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it depends on the knowledge and potential available to us. in the periods known as lemuria and atlantis, hundreds of thousands of years ago in our version of time, humans lived in what we would call a science fiction world, in which amazing things were possible, as was also true in civilisations before those. these were not miracles, merely the use of the natural laws of creation. what is termed the paranormal or supernatural is only that which our limited version of science has not discovered or acknowledged yet. everything that exists is the result of 'natural' laws. if it were not, it could not 14..and the truth shall set you free exist. we began to go backwards when the jamming frequency was installed, and the levels of consciousness which contained the knowledge enjoyed before record

ts after all, and life is about the survival of the fittest. no room for sentiment; it's everyone for themselves. a movement which has emerged from the darwin view of life is called humanism, another vehicle for manipulation, even though the overwhelming majority of its advocates will not realise it. still today, organisations like the committee for the scientific [sic] investigation of claims of the paranormal (csicop) do all they can to discredit any explanations or phenomena which expose establishment science as a fraud. one vehement british campaigner against alternative scientific explanation is susan blackmore, who is wheeled onto 54..and the truth shall set you free television programmes galore to defend the establishment line against all challenge. the padlock on such minds defies

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f lucifer. magus tsirk susej, antichrist chad ian miller was born on august 3, 1970 in british columbia, canada. at the age of seven, after his family spent two years living in a haunted house, he became interested in the supernatural. his romance with the occult grew and by the age of thirteen he had studied a great many works on the occult and supernatural including many books by researchers of the paranormal. he grew disinterested in parapsychology, however, as he found that parapsychologists were more concerned with paranormal events in themselves than with the spiritual reality which paranormal events suggested. he realized that parapsychologists would never find the scientific and rational explanation they sought since they had blinded themselves to the mystic and spiritual reality w

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ambitious work was sparked by a heightened interest in psychic phenomena, the occult, witchcraft, and related topics in the 1970s. this interest, which led directly to the new age movement of the 1980s, provided a continued wealth of material for parapsychologists to examine. it also led to a reaction by a group of debunkers to form the committee for the scientific investigation of the claims of the paranormal. this group believed that they were spokesmen for the scientific establishment. defining the terms the term occult remains suspect in many circles. the word derives from latin and simply means to shut off from view or exposure. however, it eventually came to refer to realities specifically hidden from common sight; the occult realm is invisible to the physical eye but can be seen by

tructures created by people who have had extrasensory experiences, who attempt to produce and cultivate them, and who believe in their vital significance for human life. therefore, occultism (or its currently preferred term paranormal) entails a wide spectrum of experiences.from clairvoyance and telepathy to visions and dreams, from ghost sightings to the pronouncements of mediums and channelers. the paranormal encompasses the phenomenon known as psychokinesis (commonly referred to as mind over matter).whether in the dramatic form of levitation or teleportation, or in the more commonly experienced phenomenon of spiritual healing. it also covers experiences related to death, such as out-of-body travel and deathbed visions. the occult also includes a host of techniques and practices original

ces not easily understood or explained by contemporary science. such phenomena as the loch ness monster, unidentified flying objects (ufos, and bigfoot, may eventually be attributed to the realm of ordinary sense perception, but their very elusiveness has led them to be associated with the occult. the evolution of occultism the present-day view of the occult is highly influenced by the history of the paranormal in the west during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. through the seventeenth century, most people believed in the active operation of occult (then termed supernatural) entities and forces. this belief brought comfort to some; but, for others, it became a source of fear, leading to suffering, and even death, for many. it allowed some people to rule by their reported ability to

tigating evidence of survival of bodily death, and for at least a generation, parapsychologists and traditional psychical researchers engaged in intramural warfare. a sort of reconciliation occurred only after parapsychology had proven itself, and psychical research s strong identification with the spiritualist community had diminished. today, laboratory research dominates the scientific study of the paranormal. psychics, mediums, and channels are still investigated; but they are now invited into the laboratory for x introduction encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. close observation.a dramatic change from the days when spence and fodor were writing about the paranormal. during the several generations since spence and fodor, the place of both spiritualism and theosophy in the

lower was sacred to the goddess artemis of ephesus, and the name amaranth derives from amarynthos, a hunter of artemis and king of euboea. there are many species of amaranth, some with poetic folk names such as prince s feather and love-lies-bleeding. the amazing randi stage name of professional conjuring magician james randi (or randall zwinge, who is the self-appointed archenemy of psychics and the paranormal. amduscias grand duke of hades. according to johan weyer, amduscias has the form of a unicorn, but when evoked, appears in human shape. he gives concerts, at the command of men, where one hears the sound of all kinds of musical instruments but can see nothing. it is said that the trees themselves bend to his voice. he commands 29 legions. sources: weyer, johannes. witches, devils, a

s such as near-death experiences. at a more responsible level, there remains a residuum of inexplicable phenomena that deserves closer investigation. the emergence of a post-enlightenment occult belief has been opposed at every level by leaders in the scientific community. the ongoing controversy has most recently led to the formation of the committee for the scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal, which is devoted to debunking occult and related claims and publishes a journal, skeptical inquirer. the united states remains home to a vital popular interest in matters psychical and occult. fate, the oldest of the occultrelated periodicals, is but one of hundreds. the occult forms the basis for numerous books, movies, and television shows, and provides the substance for hundreds

remains home to a vital popular interest in matters psychical and occult. fate, the oldest of the occultrelated periodicals, is but one of hundreds. the occult forms the basis for numerous books, movies, and television shows, and provides the substance for hundreds of religious groups and spiritual organizations, all of which provide the committee for the scientific investigation of the claims of the paranormal with an endless agenda. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. america, united states of 39 boyer, paul, and stephen nissenbaum. salem possessed. cambridge, mass: harvard university press, 1974. salem-village witchcraft. belmont, calif: w

. other publications during the 1930s included la nota espiritista and revue anales. one early organization spiritualistic association lumen aimed to take the study of spiritualism in the direction of humanistic science rather than religion. with the growth of interest in experimental psychology stimulated by such pioneers as dr. horacio rinoldi, scientific techniques were applied to the study of the paranormal. the first institute of psychology was created in the university of buenos aires in november 1931 to investigate general psychology, psychological pathology, psychometry, and psychotechniques. dr. enrique mochet, who headed the institute, observed activities of various clairvoyants and mediums and included a course on paranormal psychology. other scientists at the institute included

ed the association of friends of parapsychology and its official organ, the revista argentina de parapsicologia in 1955. musso became president of the instituto argentino de parapsicologia in buenos aires, which publishes the quarterly journal cuadernos de parapsicologia. the serious study of parapsychology seemed well established. by 1970 there were over 130 organizations devoted to the study of the paranormal in argentina and many publications. then, suddenly, all of the parapsychology courses at both the roman catholic and state universities were canceled, except for the one at the universidad del salvador. one explanation for this could be the military dictatorship that governed the country from 1976 until 1983, and the events during the previous years that lead up to them. the era was

