Quote Originally Posted by Xedan View Post
Not really. Most people don't believe that, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that ghosts don't exist. The consensus would be "unsure".
Yes really.

"We can't prove 100% the earth won't be invaded by Wraith aliens tomorrow therefore the general consensus about the veracity of the claim should be 'unsure'." That's not a sound argument. Until a theory has some kind of evidence and reasoning supporting it, it's all just assumptions based on nothing, imagination as far as anyone knows. It's "Innocent until proven guilty", or in this case, imaginary until proven real.

And that's the current consensus about paranormal theories, like ghosts: they're not real.


Going back to your previous statement that "occultism" is a science. Occultism is actually defined as pseudo-science, and the reason for that is because it tries to look like science but by-passes fundamental scientific principles.