An attempt to show that, not only is there now no hard evidence for life after death, but there can be no such evidence. Contrary to what mediums, ghost hunters, and NDE researchers would have us to believe, it is not possible to prove the “survival” hypothesis, even in principle.
A walkthrough of the claims that psi exists as shown by the Ganzfeld Experiments.
It seems these days there is no shortage of “quantum” machines, or “quantum” explanations that will cure all known ills, generate unlimited “free” energy, communicate with the dead, explain personal “reverse causality” or perform any other highly improbable thing you can think of. One might be tempted to be skeptical, except that it’s just “science” isn’t it? Doesn’t quantum mechanics prove all these things to be true? Decide for yourself…
Investigating Remote Viewing, especially the Ganzfeld technique, is not a happy business. The sources are scattered across the internet in curious places and unexpected sites. Papers long since deleted by the academic establishments they came from suddenly crop up, in full, in other unrelated sites which always seem to be tucked away on the tenth page of whichever search engine you choose to use. Here is a list of those experiments.
How the famous paranormal researcher, Montague Keen, became the object of Gary Schwartz’ experiments into the world of the dead. And a new term was coined: “Departed hypothesized co-investigator.”
Whenever I can, I like to visit the psychic fairs that pop up from time to time. It is always a journey into enlightenment, although not the kind I am promised. It is more an uplifting tale of just how vivid human fantasy and invention can be.
I spent one of the last evenings of September 2002 attending a lecture by Dean Radin, author of “The Conscious Universe”, on the Upper East Side, Manhattan, where he told about the Global Consciousness Project.
Often we hear of stunning results from paranormal experiments, purportedly “proving” that paranormal phenomena exist. These experiments have a tendency to enter what could be called the Hodge Podge File Cabinet of Evidence of the Paranormal, this huge body of anecdotes, usually impossible to verify, and never repeated in a sound, scientific manner.
Part 1: How the Tokyo subway became a death trap, and hundreds of people got caught in a Millennial cult of mind-control and New Age rubbish.
The cult investigated various methods of implementing death and destruction on a massive scale. They tried every possibility, ranging from military weapons, to biological and chemical warfare. They settled on the nerve gas sarin, and ran several real-world tests, resulting in deaths. Life within the cult was no picnic either: Stay and obey, or leave and die.
Is time speeding up? Gregg Braden says it is, and has written this book to tell us why.
This is a follow-up to the book review of Ian Stevenson’s book “Children Who Remember Previous Lives, A Question of Reincarnation”.
The subject of the book is psi research, that is research concerning telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition. Radin claims that these phenomena are real and in the book he presents the evidence, which he thinks proves this.
Can athletes defy gravity? According to James Redfield, the answer is yes.
Cell memory is based on the idea that whatever happens in our lives, each cell “records” it – spiritually, of course. Homeopaths have cherished this idea for a long time now, and people like Dean Radin and Gary Schwartz also use it to explain purported – but unsupported – claims of a “surviving” consciousness or spirit. Psychic Sylvia Browne takes it a few steps further.
A diligent channel surfer should notice a new trend in TV talk shows: psychic guests supposedly channeling the dead relatives of audience members, often conveying information they could not possibly have known in advance. Can psychics really divine the future by speaking to the dead, or do they, as skeptics insist, just use an old magician’s parlour trick called “cold reading”?
The story of Sharon Sifford, and how she went from numerologist and tarot reader to ex-numerologist and ex-tarot reader.
… or just Crap Circles?
Why are cults so popular? Why do they sometimes lead to death and destruction? A closer look at four cults that gripped the world in tales of mayhem.
Divination is the ancient practise of attempting to determine the future by means of,… well, just about any method the human mind can conceive of.
Testing a Therapeutic Touch healer, with the rather expected result.
Peter Bowditch of Ratbags.com tells the story of Australian quackery. It’s not pretty, mate.
Two skeptics take a walk on the hot side of life.
Graham Bishop is a self-proclaimed “spiritual teacher, trance medium, trance healer and medium”. He is also one lousy cold reader.
A collection of some of the greatest hits and spectacular misses of this television psychic.
Part 1: UFO believers are not always mere fantasy-prone romantics, hooked on Star Trek and other science-fiction dreams.
The second article on the Heaven’s Gate cult describes in detail how the cult members shed their earthly containers, in order to be able to board the spaceship that followed in the trail of the Hale-Bopp comet.
How eating cakes can make you lose weight.
The tantalizing story of an ex-Scientologist, who broke his contract just shy of 999,999,975 years before it expired.
Indigo Children are a genetically unique new race of children possessing a very specific set of personality traits, and who are psychically linked to Kryon, a being reported to be a disembodied entity of a different order than human, who has “been with the Earth since the beginning”.
After examining the Indigo Child movement, and specifically the activities of co-writer/producer James Twyman, there are potential consequences for the community – and for children.
The psychic, who claimed to talk to John Lennon, also claims to be “UK’s finest psychic medium profiler … renowned for his involvement in helping police solve high profile crimes”. It turns out that his claims ring somewhat hollow, when investigated.
Just how important a name is, is not clear to most people. Fortunately, a society exists to tell you precisely how crucial it is you choose the right name for your child. The name of a person, according to the Kalabarian Philosophy, determines no less than your destiny, your “mental direction”, your personality, how happy you are, how you attract people, how successful you will be, etc.
Part 1: Religious fanaticism coupled with extortion and persecution can only lead to a very real hell on Earth.
