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"Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception." -  Jacques Vallee , Main site: Link . OddnEnds -  Jacques Vallee's presentation: The Software of Consciousness : "Intriguing Lessons and Lingering Puzzles on the far side of StarGate." 61st Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California.  Video link . Tesla vs Edison - Spirit phone. Talking with the dead. Mental Floss . Fast forward - SoulPhone . Talking with the dead - results expected in 2020. Source . True accounts - Phone calls from the dead . Special apparatus not required. Parnorms . The account that inspired a similar scenario in a novel. Psychology Today . Telephone calls from the Dead , Callum Cooper. (Holy cow! Is this in my library? $$$) Callum Cooper interview with Jeffrey Mishlove. New Thinking Allowed on YouTube . John Fo...

“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” - Marshall McLuhan , The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man , The Mechanical Bride , Marshall McLuhan Estate How did I get to the above info? Twitter : I follow Callum Cooper , Telephone Calls from the Dead/ Amazon , and did a quick search to follow his latest activities.  That led to a long read he had bookmarked on StrangeHistory: The Earliest Telephone Call from the Dead. Found more than one item of interest in that piece, including this one: source . Another referenced a book called, The Automaton Ear . Curious, I searched and came up with this post on books, NYTimes , detailing the fascinating story of Marshall McLuhan and that review opened up several important issues - Example : In " Understanding Media ," McLuhan suggests that electric modes of communication--telegraph, ...