Tag Archives: Society for Psychical Research

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”

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”

The Perils of Paranormal Programming

There is one reason that those who are publicly involved in the paranormal must be honest: people take them seriously and often look to them for real answers regarding the afterlife and the reality of the spirit world. It’s a large burden to bear, and if you have a “show” or a “documentary” (the linesContinue reading “The Perils of Paranormal Programming”

We Know We Have Died . . . And Then What?

Sam Parnia via the AWARE study determined that there is electrical activity in the brain that suggests (how, I am not sure) that we are aware of our physical death for at least 20 seconds and possibly much longer after our hearts have stopped beating and our lungs have given up the ghost, so toContinue reading “We Know We Have Died . . . And Then What?”

Jack Osbourne’s “Night of Terror”, The Block Universe, and Quantum Weirdness in the Ghost Shows

Well, it has happened: physics (or intimations of it) now needs to be introduced into the paranormal shows in order to sort through the mishmash of theories that are popping up to explain hauntings. Recently, it’s not just about the spirits of dead people engaging in the classic haunt, but “crossing timelines”, “overlapping dimensions,” andContinue reading “Jack Osbourne’s “Night of Terror”, The Block Universe, and Quantum Weirdness in the Ghost Shows”

Ghost Shows and the Terrifying Truths of the Paranormal

Winter 2024–the new year has started with a wicked case of Seasonal Affective Disorder and a sense of dread. This is not how I had hoped to begin a new year and certainly not how I wish to start off a blog post; however, sometimes one’s mood is relevant to the subject at hand–the unexplained,Continue reading “Ghost Shows and the Terrifying Truths of the Paranormal”