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While We Are Watching Iran’s Nuclear Activities, UFO’s Maybe Watching Ours
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Much of the world is watching and waiting to see if either Israel, the USA, and the United Kingdom, or all of the above, will invade Iran in 2012, under the guise that Iran presents a serious threat to any or all of these countries.
Before doing so, they might want to take leaf out of the UFO book, since it appears that UFO’s have been taking an interest in nuclear facilities around the world for many years, and so far, they haven’t bombed us into submission, even though it appears from reliable eye witness accounts, if these witnesses are to be believed; they have the technology to do so.
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Spontaneous Contact with the Dead by D. Scott Rogo
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THE DRAMA began on 21 February 1977 when the Chicago police found the body of 48-year-old Teresita Basa. She was lying on the floor of her fifteenth-floor high-rise apartment stabbed to death and partially burned.
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Thoughts on Survival of Consciousness by D. Scott Rogo
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NO STUDENT of the psychic field can study the evidence for survival without coming to some personal conclusions. Parapsychologists rarely agree on very much and the survival issue is no exception. A few researchers adamantly reject the idea of survival, while a handful of others seem favourably disposed to the notion. The majority of parapsychologists, however tend to remain simply (and safely) agnostic. Because of the very nature of the controversy, any conclusions a student of the field ultimately reaches must be partially subjective and totally individual.
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The Career of Daniel D. Home by Arthur Conan Doyle
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DANIEL DUNGLAS HOME was born in 1833 at Currie, a village near Edinburgh. There was a mystery about his parentage, and it has been both asserted and denied that he was related in some fashion to the family of the Earl of Home. Certainly he was a man who inherited elegance of figure, delicacy of feature, sensitiveness of disposition and luxury in taste, from whatever source he sprang. But for his psychic powers, and for the earnestness which they introduced into his complex character, he might have been taken as the very type of the aristocratic younger son who inherits the tendencies, but not the wealth, of his forbears.
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The Career of Eusapia Palladino by Arthur Conan Doyle
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THE MEDIUMSHIP of Eusapia Palladino marks an important stage in the history of psychical research, because she was the first medium for physical phenomena to be examined by a large number of eminent men of science. The chief manifestations that occurred with her were the movement of objects without contact, the levitation of a table and other objects, the levitation of the medium, the appearance of materialized hands and faces, lights, and the playing of musical instruments without human contact.
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Further Evidence of Survival After Death by Sir William Barrett
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Some years ago I was staying at a friend's house in the country, which I will call Hawthorn Manor, and found that my hostess, Mrs. E. - the wife of a lawyer holding a responsible official position, and herself a matronly lady of great acumen and commonsense, the centre of a circle of religious and charitable activity - had accidentally discovered that her hand was occasionally impressed by some power she could not control. Long messages, the purport of which were at the time unknown to her, were thus written.
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Who Knows? Maybe They Were on to Something.
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Stephen Hawking stated in interview some time back; "there is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe."
Certain people give Hawking credence because he’s is a scientist and supposedly knows what he’s talking about, but there are a few other esteemed scientists who might disagree with him.
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“The Sage and the Peacock” by Rumi
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A sage went out to till his field, and saw a peacock busily engaged in destroying his own plumage with his beak.
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Dreaming of Death
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Recently I was talking with my daughters mother ‘R’, and she told me she had just had a dream and in the dream a woman who was an acquaintance of hers was there. The woman wasn’t a close friend and R hadn’t seen her for some time.
She said the woman was serene and smiling and she sensed she was dead. (In the physical sense)
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The Story of “A Course in Miracles”
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This is the Story of a Course in Miracles. This documentary explains the history of how the ‘Course’ came about, what it is, and how it can shape us and in turn, how we can shape our perception of the world.
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Meditate on This: the Practice Can Heal You in Less Than 11 Hours by Stephen Schwartz
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The sense of spiritual consciousness, connecting to something greater than oneself, is one of the most intoxicating realms a human can enter. Across the millennia, such experiences have shaped the lives of individuals and, upon occasion, whole cultures. The question for science is not to deny them, but to seek to understand the processes by which they occur and the domain into which they lead us.