lanation is as yet forthcoming; to encourage and aid investigation and research into these phenomena by investigative groups; and to provide a multidisciplinary forum for the exchange of views and information concerning these phenomena. anomaly is defined as irregularity, deviation from the common or natural order, exception condition or circumstance, and anomalous phenomena cover a wide field of the paranormal as well as fortean phenomena, including altered states of consciousness, apparitions, electronic voice phenomenon, extrasensory perception, falls, firewalking, healing, hypnosis, levitation, ley lines, metal bending, out-of-the-body experiences, poltergeists, telepathy, ufos, etc. assap, an integrating body with no corporate views, discouraged dogmatism while it adopted a scientific

m was too strong to be broken and they were obliged to continue as an occult bookshop. it was run by geraldine collins and specialized in witchcraft, mythology, vampires, atlantis, occultism, and magic rituals. collins closed the shop in 1989, pending sale as a going concern. the bookshop opened again in november 1989. this resulted in a larger and more varied stock of new and secondhand books on the paranormal, spiritualism, occult studies, and new age topics. address: atlantis bookshop, 49a museum st, bloomsbury, london, wc1a 1ly england. atlantis rising atlantis rising is a newsstand magazine that focuses upon alternative scientific perspectives, especially anomalistic events, ancient mysteries, and those scientific findings that appear to contradict current scientific consensus. the is

ct, experts in great britain where much of the investigation into rudi s abilities were conducted have offered the opinion that had he been allowed to remain in the comfortable world of his native country, his gift might have developed better. still, he was never caught in any sort of fraud, as was often the case during the seances he conducted. two other famous austrians involved in the world of the paranormal and parapsychology worth mentioning were erik jan hanussen, and hans holzer. hanussen was known as the prophet of the third reich, who had written a book on stage australian satanic council encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 124 telepathy, based on his experience in performance since the age of 12. he had successfully defended himself against fraudulent clairvoyance

sitivity. while many were impressed with backster s data, others were skeptical and suggested alternative explanations for his results while others questioned the methodology. sources: backster, cleve. evidence of a primary perception in plant life. international journal of parapsychology 10 (1968: 329.48. galston, arthur w, and clifford l. slayman. plant sensitivity and sensation. in science and the paranormal: probing the evidence of the supernatural. edited by george o. abell and barry singer. new york: charles scribner s sons, 1981. tompkins, peter, and christopher bird. the secret life of plants. new york: harper and row, 1973. whitman, john. the psychic power of plants. london: new english library, 1974. back to godhead (magazine) monthly publication of the international society for

turer in psychology at the university of edinburgh, scotland, in 1956. he has had a long career of research and writing in parapsychology. among his numerous books, psychological sciences (1974) and new directions in parapsychology (1975) have been translated into several foreign languages. his later books include the importance of psychical research (1988; the relentless question: reflections on the paranormal (1990) and parapsychology: a concise history (1993. he was also program committee chair for the joint society for psychical research/parapsychology association centenary conference at cambridge, england, in 1982. sources: beloff, john. existence of mind. new york: citadel, 1964. the importance of psychical research. london: society for psychical research, 1988. new direction in para

, the first american psychic after the fox sisters. her psychic faculties were developed in katie fox s circle in auburn. her channeling from the biblical apostles and prophets was edited and published by thomas lake harris. benedict xiv, pope (1675.1758) pope benedict xiv, born prospero lambertini of a noble italian family, is credited with making the first modern objective scientific studies of the paranormal in italy. lambertini became one of the best educated people of his day, attaining doctorates in both law and theology. ordained to the priesthood, he became bishop, cardinal (1728, then archbishop of bologna (1731. from 1702 to 1722 he served as the devil s advocate in a series of cases of people proposed for canonization by the roman catholic church. among the issues the church inv

us; or, the future of psychical research. n.p, 1927. apparitions and haunted houses. london: faber and faber, 1939. christianity and paganism in the fourth and fifth centuries. london: rivingtons, 1900. the downfall of the dervishes. new york: negro university press, 1969. bennett, j(ohn) g(odolphin (1897.1974) mathematician, industrial research director, and author of books on parapsychology and the paranormal. he was born in london, england, on june 8, 1887, and was educated at kings college school, london; the royal military academy at woolwich; the school of military engineering at chatham; and the school of oriental studies, london. he had an outstanding career as a scientist, and in his mature years served as chair and director of the institute for the comparative study of history, p

r psychical research (1927, and some modern mediums (1930. with sir william barrett, he produced the divining rod: an experimental and psychological investigation (1926. besterman severed his relationship with the society and with psychic research in 1935 and enjoyed a distinguished career as a bibliographer and editor. a final work of earlier writings was published in 1968 as collected papers on the paranormal. he died november 11, 1976. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. besterman, theodore. a bibliography of annie besant. london: theosophical society in england, 1924. collected papers on the paranormal. new york: garrett publicaions, 1968. dictionary of theosophy. london: theosophical pub

r psychical research. bird s continuing fascination with the margery phenomena, and his public endorsement of it as genuine, led to accusations of investigative incompetence and even to confederacy in fraud. at the time bird strenuously denied the accusations, but many years later, a confidential report that bird made to the aspr trustees came to light. in it bird claimed that he strongly doubted the paranormal character of much of the phenomena and on one occasion proposed that margery engaged in fraud, this being the time when harry houdini was to investigate her mediumship. apparently bird s doubts on the phenomena caused consternation in the aspr, which had been placed in the position of competent investigation and support for the phenomena. publication of bird s doubts and criticisms

etermined the disease of the patient according to the areas of dullness identified by dial readings on the apparatus. this strange procedure brought together various techniques: auscultation is part of normal medical practice, but the suggestion of a psychic relationship between a patient and his blood sample, plus the indications obtained from stroking the rubber sheet with the fingers, involved the paranormal sensitivities used in water witching with rod or pendulum. long after the death of abrams in 1924, his theories and techniques were developed by dr. ruth drown in the united states and george de la warr in britain. de la warr devised a black box that produced photographs relating to the individual whose sample was placed in the machine. these photographs were more like thought proce

material measurement. blackmore has raised important questions for parapsychology, and as a conscientious and thoroughly honest investigator, she has not hesitated to discuss such matters quite openly. her somewhat rueful article, the elusive open mind: ten years of negative research in parapsychology, was first presented at the 1986 csicop (committee for the scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal) conference at the university of colorado in boulder, and details basic problems of parapsychology in a frank and stimulating way. she expanded upon the paper in a book, adventures of a parapsychologist (1986. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. blackmore, susan j. adventures of a para

think, the evidence before us does constitute a reasonable prima facie case encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. book tests 205 for belief in the perception of external things not known to any one present, but known to someone somewhere. sources: baird, alexander t. one hundred cases for survival after death. new york: bernard ackerman, 1944. besterman, theodore. collected papers on the paranormal. new york: garrett/helix, 1968. smith, susy. the mediumship of mrs. leonard. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1964. thomas, c. drayton. some new evidence for human survival. london: collins, 1922. booth, gotthard (1899) born may 26, 1899, in nuremberg, germany, booth became a psychiatrist and moved to new york in 1935 to assume duties as a consultant at the general theological

