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There's no shortage of STEM students in the US. Engineering, science and math are solid here. US colleges and universities will import STEM students from other countries to keep those tuition payments rolling. Also, there's never a shortage of people well versed in accounting/finance sitting in offices and cubicles typing away on computers generating spreadsheets of data. IMO, the US needs to bring back trade schools and manufacturing jobs. We need more people who can build and repair things and capable of producing tangible goods and providing services. We need to produce more beans before hiring folks to count them.😎

Actually, you make a good point. Trying something out implies that if it becomes uncomfortable or you don't like it....you may quit it. I stand corrected on that one 😉

This is an example from science fiction. Compare Ursala K LeGuin and Isaac Asimov People have referred to Asimov's writing as "workman like". He writes what he has to, to tell the story. One man told me that Asimov couldn't write. LeGuin's book The Dispossessed has a physicist as a main character but there is No Physics in it. Asimov wrote The Gods Themselves where the physics was central to the story. As a result of a conversation with Robert Silverberg where he imagined an element that Asimov said could not exist, Asimov imagined a parallel universe where the element could exist. Asimov created a storyline with alien contact to transfer energy. LeGuin had better human characters but Asimov's story was far more mind blowing. What does the reader want out of the time spent reading? 542 vus .

@Troy, Delano & ProfD: My paranormal experiences aren't necessarily spontaneous or surprising. I believe they were/are the culmination of things I experimented with years ago. I've always been fascinated with meta-physics and the supernatural. When I was young and into new age stuff, I did a lot of rituals and things to try and draw good fortune into my life. I experimented with mirrors and chanting and imaging, and collecting talismans. Crystals actually do have special chemical properties; that's why they are used in electrical devices. Pyramids, as we know, date back centuries and not only embody mathematical principles but emit a certain kind of energy. Mirrors capture you and when facing each other can reflect images ad infinitum. Chanting turns sound waves into energy and when done while simultaneously picturing what you want to materialize, can facilitate results. (Prayer works on this same principle.) I expected quick results with all my rituals, not realizing that the things you send out into the Universe are on a different time wave. Now, it's like all of these rituals I was doing are gradually manifesting themselves, making my life outre, and I believe this includes my longevity; and is why I have chronologically reached my 90s but am mentally and, in some weirdly physical areas, frozen in middle age. I now realize more than ever that there is more to life than meets the eye. It's a lot about the different frequencies at which we are vibrating, and the different dimensions some are able to shift into... @Delano I never thought about the scrolls I keep seeing when I close my eyes, possibly being glimpses of the Emerald Tablets or akashik records. There is writing on them, but I never remember what I read Just some thoughts I felt compelled to share

I believe the disconnect here is difference between a Google search and a forum search.😎