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the breaker wave is too powerful. Every pore of mankind oozes knowl- edge, both in and outside of “official”? science. This movement is entropic because the Internet has changed the hand we have been dealt. Publications are often boycotted by scientists who use archive sites built on the World Wide Web to leave behind their contributions. It is in this context of effervescence, of profound redefinition, of accelerated erosion of certainties that so-called paranormal phenom- ena find their true significance. They mess up our lives because schemes have been kept in existence. After being a parlor game in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, after being thrown into the gutter in the twentieth century that promoted excessive materialism, paranor- mal phenomena are rising from the depths of amateur parapsychol- ogy” to call out to the honest scientific. The paranormal can become 1 tote 1 a ' normal only if we change the norm! A scientist asks: “what will I be able to do with these eyewitness accounts and these situations? They do not fit in my theory.” That is not completely true. There are theories, but they have not received any acclaim. The prejudice is strong. We associate the smell of suffering that surrounds the supernatural with the irrationalism of rebellious sci- entists and not with strict and open-minded objectivity. It is true that the conditions of scientific research do not promote the interest in para- psychology. A friend once told me something very important: “setting conditions is of prime importance.” Imagine that each of us assumes the power over himself, what would become of our highly hierar- chized society? A transition is needed, even if it is a fast one. The great difficulty is to make the actors of science understand that although their theories can be used to explain some observations, they do not apply to a considerable number of other phenomena. The perihelion advance of Mercury was inexplicable with Newtonian gravitation and the laws of Kepler. The details and exceptions troubled the rigid minds. It was time to change paradigms. The world had to yield and embrace the unexpected. The then unknown factor was twenty-six years old and his name was Albert Einstein! Today history repeats itself. The paranormal is what Mercury represented in astronomy more than a century ago: an exception! Remember the two Pioneer probes that are well on their way out of our solar system by now? They seem to be in the grip of a mysterious force that is holding them back. They refuse to obey our gravitational equations. How embarrassing and disrespectful! The answer lies in 3D time. Science is then bound to change its point of view. Scientists actually admit it. Sir John Maddox, 68 The Science of Extraterrestrials: UFOs Explained at Last * Eric Julien