Sir,I have known Prof. Satwant Pasricha as a friend and as a learned mental health professional colleague, since long. Her work on para-psychology from India is indeed laudable. I admire her in depth knowledge on the subject. However, I may not necessarily agree with her conclusions.I do not intend to enter into a lengthy argument on her letter written in response to my rejoinder.[1] This rejoinder was given for her article, “relevance of para-psychology in psychiatric practice”[2] which appeared in your journal 3 years back.I only wish to submit that the readership is an enlightened lot and cannot get misguided by anyone's comments. They know what is wrong and what is right. My plea is essentially to stress upon viewing the paranormal experiences in a scientific perspective.Near death experience (NDE), for example, is an experience which paranormal experts claim as an evidence of afterlife which has no scientific basis while many in scientific community label it as a hallucinatory experience. There is no denying the fact that NDE is purely a physiological state occurring within an oxygen starved brain, which a person with scientific background can well appreciate. Some people explain it on the basis of religious beliefs.Science cannot grow to reach from truth to larger truth if we stop exploring.The control mechanism of inputs like “rebirth,” “reincarnation” is faith by which manipulated vision is directed away from verifiable truth.[3] Science cannot afford to enshrine fossilized divine knowledge.