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Neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander’s Near-Death Experience Defies Medical Model of Consciousness
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Interview reveals how a near-death experience changed everything neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander thought he knew about consciousness, spirituality, and life after death.
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Is Our Death Fixed?
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In 1988, a friend of mine called Brian died in my house. At the time he was staying with me after breaking up with his girlfriend.
Many years later I experienced what is known as a ‘proxy sitting’ where a woman I had never met before, (she was an acquaintance of my sisters) visited a medium, and came back with a message for me from Brian. Despite the fact that the woman didn’t know me or Brian’, the information she gave me about him was uncannily accurate, and included the statement; Brian said ‘it was ‘his time to go.
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The Afterlife Investigations — The Movie
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UFO TV's documentary about investigations into life after death is well worth watching.
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Buddha and Christ by Rudolf Steiner
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Anyone who has made himself in some degree acquainted with the nature of Buddhism, will be aware how its Founder, Gautama Buddha, evaded all questions concerning the evolution of the world, and the foundations of human existence. He would not speak of these. He would speak only of the means by which mankind could enter into a form of existence that was satisfying in itself.
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Do loved ones bid farewell from beyond the grave?
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They chatted a bit more before Michael left and De Santo went home. On Sunday she received a strange call from a salon employee. Michael's body had been found the previous morning -- at least nine hours before she talked to him at her shop. He had committed suicide.
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THE DAY I DIED: the BBC documentary
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THE DAY I DIED is a BBC documentary about near-death-experiences, and the people that have had them. Made in 2002; the programme explores some of the controversial "continuation of consciousness" theories put forward by professors and examines the evidence. It is one of the best, and possibly the most comprehensive documentary on near death experiences, interviewing top scientists that HAVE studied the NDE phenomenon including Dr. Peter Fenwick, Pim Van Lommel, and Bruce Greyson.
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Art Directed by Spirit: Another Example?
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Further to Michael Tymn's recent blog, Art Directed by Spirit; I came across an article about Lee Hadwin, an English guy who draws intricate pictures in his sleep that he cannot draw while awake. He's been tested by various psychologists and sleep labs, and documentaries have been made about him, but no one has worked out how he does it.
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Psychical Researcher Guy Playfair discusses “The Afterlife Revealed” with Author Michael Tymn
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Editor's note: Guy Lyon Playfair, a long-time psychical researcher and the author of many books, including This House is Haunted, and The Flying Cow, recently republished by White Crow Books, interviewed Michael Tymn about his book The Afterlife Revealed, also published by White Crow. Here is their dialogue:
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Another remarkable Near Death Experience Reported By Eminent Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Lloyd Ruby.
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Defibrillation; the process in which an electronic device sends an electric shock to the heart to stop a rapid or irregular heartbeat, in order to restore a normal heart beat, has been known about since 1899 when it was first demonstrated by Jean-Louis Prévos and Frederic Batelli, two physiologists from University of Geneva, Switzerland. However it is only since the 1960's when portable defibrilation devices were invented, that many more people suffering heart attacks have been bought back to life from conditions that would have otherwise proved fatal.
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Science And a Future Life by F. W. H. Myers.
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To the question, "What has science to say as to man's survival of death?" the chief spokesmen of modern science are inclined to answer, "Nothing at all." The affirmative answer she holds as unproved, and the negative answer as unprovable.
Nevertheless, in spite of, and by reason of her studied neutrality, the influence of science is every year telling more strongly against a belief in a future life.
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The Restoration of Hell by Leo Tolstoy
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This happened when Jesus was revealing his teaching to men.
His teaching was so clear, so easy to follow, and so evidently saved men from evil that it seemed impossible that it should not be accepted or that anything could prevent its spreading.
Beelzebub, the father and ruler of all the devils, was alarmed.
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Alien encounters ‘within twenty years’
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A top Russian astronomer say he expects humans to encounter extraterrestrial civilisations within the next two decades
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An interview with Dolores Cannon; The Queen of Past-Life-Hypnosis.
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If you are interested in Past Life Regression, Hypnosis, ET, Aliens, UFO's, Light Workers, theories on ADHD, Indigos, 2012, Consciousness, Spirituality, and life after death — you might like Delores Canon.