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eat literary career, he was attracted by the problems of the inner life. his early plays were dominated by the grim specter of death as the destroyer of life. in his later works, his interest in psychic phenomena developed, and the fearful mystery gave place to wondrous fascination. the unknown guest, our eternity and the wrack of the storm disclosed a familiarity with all the prevailing ideas on the paranormal, and he showed no doubt whatever as to the genuineness of phenomena. he wrote: the question of fraud and imposture are naturally the first that suggest themselves when we begin the study of these phenomena. but the slightest acquaintance with the life, habits and proceedings of the three or four leading mediums is enough to remove even the faintest shadow of suspicion. of all the ex

nd show the clay feet of these popular idols. and since his time innumerable marvels, held to be supernatural, have been exposed for the tricks they were. yet to-day, if a mystifier lack the ingenuity to invent a new and startling stunt, he can safely fall back upon a trick that has been the favorite of press agents the world over in all ages. maskelyne, nevertheless, did not absolutely discredit the paranormal, as revealed by a letter he wrote to the daily telegraph in 1881: it may surprise some of your readers to learn that i am a believer in apparitions. several similar occurrences to those described by many of your correspondents have taken place in my own family, and in the families of near friends and relations. in the pall mall gazette of april 20, 1885, maskelyne acknowledges the p

letters about houdini s strange adventures in psychic realms. modern debates with the death of houdini in 1926 and the decline of physical phenomena in the 1930s, the warfare between spiritualism and the world of stage conjuring faded, although it by no means died out. it entered the next era during the occult revival of the 1960s, with renewed claims of physical phenomena. as public attention to the paranormal again emerged, milbourne christopher, a modern illusionist skeptic and member of the occult committee of the society of american magicians, wrote several books attacking some of the more obvious problems with psychics and the occult. the continuing issues between magicians and psychics became a public controversy, however, with the advent of uri geller, an israeli psychic who claime

hical researchers, and andrija puharich extolled his abilities in a 1974 book. christopher was possibly the first to publicly suggest that sleight-ofhand and mentalist tricks accounted for geller s success. the geller controversy brought to the fore canadian-born magician james randi (stage name the amazing randi, who had helped organize the committee for the scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal and subsequently assumed the mantle of houdini as the archenemy of psychic phenomena and psychics. randi claimed to be able to duplicate geller s feats of telepathy and metal bending by trickery. he accused geller of deception. their battle was in the forefront of television talk and variety shows throughout the 1970s. every well-known television host from merv griffin to phil donah

he world plan. in the 1970s, as the number of new people coming into tm dropped, the movement unveiled a siddhi program (siddhis are special paranormal powers) based on the claims of the ancient yoga treatise the yoga sutras of patanjali. the program encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. maharishi mahesh yogi 967 claimed that students of this special course have successfully achieved the paranormal feat of levitation. photographs of students show them hovering a few feet in the air, but critics (and former students) have stated that the levitators merely bounce in the air cross-legged and do not float. to date, no irrefutable evidence of levitation by the maharishi s students has yet been produced, and several ex-students of the siddhi program have successfully sued the organi

e five senses and that when one dies that is the end. they turn that into a religion. obviously, what i am doing is to them threatening. that is why they will attack me. during his 1977 american tour, manning was vigorously criticized by magician james randi, a well-known and hostile opponent of paranormal phenomena. randi is a member of the committee for the scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal and the author of the magic of uri geller (1975, in which he accused geller of massive fraud. in september 1977 randi attacked the british sunday mirror esp test in the post office tower, suggesting that manning could have sent in an important fraction of the postcards himself. manning countered, the man who talks of falsehoods makes statements himself which can be seen to be totall

the american society for psychical research (august.september 1932) consisted of the removal of a variety of objects from locked or sealed boxes and the introduction of various objects into such boxes. they were undertaken to confirm some of the results of the zollner experiments. the most astonishing phenomenon of the margery mediumship was the interlocking rings. sir oliver lodge had suggested the paranormal linking of two rings made of different woods might provide an irrefutable evidence of psychic force. the rings were duly provided, one of white wood and the other of red mahogany. at a seance with margery in 1932, the rings were interlocked. according to thomas r. teitze in his book margery (1973, the irish poet w. b. yeats was present at this seance. the feat of linking two rings m

l linkages in an unassailable experiment. since it could be argued that wooden rings might be cleverly separated along the grain and glued together again, parapsychologist w. e. cox proposed seamless rings made from a single layer of ordinary leather. it would not be possible to cut and rejoin leather without trace of manipulation. in the event, the experiment was successful and film records show the paranormal materializing and dematerializing process. the linkages, however, were not permanent, as the leather rings separated again after a few seconds, a curious echo of the margery experiments. sources: richards, john thomas. sorrat: a history of the neilhardt psychokinesis experiments, 1961.1981. metuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1982. teitze, thomas. margery. new york: harper& row, 1973. t

e need for psychical research. harvard graduate magazine. reprinted in aspr journal 17 (1923. the riddle of life. london: methuen, 1938. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. mckenzie, james hewat (1869.1929) founder of the british college of psychic science. mckenzie was born in edinburgh, scotland, november 11, 1869. he began the study of the paranormal in 1900 as a result of his dissatisfaction with the failure of science or theology to throw any light on human destiny. years of private study and investigation followed. the fruit of this period of research was a series of lectures in london, edinburgh, and glasgow (1915, a book, spirit intercourse: its theory and practice (1916, and a pamphlet if a soldier die (1916, which had a w

whose good faith is beyond question. the state is recognized as being allied to hypnotism and hysteria. besides automatism and fraud, there are some other factors to be considered. some deception may be practiced by sitters as well as by the medium. it has been said that the ability to inspire confidence in sitters is essential to a successful medium. if the sitters are predisposed to believe in the paranormal, it is easy to imagine a lessening of the attention and observation so necessary to the psychic investigator. the impossibility of continued observation for even a short period is a fact that can be proved by experiment. memory defects and proneness to exaggeration are also accountable for many of the claimed marvels of the seance room, and possible hallucination must be considered

nnesota medical school department of psychiatry beginning in 1951. he had his own private practice as a psychotherapist and was elected president of the american psychological association (1961.62. meehl had a continuing interest in parapsychology and belonged to the american society for psychical research. he wrote various books and many articles on psychological subjects, as well as articles on the paranormal, which he attempted to integrate into his mainstream psychological insights. sources: meehl, paul e, and m. j. scriven. compatibility of science and esp. science 123 (1956. meehl, paul e, h. r. klann, and k. h. breimeter. what, then, is man? n.p, 1958. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. meerloo, joost a(braham) m(aurits (19

y, politics, and literature. less known was his interest and writings in parapsychology and his membership in the american society for psychical research. he was also a corresponding member of the studievereniging voor psychical research (dutch society for psychical research. he delivered a paper at the first international conference on parapsychology in the netherlands. his activity on behalf of the paranormal came in the 1950s and 1960s. he died november 17, 1976. sources: meerloo, joost a. m. the biology of time. tomorrow (winter 1954. hidden communion. new york: garrett publications, 1964. man s ecstatic healing. tijdschrift voor parapsychologie 27 (1959. the rape of the mind: the psychology of thought control, menticide, and brainwashing. n.p, 1956. telepathy and foreknowledge. in pro

