Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Coast To Coast AM - March 30, 2015 Black Eyed Children & UFO Repeaters

Published on Mar 31, 2015
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Coast To Coast AM - March 30, 2015 Black Eyed Children & UFO Repeaters

In the first half, author, paranormal investigator, cryptozoologist, and ufologist, David Weatherly, discussed his fascinating work on the Black Eyed Kids (BEK) phenomenon, as well as his investigations into the mysterious Djinn, and the Slenderman meme. Appearing at people's doorsteps and asking to be let in, the Black-Eyed Children typically have very pale skin, monotone voices, and solid black eyes-- with no white showing. The kids usually keep their heads down and don't make direct eye contact, and the residents report that they've never seen them in the neighborhood before. Interestingly, "there are a growing number of accounts now of black-eyed adults showing up and approaching people, without the children," Weatherly shared.

His personal theory is that the Black-Eyed Kids are actually some type of interdimensional being. "I don't think they're children at all-- I think they're something that is able to assume the form of a child," he said. The girls involved in the 'Slenderman' attacks will be tried in court as adults, though their stabbing victim has recovered, Weatherly reported. Slenderman, he noted, started off as a frightening but fictional Internet meme, but may have become a kind of tulpa-- a thought-form created apparition that can take on physical qualities. The Djinn, who'll be the subject of his next book, are other-dimensional entities associated with the Middle East and Islam. They don't like to be looked at, and have very sinister agendas, he revealed.

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In the latter half, ufologist and paranormal pioneer Timothy Green Beckley talked about 'UFO Repeaters,' people who have the unique ability to "make friends" with UFO occupants and bring them in for close repeated UFO photos. Most of these encounters, Beckley believes, represent contact with paranormal or supernatural aspects rather than actual extraterrestrials. Early contactee Howard Menger was a 'repeater' who described and photographed ships landing on his parents land in rural New Jersey, ensuing telepathic communications with "regal-looking" beings, and trips to the far side of the moon. More.

Contactee, artist, and channeler Marc Brinkerhoff (view related images) joined the conversation for a segment. His benevolent encounters began as a young child in 1958, and have continued throughout his life. In a field in upstate New York, a human-like 8 ft. tall being interacted with him, transforming his energy into a more etheric-form, whereupon they entered a spacecraft and he was given a cleansing energy that appeared as a lavender mist. Brinkerhoff said he is able to make contact with the beings at will, and once at a party they materailized as glowing white spheres.


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Undebunking UFOs Blog

Dannion Brinkley on NDEs

Dannion Brinkley has had 3 NDE's (near death experiences) since 1975.

Dannion's NDE is perhaps the worlds most well known, officially dead for over 28 minutes, he has written three best selling books about his experiences. It was Dannion's first NDE that brought the terms NDEs and Near Death Experiences into mainstream consciousness.

http://www.lisamharrison.com
http://www.dannion.com



www.heartscenter.org—Dannion Brinkley: Lighthearted about Three Near Death Experiences. Hearts Center Talk Radio Show from August 20, 2014, hosted by David Christopher Lewis. Dannion Brinkley is hilarious, super wise, and has a gigantic heart! He died 3 times, twice by lightening and again through a medical condition. Now he’s back to tell about being at the bedside of over 3000 individuals before they passed on, to promote hospice and the organization he started called The Twilight Brigade, and to share what he perceives and receives from higher octaves of Spirit as he is tuned in to divine truths. Be informed about the prophecies he’s received. Be entertained and inspired by his cosmic understanding of the importance of what is going on right now on the earth. Learn what we can be a part of to promote the divine master’s vantage point, their works and their service for humanity.

Dannion shares highlights from his new book "Ten Things to Know Before You Go".




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Scientific Evidence Supporting Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife

Does the Soul Survive?: A Jewish Journey to Belief in Afterlife, Past Lives & Living with Purpose by Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz

 

Amazon.com Review

 

Does the Soul Survive?: A Jewish Journey to Belief in Afterlife, Past Lives & Living with Purpose by Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz combines journalistic reporting, scholarly biblical reading, and the probing self-examination of memoir in service of recounting his journey from skepticism to belief regarding life after death. Spitz, who teaches the philosophy of law at the University of Judaism, carefully describes traditional Jewish views of the afterlife and fearlessly explores the many challenges to those views arising in parapsychology--including near-death experiences, reincarnation, and spirit mediums. In the end, Spitz makes a cogent argument that belief in the afterlife is not, as has often been argued, incompatible with Jewish tradition. Wisely, he grounds his concluding arguments in the present-oriented ethic that guides Jewish devotion: "Our challenge is to use the time we have now to live gratefully and responsibly, knowing that how we choose to live shapes our soul," he argues. "The ability to accept death as part of life provides comfort and the awareness that each day is precious. Our challenge is to make the best of every day in this life." --Michael Joseph Gross --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

