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Scientific explanations for near-death experiences are sometimes a lot less believable than the experiences themselves.
Parapsychology researchers Dr. Carols Alvorado and Dr. Christine Simmonds-Moore have asked me to announce that they are inviting members of the public to complete an online survey of psychic experiences.
Their website explains:
We are interested in learning more about a variety of human experiences, some of which are unusual, but are by no means uncommon in the general population. We are undertaking an online survey to explore individual differences, synesthesia (the tendency for some people to experience two senses together, e.g., colored words or numbers; tasting shapes; spatially organized calendars, etc.), and a variety of anomalous experiences (for example, extrasensory perception.
We would very much appreciate it if you would take the time to complete this online questionnaire, even if you have never experienced the things described on the questionnaire.
You can access the survey from this link: http://carlossalvarado.edublogs.org/2012/03/05/new-survey-study-of-psychic-experiences-and-synesthesia/
Please email Dr. Christine Simmonds-Moore (csimmond@westga.edu) if you have any questions about the survey.
Carlos is the Scholar in Residence at Atlantic University. He has been professionally involved in parapsychology since the 1980s. His previous research work has centered on the psychological study of out-of-body experiences and other phenomena. In recent times he has conducted survey studies of the general population on such topics as depersonalization experiences and imaginary companions.
Christine is a British-born psychologist working at the University of West Georgia. She is the editor of “Exceptional Experience and Health: Essays on Mind, body and human potential”, a co-author of text book on Anomalistic Psychology and is working on a book about the relationship between schizotypy and exceptional experiences.
One of the arguments often cited against the idea of reincarnation is that “the living outnumber the dead.”
In other words, there are more people alive today than have existed throughout the whole of human history combined. So, quite simply, there aren’t enough dead people for each of us living today to have had even one past life.
Technically, this need not rule out reincarnation. It could be that some of us have lived before while the rest of us are newcomers.
But that’s beside the point, because the idea that the living outnumber the dead is just plain wrong. It is an urban myth that has been around since the 1970s, and it is easily contradicted by both population studies and simple arithmetic.
Ben Breedlove, 18, died on Christmas Day from a heart attack. Since his death, a video he posted on YouTube has captured the world’s attention.
Ben Breedlove, a teenager with a dangerous heart condition that brought him close to death three times, finally died on December 25th, Christmas Day, 2011. A few days beforehand, however, he had posted a two-part video on YouTube telling his story and describing a series of near-death experiences.
Although she herself is very reluctant to admit it, everything points to an ordinary Canadian woman having been this famous novelist in a previous life.
Whenever someone claims to be the reincarnation of a well-known historical personality, a healthy dose of scepticism is generally required. I have lost count of the number of people claiming to be the reincarnation of Jesus, for instance.
This case is absolutely not one of those.
There is a very strong likelihood that Jewelle St. James, a health-care worker from British Columbia, is the reincarnation of the nineteenth-century novelist Emily Brontë, author of Wuthering Heights.
Yet Jewelle herself, despite having written several books on her search to uncover her past lives, has been most reluctant of all to accept this, and even since coming to terms with it she has been highly resistant to disclosing anything about it. To this day, she has not made any public reference to it.
She has, however, given me permission to tell the story.
Another musical prodigy suggests a possible reincarnation of a famous composer with striking facial similarity.
Born in 1991 in New Haven, Connecticut, Jay “Bluejay” Greenberg began playing the cello at age of three, and subsequently taught himself to play the piano.
His first compositions were written at the age of six. His first formal lessons in theory and composition began when he was seven. At the age of ten he enrolled as a scholarship student in New York’s prestigious Juilliard School of Music.
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New research finds that a single high dose of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, can lead to lasting personality change.
In an experiment conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, a single high dose of the hallucinogen psilocybin was enough to bring about a measureable personality change lasting at least a year.
The change was found in only one aspect of personality, a dimension known as Openness. And the change was found only if the participant had a mystical experience while taking the drug.
Neale Donald Walsch, author of the Conversations with God books, tells the story of his near death like experience.
Although it has been called a near-death experience, Neale Donald Walsch was not – apparently – anywhere near close to dying when it happened. Rather, he was in a state of despair.
What then happened when he closed his eyes and let go is one the most visually dramatic, inspiring and moving experiences I have ever heard of.
The Lennon-Brontë Connection is the follow-up to All You Need is Love. That was the book in which an ordinary Canadian health-care worker, Jewelle St James, shared her extraordinary search for the truth behind her inexplicable grief after the death of John Lennon … and her discovery of a past life in seventeenth-century England.
During her investigations, a number of psychics had spontaneously suggested to Jewelle that John Lennon had also been a reincarnation of a certain Branwell Brontë. Branwell was the tragically wayward brother of the celebrated literary sisters of nineteenth-century England. Through her research, Jewelle was struck by the similarities between John Lennon and Branwell Brontë – not just in character but also even in their physical appearance.
Here are two conferences on a similar theme in 2012: the Second Annual Afterlife Awareness Conference and the International Conference on After Death Communications.
March 9 -11, 2012 | Virginia Beach, Virginia
This Second Annual Conference will be held from Friday March 9th to Sunday March 11th, 2012, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It is being presented in cooperation with the Edgar Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE) based in Virginia Beach.
This is one of those cases where the facial resemblance just hit me. I have no idea if this is an actual reincarnation, but this and other similarities suggest at least the possibility.
Sergei Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor, regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His musical fairy tale for children, Peter and the Wolf, remains enormously popular.
Alanis Morissette, of course, is the Canadian-born singer-songwriter whose breakthrough to superstardom was the 1995 album Jagged Little Pill, the best-selling album in the 1990s.
Could they be one and the same soul?
Dick Buchanan with some of his photo collection
Dick Buchanan says memories of a past life inspire his fascination with the American Civil War.
Dick Buchanan, 65, owns The Grand Spectacle opticians business in Horseheads, New York. He is not only an optician but also a psychic, a hypnotist, and — just like rock star Phil Collins — a man obsessed with a battle that took place over a hundred years ago.
“I’ve always had an interest in the Civil War. Primarily because I served in the Civil War.”
Dick is convinced that he has had many past lives. But the one in which he was a Union cavalryman and was wounded at Gettysburg is of special interest to him.
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