How to Make a Ghost: Magic and Mysticism in Tibet
Madame Alexandra David-Neel BY HERBIE BRENNAN — Authors note that fictional characters have a tendency to take on a life of their own. But few readers realise just how literally they mean it. A friend...
View ArticleForces of the Unconscious Mind: Exploring the Work of Stan Gooch
By LOUIS PROUD — In the first chapter of his fascinating book The Origins of Psychic Phenomena (1984), the British psychologist Stan Gooch explains that he used to smile when he heard, “for instance,...
View ArticlePadre Pio Paranormal Man
By MICHAEL GROSSO, PH.D — During the Second World War the Americans had an airbase in Bari, about seventy-five miles from San Giovanni Rotondo, a village in Southern Italy that houses Capuchin friary....
View ArticleWhat Lives On? Investigating Life After Death
By ROBERT M. SCHOCH, Ph.D. — Do we survive the death of our physical bodies? Is there such a thing as a postmortem continuation of the individual? If there is survival, what survives? Does everyone...
View ArticleMonks & Magic: Buddhism and the Supernatural in Thailand
BY GWENDOLYN TOYNTON— In August 2008 Bun Rany, the wife of the Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, led Buddhist monks and soldiers to the site of the historic Hindu temple Preah Vihear to call upon their...
View ArticleConsciousness, Resonance & the Paranormal: Synchronised Swimming in the...
By MARIE D. JONES — As a kid, watching the synchronised swimming competition of the summer Olympic games, I was always struck by how silly the sport seemed. Not to mention how it looked! Later, as a...
View ArticleOuija: How the Spirit World Helped a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet
By John Chambers Sois sage dear heart & set my teachings down If you do not your world will be undone & heaven itself turn to one grinning skull.1 These lines appear in the poem “The Will,”...
View ArticleMysteries, Miracles & Parapsychology
By ROBERT SCHOCH Parapsychology is full of anecdotal accounts of strange occurrences, which cause many people to simply shake their heads in disbelief.1 The phenomena of parapsychology grade into the...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of the Paranormal?
Pan By FREDDY SILVA— It usually goes something like this: average family live peaceful existence in house. Then one day, objects mysteriously relocate. The dog barks at unseen intruders. The tap that...
View ArticleReality Shifts: What Happens to Those Who Slip Between the Cracks of Time and...
By P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D.— Perception determines “truth.” We invent our own reality through our own perceptions and others’, and by accepting what appears to be real as real. History is filled with...
View ArticleWhat Gorilla? Why Some Can’t See Psychic Phenomena
By DEAN RADIN Imagine you’re watching a basketball game. Your favourite team is wearing white and the other team is in black. In the midst of the action, someone in a dark gorilla suit calmly walks to...
View ArticleTwin Telepathy: Is there a ‘Special Connection’?
By GUY LYON PLAYFAIR Is there a special bond between twins? Can they read each other’s minds? Are they telepathic? If you have been hearing questions like these being asked regularly but have never...
View ArticleDeveloping Your Unseen Powers: A Practical Guide
By BRENDAN D. MURPHY Repeated ignorant or stubborn denial of the existence of certain powers does not keep them from existing – except for us! – Harold M. Sherman, psychic Everyone has some level of...
View ArticleBeyond the Five Senses: The Powers Latent in Humankind
By ROBERT M. SCHOCH, Ph.D. — The traditional five senses – sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch – are these the only ways to perceive the world, to gain information, to experience reality? In fact...
View ArticleThe Reality of ESP: An Interview With Russell Targ, Remote Viewing Pioneer
Russell Targ By FRANK JOSEPH— Russell Targ is perhaps the best-known psychic investigator of our times, and certainly among the most academically prestigious. Born 11 April 1934 in Chicago, USA, he...
View ArticleThe Changing Face of Russian Psi Research
By LOUIS PROUD Were the Soviets really experts in paranormal research? Were they, as some researchers claimed during the Cold War, light years ahead of the rest of the world in the field of...
View ArticleRemote Viewing Revelations From the US Military to the MoD
By LOUIS PROUD Surprising new evidence reveals that the British Government showed an active interest in using psychics for espionage purposes. In a document obtained under the Freedom of Information...
View ArticleThe Amazing Story of the Clairvoyants Who Observed Atoms
Annie Besant (left) and C.W. Leadbeater, London, 1901, during investigations into Occult Chemistry. By BRENDAN D. MURPHY In few, if any, science textbooks or records of Nobel laureates will you find...
View ArticleConfessions of a Reluctant Ghost Hunter: Encounters with Malevolent Entities...
By VON BRASCHLER A dark, brooding spirit that disguised itself as a child and strangled people asleep in a mobile home in the woods changed my attitude about haunted houses forever. That was the last...
View ArticlePsychic Pets? The Cat: Walker Between Worlds
By FRANK JOSEPH Following publication of my Nexus article, “The Shared Evolution of Dolphins and Humans,”1 reader response, as much as my own growing interest in the subject, urged me to pursue it...
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