 

From Publishers Weekly

 

Spitz, a Conservative rabbi, sets out to convince readers that it's kosher to be Jewish and believe in reincarnation and the afterlife. He details his personal journey from skepticism to belief in the reality of the soul, distilling along the way the work of pioneering mediums like Brian Weiss and James van Draagh. Spitz discusses one seminar he attended in which he found himself revealing images of a previous life as a Native American, and another in which his wife's deceased grandparents "communicated" with her. Spitz employs an array of Jewish sourcesAparticularly mystical textsAthat affirm a faith in the survival of the soul, although the concept remains controversial in traditional Judaism. He claims that this faith can provide comfort to those struggling with death. "Letting go is easier when one believes death is not final," he says. He offers the personal example of coping with his mother's death, followed by dramatic instances of how he has used guided imagery to ease congregants into accepting death. While we are alive, our "homework assignment" is to nurture our souls through good deeds and to express gratitude to God, "rooting us more deeply in living this life each day as a precious gift." Spitz's compelling arguments may cement the beliefs of Jewish readers already receptive to the existence of the supernatural and open a doorway for doubters to reconceptualize life and death. (Oct.)

http://www.amazon.com/Does-Soul-Survive-Journey-Afterlife/dp/1580231659

A great interview with Rabbi Spitz is available at gaiamtv.com.

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In Jewish culture, more emphasis is placed on living through our good deeds and passing our loving thoughts to those who come after us than on an afterlife per se. Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz, author of Does the Soul Survive, is breaking new ground by exploring the Jewish journey to belief in afterlife, past lives and living with purpose. Rabbi Spitz looks seriously at learning more about this part of us that survives, our soul, based on more than faith, but on experiences that open the doorway to a whole new world of inquiry. - See more at: http://www.gaiamtv.com/video/does-soul-survive-rabbi-elie-kaplan-spitz#sthash.lf5ZNPwi.dpuf

Does The Soul Survive? (Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz) (2000)

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In Jewish culture, more emphasis is placed on living through our good deeds and passing our loving thoughts to those who come after us than on an afterlife per se. Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz, author of Does the Soul Survive, is breaking new ground by exploring the Jewish journey to belief in afterlife, past lives and living with purpose. Rabbi Spitz looks seriously at learning more about this part of us that survives, our soul, based on more than faith, but on experiences that open the doorway to a whole new world of inquiry.
Corinne Edwards

Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz
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- See more at: http://www.gaiamtv.com/video/does-soul-survive-rabbi-elie-kaplan-spitz#sthash.lf5ZNPwi.dpuf

Spiritual Science & Past Life Regression by Dr. Newton Kondaveti


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Dr Pim Van Lommel's scientific studies on near-death experiences and consciousness


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Monday, March 30, 2015

Skepticism vs. Psi


Presentation Speech Outline:
Skepticism vs. Psi



I.  The 2 general kinds of skeptics

A. Open-minded skeptics
- Typical traits: honest doubt, inquiry and investigation of both sides, considers evidence on all sides and seeing their good/bad points, asking exploratory questions, acceptance of evidence, good common sense, nonjudgmental

B. Closed-minded skeptics (also known as pseudoskeptics, debunkers, hard core materialists, scoffers, atheists)
- Typical traits: Automatic dismissal of all paranormal claims, predisposed to discredit all testimonials of a paranormal nature, denial of any and all evidence, scoffing, giving off an air of superior rationality, judgmental about things they know nothing about, quick to draw conclusions without evidence, using philosophical semantics to win arguments and invalidate paranormal or spiritual experiences

·               The skepticism of closed-minded skeptics is a philosophy, not a science

IIExamples of organized skeptical groups which seek to debunk/discredit spiritual or paranormal claims:

A. CSICOP (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal)
- Publisher of Skeptical Inquirer magazine.  Website: www.csicop.org
- Former staff member Dennis Rawlins resigned after finding hard evidence of CSICOP intentionally suppressing its own findings which supported astrology (known as the "file drawer effect"), thus proving the organization's true agenda was simply to discredit/debunk in any way possible rather than to find the truth, in order to appease its subscribers.  You can read Rawlins' report at http://cura.free.fr/xv/14starbb.html

B. JREF (James Randi Educational Foundation)
- Founded by magician and professional debunker James Randi, who is infamous for his million dollar psychic challenge.  Website:  www.randi.org
- Critics claim that his challenge is a publicity stunt that no one can win, citing claims that applicants for the challenge go unanswered.