of fraud in some cases, defense of the ability by some continues among parapsychologists (see also movement; psychic force) sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. hasted, john. the metal-benders. london: routledge and kegan paul, 1981. panati, charles, ed. the geller papers: scientific observations on the paranormal powers of uri geller. boston: houghton mifflin, 1976. randi, james. the truth about uri geller. buffalo, n.y: prometheus books, 1982. taylor, john. science and the supernatural. london: temple smith, 1980. superminds: a scientist looks at the paranormal. new york: viking press, 1975. metals (in animal magnetism) it was claimed by the practitioners of animal magnetism that various me

from eisenstein s material was released in cinemas in 1934. until his death in 1950, enrique o. aragon, a mexian physician, and dean of the universidad nacional autonoma de mexico, set out to investigate claims of paranormal activities, including those of poltergeists. he worked not only to clarify the phenomena, but also to expose fraud. organizations dedicated to the study of parapsychology and the paranormal are limited throughout mexico and central america. those in mexico are: sociedad mexicana de parapsicologia, at apartado 12-699, 03000 mexico, d.f, mexico; the instituto latinoamericano de psicologia paranormal, at apartado postal 156, san juan del rio, 768000 querataro; and the fundacion interncional subdud (international subdud foundation, located at plutarco elias calles no. 702

but one evaluation among several (e.g, coincidence, trickery) that can be made about the occurrence. according to hume, no amount of human testimony can prove a miracle. hume s philosophy created a scientific environment in which the evaluation of an anomalous extraordinary event could only be explained as a phenomenon already understood. it is on this basis that, in spite of a popular belief in the paranormal, many scientists generally refuse to investigate the nature and evidence of so-called miracles. this resistance is odd since the history of human progress demonstrates that, as charles richet stated, the improbabilities of today are the elementary truths of to-morrow. the truth of his statement was amply demonstrated in the lives of great scientists, many of whom had to fight an ent

transcend its laws either directly or through the agency of particular humans. however, the religious skepticism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.built in large part by the emergence of science and later sustained by its obvious success in changing the world through technology.threw doubt on the reality of all miracles, sacred or secular. part of the present-day opposition to claims of the paranormal is based on the brilliant achievements arising from applied scientific laws, reinforcing confidence in the logic of the material world. from this viewpoint, many agnostics and atheists deny the possibility of either religious miracles or secular paranormal happenings, claiming that both are the result of malobservation, superstition, or fraud. meanwhile many religious authorities ha

tion of spiritualists in january 1878. the bell sounded twice and the armature was depressed with so much force that a spring was strained and an electromagnet disarranged. professor johann zollner s famous knot-tying experiments on an endless cord were successfully repeated with eglinton by a dr. nichols in his own house. mina crandon( margery) also rivaled zollner s experiments by demonstrating the paranormal linking of two rings made of different woods (see matter passing through matter. the fraudproof trick table of harry price was lifted by margery in sittings in london. the telekinetoscope and the shadow apparatus of the same researcher provided some extraordinary phenomena in the presence of stella c. in the national laboratory of psychical research. the first demand that a scientif

n said of the latter: although a man of most delicate physical organisation, he was, to my knowledge, without food for ten days, and during that time seemed to possess the strength of three men, when under direct spiritual influence; but when not he was as feeble as an infant, and needed all the care i had promised. lifting of heavy tables and pianos there was a frequent display of great force in the paranormal lifting of heavy tables or pianos. sir william crookes saw on five separate occasions a heavy dining table rise from a few inches and one to a half foot off the floor under special circumstances that rendered trickery impossible (r. g. medhurst, k. m. goldney, m. r. barrington, crookes and the spirit world [1972, 115. d. d. home testified before the committee of the london dialectic

1973. maxwell, joseph. metapsychical phenomena. london: duckworth, 1905. medhurst, r. g, and k. m. goldney, eds. crookes and the spirit world: a collection of writings by or concerning the work of sir william crookes, o.m, f.r.s, in the field of psychical research. new york: taplinger, 1972. reprint, london: souvenir press, 1972. panati, charles, ed. the geller papers: scientific observations on the paranormal powers of uri geller. boston: houghton mifflin, 1976. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. movement (paranormal) 1067 psychokinetic metal-bending. psi news, bulletin of the parapsychological association 4, 1. rhine, louisa e. mind over matter: psychokinesis. new york: macmillan, 1970. rogers, e. c. philosophy of mysterious agents, human and mundane. boston, 1853. zolln

ch and personality. journal of the american society for psychical research (january 1950. there is more beyond: selected papers of gardner murphy. jefferson, n.c: mcfarland, 1989. triumphs and defeats in the study of mediumship. journal of the american society for psychical research 52 (october 1957. murphy, gardner, and morton leeds. outgrowing self- perception. new york: basic books, inc, 1975. the paranormal and the normal. lanham, md: scarecrow press, inc, 1980. murphy, gardner, and robert ballou. william james and psychical research. new york: viking press, 1960. murphy, gardner, and l. a. dale. the challenge of psychical research. new york: harper and row, 1961. peatman, john g, and eugene l. hartley, eds. festschrift for gardner murphy. n.p, 1960. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical

thoven, mozart, liszt, and chopin. brown has no musical training, but these psychic compositions have been endorsed by established musicians. paranormal aspects of music because of its powerful influence directly on emotions, music often achieves remarkable effects on humans and even on animals. music therapy is now a recognized treatment for mentally handicapped children. ancient legends tell of the paranormal effects of music. orpheus of ancient greece charmed wild animals and even trees by his music, and the modal system of the greeks was said to influence the social and emotional attitudes of listeners. naik gopal, a musician of ancient india, was said to have caused flames to burst forth by his performance of dipak raga (associated with heat, even when the musician stood in water. the

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nces. none of it, i should add, was anything somebody could not have made up, consciously or unconsciously. but all of it would have done credit to a gifted writer of science fiction. though he possessed a keen native intelligence, keith was neither a writer nor a reader. he did, however, have some previously existing interest not profound or particularly well informed, in my observation in ufos, the paranormal, and the occult. as i listened to him over many hours, i began to feel as if somehow in his waking life keith had tapped into the creative potential most of us experience in our dreams. as we doze off to sleep and dream, images begin to well up out of the unconscious; in no more than a moment we may find ourselves inundated with psychic materials sufficient to fill a fat victorian n

erdimensional entity. apol did not know where he was in time, often confusing past and future, and trave l i n g t h rough both invo l u n t a r i l y. ac c o rding to keel, he and all his fellow entities[ p l a yed] out their little games because they we re programmed to do so (keel, 1975. in the fashion of psychic va m p i res, they l i ved off the energies of contactees and other experients of the paranormal. keel bel i e ved apol to be an ultraterrestrial as opposed to an extraterrestrial, because in ke e l s view such entities come from other realities rather than other planets. though keel did not meet apol himself, a long island woman saw him pull up to her house in a black cadillac, a vehicle favored by the enigmatic men in black, earthly agents for unearthly intelligences. keel re

