'In answer to a challenge asking for a method to validate supernatural claims.'
Except that, in order to explain such a methodology, one has to use terminology and ideas that go beyond methodological naturalism, thus going outside the realm of the thinking of those for whom MN is the sole arbiter of truth - so that we come back to the same problem; some of us work on a different level of reality to others.
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Okay, so you do but we don`t live in a theoretical universe, we have ways of measuring the effects of our actions and they work for us. Yours do not.
Your solipsistic babbling is irrelevant, you only want an excuse to again control those who would not submit by their own will. Work on your "level" as much as you want, the reality will be your judge and it does not wear a bathrobe, nor does it brandish blocks made of mineral ore.
Get this shit through your skull, ape: If you cannot explain it to my satifaction, I will not obey you, on principle. Same when you use outright lies to create laws which punish others for enjoying themselves. If somebody really believes that I for one deserve to be forcefully isolated and punished because I enjoy substances which are contrary to abrahamic view of "permanently sober golem is an efficent and better yet frustrated golem" they posess no empathy whatsoever and only desire to see others suffer for breaking the arbitrary rules you made. Some of us are true individuals and will not be subject to crowd responsibility, It is the biggest and most spectacular failure of our civilisation, the belief that people are all too small and weak to take personal responsibility for their actions and behaviour. I KNOW I am not and I know it because I tested it many times. Those who would rather put the blame on their lack of self-control have no right to limit the rights of those who posses it in spades, much less actively punish them when they themselves did no wrong.
The doors of James Randi's JREF remain curiously un banged off their hinges to this day.
There's another $500,000 accrued in interest on his $1 million prize.
There are no "different levels" of reality for you to point to because you've yet to demonstrate that they even exist . Until such a demonstration is made, there's just this reality. Either a thing is observable and thus can be asserted to be real or it isn't observable and thus cannot be asserted to be real. If your proposition neither obeys the evidenced laws of reality nor provides solid evidence to justify acknowledging new or altered laws then your proposition is a fantasy and nothing more. Making up shit as you need it without any evidence while ignoring inconvenient factors no matter how solidly backed they may be isn't a "different way of thinking"; it's a way to avoid thinking.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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