III.  Common underhanded tactics of organized skeptics

             A.  Raising the bar or moving the goal posts endlessly and undefined
             B.  Dismissing ALL anecdotal evidence on purely philosophical grounds
             C.  Double standards in accepting only anecdotal evidence that supports their claims
D.  Ignoring facts and evidence that don’t fit into their beliefs, rather than updating their beliefs to conform to the facts (but this is human nature, which we all do)
E.  Forcing or adhering to any explanation rather than a paranormal one, even if it's been ruled out.


·               Some articles that describe these type of tactics/tricks in detail: 
- Zen and the Art of Debunkery (satire on skeptics), http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/pathskep.html
- 10 Stupid Tricks of Skeptics, http://www.primenet.com/~lippard/stupid-skeptic-tricks.txt
- Extraordinary Claim? Move the goal posts!, http://www.anomalist.com/commentaries/claim.html

IV.  Common arguments of organized skeptics

             A.  Anecdotal evidence is invalid
             B.  Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
             C.  Occam's Razor
             D.  Invisible Pink Unicorn analogy or Santa Claus gambit

V.  Scientific evidence for psi

             A.  Ganzfeld
- Done repeatedly during the 70's and 80's, subjects choosing one our of four targets got between 33 and 45 percent hit rate rather than the chance rate of 25 percent.
             B.  Auto-Ganzfeld
                         - Same as above, but used computers for the testing, during the 80's and 90's.
- Repeated by EdinburgExamined by experts who found no sensory leakage in controls.

·               For more reading on Ganzfeld, see Dean Radin's book The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena.
·               Links to scientific reports on Ganzfeld      
                         http://www.psych.cornell.edu/dbem/ganzfeld.html
             http://www.psych.cornell.edu/dbem/does_psi_exist.html
                         http://www.psych.cornell.edu/dbem/response_to_hyman.html

             C.  PEAR (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research)
- Done over 20 years.  Psychokinesis experiments revealed consistent statistical anomaly throughout thousands of trials. Skeptic Ray Hyman investigated and could find no lack of controls.  See PEAR website at: http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/
             D.  Recent experiments by Dr. Gary Schwartz involving mediums and sitters
- The mediums got a hit rate far above chance, between 70 - 90 percent.  Results summarized in Jan 2001 edition of the Journal for the Society of Psychical Research.  His recent book The Afterlife Experiments is convincing evidence of survival of consciousness and of telepathy.
E.  Overwhelming anecdotal evidence for telepathy and ghosts
- At least half the population of the world has experienced either telepathy or ghosts that defied any conventional explanation, and everyone knows someone who has too. Therefore, it is extremely likely that these are real phenomenon.  For example:

In their biennial report on the state of science understanding released in April 2002, the National Science Foundation found that 60 percent of adults in the United States agreed or strongly agreed that some people possess psychic powers or extrasensory perception (ESP). In June 2002, the Consumer Analysis Group conducted the most extensive survey ever done in the United Kingdom and revealed that 67 percent of adults believed in psychic powers. Report author Jan Walsh, commenting on the statistics that found that two out of three surveyed believed in an afterlife, said that as far as the British public was concerned, "the supernatural world isn't so paranormal after all."

VI.  Conclusions

A.    For most paranormal phenomenon, the jury is still out, since the evidence is scanty and ambiguous.  However, the evidence for both telepathy and ghosts is very strong when you combine the strong scientific evidence and overwhelmingly common anecdotal evidence.  Therefore, they are very likely to be real or at least there is something to it other than fraud, delusion, mistake or misperception.

Related:

"Science and the taboo of psi" with Dean Radin

Interview with Winston Wu, Founder of SCEPCOP and Debunker of Pseudo-Skeptics 

Why James Randi, Michael Shermer and other Pseudoskeptics are NOT real skeptics!

