" for "Randi's"
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