on surface humans, whom they sometimes kidnap for torture and other unpleasant purposes. the bulk of the shaver mystery material was published, mostly as true, in two science-fiction magazines, amazing stories and fantastic adven- tures, in the mid- to late 1940s. few other people claim to have encountered deros. the late john j. robinson, a new jersey man with a longstanding interest in ufos and the paranormal, often told the story of steve brodie, who had his own horrifying, and possibly ultimately fatal, dealings with the deros. ac c o rding to robinson, in 1944 he was living on the third floor of a jersey city house. di rectly beneath him on the second floor was a re c l u s i ve individual, st e ve bro d i e, who claimed to be an artist. over time, robinson won his trust, and the two

ly arena for the free play of the re l igious imagination. it is likely to remain a site of emotional and spiritual re n ewal in a cult u re that, perhaps more than any in human hist o ry, promotes the continuous re i n vention of the self (brown, 1997. see also: ascended masters; ashtar; contactees; monka further reading alcock, james e, 1996. channeling. in gordon stein, ed. the encyclopedia of the paranormal, 153 160. amherst, ny: prometheus books. anderson, rodger i, 1988. channeling. parapsy- chology review 19, 5 (1988: 6 9. brown, michael f, 1997. the channeling zone: american spirituality in an anxious age. cambridge, ma: harvard university press. klimo, jon, 1987. channeling: investigations on re- ceiving information from paranormal sources. los angeles: jeremy p. tarcher. riordan

ngers could not have known helped them restart it. the cloud left only as toews s car got to anchorage and four blocks away from her house. the women came to believe that gordon was either a spaceman or an angel. eventually, joseph j. brewer, judge of the district court in anchorage, heard of their experience and interviewed them. he and toews wrote an account of it in fate, a popular magazine on the paranormal and occult. further reading toews, edmoana, with joseph j. brewer, 1977. the ufos that led us home. fate pt. i. 30, 6 (june: 38 45; pt. ii. 30, 7 (july: 63 65, 68 69. gray face gray face was the name clyde preston, a north carolina truck driver, gave to one of a number of extraterrestrials who visited him over a nearly two-decade-long period. in 1993, under hypnosis, preston recalle

the london ti m e s ran an article by dr. t h o m a s st u t t a f o rd, who suggested that horsley was suffering from hallucination. horsley insists, howe ve r, that the incident occurred as re p o rt e d. further reading good, timothy, 1998. alien base: earth s encounters with extraterrestrials. london: century. horsley, sir peter, 1997. sounds from another room: memories of planes, princes and the paranormal. london: leo cooper. stuttaford, thomas, 1997. air marshal s flight of fancy. london times (august 14. jerhoam jerhoam is a state of consciousness who channels through john oliver. he is here, he says, to help humans incorporate the great knowledge of the soul into life to become more aware. to become more awake, to become more loved, and to know how to express love in many ways. he

self. a colorful, intelligent, and educated man, williamson advanced many ideas that still circulate in popular culture, though he himself dropped out of sight in the 1960s and died in obscurity in long beach, california, in january 1986. born in chicago, williamson pursued archaeological and anthropological interests in college. several psychic experiences in his youth drew him to the occult and the paranormal, and then to flying saucers. he had close contacts with the chippewa and the hopi and lived with them in the early 1950s. in 1952, while residing in prescott, arizona, he and his wife, betty, met alfred and betty bailey. the two couples attempted to contact saucers and soon began receiving messages, through automatic writing and the ouija board, from visitors from venus, mars, jupit

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ance. the forces that oppose the mind are those habits of non-thinking that we have adopted, believing them to be thought. we read the newspapers, watch tv, and surf the net, learning what to run through our minds in imitation of thought. the initiate begins by limiting his media input, and by looking for media which challenge his existing thinking. thus the liberal buys a conservative newspaper, the paranormal buff looks for the skeptical inquirer, and so forth. this deliberate challenging is a first step. the second step is thought training, learning to concentrate, learning to have certain thoughts at certain times of day, and above all increasing memory. the forces that oppose the emotions are those habits of feeling generally created by external sources for economic reasons. we love t

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namby-pamby scientists, the shade of galileo walks again in the name of better science.will he arouse& enlighten as before? no, my twin, he walks throo cloudsl but let us not be over ambitious. we can as easily overstep the bounds of our capabilities as we can shirk our responsibilities. some of the unexplained phenomena do seem to lie in what, for lack of a better terminology, we must still call the paranormal or psychic fields. one must be on guard not to commit the prime fallacy of all analysis, that of evolving a theory and then proceeding to find facts by which to substantiate it. therefore, we must sort our observations into two groups. one group will contain everything which can be attributed to physical action by intelligent beings or an undeified and nonspiritual status. the secon

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th;magic and magical groups for further reading: crowley, aleister.magic in theory and practice. new york: castle, 1929. king, francis. sexuality,magic and perversion. london: new english library, 1971. regardie, israel, ed. gems from the equinox: selected writings of aleister crowley. st. paul, mn: llewellyn, 1974. curse of the demon john holden, a skeptical psychologist, goes to a conference on the paranormal in this 1957 film. there he meets julian karswell, a self-proclaimed warlock, but refuses to believe that the eccentric individual leads a cult of evil devil-worshipers. karswell responds to holden s efforts to expose him by slipping a piece of paper that karswell slips into the psychologist s possession. the paper, containing runic letters, bears a curse. curses be certain you do n

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ation for beginners to perform and also a somewhat untrustworthy one, as there is obviously no object link possible, save for the operator's tenuous emotional link with the future. this may strike some as the last word in absurdity, but if you pause to reconsider the parapsychic phenomenon of precognition as we did in chapter 3, you will realize that for a witch who deals wholly with the world of the paranormal, the laws of time as well as space as we know them in our everyday lives do not necessarily apply. the time to employ this ritual of evocation of a future loved one is traditionally midsummer's eve, the night of june 20, just before the summer solstice. on that note, i shall end this first section of spells for lovers. the following pages will deal with spells designed for the more

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magicians have suffered at the hands of everyone from organized religion all the way down to small-town linchmobs; men of science have often suffered similar fates. the second reason for all the secrecy is based on the simple principle that knowledge is power. put simply, the less you know, the mightier their power is. sadly, many magicians go to great lengths to promote atheism and disbelief in the paranormal. a world full of disbelievers is a playground for the magicians. the third reason for all the misdirection is fear, from knowing the bad magicians will kill them. even the most well-meaning, god-fearing, and benevolent magicians of this age, and ages past, regarded the profane as inferior and unworthy of these secrets. and a part of me is inclined to agree. the average man whittles