The Case for Astrology by John B. West
TIME AND MIND
                Way back in one of my first columns for FATE (August, 1991), I wrote of the apparent connection of geomagnetic fields (the fields generated by the Earth itself) and psi abilities.  Researchers had found correlations between highs and lows in the field and the incidence and apparent “strength” of psi experiences.  It has been postulated that observing the fluctuations of the geomagnetic field might allow researchers in the laboratory to decide when to try experiments for best results in PK or ESP.
                Of course, the geomagnetic fields generated by our planet do shift irregularly, and can be affected on a planet-wide scale by solar flares, cosmic radiation, and similar extra-terrestrial (natural) events, and on a local level by movements of the earth and weather.  This makes predicting best times for best results a bit tricky.
                Now a researcher in California has found another environmental correlation, but this one having to do with a specific time of day, though not one measured by our usual clocks.
                TIME AND THE STARS
               
                Dr. James Spottiswoode, a physicist with the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, set out to look for any correlations between laboratory results and either local time or sidereal time.  In his paper in the JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION (v. 11, no. 2, pp. 109-122, Summer, 1997) entitled “Apparent Association Between Effect Size in Free Response Anomalous Cognition Experiments and Local Sidereal Time,” Spottiswood found a time period in which ESP is three to four times likely to work than at other times of day.
                First, a few definitions for those not up on their jargon.
                Anomalous cognition is a fairly new phrase that has been applied to ESP.  It essentially means an inexplicable knowing, a transfer of information whose explanation is outside our current knowledge of perception and cognition.
More...

www.mindreader.com/articles/Fate1297.doc

Dr. Dean Radin - Science and the Taboo of PSI



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TIME AND MIND

                Way back in one of my first columns for FATE (August, 1991), I wrote of the apparent connection of geomagnetic fields (the fields generated by the Earth itself) and psi abilities.  Researchers had found correlations between highs and lows in the field and the incidence and apparent “strength” of psi experiences.  It has been postulated that observing the fluctuations of the geomagnetic field might allow researchers in the laboratory to decide when to try experiments for best results in PK or ESP.
                Of course, the geomagnetic fields generated by our planet do shift irregularly, and can be affected on a planet-wide scale by solar flares, cosmic radiation, and similar extra-terrestrial (natural) events, and on a local level by movements of the earth and weather.  This makes predicting best times for best results a bit tricky.
                Now a researcher in California has found another environmental correlation, but this one having to do with a specific time of day, though not one measured by our usual clocks.

                TIME AND THE STARS
               
                Dr. James Spottiswoode, a physicist with the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, set out to look for any correlations between laboratory results and either local time or sidereal time.  In his paper in the JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION (v. 11, no. 2, pp. 109-122, Summer, 1997) entitled “Apparent Association Between Effect Size in Free Response Anomalous Cognition Experiments and Local Sidereal Time,” Spottiswood found a time period in which ESP is three to four times likely to work than at other times of day.
                First, a few definitions for those not up on their jargon.
                Anomalous cognition is a fairly new phrase that has been applied to ESP.  It essentially means an inexplicable knowing, a transfer of information whose explanation is outside our current knowledge of perception and cognition.
More...

www.mindreader.com/articles/Fate1297.doc

Kenneth Ring - Near Death Experiences


Dr. Kenneth Ring photo. Dr. Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper completed a two-year study into the NDEs of the blind. They published their findings in a book entitled "Mindsight" in which they documented the solid evidence of 31 cases in which blind people report visually accurate information obtained during an NDE. Perhaps the best example in his study is that of a forty-five year old blind woman by the name of Vicki Umipeg. Vicki was born blind, her optic nerve having been completely destroyed at birth because of an excess of oxygen she received in the incubator. Yet, she appears to have been able to see during her NDE. Her story is a particularly clear instance of how NDEs of the congenitally blind can unfold in precisely the same way as do those of sighted persons... Read more
Sources:
Article:  "People Born Blind Can See During a NDE" Dr. Kenneth Ring's NDE Research of the Blind - www.near-death.com
Book:  Ring, K., & Cooper, S. (1999) Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind. Palo Alto: William James Centre for the Study of Consciousness.


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List of Multiple Discoveries - The Source Field Investigations


Historians and sociologists have remarked on the occurrence, in science, of "multiple independent discovery". Robert K. Merton defined such "multiples" as instances in which similar discoveries are made by scientists working independently of each other.[1] "Sometimes the discoveries are simultaneous or almost so; sometimes a scientist will make a new discovery which, unknown to him, somebody else has made years before."[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries
The concept of multiple discovery is the hypothesis that most scientific discoveries and inventions are made independently and more or less simultaneously by multiple scientists and inventors.[1] The concept of multiple discovery opposes a traditional view—the "heroic theory" of invention and discovery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

This is evidence for what David Wilcock dubs the "source field."

David Wilcock: The Source Field Investigations -- Full Video! 

