Category: Paranormal
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What to Do With Your Premonitions
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How to Handle Your Visions of Future Events, Great or Small Portra / Getty Images In the weeks following the terrible events of September 11, 2001, many people claimed to have had premonitions of the attacks days or even weeks before that fateful day. The problem with the vast majority of…
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Altered and Exceptional States of Consciousness
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from Encyclopedia of Consciousness GlossaryHypnagogic state The transitional state between wakefulness and sleep when falling asleep.Hypnopompic state The transitional state between sleep and wakefulness when waking up from sleep.Lucid dream A dream during which the dreamer realizes that the experience is a dream.Muscular atonia The lack of muscle tension in voluntary…
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Psychical Research
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from Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained The scientific investigation of claims of psychic powers and paranormal events. Interest in psychic phenomena was stimulated during the 19th century, particularly by the rise of the spiritualism movement. This coincided with the development of ‘scientism’ and a growing belief that science could provide the answers to questions about…
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PARANORMAL PHENOMENA / THEORY
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from Elsevier’s Dictionary of Psychological Theories = extra-sensory perception = parapsychology = psi phenomena. The paranormal class of effects refers to supernatural events/results (“beyond the normal”) that are inexplicable by the usual laws of science and/or reason. The related terms extra-sensory perception (ESP) (including clairvoyance, precogni-tion, and telepathy) and psychokinesis (PK) are generic terms for various hypothetical…
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National Security Agency – Central Security Service UFO and Other Paranormal Information
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Review the search terms in response to requests for information on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and Paranormal Events, where no responsive material has been located. To Search, Select a Letter/Number A Aegis AEO (aka Anomalous Aerial Objects) Aegis AEO (aka Anomalous Aerial Objects) AF-19741 AF44-29125 AGOR-8 Airgram A-894 ALF Alien Abduction(s)…
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The Paranormalist
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The term “paranormal” is defined as not being in accordance with the natural or known scientific laws, or beyond the scope of scientific understanding. The suffix “-ologist” denotes an expert in a particular kind of scientific study. Combining these two, I came up with the innovative new title, “paranormalist.” When I…
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House from 1982 horror movie ‘Poltergeist’ is now up for sale
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They’re heeeere…. Image Credit: Bing AI / Dall-E 3 The iconic house used in the horror classic had been occupied by its original owners since being built in 1979.Directed by Tobe Hooper and written by Steven Spielberg, Poltergeist told the terrifying tale of a family who became besieged by a malicious haunting that…
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Relevance of para-psychology in psychiatric practice
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Para-psychology is divided into two main branches: a) extra-sensory perception (ESP) which is the study of communications ostensibly without the known sensory organs and, b) psychokinesis (PK) or the study of physical events that apparently occur without involvement of any recognized motor organs. The ESP or paranormal experiences include i)…
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THE HAUNTED MUSEUM:TABLE TIPPING WITH THE SPIRITS.
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POPULAR PAST TIME OF THE SPIRITUALIST HOME CIRCLES During the early 1900’s, when professional mediums all over the country were claiming to communicate with the spirits, ordinary people developed in interest in psychic phenomena. Most of these people had neither the means, nor the access, to professional mediums, so many…
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Science of the Paranormal: Can You Trust Your Own Mind?
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(Image credit: © Michal Bednarek | Dreamstime.com) “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty…
