How Do You Explain Unexplained Phenomena?

Even if we try to view the world objectively as a progressive society, the idea of the supernatural persists within a rational worldview. Why do we hold onto superstition and illogical thinking when it gets proven to us over and over that magic doesnt exist and that our perceptions are distorting reality? It could be that the perception of distorted perception is distorted in itself, and that the human race will never be able to separate mind and matter entirely, or maybe its that complete objectivity by nature contradicts human nature. A world consumed with irrational delusion is undesirable to most, but so is a world in which anything intangible or metaphysical is simply an illusion that serves as deceptive motivation. For example, what if it was compulsory to inform your kids that Santa Claus isnt real because imaginary people like that are irrational conceptions? Something about that doesnt sit right.

The concept of unexplained phenomena straddles the line between rational and irrational, objective and subjective. A lot of unexplained phenomena are laughable at first glanceit seems silly to put a stake into the existence of ghosts or UFOs, and we often dismiss witnesses as loonies and fanatics letting their imagination run wild. Maybe it is all psychologically explainable, but sometimes things really do happen without any logical explanation. Many of us have likely had encounters we could swear were real even if its highly likely that they werent. Usually our encounters are less extreme than the apparitions of spirits and aliens, but they still count as unexplained phenomena that we sort of dismiss and partly ponder.

Some unexplained phenomena do have slightly more credence, but theyre bizarre nevertheless. How do you explain occurrences like near-death experiences that are all in peoples heads, yet reported independent of each other? Again, this could be explained as mere hallucination and theres no visible proof. All unexplained phenomena lack visible proofconvenient, critics might say.

Seeing is usually believing, but it must be conceded that our lives depend on a lot of things we take for the truth without visual evidence. We havent physically seen logical concepts like gravity in action and really, whos to say something isnt real if its real to you? The problem is that peoples realities tend to collide.