Emotions are intrinsically good and bad

[Transcended Dimensions]

When attempting to draw any conclusion, then it needs to be tuned to an intermediate channel (what I call an open, rational mind).  As long as you draw your conclusion based upon a biased mindset, then you would be likely to draw the wrong conclusion.  I could either be having an open, rational mind and just can't decide one way or the other.  Or, I could be having an open, irrational mind.  I don't know which one I have, personally, since I am undecided on that one, too.  But I have tried my best to keep an open, rational mind though.

You seem to not be properly grasping the difference between an open mind and rationality.  Rationally, a mind open to anything is unreasonable, for it prescribes the allowance of clearly irrational thought the notion of realistic validity.  

My mind is open to believing in the existence of something supernatural when the proper evidence is provided.  Until that time, someone's claim of evidence remains just that, a claim with no evidence to rationally support it.

But when the nde/paranormal researchers claim evidence on their side and skeptics say they have no evidence, then the researchers could also have their own skeptical way of thinking while the skeptics have their skeptical way of thinking.  These researchers would be skeptical of the skeptics and the skeptics would be skeptical of the researchers.  But whose skepticism draws the right conclusion?  I am undecided here. The skeptics might not be real skeptics at all and it could be the researchers who are the real skeptics since they draw the right conclusions. I don't know here.