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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is lesson 285. Today the title is the
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difference between supernatural and paranormal. Yeah. I've had students in the
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past a number of times ask me this what's the difference between these two
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and then this one's really difficult. It's really difficult even for native
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speakers because I think the average native speaker. It's hard for them to
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clearly distinguish because there is a little crossover between the two. So
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sometimes they are used interchangeably, but I'm going to try to distinguish as much
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as possible some clear differences between the two and when you're more
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likely to hear one than the other. Okay. So let's take a look at the note here. We
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are more likely to use the term supernatural with things that are
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focused on magic, religion, superstition, etc. All usually based on beliefs. So you
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have to believe that they really exist. Things that are supernatural are usually
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attributed to a power that goes beyond beyond this planet. Beyond nature
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especially to God or a type of god. spirits, demons, angels, supernatural
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strength etc. Yeah. So again you have to believe that they they all do exist. The
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supernatural strength. Well that could also be related back to like comic books
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to you know, super heroes having super power. That , that's kind of in the
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supernatural range. Supernatural also can be related to old mythologies to like
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Roman mythology, Greek mythology, Norse mythology. You know from the northern
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Europe they're like you know, if Thor and Odin. If you believed in you know, the
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power of Thor's hammer. This would all go under supernatural. Definitely if you
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think there's any truth to that. Even though nowadays we call them myths.
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So we sometimes think that maybe they were just stories made up at that time,
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but if you anyone thinks that there might have been some truth to that. That
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would definitely go under supernatural. All right. Let's continue here.
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Things that are supernatural are nearly impossible to try to study in a
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laboratory, prove their existence, or prove their existence through science,
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Yeah. You can't study God. You can't put God in a laboratory and prove his
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existence or and the same thing with with demons.
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You really can't prove their existence. Now once in a while , we might get
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somebody that we believe is possessed by an evil demon and many priests might
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really believe that they are possessed by an evil spirit you know, and this evil
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spirit. This evil spirit might have been you know connected to the idea of you
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know, going back to God, the Fallen Angels like supposedly there was a war in
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heaven between God and Lucifer and I think 2/3 of the Angels stayed with God
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and 1/3 went with Lucifer and there's fallen angels and maybe some of those
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demons are some of the ones that might possess people. But here of course you
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know, if you brought a person in that you thought was possessed by an evil spirit
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and you brought them into a scientist, Scientists would probably say they're
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not. They would probably say that they have a psychological problem. So it's,
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it's a matter of whether you really believe an evil spirit was in that
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person. So if you believe that. Then that's definitely falls under the
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supernatural. All right. Let's continue here. The same thing with angels. You really
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can't put angels in a laboratory. Although there have been some images
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caught on tape of what appears to be like angels. You know, because now we have
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all these videos that go 24 hours a day and there, there is some definitely
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strange phenomenon that sometimes appeared like angels. You know, who knows ?
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Okay. Let's continue. So now the paranormal claims to be studies of
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reported phenomenon that so far are unexplained by science. So , so the
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paranormal actually does try to be a science. I remember
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in that the old movie 'Ghostbusters' which is really a comedy and supposed to be a
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joke. But the point was I remember there that supposably they were teaching at a
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university and in the university it was supposed to be a real science that they
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were supposedly you know studying like you know the existence of ghosts and
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things like that. So the paranormal does try to actually study it. You know,
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especially ghosts. Something like ghosts we're going to get into that. That would
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be under the paranormal. There's many claims of ghosts, not only
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throughout the world but throughout history. And we do see on tapes and even
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now they have like these ghost hunters and they have a lot of high-tech
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equipment. And they could detect things like you know temperature change, like
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usually whether it might be a presence of a ghost or a spirit that might get a
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lot colder. You know you've seen images of ghosts sometimes it might be what the
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poltergeist. Where you might see things move, like a ghost. Where things just move
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on their own but you don't see any image. So the paranormal tries to study that.
