Author: Roger

  • Monsters and Mythical Creatures of Ancient Egypt

    Monsters and Mythical Creatures of Ancient Egypt

    In the Egyptian canon, it’s often difficult to distinguish monsters and mythical creatures from the gods themselves — for example, how do you classify the cat-headed goddess Bastet, or the jackal-headed god Anubis? Still, there are some figures that don’t quite rise to the level of actual deities, functioning instead as…

  • What are some of the difficulties of scientific parapsychological research?

    What are some of the difficulties of scientific parapsychological research?

    Roger Mallett In this posting, I will use Extra-Sensory Perception [ESP] as an example to highlight some of the difficulties in relation to scientific research and laboratory investigations. There are two main concerns here, replicability and expectancy effects: There appears to be little scientific evidence which would suggest that ESP…

  • Crystal Skulls History

    Crystal Skulls History

    Key Moments In Crystal Skulls HistoryIn The Last 300 Years The history of crystal skulls remains somewhat of a mystery, but new information keeps coming to light. Crystal Skull Explorer Joshua Shapiro provides the following crystal skull history timeline as recorded in his 2004-5 Crystal Skull Explorers ebook 18th Century Early 1700’s : A Monk…

  • Clairvoyant Remote Viewing: The US Sponsored Psychic Spying

    Clairvoyant Remote Viewing: The US Sponsored Psychic Spying

    Abstract ’Remote Viewing,’ popularly known as Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) is the ability of human being to perceive information and imagery of remote geographical targets. Advanced practitioners of the Indian Yoga system were well acquainted with ‘Divya Drishti.’ This paper deals with experiments conducted in USA in which certain individuals…

  • Extrasensory Perception [ESP]

    Extrasensory Perception [ESP]

    Extrasensory perception—ESP—is defined by parapsychologists as the acquisition by a human or animal mind of information it could not have received by normal, sensory means. Some researchers, however, take issue with the term “extrasensory perception.” They protest that the phenomena may not be “perception” at all, as the receiver of…

  • Other Dimensions

    Other Dimensions

    The idea of another dimension – or MORE than one other dimension – has been theorized for many years, and is a cornerstone of many religions.  Indeed, even Albert Einstein speculated about the possibility of the existence of a parallel universe.  A scientific article entitled “The Universe’s Unseen Dimensions,” released…

  • Inside the CIA’s Secret Mission to Use Mind Control to Spy on the Soviet Union.

    Inside the CIA’s Secret Mission to Use Mind Control to Spy on the Soviet Union.

    During the height of the Cold War, the CIA ran tests on people with paranormal abilities in an effort to unlock top-secret intel on foreign targets. In 1972, American artist and psychic Ingo Swann altered the magnetic field inside a thickly shielded vacuum container located underground for several seconds—by simply thinking about it. As…

  • Physicists probe the paranormal

    Physicists probe the paranormal

    “The question of whether paranormal phenomena actually exist probably divides educated members of modern Western civilization as sharply as any other single issue. If it is true that the human brain can receive messages and control things in ways that cannot be explained normally, then this undermines the belief of…

  • Can “possession” be explained without the concept of devils or demons taking control of people?

    Can “possession” be explained without the concept of devils or demons taking control of people?

    There has been a suggestion that there may be a psychological element involved in the “possession” explanation of human beings, including dissociative identity disorder [DID] The `Psychology Today` website provides the following definition: `DID is a rare condition in which two or more distinct identities, or personality states are present…

  • The Horrific History of Witch Trials in England

    The Horrific History of Witch Trials in England

    In the 16th and 17th centuries suspicion of witchcraft was at its height. In England and other nations across Europe there were trials and executions of suspected witches, including in Oxford. Hundreds died in England as a result. THE BEGINNING The first law relating to witchcraft in England was not introduced until…