Paranormal? Supernatural?

When I was first inspired to create MindCast, I touted it to the station's media director as a show about the "paranormal." But I had a philosophical objection to the word. Same with "supernatural."

"Beside the normal," "above the natural" to whom? I was willing to use the word metaphysical because it means beyond the physical, and that I agree with. But who's the judge of what's normal and natural?

Then I realized that what's normal and natural for me may not be to the average person. It's in my nature to see beyond. To walk in both worlds. That's why I'm doing this show, right? I've been told over and over as I've told my stories that I should write them down and publish them because people are hungry to hear them.

My current fascination is with narrative. Storytelling. I have made up stories that came true. I began to understand that we create in telling. The Bible says that God made the Universe by speaking it into being. I think that must have been one of the first things I ever learned as a child that stimulated my imagination beyond the rational. Words create. Words create ex nihilo -- something out of nothing. Some people call that magic. Some call it religion. Some call it science. I call it will. As we learn more and more about this thing called reality, it is demonstrated over and over that we create our own reality. I create mine by telling my story, to the gods, to the Universe, to the people. And it's coming true every day.

I want to share it with you -- that's what MindCast is really all about.