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  • Many highly educated and intelligent individuals experience a powerful sense that there are patterns, forces, energies, and entitities operating in the world that are denied by science because they go beyond the boundaries of natural phenomena we currently understand. More importantly, such experiences are not substantiated by a body of reliable evidence, which is why they are supernatural and unscientific. The inclination or sense that they may be real is our supersense.
    Bruce M. Hood, The Science of Superstition: How the Developing Brain Creates Supernatural Beliefs (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), Prologue (former title: SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable)

    December 26, 2016