This is the second article about the Kanungu cult in Uganda. The apocalyptic prophecies ended in a disaster, where adults and children were burned alive, only to satisfy a few power-hungry maniacs.
by Anders W. Bonde
Yes, it’s true, folks. The scientists, the skeptics, the atheists, the rational – hell, even the Brights and James Randi, will soon be revealed to have got it all wrong! The Creator has decided to give the believers and the woo-woos their dues, so He has finally revealed himself by announcing [...]
A few disturbing consequences of being able to travel outside your body, transgressing time and space. Some consequences are fantastic, some are horrifying.
Famed psychic Sylvia Browne has done past life regressions for decades, literally thousands of them. Each and every one of these is claimed to be “”true”" and well documented. However, she will not allow anyone to investigate her collection of “”verified”" past lives. Those that can be verified, turn out to be fantasies.
The nurse from hell, Jolene believes anything. Literally.
Have you ever wondered how prophets and other legendary figures gained their reputation and followers?
Not long ago I was asked if Dr. Gary Schwartz’s professional career was going the way of Pons & Fleischmann. Pons & Fleischmann made a big splash with their initial announcement of cold fusion in 1989. But as the attempts to replicate the experiment by other labs met with failure, and Pons & Fleischmann failed to produce any positive results, they faded to obscurity. After the news made by Schwartz’s books on his study of mediums is he headed for the same fate?
by Claus Larsen
This is a grisly tale. It will not please many people. It is a story about an abducted girl, a family in grief and fear and a bunch of vultures, who prey on parents with a missing child, while marketing their own, bogus claims of being able to find dead bodies.
The tale begins…
…with [...]
by Hans Egebo
Roger Coghill of Coghill Research Laboratories, UK claims to be a scientist doing research work in the field bioelectromagnetism, which is defined as the study of interactions between biological entities and electromagnetic forces. This broad, multidisciplinary field includes the study of the possible adverse health effects of ELF fields, which are generated by [...]
A commentary on “Information and Uncertainty in Remote Perception Research”, Dunne and Jahn, Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR).
An investigation of a few of the many versions of the basic tool of Feng Shui
When lights flicker, some people believe dead people are trying to communicate with them…
Comments on any and all prophesies made by Sylvia Browne concerning the year 1998.
A good, hard look at Sylvia Browne’s predictions for the next 100 years. It’s rather depressing how little imagination she has, given the fact that she is in the lucrative business of presenting fantasies as facts.
Here are 29 commonly heard arguments in favor of reincarnation.
Some of the perhaps best cases for reincarnation are investigated. How do they hold up to reality?
The Beautiful People myth is one of the scourges of serious historical study today, even though it is rarely asserted by real historians.
Famed psychic Sylvia Browne claims to be doing 15-20 past-life regressions each day, and members of her staff also do past-life regressions. It would take a small army doing nothing but indexing these regressions and later verifying them. Who does this gargantuan work?
This paper will attempt to document, with supporting references, what exactly has been revealed by scientists’ latest research into the paranormal. Evidence will be provided both for and against the conclusions of these studies. One hot area of research, the ganzfeld studies, will be targeted specifically. The verdict will be delivered on the existence of some of the more outlandish phenomena you may hear of occasionally in the news.
The story of how psychic John Edward runs a very tight operation, where skepticism is suppressed and only blind belief is allowed.
Uri Geller throwing a party in the American Midwest: Everyone is supposed to select the cutlery of their choice, stand in a circle, and shout “BEND!!!”
by Pat Crossman, LCSW
Introduction
Theories of medical and psychiatric management based on ignorance or pseudoscience can be dangerous, even in the hands of good people. It is said that George Washington was bled to death by four devoted and honest physicians. Bloodletting and purging were acceptable methods of curing diseases at that time. Those who survived [...]
Being a skeptic means that you learn a lot about how people who believe in paranormal phenomena think. Rational thought is often a scarce commodity, and you will encounter more or less bizarre notions.
One thing we expect from museums is a commitment to the truth. We expect that the artworks in a gallery are what they claim to be, unless clearly labelled as reproductions or forgeries. We have the right to think that the stuffed animals in natural history museums really are examples of what these animals look like. That is, unfortunately, not always the case.
This illustrates with wondrous clarity the many contradictions that John Edward manages to contain within his “message”.
Feng Shui is an old Chinese form of geomancy, where we live in harmony with Mother Nature by rearranging physical objects around us. Rather randomly, it seems.
If you want to attract the attention of the mass media, there is no better way than to predict the end of the world. A few Danes still remember the doomsday cult that built an air-raid shelter in 1967 at Borup in Sealand. The builders envisaged a world-wide nuclear war that would make the Earth bob in its orbit around the sun.
Anthroposophs have long rejected the accusations of racist origins in Anthroposophy – there simply are no racist skeletons in the closet. This article will investigate just what the inventor of Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner actually said about human races.
The world was supposed to end on May 15th 2003 when a brown dwarf passed through the solar system causing catastrophic upheaval and killing 90% of life on Earth. Though it did not happen, this so-called “Planet X” may still represent a danger to life and livelihood.
Part 1: A botched ATF raid on a religious compound resulted in a 51-day siege and the deaths of almost a hundred people, many of them children.
The preamble to the devastating raid on the compound at Mount Carmel. How did the preparations go? What were the reasons for the raid? Why the show of force? Why did it go so wrong?
