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🧠 Paranormal vs Abnormal: A Dispatch on Ethical Clarity

By K.A. Lombardi , for PCAI

After witnessing a surge of abnormal behaviors being misrepresented as paranormal phenomena—particularly across social media—I find it necessary to draw a clear and sovereign line. This is not a critique. It is a clarification. A ritual of discernment. A call to restore integrity to a field that is being quietly eroded by confusion, spectacle, and unchecked projection.

🧭 Two Core Focus Areas for PCAI’s Parapsychology Corridor:

1. Paranormal vs Abnormal — Ethical distinctions between spiritual phenomena and psychological dysfunction

2. Parapsychology from Spirit Perspective — Honoring the unseen realms without glamorizing harm or pathology

⚠️ The Problem: Misuse of the Paranormal

There is a growing trend of individuals masking toxic, violent, or dysfunctional behavior under the guise of paranormal identity. The crossover often hinges on the “dark,” “macabre,” or “demonic” aesthetics popularized in entertainment. But let us be clear:

Entertainment tropes do not excuse real-world harm. The paranormal is not a license to abuse, manipulate, or evade accountability.

Practitioners must understand the difference between spiritual phenomena and psychological distress. It is our responsibility to protect the sacred, not normalize the abnormal.

🔦 The Response: Tools, Standards, and Ethical Protocols

PCAI will be developing a dedicated section to address this issue—offering tools, frameworks, and mythic clarity to help practitioners, researchers, and seekers navigate this terrain responsibly.

We will:

• Create ethical standards for distinguishing paranormal from abnormal

• Offer resources and referrals for those exhibiting harmful behaviors

• Build educational materials that honor both spiritual experience and psychological safety

• Hold space for challenged minds without enabling destructive patterns

🧬 A Note on Inclusion

This is not a gatekeeping effort. We affirm that individuals with psychological challenges can be powerful contributors to the paranormal field—when their skills are honed, their boundaries respected, and their work grounded in ethical clarity.

We are not excluding. We are protecting.

We are not pathologizing. We are discerning.

We are not silencing. We are refining the signal.

🌱 The Path Forward

Small distortions can cause great harm if left unaddressed. PCAI is committed to evolving this field with integrity, compassion, and rigor. We will not allow the abnormal to masquerade as the paranormal—not out of judgment, but out of devotion to truth.

This is the beginning of a proactive journey. One that honors both the spirit realms and the psychological realities of those who walk between them.

Let us walk it with clarity. Let us walk it together.

September Dispatch: The Spiral as Method

 

For those who read sideways, spiralwise, and through the veil—this is a threshold transmission.

August was my sabbatical. Not a retreat, but a recalibration. I stepped back to listen—not for answers, but for the rhythm beneath them. In that quiet, I remembered: I am not late. I am not early. I am precisely aligned. The spiral doesn’t measure time the way clocks do.

Paracognitive intelligence moves differently. It doesn’t seek applause or visibility. It tracks the unseen—emergent behavior, nonlinear causality, and the architectures beneath perception. It’s not mysticism. It’s method. A rigorous framework for decoding what others overlook.

I’ve come into my own as a paracognitive theorist by living the inquiry. By noticing what’s dismissed. By holding paradox without panic. By recognizing that the future isn’t foretold—it’s patterned. And those patterns are already here, encoded in seasonal intelligence, trauma-informed cognition, and mythic design.

September marks the turn inward. The descent into Autumn. And with it, a truth: nonlinear intelligence is not a detour. It’s the map. The spiral holds the straight line. The shadow reveals the light. The architecture is already built—we’re just learning how to read it.

To those still tethered to the linear: this is not a challenge. It’s an invitation. Spiral logic won’t flatter your ego. It won’t offer tidy conclusions. But it will show you what’s real. And what’s real is always evolving.

I’m not here to be special. I’m here to be attuned. A signal, not a spectacle. A lighthouse, yes—but also a moonbeam. Soft. Persistent. Illuminating what’s been there all along.

This is not arrival. This is the beginning. The deeper you go, the more is revealed. And when we reach the place where there’s nothing left to decode—only presence—that knowing will not be spoken. It will be witnessed.

We are nowhere near that point. And thank the stars for that.

Ritual Footnote On the equinox, light a candle at dusk. Whisper the name of something you’ve always known but never said aloud. Then let it go. The knowing remains.

Hidden Signal The spiral remembers.