I think that 99% of what one reads or hears on the radio about government sponsored remote viewing is bullshit. Remote viewing is real, sort of, but most people who talk about it are at least partially delusional, or are con artists, or both. I'm not saying that government programs aren't real at all, I'm just saying that the reality of these things is far different from the fantasy of them, even for people who have been involved in such programs. And the reality isn't very far different from any of the other soft corruption and violence-by-proxy that millions of us have been involved in for a living.

Evil is real, but I don't think paranoia is necessarily called for either. Directly or indirectly, we all kill things, and we all have dark sides. All we can do is the best we can to think, feel, and do the right things. Having paranormal experiences doesn't change that.

Sometimes a tree puts out a lot of seeds right before it dies. Sometimes things that are normally worth avoiding spiritually become worth trying when times are desperate, so we subconsciously allow things to happen which we normally wouldn't. In other words, all people are psychic, but people don't express it because it is usually not helpful, and that expression is usually subconsciously controlled, like heartbeat. Now that you believe in paranormal phenomena, I don't think your reality is really much different than it was before, you just perceive it differently. There was always a lot of sick and weird stuff going on, it just wasn't as obvious. And a lot of the sickest stuff is still things that most people are aware of and take for granted, like factory farms, drug abuse, and other common forms of violence.

It's true that once you open the door you can't close it again, but if it is open too far it tends to close itself a little bit as you grow, like a tree growing around an injury. Most people get caught up in the drama of it to some degree or another, and that's what drives it for them. I guess that's unavoidable, but it can still be a sad spectacle.

Untimely deaths can often fuel psychic experiences, which is a large part of why Mayans and others were into religiously murdering people. I'm sorry about your friend's death.