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lanet, and all others. tolerance, not power is the true underlaying strength of the pagan path! merry meet, and merry part, and merry meet again! pageot introduction xiii understanding the unknown the belief in a reality that transcends our everyday existence is as old as humanity itself and it continues to the present day. in fact, in recent years there has been a tremendous surge of interest in the paranormal and the supernatural. people speak freely of guardian angels, a belief in life after death, an acceptance of extrasensory perception (esp, and the existence of ghosts. in a gallup poll released on june 10, 2001, the survey administrators found that 54 percent of americans believe in spiritual or faith healing; 41 percent acknowledge that people can be possessed by the devil; 50 perc

mystics c. p. webster s paranormal photography researcher and artist dr. christopher webster presents an interesting website of paranormal photography (especially the relationship between the crisis in belief and spirit photographs in the nineteenth century. webster describes his work as being to some degree a visual equivalent of automatic writing. he explores photography as a tool for recording the paranormal. sources: c. p. webster s homepage and paranormal photography. http//users.aber.ac.uk/cpw/mainpage.html. 15 october 2001. ouija board a ouija board is used by some spirit mediums for purposes of contacting the other side. the instrument has two parts: a large smooth board, approximately 22 by 15 inches, and a three-legged triangular or heart-shaped pointer called a planchette, which

womb of the medium into a representation of the human body. barbanell gives spirit chemists the credit for compounding ectoplasm until it assumes a human form that breathes, walks, and talks, and is apparently complete even to fingernails. french researcher dr. charles richet (1850 1935) christened ectoplasm in the 1920s, but baron albert von schrenck notzing (1862 1929, a german investigator of the paranormal, gained a medium s permission to amputate some of the material and to analyze it. he found it to be a colorless, odorless, slightly alkaline fluid with traces of skin discs, minute particles of flesh, sputum, and granulates of the mucous membrane. few contemporary mediums attempt to produce ectoplasmic materializations in the seance room. today, the vast majority of seances conducte

ly shared her insights with family and friends and became well known in the kansas city area for her talent in helping people foresee their future. even after moving to california in 1964, she continued assisting people on a private basis. about 10 years after making the move to the west coast, browne decided that after having spent 18 years as a catholic schoolteacher, she now wished to research the paranormal and her own psychic abilities through a professionally established and legally sanctioned organization. in 1974, she incorporated the nirvana foundation for psychic research, a nonprofit organization known today as the sylvia browne corporation. soon the readings in her home with a dozen or so friends in attendance had grown to gatherings of two or three hundred people in churches a

report that the medium seemed to generate a mysterious force that had made the infrared beam oscillate at exactly twice the rate of his respiratory pattern. in an intensive series of sittings conducted under the auspices of the institute metaphysique of paris in 1930, rudi schneider had submitted to the experiments of dr. eugen osty (1874 1938) and his son, marcel. osty enthusiastically confirmed the paranormal abilities of the medium and presented the results of his findings in a pamphlet entitled unknown power of the spirit over matter in which he concluded that rudi schneider possessed the ability to move objects by sheer power of will. in osty s assessment, the medium could not have produced such phenomena by fraudulent means because his hands and feet had been controlled by electrical

neider continued to indulge various researchers who wished to test his mediumship, and he generously shared his talents with his friends and neighbors in meyer, austria, where he had supported his family by starting his own driving school. m delving deeper gregory, anita. the strange case of rudi schneider. metuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1985. inglis, brian. science and parascience: a history of the paranormal. london: hodder and stoughton, 1984. tabori, paul. companions of the unseen. new hyde park: n.y: university press, 1968. witch of endor (c. 1025 b.c.e) the witch of endor receives her indelible moments in the spiritual history of the judeo- christian traditions in chapter 28: 4 28 of i samuel. saul, king of israel, had begun his reign with a great military victory over the ammonites

lost that drives our undying desire to talk to the dead. longtime skeptic and magician james randi, a.k.a. amazing randi, says, people not only want it to be true, they need it to be true. it s the feel-good syndrome, says the 72-year-old, who has standing offer of $1 million to psychics who can independently verify their magic. between 1972 and 1995 u.s. taxpayer,s unbeknownst to them, supported the paranormal profession. before the ties were severed to psychics in 1996, the cia and various u.s. defense department intelligence agencies spent $20 million in an effort to turn psychics into spy satellites. some of the details of the government program may soon be released, as they are in the process of being reviewed for declassification, according to cia spokeswoman anya guilsher. guilsher

turing on extrasensory perception at the fbi academy in quantico, virginia, when she warned that president reagan would soon receive an injury to the upper chest. two months later, john hinckley shot reagan. skeptic paul kurtz says all of this medium stuff is nincompoopery. but for whatever reason, it s all the rage. kurtz is chairman of the committee for the scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal and he tackles claims of psychics and the like in his skeptic inquirer magazine. gary schwartz thinks he has evidence that the living can talk to the dead. schwartz, harvard-educated and head of the university of arizona human energy systems laboratory, claims the lab, which is a psychic testing ground, is revealing some interesting data. several years ago, five mediums that schwart

hereward carrington spent his childhood years in jersey, one of britain s channel islands, and received his early schooling in london. although he would one day write over one hundred books in the field of psychical research, as a teenager, he was far more interested in becoming a stage magician than exploring the spirit world. if it weren t for a fascination with certain well-documented cases of the paranormal, such as those recorded by fredric w. h. myers (1843 1901) and other serious psychical researchers, his only interest in mediums would have been to seek to expose them in the manner of harry houdini (1874 1926. carrington moved to boston when he was 20 and remained in the united states for the rest of his life. while at first he earned his living as a journalist, he began to spend m

ted the magician s widow as saying that the message was incorrect. on february 9, 1929, however, beatrice houdini wrote reverend ford to state with finality: regardless of any statement made to the contrary: i wish to declare that the message, in its entirety, and in the agreed upon sequence, given to me by arthur ford, is the correct message prearranged between mr. houdini and myself. critics of the paranormal downplay ford s having received the code from the spirit of houdini. they insist that bess houdini had inadvertently revealed the code to several reporters the year before when she explained that the message her late husband would pass on from the world beyond was based on their old vaudeville routine that utilized a secret spelling code that would pass information from her to houdi

nry sidgwick (1838 1900) and edmund gurney (1847 1888. in 1882, he was one of the original group, together with sidgwick and gurney, who founded the british society for psychical research (bspr) and remained until the end of his life one of its most active and productive members, serving as the society s secretary from 1888 to 1899 and its president in 1900. although he was never a skeptic toward the paranormal, myers deemed many of the manifestations of spirit mediums to be simplistic and puerile. in his opinion, the greatest evidence for survival of the human personality after death was to be found in what he called the subliminal consciousness, that mysterious realm that lies beneath the threshold of ordinary consciousness wherein exist the faculties of telepathy, clairvoyance, psychoki

nts of earth, air, fire and water; the planets, stars, and signs of the zodiac; and hours of the day and night. elves, brownies, goblins, gnomes, and fairies are said to be among these spirits. knockings/rappings tapping sounds said to be coming from deceased spirits in an attempt to communicate with or frighten the living. materialization something that appears suddenly, as if out of nowhere. in the paranormal it might be a ghost or spirit that suddenly appears to take on a physical form. medium in the paranormal, someone who is able to convey messages between the spirits of the deceased and the spirits of the living. messiah a leader who is regarded as a liberator or savior. in christianity, the messiah is jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e, in judaism, it is the king who will lead the

s, manitou is the name of the supreme deity, or god, and means great spirit. manna the food miraculously supplied to the israelites by god, according to the old testament, as they wandered in the wilderness during their flight from egypt. spiritual nourishment or something of value received of divine origin or unexpectedly. materialization something that appears suddenly, as if out of nowhere. in the paranormal it might be a ghost or spirit that suddenly appears to take on a physical form. medium in the paranormal, someone who is able to convey messages between the spirits of the deceased and the spirits of the living. megalith a very large stone that is usually a part of a monument or prehistoric architecture. mesopotamia greek word, meaning between two rivers. an ancient region that was