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A Talk With Sri Ramana Maharshi by David Jacobs.
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Who Am I?
See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
— Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Morgan Freeman hosts Through the Wormhole: Season 2: Episode 1 — Is There Life After Death?
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Hosted by Morgan Freeman, Through the Wormhole will explore the deepest mysteries of existence - the questions that have puzzled mankind for eternity. What are we made of? What was there before the beginning? Are we really alone? Is there a creator? These questions have been pondered by the most exquisite minds of the human race. Now, science has evolved to the point where hard facts and evidence may be able to provide us with answers instead of philosophical theories.
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2012: The Online Movie
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I recently came across Gregg Prescott's production called "2012 The Online Movie".
Greggs assembled videos that include Jose Arguelles, Gregg Braden, Dolores Cannon, Kerry Cassidy, Sonia Choquette, David Flynn, Clif High, Richard C. Hoagland, Dr Len Horowitz, David Icke, Maxwell Igan, Terrence McKenna, Daniel Pinchbeck, Bill Ryan, Ben Stewart, Geoff Stray, Michael Tsarion, and David Wilcock.
If you are interested in 2012 and what may or may not happen, and you have three hours to spare, "2012: The Online Movie" is well worth a watch.
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Physicist Hal Puthoff talks about Remote Viewing, Psychics, and the C.I.A.
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Physicist Hal Puthoff talks about Remote Viewing, Psychics, and the C.I.A.
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The Primacy of Consciousness by Peter Russell
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The futurist and philosopher Peter Russell, does his best to explain what Consciousness is. "Who am I?" That's the BIG question.
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John E. Mack: Aliens, Ufo’s, and the Dalai Lama
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Professor John E. Mack, the pioneering scientist discusses the alien experience & abduction phenomenon, and the Dalai Lama's views about UFOs and aliens and why they come here.
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What is Zen? By Alan Watts
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Can one explain Zen Buddhism? Alan Watts gives it a try.
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A Victim of the Non-Existent by Elsa Barker
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An excerpt from the Letters From a Living Dead Man Trilogy — Judge Patterson Hatch writing from the afterlife, describes a meeting with a woman who is looking for Heaven
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The British Occult & Secret Service by Michael Howard
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Since the time of Elizabeth I, British secret services have worked according to the principle of ‘the end justifies the means’. Money, bribery, blackmail – these are their recruitment methods... – Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), October 2007
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William Lane Craig on Richard Dawkins’ argument for the improbability of God’s existence
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It proves that Dawkins is a anti-God propagandist, not a serious and careful thinker. He wants atheism be true, regardless of whether his anti-God argument destroys his other beliefs too. His arguments are an a posteriori rationalization of his atheist beliefs, not a conclusion based on the evidence. It's pure ideologically and emotionally grounded atheistic wishful thinking.
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What is Cosmic Consciousness? By Richard Maurice Bucke
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Cosmic Consciousness is a third form which is as far above Self Consciousness as is that above Simple Consciousness. With this form, of course, both simple and self consciousness persist (as simple consciousness persists when self consciousness is acquired), but added to them is the new faculty so often named and to be named in this volume. The prime characteristic of cosmic consciousness is, as its name implies, a consciousness of the cosmos, that is, of the life and order of the universe.
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BYE BYE INFLATIONARY THEORY by Dr. Benjamin Wiker
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Inflationary Theory was put forth as a way to get around the amazing fine-tuning of our universe that seems to point directly to God. Now one of Inflation's architects, Paul Steinhardt, confesses that the theory may have too many cracks in it to patch
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Dead Mother Comes to Woman in Dream and Helps Her Escape From Nazi Death Camp
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Holocaust survivor Esther Raab's story of her mother coming to her in a dream and directing her to safety from Nazi executioners is great example of psychic functioning and worth reading.
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A Letter to a Hindu by Leo Tolstoy with Introduction by M. K. Gandhi
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‘Letter to a Hindu’ was written by Tolstoy on his country estate, Yasnaya Polyana, on December 14th, 1908. It was in reply to Tarak Nath Das, the radical young editor of the newspaper, Free Hindustan, who had written to Tolstoy with a question: did the Indian people now have the right to use force and terrorism to throw off the yoke of British rule?
