54 Since James published his presidential address to the Society for Psychical Research back in 1896, the situation has somewhat improved. Both scholars claimed that psychic phenomena are important in the development of a convincing natural theology. By contrast to Catholic acceptance of the idea of a continual relationship between heaven and earth, Protestant conservatives are apt to separate the two realms. According to Fundamentalists, to explore the evidence for psychic phenomena is to dabble in a forbidden region labeled the occult. This attitude is rather peculiar, since the Bible is saturated with parapsychological experiences.
Every Biblical prophet claims to have received supernatural messages.
Both the Old and New Testaments report incidents involving angelic visitors, implying direct communication between this world and the beyond. By teaching that the physical and spiritual realms exist in polarity, Unification theology reaffirms the basic world view of the Scriptures. When Protestants radically divorce the two realms, they have departed from one of the basic presuppositions of the Biblical revelation. Talmudic and mystical Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam also believe in regular interaction between the natural and the spiritual which suggests that this is a normal corollary of religious experience. The main reason is that in recent centuries we have been taught to be physically oriented.