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There does seem to be some evidence out there. So the paranormal claims to be a
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science that's trying to study these things. Okay but at least, at least you do
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you can, try to set up some kind of experiments. You know to see the
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existence or the presence of this paranormal activity. That's the way they
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would call it. All right. Reported. I'll explain . Para in Latin means
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beyond, means beyond . So it really means like beyond nature. It
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literally means beyond the natural or beyond nature. But not explained yet. So
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the paranormal would usually include ghosts. Yeah just like I said there's a
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lot of people who have claimed to have some sort of experience with ghosts and
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like I said it's everywhere. It's a , there's nowhere in the world where
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somebody didn't say that they had ghosts. And throughout history, we can have many
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stories of it too. And nowadays there like I say there are some images that
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are actually caught on video. Sometimes it's even caught in a photo. So there,
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there's something weird going on there. And there is a presence
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which can be detected. But it's definitely unexplainable. So that would
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be in paranormal. Witches, well again if the you know those that actually study
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we don't witchcraft and if they could make something happen
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maybe. All right again. This is why sometimes it feels like there's a little
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bit of a crossover because technically when people think of ghosts, they often
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think of ghosts. Ghosts technically are in the category of spirits, but they're
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not really. Most of what we think of ghosts would
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probably be humans that were alive on earth and they died and there's the
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presence of their spirit on earth still lingers. But if you were talking about
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supernatural those might have been spirits that were never alive or never
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human beings. Okay or demons or angels. Like angels maybe never had a
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human form. So they would be in the supernatural. But ghosts would be people
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they were actually alive they died and if you think the presence of their
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spirit that lingered that afterwards was still detected on earth. That would go
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under the paranormal. Unexplained mysteries. Now unexplained mysteries
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definitely would fall and paranormal and not in Supernatural. Things like
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telekinesis. We again a lot of these things are very, very rare but there is
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some evidence of their existence. There is some people that do have the power
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they use the power their mind to actually move objects. Again it's usually
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not like in the movies. Where they can have things flying all around the room,
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but maybe they can make some objects fall down or roll a little bit. Some of
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this has been actually proven. Again very very rare to find. But they did find some
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existence of this. And,and even more rare would be pyrokinesis. Wheree somebody
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could actually use the power of their mind to start a fire. Okay. So if you
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remember the old Stephen King , a book 'Firestarter' that was based on that bat
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thinking. Extrasensory perception, ESP all right. hey have definitely studied ESP,
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and even people who you think have it are usually not right one
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percent of the time. Well we still might think of somebody having some ESP
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ability, if they seem to be able to be right
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far more than average. You know, far more than what would be considered in the
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just luck range. So there are some people that you know, seem to be able to predict
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maybe some things. A future or you know say they could see things or contact
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with ghosts or things like that. Mediums you know we might actually study these
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people. Again there seems to be some evidence but it's still not explainable
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by science so this would go in the paranoia the paranormal. Spontaneous
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combustion. Again extremely rare. I think there's only an average of maybe one a
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year. But that would be if somebody just suddenly just blew up. Well this is one,
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that maybe one day, there are some theories about why this happens but as
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of yet they know 100% proof that it can be explained. But there been many
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documented cases of people that just actually blew up. With no explanation.
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Their blew up out of nowhere.. That's spontaneous combustion this would
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definitely go under the paranormal. Yes um
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okay so let's continue. The paranormal usually covers what can be studied, but
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like I said. So that does seem to be some evidence of it. And there is some
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evidence of its existence. But as of yet cannot be explained by
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science. Perhaps some things in the area of paranormal one day may be explained
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by science. It's possible there are things in the past that we might have
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thought of as being you know unexplainable that one day we did learn
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to explain it. So maybe some things in paranormal could fall in this area. But
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again if you again if you're talking about supernatural, you know if you
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believe a lot of the stories from the Bible with Moses separating the water
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that would definitely be supernatural. I remember recently when what Pope
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Benedict was the 16th when he retired on that like same day or something. There
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was a lightning strike that hit the top of the Vatican and now you know
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if some people might think that there might have been some supernatural power
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that had something to do with it. That might have been a warning sign, but some
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other scientists might not believe that at all and they might just say that it
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was coincidence or chance. Even though the odds of something like a lightning
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strike hitting the exact tip of the dome of the Vatican that the odds are almost
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impossible. Think your odds of winning the lottery every day for thousands of
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years would probably be would probably be better than that happening at that
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exact moment. So that would definitely fall under the supernatural . If you believe
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that maybe that came from some from God or some you know supernatural power. Or
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if you think that there is such a thing as divine intervention. That maybe
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God comes down and makes things happen. That would go under the supernatural.
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Okay. Anyway I hope you got a better feel of it . I hope it's a, I hope it's clearer
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that you might see some differences of when you're more likely to use
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supernatural than paranormal. Okay well thank you for your time. I hope it was
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informative . Bye-bye.