In his reply, Tolstoy takes his well known arguments for non-violence onto a world stage, claiming that a constant throughout history and in all religions is a ‘spiritual element’ striving always for unity, and attaining its aims through love. It is this human instinct Tolstoy appeals to, when telling the Indian people that all attempts to restrain evil with violence are incompatible with love.
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Materialism and Madness by Dr Benjamin Wiker
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Materialism isn't just about wanting more stuff. It is believing that stuff is all there is... that we are only material creatures with no soul and no immortal destiny. That is what causes madness.
Our most eminent and up-to-date scientists and social planners argue that, because only matter is real, belief in spiritual reality and the immaterial soul is foolish and out of date. The great G. K. Chesterton, taking the side of sanity, argued that materialism was a species of madness.
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How The Worlds Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
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For the last half century, the worlds most famous atheist was Anthony Flew. Long before Richard Dawkins began taking swipes at religion, Flew was the preeminent spokesman for unbelief. But now Anthony Flew is the worlds most famous convert to belief in God. What turned his world right-side-up? "I must say that the journey to my discovery of the Divine has thus far been a pilgrimage of reason. I have followed the argument where it has led me.
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An “Interview” with Sir William Barrett
by Michael E. Tymn
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Before making a name for himself in psychical research, William Barrett (1844-1925) had established himself in the world of physics. After serving as assistant to the famous physicist John Tyndall from 1862 to 1867, Barrett became professor of physics at the Royal College of Science in Dublin.
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Premonition Man: The Documentary
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"Premonition Man" is the story of Christopher Robinson. Christopher is an ordinary, everyday person. He is not a mystic or a religious man but since 1989 he has been haunted by premonitions and precognitive dreams on a regular basis.
Known as the "Dream Detective" Christopher has had premonitions of plane crashes, terrorist atrocities, and murders, for more than twenty years.
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Leo Tolstoy and The Free Age Press
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There were a number of books that Tolstoy wrote that were never, in his lifetime, allowed to be published in his native Russia. He was a successful author by middle age; world famous for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. But after a midlife spiritual awakening, Tolstoy chose a different direction, and for the last 30 years of his life, produced material that offended both Church and State. His religious writings set him at odds with the Orthodox Church, and led eventually to his excommunication. His political and social writings set him in opposition to the government, and brought strict censorship and the threat of imprisonment.
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The Story of Judas Iscariot according to Allan Kardec
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“The treason of Judas was not the result of a predestination, which would have been in contradiction with the justice and goodness of God. Judas was the reincarnation of a spirit who, though proud and presumptuous, was desirous to advance, and had demanded, in the state of erraticity, to be permitted to take part in the special work upon the earth for which its Protecting Christ was then preparing; a participation from which he hoped to reap a rich reward.
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My amazing week at a Monroe Institute Gateway Course.
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The venue was a boutique hotel just outside a beautiful little village called Buen Ventura, 120 km from Madrid. We were part of a group of eleven people who had come together for the workshop that consisted of a week of doing exercises using Robert Monroe's Hemi-Sync technology in order to achieve altered states of consciousness without drugs.
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John E. Mack: Blowing the Western Mind
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The new paradigm emerging from the current discoveries of laboratory science and consciousness research is in some ways embarrassingly old and familiar. This model embraces truths known to virtually all past cultures and most contemporary societies, however much the latter may be influenced by materialism and dualism in their pursuit of modernization, political power, and market advantage. How we in the West could have succeeded in forgetting this knowledge is one of the great untold stories of our time.
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An Evening with Modern Day Physical Medium, David Thompson
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Having sat with a number of mental mediums over the years I had often wondered what it would be like to experience a sitting with a physical medium. I was always reluctant because the idea of sitting in a darkened room observing phenomena didn't strike me as evidence of survival whereas the plethora of information I been lucky enough to receive from a few sensitive people over the years has left me in no doubt that some part of us survives physical death.
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Seth: Inspirational Wisdom Teacher channeled by Jane Roberts.
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Seth is arguably one of the most influential channeled wisdom teachers of the 20th century.