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ilize their critical thinking skills to separate fact from fiction, opinion from dogma, and truth from legend regarding enigmas that have intrigued, baffled, and inspired humankind over the centuries. about the authors and advisors brad e. steiger has written over 150 books with over 17 million copies in print. his vast writing experience includes biographies, books of inspiration, phenomenon and the paranormal, spirituality, ufo research, and crimes. his first articles on the paranormal appeared in 1954 and, today, he has produced over 2,000 articles on such themes. steiger has appeared on such television programs as nightline with ted koppel, abc evening news with peter jennings, nbc evening news with tom brokaw, this week (with david brinkley, sam donaldson, and cokie roberts, the mike

, 27500 drake rd, farmington hills, mi 48331-3535. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d xii preface introduction xiii understanding the unknown the belief in a reality that transcends our everyday existence is as old as humanity itself and it continues to the present day. in fact, in recent years there has been a tremendous surge of interest in the paranormal and the supernatural. people speak freely of guardian angels, a belief in life after death, an acceptance of extrasensory perception (esp, and the existence of ghosts. in a gallup poll released on june 10, 2001, the survey administrators found that 54 percent of americans believe in spiritual or faith healing; 41 percent acknowledge that people can be possessed by the devil; 50 perc

are connected with other events besides death, they are more likely to be linked with death than with anything else. visual sightings of ghosts were the most common, and of such cases reported, nearly one-quarter had been shared by more than one percipient. those who answered the second form of the questionnaire requesting more information stated that they had not been ill when they had witnessed the paranormal visitations and they insisted that these manifestations were quite unlike the bizarre, nightmarish creatures that might appear during high fevers or high alcoholic consumption. of those cases in which the percipients had experienced auditory phenomena, such as hearing voices, one-third were collective, that is, witnessed by more than one percipient at the same time. after the findin

today, over 120 years after the british society for psychical research began its earnest efforts to chart and categorize ghosts, 42 percent of the residents of that metropolitan area believe in ghosts and almost half of this number said that they had seen or felt the presence of a ghost, according to a survey released on march 20, 2000, by television station gmtv in london. in the exploration of the paranormal, it is found that most types of phenomena appear to be universal, the individual circumstances of the accounts fitting themselves to the unique cultural interpretations of whatever area in which they manifest. the ghostly beings described in this chapter are listed by loosely defined categories, for it will soon be apparent that these entities know no strictly set boundaries especia

ceilings. from his previous experience creating eerie sounds and noises in the rectory, mayerling knew that it was impossible to make all the bells sound at once and he had no idea what had caused the lightning-like flash around them. he was, in fact, blinded by the phenomenon and eventually recovered sight in only one eye. shaw and norman refused to stay the night after such a violent display of the paranormal, and mayerling confesses in his book that memory of the experience still set his spine to tingling. mayerling s confession of pranks during the occupancy of the bull and foyster families does not explain the extensive phenomena reported by price s team of researchers during its year-long observation of the rectory nor the manifestations noted by gregson after he assumed ownership of

in a picturesque new england seaside cottage. the series was another successful adaptation of a popular motion picture (the ghost and mrs. muir, 1947. serious treatment of ghosts and phantoms remained largely the province of documentaries until the x-files premiered in the 1993 94 season. although fbi agents fox mulder (david duchovny) and dana scully (gillian anderson) investigated many areas of the paranormal, hauntings and ghostly phenomena were treated as matters of serious inquiry throughout the series nine-year run. the others (1999 2000) also treated the spirit world seriously, but was canceled after one season. the series starred julianne nicholson as a college student with latent mediumistic abilities who was mentored by an experienced medium (bill cobbs. in september 2002, the se

misnomer. contrary to common usage, a parapsychologist is not a psychic, a mentalist, an astrologer, or one who gives psychic readings. a parapsychologist is generally a member of the parapsychological association, which was founded in 1957 and elected an affiliate of the american association for the advancement of science in 1969. a parapsychologist is a scientist who is seriously interested in the paranormal (or anomalous phenomena, which includes telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, hauntings, reincarnation, and out-of-body or near-death experi- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysteries of the mind 157 yoga is used as a form of relaxation (the gale group) ences. here are brief definitions of the areas of esp tha

tion, and investment conducted in april 2002 found that 70 percent of adults do not understand the scientific process. according to their poll, 60 percent of the respondents believed that there were individuals who possessed psychic powers or extrasensory perception. peter brugger, a neurologist from the university hospital in zurich, switzerland, has suggested that whether or not one believes in the paranormal depends entirely upon one s brain chemistry. as an experiment, brugger gathered 20 individuals who believed in the paranormal and 20 who said that they were skeptical. the subjects were asked to distinguish real faces from scrambled images flashed briefly on a screen. the second phase consisted of the volunteers forming real words from made-up ones. in his july 2002 report, brugger

gathered 20 individuals who believed in the paranormal and 20 who said that they were skeptical. the subjects were asked to distinguish real faces from scrambled images flashed briefly on a screen. the second phase consisted of the volunteers forming real words from made-up ones. in his july 2002 report, brugger stated that during the first stage of the experiment the individuals who believed in the paranormal were much more likely to see a face or a word when there was none. the skeptics were more likely to miss the real words and faces when they appeared on the screen. next, the volunteers were given l-dopa, a drug that increases levels of dopamine in the brain. dopamine is a chemical utilized in the brain s system of reward and motivation and in deciding whether information received is

hilosophic commitment to his profession would encounter an emotional block. in september 2001 physicist brian josephson of cambridge, england, winner of the nobel prize for physics in 1973, provoked an academic controversy when he declared that there was a great deal of evidence to support the existence of telepathy, but scientific journals censored such research and would not publish articles on the paranormal. josephson expressed his belief that certain psychic-sensitives might have the ability to direct random energy at subatomic levels and that developments in quantum physics may lead to an explanation of processes such as telepathy still not understood within conventional science. serious-minded scientists have been researching esp since the mid-nineteenth century. it was max dessoir

cal research. some of their early experiences sitting with spirit mediums were discouraging, for the rhines felt that they caught the individuals employing trickery to delude others into accepting their abilities to contact the realm of spirit. in their opinion, psychical research would best be examined in the laboratory under controlled conditions. learning of dr. william mcdougall s interest in the paranormal, the rhines contacted him at duke university, and professor mcdougall invited them to join him at durham. in 1934, after they had established the parapsychology laboratory, j. b. rhine wrote a monograph entitled extra-sensory perception, which managed to get noticed by the media and subsequently gained wide attention for the esp lab at duke. the monograph led to rhine s new frontier

an,august 12, 2002 [online] http//www.sciam.com/print_version. cfm?articleid=002f4e6-8cf7-id49-90fb809ec5. survey finds few in u.s. understand science. cnn.com, april 30, 2002 [online] http//cnn. technology.printthis.clickability.com/pt/printthis? clickmap=printthis&fb=y&u. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysteries of the mind 165 tales of the paranormal. new scientist, march 3, 2001 [online] http//www.newscientist.com/ opinion/opinion.jsp?id=ns22805. targ, russell, and harold e. puthoff. mind-reach: scientists look at psychic ability. new york: delacorte press/eleanor friede, 1977. tart, charles t. body mind spirit: exploring the parapsychology of spirituality. charlottesville, va: hampton roads, 1997, ed. altered states of conscio

