Confessions of a hotline psychic

She loved the Tarot, but she also had to make a living.

The 60 minute call had cost Dave – who would return home to a dark room and a warm fridge – $6 a minute. Had I had learned sooner of his financial destitution – had I really been psychic – I would have wrapped up the call in under ten.

Sheldrake's strange sense of being stared at

Cambridge and Harvard-trained biologist Rupert Sheldrake is one of the world's senior statesmen of parapsychology, inventor of the concept of "morphic resonance" and, more recently, an avid student of the sixth sense of being stared at.

The most memorable brickbat came from Sir John Maddox, emeritus editor of the scientific journal "Nature," whose 1981 quote about Sheldrake's first book, "A New Science of Life," has become legend: "This infuriating tract . . . is the best candidate for burning there has been for many years."

The Art of Tying Shoes

The healing crisis of a blocked writer yields to the creative teamwork of Dionysian chaos and Appolonian order.

Like the Tasmanian Devil, I’ve been propelled through life by a series of personal tornadoes. My handbag has teemed with pens, pencils, and parts thereof, with decaying dinner mints, tufts of lint, tea bag slips, tea bags, receipts, torn letters, bus tickets, train tickets, dusty Kleenex, quarters, pennies, and crumpled red ten-cent Canadian Tire bills.

Coming out of hiding
Our resident seer Ajna has advice for a worried friend.

I am concerned about a friend of mine. She has been living in her parents’ dark dungeon-like basement for a couple years now and says she wants out ...




The Artist and the Vesica

For visionary artist Robert Pasternak, the vesica - a ubiquitous, yet little recognized ovoid form - is the missing piece in the puzzle of human wholeness and self-transcendence.

Pasternak believes the vesica is the archetype of the human body. But Western civilization has tended to shroud and deny the body – until now. In these times of self-exposure, self-exploration, and mind-body-soul healing, Pasternak thinks we are ripe to pull that old vesica, like some long-buried talisman, out of cold, subconscious storage.


2001: Kubrick's Space Odyssey Explained?

After watching and listening to this outstanding Flash presentation, you may still be left scratching your head about Stanley Kubrick's enigmatic sixties masterpiece. But the animated "explanation" is almost as dazzling as the original movie.

Nearer to the Near-Death Experience

The largest, most ambitious study yet confirms that NDEs which produce "longlasting transformational effects" are quite common during cardiac arrest - and that there is no apparent physiological explanation.

How could a clear consciousness outside one's body be experienced at the moment that the brain no longer functions during a period of clinical death with flat EEG? . . .NDE pushes at the limits of medical ideas about the range of human consciousness and the mind-brain relation.

Going with the Flow

A timeless new poem on the identity crisis of a drop of water.

I was a drop of water floating in a cloud, but I was restless and yearned for something different. I wanted to be a raindrop racing towards the earth.

A TASTE of the Transcendent

Do scientists have metaphysical experiences? Of course they do, says Charles Tart, a University of California professor and pioneer of consciousness research. Tart has founded an e-journal where scientists like himself can fess up to their brushes with the mystic without fear of ridicule. The Archives of Scientists' Transcendent Experiences (TASTE) even includes Tart's own apparent episode of psychic eavesdropping on the Patty Hearst kidnapping of 1973.

The Re'al Hallowe'en

A modern-day Wiccan explores the roots of the pagan holy day.

Does Your Brain Need a Workout?

The "Brain Gym" might be just the ticket.

The Voice of Suicide

A Yale psychiatrist confirms his suspicion that suicidal people sound like it.

"In suicidal patients, the voice becomes slightly hollow and empty. . . .They call it the voice from the grave."

Confessions of a Telephone Psychic

Short of money, a housewife reluctantly becomes a telephone "psychic" - and helps some desperate strangers in spite of the scam.

"The people working for these psychic hotlines are not psychics. They are people like you and me. They're out to make money. It's just a job to them. And having this job means you have to throw your conscience away."

"Right Stuff" Astronaut Spies a UFO Coverup

Veteran Mercury Seven astronaut Gordon Cooper Jr. is certain the U.S. government has swept evidence of close encounters under the rug.

"There certainly have been too many people, very qualified people and qualified groups of people, that have had interface of one type or another with extraterrestrial craft or beings."

The MIND MANIPULATOR

In a cheesy basement lab at Sudbury University, neuropsychologist Michael Persinger is programming mental states and inducing visions with patterned bursts of ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY.  And he thinks it's ... part of a pattern: