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When I think of the paranormal and a fair few of the people involved in it, I kind of think gang warfare, it’s rather territorial now, there is always someone ready to slip that knife in when they can and worst of all they don’t have to know you.

I’m a member of various on-line forums, under various pseudonyms and the amount of back stabbing, nasty vindictive remarks I’ve seen is absurd and ridiculous.

Well I suppose you get it in all walks of life, I may just notice it more because of my involvement in this field. Sometimes I just want to shout “get a grip people this is a hobby, a passion, it’s not a corporate nor commercial venture” oh hold that thought, lets scratch it out, I forgot it is a corporate venture now as with more commercial groups an increase in hostility has also been noted.

Could that be the cause of all this hostility?

I’d be naive to believe it’s the only cause but I certainly see it as one of the major ones.

Perhaps its all caused by those experts out there, or those ‘UK top psychic mediums’, or those with credentials coming out of their ears and believe they are leaders in their field. I come across so many web sites of groups and clubs proclaiming to be the most recognised and professional around with experts leading the way in this field of research.

OK so your reading this article, your a medium, one of those leading experts, put your hands up, go on if your the most recognised, if you are the UK’s top medium, go on don’t be shy, no one will laugh.

So what makes you, what you claim to be?

Ho do you become the top medium of the UK, does it go on popularity?

If so then ok I could understand a little better.

Does it go on ability?

if so then prove it………….

And how do you get real credentials which make you those experts?

I see no real official recognised qualification backed by a real educational institute, I see no GCSE’s, Diploma’s, Doctorates, or other recognised qualification.

So if you have some credentials then whom are your peers that recognise you as an expert?

The paranormal as it stands now is nothing more than a Pseudoscience, and the definition of expert being:

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An expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of knowledge, technique, or skill whose judgement is accorded authority and status by the public or their peers. Experts have prolonged or intense experience through practice and education in a particular field.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert

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recognized expert by peer group or professional society certification.

www.state.wv.us/admin/personnel/clascomp/Docs/define.htm

Are you still an expert?

If all these so called experts and mediums are ever going to accomplish anything, then perhaps egos should take a side step and allow professionalism a chance to step up to the table.

As well as forums out there on Internet, we also run a series of websites ourselves, some are geared toward listing links to other groups which allows members of the public to review their website and leave constructive feedback, perhaps I should define constructive too as many people seem to miss the point.

I know I’m generalising a little much in this article as not everyone involved in the paranormal are the same, in fact there are some fantastic people out there and I’m meeting more all the time, it’s just the minority that ruin it and get a bad reputation for the majority.

I side tracked again as I usually do, back on track we we go, one of sites in particular that we run receives an enormous amount of feed back for other websites every day. Out of every 100 comments left as feed back about 5 make it live onto our website if that, simply because most of these comments are one word reviews, abusive, and downright nasty.

We can always tell which two or three groups have a dispute with each other and it’s rather amusing sometimes to read the comments, although I have to say you can see the lack in education of those whom wrote them.

So the question being, one ego or two?

Perhaps it’s time to get a grip people.

This article was written for Ghosts-UK

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