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Edgar Cayce: The Most Influential Psychic of the Twentieth Century
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Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) has been called the "sleeping prophet," the "father of holistic medicine," and the most documented psychic of the 20th century. For more than 40 years of his adult life, Cayce gave psychic "readings" to thousands of seekers while in an unconscious state, diagnosing illnesses and revealing lives lived in the past and prophecies yet to come. But who, exactly, was Edgar Cayce?
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An Interview with Professor L. Stafford Betty by Michael E. Tymn
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As a professor of religious studies at California State University, Bakersfield, Dr. (Lewis) Stafford Betty takes a somewhat unorthodox, bold, and refreshing approach in teaching his classes, including one titled The Meaning of Death. He discusses mediumship, near-death experiences, past-life studies, death-bed visions, and other psychic phenomena./>
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An “Interview” With French Educator, Scientist & Philosopher
Allan Kardec. By Michael E. Tymn
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Allan Kardec was one of the pioneers of psychical research. This “interview” with him is based on his several books. Except for words in brackets inserted to provide a transition or flow, the words are his. The questions have been tailored to fit the answers.
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Quantum Physics – Welcome To The Matrix
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This short video includes Deepak Chopra, David Icke, Gregg Braden, Bill Hicks, David Wilcock, and more. It discusses consciousness, spirituality, meditation, and the idea that what we call reality is nothing more than an illusion – a matrix.
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How a near-death experience transformed Carl Jung’s attitude to mysticism.
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On 11 February 1944, the 68-year-old Carl Gustav Jung – then the world’s most renowned living psychologist – slipped on some ice and broke his fibula. Ten days later, in hospital, he suffered a myocardial infarction caused by embolisms from his immobilised leg. Treated with oxygen and camphor, he lost consciousness and had what seems to have been a near-death and out-of-the-body experience
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Thomas Campbell discusses what happens when we transition.
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Tom is the "TC (physicist)" described in Bob Monroe's second book Far Journeys and has been a serious explorer of the frontiers of reality, mind, consciousness, and psychic phenomena since the early 1970s
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The Godfather of the Out-of-Body-Experience (OBE) — Robert Monroe
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One night Monroe had what at first appeared to be a very strange dream. In this “dream” he found himself floating above his physical body and looking down on his sleeping body below. He got such a fright that he literally “swam” his way back to his physical body & almost immediately was inside it again.
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Is Christmas Celebrated in the Afterlife? by Michael E. Tymn
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According to Silver Birch, the spirit entity who communicated for nearly 50 years through the trance mediumship of Maurice Barbanell, a British journalist, certain groups in the afterlife spheres celebrate the holidays – both Christmas and Easter. However, he pointed out that these celebrations were going on well before the Christian era gave added meaning to them.
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The Physician Who Watched Himself Die by Michael E. Tymn
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Dr. Wiltse could not recall passing through the abdomen or chest, but he recollected that his “whole self” was collected into his head. He appeared to himself something like a jelly-fish in color and form and remembered thinking that he would soon be free. As “he” emerged from his head, he saw two women sitting at the head of his physical shell and wondered if there was room for him to stand.
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An Early Near-Death Experience by Michael E. Tymn
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That question was put to members of the Royal Medical Society by Sir Auckland Geddes, a British surgeon turned statesman, at the Society’s bicentenary celebration in 1937. Sir Auckland was referring to the strange experience of a man who had seemingly “died” and then returned with a detailed memory of all he had seen and done. The “near-death experience” phenomenon, which strongly suggests a spirit or etheric body in addition the physical body, was for the most part unheard of then.
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An ‘Interview’ with The Rev. William Stainton Moses by Michael E. Tymn
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An Anglican clergyman and English Master at University College, London during the latter half of the 19th Century, The Rev. William Stainton Moses is most remembered as both a gifted physical and mental medium. This “interview” is based on his books, Spirit Teachings, More Spirit Teachings, and Spirit Identity. Except for words in brackets, inferred and added to permit a proper flow or transition, the words are his verbatim. The questions have been tailored to fit the responses.
