Look, I'm far from a new-ager. I don't look to crystals or magnets for medical aid, and I don't look to the stars for anything but astronomy, (which is interesting enough without a layer of mysticism added,) and I view all similar things with healthy skepticism.
However, there is a critical error being made with the use of the word "Supernatural." It implies that a phenomenon lies beyond or outside of nature. No, scratch that: it demands that such phenomenon are beyond nature, and that isn't so. The impossible is impossible, yes. That's a tautology, but how are you to presume or argue that these phenomenon are impossible? There is so much in nature that we do not understand. No unexplained phenomenon is supernatural. Nothing is supernatural. If I had ESP, it would still not be supernatural. It would simply be nature, understood in a new way. Or not understood at all, either way, it's still nature.
If ESP exists, is is because nature allows for such a thing. (Not totally implausible, by the way. Thought is largely expressed in electro-chemical current on a very small scale, and all electrical current creates waves of induction, measurable as "lines of flux," which can be picked up as radio signals, if they are emmitted and then recieved in the proper fashion.) If angels, or demons, or any such things exist, it is because nature is larger than the universe we percieve, and thus allows for such things. If there is a God, (I believe and hope there is,) then His will is nature. For a Judeo-Christian, God, anyhow.
If we can meet one another in our dreams, then it is because nature allows such things, and while I find not nearly enough evidence to suppose that we can, there is also not enough to say with any certainty that we cannot.
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