What would cause you to question your baselines?

Human beings seek to feel grounded in what they think they already know.  They find reasons to accept what they have been told about situations and abilities that enable them to feel comfortable.  What would cause you to question the origin and accuracy of your beliefs? Have any experiences altered how you view yourself and what is possible?

Consider Daniel Pinchbeck's book, 2012: The Year of he Mayan Prophecy.  This work offers perspectives to assist readers come to their own conclusions about 'synchonicities,' prophecies  and other psychic phenomena.  Scientists and philosophers disagree about explanations and the intrinsic value of sixth sense experiences.  Would a discussion with sceptical people influence your own view?

Dean Radin, director of the Consciousness Reseaerch Laboratory at the University of Nevada, has conducted and documented thousands of experiments in telepathy, precogniton and clairvoyance.  His book, The Conscious Universe: Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena indicates his tests fulfill the requirements of verifiability and repeatability and can also be measured. If you participated in such an experiment, and you were given proof of deceased loved ones, would that influence your beliefs?

Pinchbeck also noticed changes in his dream experiences after a journey in Gabon, Africa where he was initiated into the iboga cult of the Bwiti.  After that trip, his inner self transformed.  He noticed he would often dream of people he knew had already died.  The deceased seemed lost and looking fo advice.  His dream self acted as a shamanic guide to calm and orient the spirits to another place in the underworld. Although he acknowledges modern opinion would be that he was making this up or projecting, his intuition convinced him he was meeting with spirits.  This said, he realizes his evolving beliefs do not follow any rational framework for the afterlife. 

These examples invite you to query what causes you to suppress and dismiss information about 'the unexplained?' Are you convinced you dream it all up? Or, do you have reason to think differently?