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An Interview with Canon (Dr.) Michael Perry by Michael E. Tymn
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Michael Perry has served as President of the Churches’ Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies (CFPSS) since 1998 and as Editor of its journal, The Christian Parapsychologist, since 1978. He also serves on the Advisory Council of the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research. Founded in 1953, the CFPSS exists to promote the study of psychical and religious experiences within a Christian context. It takes a positive view of psychic sensitivity, recognizing that proper theology needs to listen humbly to all empirical evidence.
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What’s Real? By Michael E. Tymn
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In her 2007 book, When Ghosts Speak, Mary Ann Winkowski, a Cleveland, Ohio medium who serves as a consultant to the popular television series, Ghost Whisperer, states that many earthbound spirits gather on the studio set for the program.
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A Glimpse of Hell by Michael E. Tymn
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“Hell is a thought region,” Thomas Dowding communicated on March 17, 1917. “Evil dwells there and works out its purposes. The forces used to hold mankind down in the darkness of ignorance are generated in hell! It is not a place; it is a condition. The human race has created the condition.”
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A Psychiatrist Sees the Light
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Recently retired from the full-time practice of psychiatry, Dr. Mitchell Earl Gibson now works as a clairvoyant doctor. “During the last ten years of my medical practice, I began to receive very strong clairvoyant impressions about events in my client’s lives,” Gibson writes at his website, http://www.tybro.com “At first I ignored them, but over time I began to realize that many of these impressions were accurate. Science had trained me to think analytically and to dismiss any data that could not be examined with an objective skeptical eye. I quickly learned that the scientific method offered only one window into the universe.”
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An “Interview” With Alfred Russel Wallace by Michael Tymn
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While history has recorded that Wallace (1823-1913) was co-originator with Darwin of the theory of natural selection, usually referred to simply as evolution, most people seem to credit the whole idea to Darwin. That may be because Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, gave it more widespread recognition. However, a secondary reason may be that Wallace's reputation among scientists was tainted somewhat by the fact that he became a champion of spiritualism.
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An Interview With Steve Beckow. By Michael E. Tymn
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Steve Beckow, a resident of Vancouver, B.C., has a very unusual pastime. You might call him an afterlife cartographer. A sociologist, historian, and a former member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Beckow prefers to call himself a student of cross-cultural spirituality. His primary interest now is in making sense of the afterlife from revelations that have come to us through various forms of mediumship, including the mediumship of the Bible and other sacred texts. I recently had the opportunity to interview Beckow by e-mail. Here are my questions and his answers:
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Automatic Writing by Michael E. Tymn
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Automatic writing is a psychic phenomenon in which discarnates, or spirits, purportedly communicate by controlling the writing hand of a human sensitive, or medium. It usually involves the sensitive, also referred to as an automatist, being in a disassociated state and delivering words not in his or her conscious or subconscious, although mainstream psychology attributes it all to the latter.
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An Interview With Louis LaGrand, Ph.D. By Michael E. Tymn
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When he was teaching a course on bereavement and death at a liberal arts college within the State University of New York system more than a quarter of a century ago, Dr. Louis LaGrand was euphemistically called the “death man” by some of his colleagues. It’s a label he still carries and does not shrink from.
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The mystery of Patience Worth
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Over 24 years, Patience Worth dictated books, short stories, plays and poems, through the mediumship of a woman in St Louis, Missouri. Michael Tymn investigates.
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An Interview with EVP Researchers Tom and Lisa Butler by Michael E. Tymn
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As Tom and Lisa Butler see it, the survival hypothesis is substantially proven by electronic voice phenomena (EVP) and Instrumental Trans Communication (ITC). “No other hypothesis addresses the evidence,” states Tom. “We know that people physically die and that their aware Self continues in some other aspect of reality. Further, we know that they want to and are able to initiate communication with those of us still in the flesh, by way of our technology.”
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An “Interview” With Frederic W. H. Myers by Michael E. Tymn
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One of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), Frederic William Henry Myers (1843-1901) is sometimes referred to as the “Father of Psychical Research.” His book, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, published in 1903, two years after his death, is considered a seminal work in the field. Harvard professor William James wrote that Myers “will always be remembered in psychology as the pioneer who staked out a vast tract of mental wilderness and planted the flag of genuine science upon it.
