Tag Archives: Kirsten A. Thorne

What if Your Paranormal Experiences are Connected to Childhood Emotional Abuse?

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?”

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 Apocalypse

My husband and I returned from Spain on December 11th, 2024. My parents caught Covid. At 85, that remains a frightening diagnosis. I watched them carefully for signs of low blood oxygen or dramatic fatigue. During that time, the wildfires in Los Angeles started. I had thought that there was some hyperbole attached to theContinue reading “The Apocalypse”

They Want Us Stupid and Addicted

This isn’t about politics. In fact, I think perhaps politics might be the greatest distraction ever invented. The “culture czars” tell us how to spend our time, what we should care about, and treat us as stupid children, because we have become exactly that by consuming the products that they are selling. Social media andContinue reading “They Want Us Stupid and Addicted”

Is the Paranormal a New Religion? Peter Laws and the Spiritual Quest Culture

I rarely ask anyone to watch a video, but if you are interested in the paranormal, if you consider yourself to be on a spiritual quest, if you are neither religious nor atheistic but consider yourself spiritually inclined or fascinated by the supernatural, then please, watch the video below. In it, Peter Laws talks aboutContinue reading “Is the Paranormal a New Religion? Peter Laws and the Spiritual Quest Culture”

Abandoned: Why We’re Haunted by Ruins

Around the Albaicyn in Granada, about 20% of the homes are abandoned. Some are waiting for restoration, for a future, while others are disintegrating beyond all repair. As I walk through these tiny, winding streets, I seek out the desolate places, the homes that have withered for decades under the harsh sun of the AndalusianContinue reading “Abandoned: Why We’re Haunted by Ruins”

Time, Ghosts, and the Haunting of Corriganville

Corriganville Ranch/Park is hidden in the east hills around Simi Valley, in a gulley between mountain ranges. It was a movie ranch, a theme park, and finally a regional park. The opening of Disneyland in 1955 killed off the theme park, and fires, distance from Los Angeles, and complicated land negotiation deals prevented any furtherContinue reading “Time, Ghosts, and the Haunting of Corriganville”