Dreamland: Ghost Pets

Editor's Note: One of the strongest paranormal experiences I ever had was feeling a kitty (that wasn't there) jump on the bed and walk over and snuggle up next to me. At first I  thought one of my cats had jumped on the bed, I was certain of it. Then I looked down, saw no cat was there, but yet felt the last few footsteps and the snuggling up. My wife had independently and unbeknownst to me experienced the same thing. These events happened shortly after losing her most beloved kitty of her life named Buzzy and stopped after getting a new kitty that looked and acted very much like him named Stripe.

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Does Death Exist? New Theory Says ‘No’


robertlanza.com

Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think.

One well-known aspect of quantum physics is that certain observations cannot be predicted absolutely. Instead, there is a range of possible observations each with a different probability. One mainstream explanation, the “many-worlds” interpretation, states that each of these possible observations corresponds to a different universe (the ‘multiverse’). A new scientific theory – called biocentrism – refines these ideas. There are an infinite number of universes, and everything that could possibly happen occurs in some universe. Death does not exist in any real sense in these scenarios. All possible universes exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any of them. Although individual bodies are destined to self-destruct, the alive feeling – the ‘Who am I?’- is just a 20-watt fountain of energy operating in the brain. But this energy doesn’t go away at death. One of the surest axioms of science is that energy never dies; it can neither be created nor destroyed. But does this energy transcend from one world to the other?

Consider an experiment that was recently published in the journal Science showing that scientists could retroactively change something that had happened in the past. Particles had to decide how to behave when they hit a beam splitter. Later on, the experimenter could turn a second switch on or off. It turns out that what the observer decided at that point, determined what the particle did in the past. Regardless of the choice you, the observer, make, it is you who will experience the outcomes that will result. The linkages between these various histories and universes transcend our ordinary classical ideas of space and time. Think of the 20-watts of energy as simply holo-projecting either this or that result onto a screen. Whether you turn the second beam splitter on or off, it’s still the same battery or agent responsible for the projection.

According to Biocentrism, space and time are not the hard objects we think. Wave your hand through the air – if you take everything away, what’s left? Nothing. The same thing applies for time. You can’t see anything through the bone that surrounds your brain. Everything you see and experience right now is a whirl of information occurring in your mind. Space and time are simply the tools for putting everything together.

Death does not exist in a timeless, spaceless world. In the end, even Einstein admitted, “Now Besso” (an old friend) “has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us…know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Immortality doesn’t mean a perpetual existence in time without end, but rather resides outside of time altogether.

This was clear with the death of my sister Christine. After viewing her body at the hospital, I went out to speak with family members. Christine’s husband – Ed – started to sob uncontrollably. For a few moments I felt like I was transcending the provincialism of time. I thought about the 20-watts of energy, and about experiments that show a single particle can pass through two holes at the same time. I could not dismiss the conclusion: Christine was both alive and dead, outside of time.
Christine had had a hard life. She had finally found a man that she loved very much. My younger sister couldn’t make it to her wedding because she had a card game that had been scheduled for several weeks. My mother also couldn’t make the wedding due to an important engagement she had at the Elks Club. The wedding was one of the most important days in Christine’s life. Since no one else from our side of the family showed, Christine asked me to walk her down the aisle to give her away.

Soon after the wedding, Christine and Ed were driving to the dream house they had just bought when their car hit a patch of black ice. She was thrown from the car and landed in a banking of snow.
“Ed,” she said “I can’t feel my leg.”

She never knew that her liver had been ripped in half and blood was rushing into her peritoneum.
After the death of his son, Emerson wrote “Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.”
Whether it’s flipping the switch for the Science experiment, or turning the driving wheel ever so slightly this way or that way on black-ice, it’s the 20-watts of energy that will experience the result. In some cases the car will swerve off the road, but in other cases the car will continue on its way to my sister’s dream house.

Christine had recently lost 100 pounds, and Ed had bought her a surprise pair of diamond earrings. It’s going to be hard to wait, but I know Christine is going to look fabulous in them the next time I see her.

Biocentrism” (BenBella Books) lays out Lanza’s theory of everything.
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Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
by Robert Lanza, Bob Berman


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Reincarnation - Ian Stevenson - Children's past life memories

A young boy supposedly has memories of a past life in which he was his own grandfather. Plus, Dr. Jim Tucker discusses his and his former colleague Dr. Ian Stevenson's research on children in eastern countries who have spontaneous past life memories. In their research they found much evidence suggestive of reincarnation, like detailed and accurate memories and physical characteristics carried over from the previous life to the current one (birth marks, deformities, injuries).


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