Exploring paranormal beliefs in subjects with a history of trauma, abuse, and/or neglect. If you grew up like I did, moving from place to place, even country to country, you know what instability feels like. If you grew up ignored, abused, or traumatized by dysfunctional parents, you know what fear feels like: fear of intimacy,Continue reading “What if Your Paranormal Experiences are Connected to Childhood Emotional Abuse?”
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Swinger Road: The Demonic Proves its Power
A terrifying demonic presence proves its power to the brothers of “Paranormal Nightmare”.
If You Are Haunted
We tend to think that ghosts are either souls “out there” that have drifted into our homes and sacred spaces, or that something about us, our emotions, have disturbed the physical world. We divide our reality into neat categories: us and them. Spirit and matter. Light and dark. Our energy versus their energy. When itContinue reading “If You Are Haunted”
The Ghost of Gumiel
When you might have been loved by a spirit, it’s hard to let him go.
Existential Despair and the Wheel of Existence
The mediums that the Society for Psychical Research studied so extensively from 1881 forward paid a price for their gifts. Even a cursory reading of the SPR’s work with mediums reveals health issues and early death as almost an inevitable result of contacting the dead on a daily basis. Mediums tend to have histories ofContinue reading “Existential Despair and the Wheel of Existence”
The Fear of Psychic Connection
What happens when your psychic reading goes wrong?
The Weirdness of Quantum Immortality
I was reading Robert Lanza’s new book, The Grand Biocentric Design recently, focusing especially on his discussion of the Quantum Suicide paradox and Everett’s multiverse. Briefly, here is the thought experiment summarized: ”A man sits down before a gun, which is pointed at his head. This is no ordinary gun; it is rigged to a machine that measuresContinue reading “The Weirdness of Quantum Immortality”
Zombie Boy: Giving Ghost Hunters What They Want?
In Season 5, Episode 2 of “Kindred Spirits”, investigators Amy Bruni and Adam Berry suspect that “zombie boy”–a supposed ghost that was ramping up activity and scaring investigators at a Massachusetts estate–is a creation of the very people who so fervently believe in him. Much like “Phillip”, the invented ghost from a series of seancesContinue reading “Zombie Boy: Giving Ghost Hunters What They Want?”
Time and the Paranormal
I have long thought that if we understood time, or how consciousness creates the concept of temporal flow, we would understand religion and all things we currently call paranormal. I was attending my first, post-Covid church service outdoors at Saint Hugh’s Episcopal Church when I realized that the liturgical calendar (we are currently in theContinue reading “Time and the Paranormal”
International Society for Paranormal Research 