Well, since I’m on the topic of TV shows – let’s talk about the Eli Stone series. This show for me was one worth watching – family friendly, interesting issues, likable characters, etc. Apparently other viewers disagreed since it was cancelled after only a few seasons.  SAD.

In case you haven’t heard of it (I hadn’t until WE introduced me to it), the storyline is as such:

Eli Stone is a lawyer that has a brain aneurysm. Audly enough, he also receives visions from God that allow him to help other people (usually his clients). In one of my favorite moments in the show, he’s trying to convince a judge to grant a supena related to vision he had seen. He had no other evidence to support his case. Finally, he admits in court (of course putting his reputation and career on the line) that he had nothing more than faith in this vision to go on. This leads me to a question that I’ve mulled over for awhile now…

As a whole, how receptive are we to the supernatural? Seriously, we have all these crazy shows about near death/post life experiences,  UFOs, witches, mammoth-sized wolves in the forrest, ghosts, etc. but they are the gossip, daytime type shows. Now some Hollywood producer is trying to cater to “believers” with a character like Eli in a prime time, evening series and… it’s a bust.

From my limitied experience, I’ve noticed that Americans find it much harder to believe in the miraculous. Common people in many of the other countries I’ve visited speak freely and almost boastfully of such things. Here you’d be considered a freak for such talk.

Why is that? What conditions us to that mentality? Do you believe in the supernatural?

Feel free to share your thoughts!