2002) in 1993 chris carter, creator of the television series the x-files for fox, fashioned a blend of ufo mythology, increasing public distrust of t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d invaders from outer space 287 war of the worlds was broadcasted live by cbs s mercury theatre on october 30, 1938. the u.s. government, and a growing interest in the paranormal that over its nine-year run usually finished as the second-most popular drama among young adults. during its peak season in 1997, the x-files attracted an estimated 20 million viewers per episode. in 2002, shortly before the last episode of the series, sandy grushow, the chairperson of fox entertainment, said that the x-files had made in excess of $1 billion for the company. at the

s, manitou is the name of the supreme deity, or god, and means great spirit. manna the food miraculously supplied to the israelites by god, according to the old testament, as they wandered in the wilderness during their flight from egypt. spiritual nourishment or something of value received of divine origin or unexpectedly. materialization something that appears suddenly, as if out of nowhere. in the paranormal it might be a ghost or spirit that suddenly appears to take on a physical form. medium in the paranormal, someone who is able to convey messages between the spirits of the deceased and the spirits of the living. megalith a very large stone that is usually a part of a monument or prehistoric architecture. mesopotamia greek word, meaning between two rivers. an ancient region that was

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dge of the human psyche which mystics and magicians had gathered since ancient times. what had once been veiled in occult jargon and symbolism, and thus viewed as superstition and nonsense by the public at large, was now for the first time expressed in such a manner that psychologists and other intellectuals sat up and took notice. jung's exploration of psychology in conjunction with h s study of the paranormal made his theories the crucial link between psychology and magic. however, h s interest in occult matters was one of the primary reasons for h s ultimate break with freud. the difference between freud's and jung's approaches to psychology was primarily jung's view that the human psyche was a whole organism and freud's belief that it was not. freud extrapolated a rather disorderly pic

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the middle of the night. in fact, they didn't even turn up on the main streets of ohio valley towns in broad daylight! so a perfectly normal event (normal, that is, to me) was placed in an entirely different context by the witnesses. the final proof of my supernatural origin came three weeks later when two of the people i had awakened were killed in the bridge tragedy. some future investigator of the paranormal may wander into those hills someday, talk with these people, and write a whole chapter of a learned book on demonology repeating this piece of folklore. other scholars will pick up and repeat his story in their books and articles. the presence of the devil in west virginia in november 1967 will become a historical fact, backed by the testimony of several witnesses. those of us who s

nation. on the other hand, i have come across many events which seemed perfectly normal in one context but which were actually most unusual when compared with similar events. that is, some apparent coincidences cease to be coincidental when you realize they have been repeated again and again in many parts of the world. collect enough of these coincidences together and you have a whole tapestry of the paranormal. as we progress, you will see that many seemingly straightforward accounts of monster sightings and ufo landings can be explained by irritatingly complex medical and psychological theories. in some cases, the theories will seem more unbelievable than the original events. please bear in mind that the summaries published here are backed by years of study and experience. i am no longer

early investigators of the fairy episodes, such as novelist sir walter scott, noted that fairies seemed to delight in bringing people together and fostering love, or, conversely, indulging in conspiracies to force lovers apart. the bell witch of tennessee is supposed to have manipulated the love life of a bell daughter, almost tragically. brad steiger, one of america's best-known investigators of the paranormal, has been involved in several poltergeist cases in which the mischievous poltergeists tried to wreck romances and marriages (1) nothing can quite affect a new groom's virility like being physically hurled from his wedding bed by an unseen force and pelted with flying ashtrays thrown by invisible hands. unbelievable though it may seem, such things do happen. flying saucer contactees

reliable; the phenomenon deliberately sets up false trails and creates manifestations designed to support the beliefs of false frames of reference. by drawing blood conspicuously from a few people who let their stories be known, they establish an explanation for the thousand of dead animals who have their blood drained during flap periods. we blame the devil, vampires, or space people. nothing in the paranormal world is as it seems. let us examine three different cases of ufo contact, each belonging to a different category, but all probably caused by the same cosmic mechanism. the first is the story of eugenio siragusa, the italian contactee who is the center of a growing cult (1) i have chosen him rather whimsically because we share the same birth date. he was born on march 25, 1919. i wa

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work by crowley that it came to be investigated in a systematic way. crowley's astral flights to the thirty aethyrs represent the ultimate utilization of the methods of scrying and astral projection taught by the golden dawn, as perfected by its most controversial member. 154. crowley, confessions ofaleister crowley, 613. chapter remote viewing and the d uring the decade of the 1930s, interest in the paranormal experienced a rebirth under the umbrella term extrasensory perception, or esp. the paranormal was taken out of the scance room of the trance medium and brought into the laboratory of the psychologist or parapsychologist, as he came to be known. a professor of psychology at duke university named joseph banks rhine (1895-1980) was the man most responsible for this rehabilitation of th

kinesis. psi, a term inverted in 1946 by r. h. thouless and b. p. wiesner, was originally divided into the two parts psi-kappa and psi-gamma, for active or projective effects such as psychokinesis, and passive or receptive effects such as clairvoyance. it has since come to signify in a general way the mystery factor in psychic events that cannot be recorded or measured. in his effort to transform the paranormal from occult to scientific, and to make it a respectable subject for university study, rhine disregarded aspects that had anything to do with spirits of the dead, angels, demons, fairies, or ectoplasmic manifestations. he restricted himself to such phenomena as clairvoyance, telepathy, telekinesis, psychometry, and precognition-regarding them as latent abilities inherent in the physi

critical ratio so large as this would occur on the basis of random sampling is less than 10-22."156 parapsychology and the nazis the early work by rhine was regarded with interest in europe by german psychologists, but was never effectively duplicated by them. in germany, the rise of the nazis during 156. rhine and pratt, 176. the 1930s had a chilling influence on serious scientific research into the paranormal. the nazis were infected with mysticism and superstition, but they did not attempt to cast these interests into the pseudo-scientific framework of laboratory esp investigation. even though occultism in the form of mystical beliefs and secret societies was found everywhere among the upper ranks of the nazi party, scientists were viewed with suspicion and their speculative research wa

ed and scientific manner to be used as weapons in warfare. just as the anti-intellectual and anti-semitic atmosphere of nazi germany inhibited the development of the atomic bomb, and even the completion of the v-2 rocket program,16' it also inhibited the application of rhine's esp testing techniques in a practical military way. it can only be speculated what the nazis might have accomplished with the paranormal had they devoted significant energies to its development. psi prodigies of the ussr there is reason to believe that, after the second world war, the soviets were more open to the idea of psychic soldiers and psychic assassins than the nazis had ever been. the revelation that the ussr possessed the atomic bomb was a shock to the west in 1949. it was followed by the successful test of

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