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An “Interview” with Sir William Crookes by Michael E. Tymn
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Put “Sir William Crookes” into an Internet Google search and you will receive some 95,000 hits. One of the links is to the Dictionary of National Biography, which refers to him as a “Victorian Man of Science.” It tells of his many contributions to the fields of physics and chemistry, but makes only passing reference to his controversial “excursions into psychical research,” seemingly excusing him for such an indiscretion by explaining that Sir William thought all phenomena worthy of investigation, and refused to be bound by tradition and convention.
Incidents in My Life - Part 1 by D. D. Home is available from White Crow Books http://whitecrowbooks.com/books/page/incidents_in_my_life/
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“Hereafter” is disappointing by Michael Tymn
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The pre-release reviews of Hereafter, the new Clint Eastwood directed movie, were quite mixed. They ranged from “soul stirring” to “spiritual baloney-ism.”
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Interview with Psychical Researcher, David Fontana
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Dr David Fontana, one of the most widely respected psychical researchers in the world, passed away on October 18th 2010, after a short illness.
Michael Tymn interviewed him a few years ago shortly after he had published his Magnum opus, Is There an Afterlife? Here is the interview.
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Interview with Charles Tart
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As Dr Charles T Tart sees it, the world has been miraculously transformed by science and technology. This transformation has been very good in many ways, he points out in his 2009 book, The End of Materialism, but the material progress has been accompanied by a shift in our belief systems, a shift that has resulted in the ‘partial crushing of the human spirit’ by scientism.
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Are Organ Transplants Contraindicated?
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If I could go back 30 years or so with my present understanding of things metaphysical, I think I would struggle with the idea of being an organ donor.
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To Be or Not to Be a Philistine?
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Various polls suggest that 80-85 per cent of the US population believe in an afterlife, but the problem is that they don’t really ‘believe.’ They just ‘hope’ for it while striving to be ‘one with their toys,’ i.e., true Philistines. Materialism is their religion and celebrities are their gods.
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The Most Dynamic NDE You’ll Ever Read About
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“All about and above me I could see nothing, but fancy my astonishment if you can, when looking down, I saw my body resting peacefully on the bed, representing what is commonly called a ‘dead person’,”
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Scientist, 107, Embraces Death
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If the mindset of Dr. Alexander Imich is any indication, embracing death may be one of the keys to longevity in this realm of existence. Imich, who celebrated his 107th birthday on Feb. 4, says that living a long life has never been one of his goals and that he has no fear of death. “I am very interested in finding out how things are on the ‘other side,’”
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What is a Saint?
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On the fourth day of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the UK, he held mass in Birmingham. But why Birmingham? The city is the burial place of John Henry Newman, a 19th century cardinal in the Catholic Church, and the reason the Pope was there is because Newman was being 'beatified', which is the step before being declared a saint.
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What the Spirits told the Professor
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One of the distinguished scientists of yesteryear featured in my book, The Articulate Dead, is Dr. Robert Hare, a professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania during the 19th Century. Like most of the other scholars and scientists investigating mediumship, Hare started out as a disbeliever and expected to debunk mediumship.
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When Simon met Leo
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When asked to write about Leo Tolstoy, I hesitated; because all I really wanted to do was meet the great man, and what chance of that? And then something happened.
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The mystery of Patience Worth
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Over 24 years, Patience Worth dictated books, short stories, plays and poems, through the mediumship of a woman in St Louis, Missouri. Michael Tymn investigates.
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Confucius speaks? Part 2
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Skeptics claim that stories involving the paranormal are often exaggerated over time by both the original storyteller and those who pass on the stories. This feature examines the arguments against the validity of the story told about medium George Valiantine by Dr Neville Whymant in his 1931 book, Psychic Adventures in New York.
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Confucius speaks? Part 1
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Dr Neville Whymant, a professor of linguistics at Oxford and London Universities, was surprised when he heard 14 languages, including an ancient Chinese dialect, spoken through the American direct-voice medium, George Valiantine. One of the voices he heard used the name by which Confucius was canonized.
