Sean Meadon

I guess looking back I have always had an interest in those subjects which contain a kernel of the mysterious or unexplained about them. As a teenager I can remember waiting eagerly for my weekly instalments of “Arthur C Clark’s Mysterious World” and “The Unexplained”, both of which awakened an awareness in me that the world we live in is far more complex and mysterious than we care to imagine. Indeed I am reminded of the famous quote from ‘Shakespeare’s Hamlet’ when Hamlet addressing Horatio recounts that, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

Over the years I have continued to explore this interest indulging myself in a literary journey of Fortean and unexplained phenomena. During my cerebral musings and meanderings I have developed an intuitive belief that much of what is reported as paranormal phenomena may in fact be explainable through an examination of the interplay between the human mind (consciousness) and a variety of naturally occurring environmental stimuli such as (geo) magnetism, water, sound and perhaps earth energies.
At the heart of this belief is an idea that proposes that subtle environmental variables such as localised fluctuations in the geomagnetic field, energetic sub-acoustic sound waves, and as yet poorly understood concentrations of earth energies may in some unknown way have the ability to influence the perceptions of individuals caught in them.

Pursuing my interest into the nature of anomalous and unexplained phenomena I joined ASSAP with the aim of developing my approach to the study of anomalous phenomena, and became an accredited AI in 2005. Through ASSAP I was introduced to individuals and groups who seemed to share the same ideals as myself, groups such as ParaScience, PASSA.  I wanted to move away from the contemporary style of ‘thrill seeking’ investigations popularised by devotees of TV’s ‘haunt culture’. To my mind this overnight vigil approach to investigations lacked substance, failed to deliver worthwhile or credible data and worse of all portrayed the personality traits of rational scepticism as unfashionable.
Being a self proclaimed rational sceptic myself I saw that the polar extremes exemplified by the ardent sceptic (cynic) and the unquestioning, unflinching believer did little to further rational and reasoned debate. I became convinced of the need to occupy the middle ground between these two extremes and to develop an investigative format that would allow the delivery of credible data that might further our understanding of the world of the paranormal. Hence I decided to co-found SPSG, a group which I hope will collaborate with like minded groups and individuals in the furtherance of understanding of the nature of anomalous and haunt-type phenomena.