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  “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”  –   Wayne Dyer Carrying the torch.   Real and Unreal Haunted Childhood  – Princess Martha Louise claims the ghost of a Nazi SS general, who shot himself in her childhood bedroom, would haunt her every night. –  “I told everyone. Every night, my nannies or my parents would look behind the curtains, pull them back and say, ‘Look, there is no one behind the curtains. There is no one here’.”   Source. Scratched by Ghost  –  “I actually felt like I had a prickle or something in my shirt… my partner had a look and said there were scratches,” she wrote, while describing the sensation as “weird”.  Location: Aradale Mental Hospital, which is situated in Ararat, south-west Victoria, is considered to be one of the most haunted places in Australia, making it a popular destination for paranormal enthusiasts.  Source. Meditation Insight When I have asked about the ...

“I tell you with all the strength and conviction I can utter that we do persist, that people over there still take an interest in what is going on here; that they still help us and know far more about  things than we do, and are able from time to time to communicate with us.”  –  Sir Oliver Lodge ,  A Pioneer of Connection: Recovering the Life and Work of Oliver Lodge,  Link . Oliver Lodge published  Raymond , the book of communications with his departed son, in 1916,  Amazon . Lodge is also remembered for his studies of  life after death . He first began to study psychical phenomena (chiefly  telepathy ) in the 1880s through the Society for Psychical Research. Encounter anomaly … Novocaine side effects “When you have eliminated all which is impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”  –  Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , The Wanderings of a Spiritualist,  Project Gutenberg . I had no...

  “I tell you with all the strength and conviction I can utter that we do persist, that people over there still take an interest in what is going on here; that they still help us and know far more about  things than we do, and are able from time to time to communicate with us.”   –   Sir Oliver Lodge Evidence of Life After Death In the podcast archives, my interview with  Michael Tymn . I have followed his blog  for a few years and appreciate the tremendous amount of research he has done over the past couple of decades. I managed to catch him on a good day. He  agreed to a rare interview .  https://audioboom.com/posts/8269824-does-consciousness-survive-death-bigelow-contest-runner-up-michael-tymn-submits-the-evidence He clarified for me that he is not a scientist, academician or researcher,  per se , and says his interest in psychical research is as a historian. His primary efforts in this regard over the past 20 years has been to make the ol...

“I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be.” - Philip K. Dick,  Ubik When I told the spirit guides, "I don't want to see dead people," I heard chuckles. And then they said, reassuringly, "They are not dead, they're energy." Fast forward. When my friend died, she appeared as a pixelated blob while I was in the middle of a traffic report and couldn't afford to focus on the image. [Description = energy.] I asked her if she had any advice. She said, "Don't rush," and I understood: it's over soon enough. This is a friend who was frequently suicidal. At the end - she changed her mind but her road was already paved. - wendy OddsnEnds -  Ha...

“If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you’re getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.” - Stanley Kubrick, Goodreads .  OddnEnds - Preparing for Mars. CNN. Jennifer Ngo-Anh is team leader at the European Space Agency’s Directorate of Human and Robotic Exploration. She also oversees Albertsen’s research program. When it comes to a Mars mission, it’s “the crew who is the weakest link,” she admits. To date, there has never been a behavioral emergency – a behavioral or psychiatric condition leading to incapacitation or severe mission impact, as NASA defines it - in the history of US space flight. But as a 2016 NASA report notes, “as the length of space missions increases, the probability … i...

"One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end." - Krishnamurti , also,  Fear of Inner Solitude . OddsnEnds - PSI moment? Stromboli eruption filmed from the start. Twisted Sifter . Annual Exorcist conference is coming up in August. Mysterious Universe . Note the increase in calls for Exorcists . The Atlantic . Prof. Sean Daley offers classes on the Paranormal at JCCC. He mentioned accompanying an (unnamed) exorcist. Related blog pos t includes interview link.    One Exorcist was publicly noted as practicing in Missouri in 2008.  ThePitchKC .  Topics in the Journal of Abduction Encounter Research : Alien Implants, Undersea UFO Bases and 50's Contactee Orfeo Angelucci: Secrets of the Saucers. JAR Magazine . Researchers and Resources: Alien Jigsaw .  Worth watching. UFO YouTube series just wrapped 6 segments.  The Basement Office . UFO - 11 Effects on Experiencers - UFO Scoop . UFO Experienc...