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Physical mediumship witnessed by Canadian physician
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In his 1920 book, Dawn of the Awakened Mind, John S King, a Toronto physician and president of the Canadian Society for Psychical Research, tells of seeing and communicating with his deceased wife, May, during sittings with two mediums in November 1911.
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Book and newspaper tests
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Of all the evidence gathered supporting communication with spirits, book and newspapers tests rank near the very top, says Michael Tymn.
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The reincarnation of a WWII fighter pilot… or is it?
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The story of young James Leininger, as set forth in the 2009 book Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot, offers a very convincing case for the survival of consciousness at death. Whether it is strong evidence for reincarnation is another issue.
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Is psychic healing for real?
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Every now and then, while channel surfing, I’ll come upon some television evangelists supposedly healing someone of a dreaded disease by simply putting his hand on the person’s head and then pushing the person backward. I shake my head and wonder what is going on. Is it for real?
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Why spirits wear clothes
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Pseudo skeptics and debunkers are usually quick to smirk and scoff at reports that spirits wear clothes. Indeed, it even exceeds the boggle threshold of many who believe in a spirit world. However, afterlife communications suggest that spirit beings clothe themselves in an attempt to become visible to us.
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Messages from a fallen soldier: a rumor of angels, Part 2
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Continuation of the story about a deceased First World War soldier, Bob Bennett, who was killed on the battlefield in France during World War I. Shortly thereafter, he began communicating with his mother by means of Morse Code and then through automatic writing.
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Messages from a fallen soldier: a rumor of angels, Part 1
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A heartwarming movie titled ‘A Rumor of Angels’ was released about six years ago and is an occasional rerun on television. Few people realize that it was based on a true story, although it took place in World War I, not the Vietnam War. The story came from the 1918 non-fiction book, Thy Son Liveth: Messages from a Soldier to his Mother, by Grace Duffie Boylan.
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The fate of the suicide in the afterlife: Part 2
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There are very extreme views as to what should happen to suicide bombers in the afterlife. At one extreme, they are seen as heroic martyrs in the service of God and should be richly rewarded. At the other extreme, they are nothing but savage murderers who should ‘burn in hell’ for eternity. Emotionally, at least, there seems to be no middle ground.
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The fate of the suicide in the afterlife: Part 1
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Suicide is one subject on which spirit messages all seem to agree. While there may be some conflicting messages relative to suicide by terminally-ill people, the messages overwhelmingly condemn traditional suicide. They strongly suggest that the individual who hopes to escape from his or her problems here in the material world does not so.
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The mystery of ectoplasm: Part 5
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In 1914, Dr William J Crawford, a lecturer in mechanical engineering at Queen’s University of Belfast, Ireland, began investigating the mediumship of 16-year-old Kathleen Goligher. The phenomena surrounding the young girl included communicating raps, trance voice, and table levitations.
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The mystery of ectoplasm: Part 4
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It is easy to dismiss the photographs of a materialization in process with the medium Ethel Post Parrish as a fake, since the materialization looks much more like a painting or a mannequin than a real person. However, an understanding of the ideoplastic nature of the phenomenon helps us make sense of it.
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The mystery of ectoplasm: Part 3
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Vice-Admiral W. Usborne Moore, a retired British naval commander, began investigating mediums in 1904. One of the first he sat with was Cecil Husk, an English materialization medium. Like so many mediums of the day, Husk had been charged with fraud a number of years earlier.
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The mystery of ectoplasm: Part 2
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Skeptical scientists insisted that ectoplasm was nothing more than cheesecloth or some other substance cleverly packed in the body and regurgitated at an opportune moment. They gave examples of this ‘rumination hypothesis,’ showing how some people are able to use the stomach as a hiding place and later bring it back up.
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The mystery of ectoplasm: Part 1
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How can anything so repulsive and so repugnant in appearance be real? And how can there possibly be any spiritual connection with it? No doubt this is the first reaction of intelligent, rational people who come across old photos in books about paranormal phenomena of a substance referred to as ectoplasm.
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Are Ghosts Earthbound Spirits? By Michael Tymn
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Wikipedia defines ghost as the “apparition of a deceased person, frequently similar in appearance to that person, and usually encountered in places she or he frequented, or in association with the person's former belongings.”
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