“A vast selection of the phenomenon which initially arouse our curiosity and passion as these relate to the supernatural (so to speak) are actually experiential artifacts related to unexpected and astonishing features of our own relationship to consciousness and sensing.

These inexplicable and inspiring experiences, coupled with our common inability to find reasonable models that might explain them often initiate exploration of the supernatural. Of course, we are chasing phantoms, and the result will probably be delusional, since it was instigated not by the supernatural but by naive ideas about the nature of existence, relation, the mind, and consciousness.

This does not mean that the concepts we collect with this rubric are fictional. Rather, it means that most of what we take as representative of them, is not, and the supernatural itself, whatever and however it may be, remains deeply embedded in our visceral existence, and shies away, as it has throughout time, from the strange purposes of the analytic mind. It means we must be careful not to take the artifact for its appearance, and if we are to discover the truly supernatural, we must look far beyond its popular projections.”

— an anonymous informant