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08 Nov 2009 07:59
November 8Journalistic Plunder Jim SchnabelJim Schnabel is the author of an excellent book published in 1997 called Remote Viewers. He also did a documentary on remote viewing called The Real X-Files: America’s Psychic Spies. In this post Schnabel charges that Jon Ronson, the author of the book The Men Who Stare at Goats and the movie on which it is based, has "plundered," or made "extensive borrowings" of, his own work. He provides several examples to support his contention. Elsewhere, in another movie related post, Micah Hanks wonders if it's correct to say that the new movie, The Fourth Kind, is a "hoax" in Hoax of the Fourth Kind: Popular Mechanics InvestigatesHow common are out-of-body experiences? Are there other experiences we don't normally think of as OBEs that nevertheless might fit into the same general category? These are questions that Michael Prescott began asking himself when he started reading John Mack book, Abduction. "What I found interesting, and rather unexpected," writes Prescott, "about Mack's book was how closely the so-called 'abduction experiences' resemble OBEs, at least in many important respects...The bottom line is that the OBE phenomenon may be considerably more complex and multifaceted than we might assume at first glance. It may take in not only "ordinary" OBEs, but 'alien abductions,' as well, and perhaps even the curiously persistent legends of 'little folk' of various kinds who have a penchant for carrying off unwary mortals." Other recent Prescott posts worth reading include: Under the tableZulu timeMongolia: Shamanism Is Making A Comeback EurasianetShamans--people who supposedly have a direct link to the world of the spirits of dead ancestors--have an ancient history among Mongolians. After coming close to disappearing during the Communist era, shamanism is now making a comeback. Why? A traditionally Mongolian take on the situation is that there's a clash going on in the spirit world between "black heaven" and "white heaven." "When black and white heaven fight, the one who has more spirits is more likely to win. So now those spirits are recruiting new, let us say, soldiers." Others attribute the rise in shamanism to more mundane economic and cultural factors.Cllr Adrian Hicks Demands Answers Over Extra-terrestrials This is HampshireAdrian Hicks, the Hampshire, UK, councillor who claims that aliens are secretly walking the planet, has posted a video asking for a shady organisation called Majestic--which he alleges is made up of scientists, military officers and politicians tasked with making contact with extraterrestrials following a UFO crash in 1947--to come clean and tell the public about the existence of aliens. A fellow Liberal Democrat says: "“Adrian is an excellent councillor and works really hard for his constituents. His UFO beliefs are his beliefs and have nothing to do with the Liberal Democrats.” Also, Forgetomori's alien-of-the-day: Chilean Park AlienWelcome To Paranormal Journalism Paranormal JournalismWhat if reporters treated stories about ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot, and Shadow People with all the seriousness of covering a car accident or investigating government corruption? Jason Offutt set out to find out and is reaching a course in journalism on the paranormal at Northwest Missouri State University. He has 22 students in his class; ten of their stories are posted here.UFOs: What Is Known? The Big StudyIt's often said that we don't know much about UFOs. But that's not true, says UFOlogist Michael Swords. While we don't know enough to solve the mystery, it's not true that we don't know much about UFOs. In fact, we know so much about them, as case incidents, he says, that it's hard to keep track of it all. Swords attempts to delineate what we do know. Elsewhere, in Puerto Rico, a Triangular UFO Over the Southwest.
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