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Dean Radin himself must be considered supernormal. As a scientist working in the tiny field of parapsychology, he is surrounded by academics and intellectuals who not only  dismiss all psi phenomena, but think parapsychology is not a valid field of study. As a result, there is very little money available for such result and only a handful of full-time parapsychologists. Yet, Radin plods on tirelessly, turning out the studies and the book. He has the evidence, the undeniable proof that telepathy and other psychic phenomena are real.

from Radin:

Critics are fond of saying that’s there is no scientific evidence for psi. They wave their fist in the air and shout, “Show me the evidence!” Then they turn red and have a coughing fit. In less dramatic cases a student  might be genuinely curious and open-minded, but unsure where to begin to find reliable evidence about psi. Google knows all and sees all, but it doesn’t know how to interpret or evaluate what it knows (at least not yet).

In the past, my response to the “show me” challenge has been to give the titles of a few books to read, point to the bibliographies in those books, and advise the person to do their homework. I still think that this is the best approach for a beginner tackling a complex topic. But given the growing expectation that information on  virtually any topic ought to be available online within 60 seconds, traditional methods of scholarship are disappearing fast.

So I’ve created a SHOW ME page with downloadable articles on psi and psi-related topics, all published in peer-reviewed journals. Most of these papers were published after the year 2000. Most report experimental studies or meta-analyses of  classes of experiments. I will continue to add to this page and flesh it out, including links to recent or to especially useful ebooks. This page may eventually become annotated, then multithreaded and hyperlinked, and then morph into a Wiki.

This You Tube video is one of the things that came out of the Disclosure events in Washington, D.C. this past week. This man was apparently a CIA agent during the Eisenhower years. He strikes me as sincere, but I always ask myself if it might be more disinformation. The video was shot in early March.

Tonight, we’ll be live with Mark Johnson and KGRADIO, 9-10:30 PM eastern.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=3eQx_5U4WV4

 For Mother’s Day, Rob, Megan and I went to the Norton Museum in downtown West Palm Beach to see an Annie Leibowitz exhibit.  Before we left, I slipped on my moldavite ring and told Rob and Megan the ring would attract a synchro,

On the way, we got stuck behind the SUV in the photo above.  With a canoe on the roof rack and three bikes on a rear carrier, it’s not an easy car to miss. 

Rob finally pulled around the car, we headed south on Olive, the street where the museum is located, and realized we’d gone too far. We circled back and turned into the museum lot – and saw the SUV with the canoe and bikes on it. The people were just getting out. to head into the museum.

“Them again?” Megan laughed. “This is starting to feel like a synchro.”

We went through the exhibit, which was fantastic.  The selection of 39 photos includes portraits of both celebrities and ordinary people.

We wandered around for about an hour, then decided to head for a Cuban bakery.

We were admiring the homes in a particular neighborhood  and weren’t paying any attention to where we were going. We ended up at another Cuban bakery  and while I went up to the sidewalk window to buy a couple of cortaditos, Rob and Megan filled the car with gas at the station across the street.  In other words, time passed, probably half an hour.

When we left the bakery, we missed our turn and ended up on the interstate. Rob decided to get off at the next exit and who’s in front of us? The SUV.

“What?” Rob exclaimed.

“A cluster,” I laughed.

“Impressive,” Megan remarked.

They apparently had gotten lost as well, because as soon as I snapped the photo, they made a U-turn and headed back onto the interstate.  

This week, Washington has been the site of disclosure hearings related to UFO phenomena. A panel of six former members of Congress is hearing testimony from more than 40 UFO witnesses, involving some of the most interesting cases. Wednesday morning the testimony was dedicated to the  eerie matter of mysterious animal mutilations that allegedly are related to the activity of UFO occupants. The intent of the hearings is to urge Congress to come aboard and set up their own hearings and call for government disclosure of secret UFO documents.

As might be expected, the mainstream media is dissing this event with some news outlets ridiculing both the hearing and panel members. I heard one report at the outset of the hearings that mainly involved belittling the former congress members by exposing their personal and financial frailties. It reminded me of virulent campaign attacks as election day approaches, and made me wonder what the point of the nastiness is about. It shows that the subject of UFOs and also the paranormal remain open game for such attacks. The harbingers of political correctness, who would never attack someone for being gay or a minority have no problem ridiculing UFO witnesses or believers in the paranormal.

To their credit, one semi-mainstream online news outlet, the Huffington Post, owned by AOL, has not only covered the hearings as a real event, but maintained a balanced approach, avoiding the disparaging comments found in other accounts.

Here is a  partial report on Huffington Post, written by Lee Spiegal, who knows this subject well. This report focuses on a case involving an ace Peruvian pilot, Col. Oscar Santa-Maria (pictured above.)

“Possibly the most intriguing testimony offered today (Wednesday) so far came from a former 25-year Peruvian air force fighter pilot. Col. Oscar Santa-Maria. In 1980, he was ordered to takeoff and shoot down a sphere-shaped UFO that was in restricted airspace near an air base. The encounter lasted more than 20 minutes.

“‘These were 22 minutes where we went up and down, it went around, and it was trying to avoid me while I was pursuing it and I was trying to fire. When I first fired, these were bursts of 30 millimeter shells — a single one can destroy a truck. And I shot 64, a barrage of fire, and nothing happened at all, and that’s what was so surprising.

“‘The possibility of NOT hitting my target was practically impossible. I’ve won awards for marksmanship, and that’s why they sent me up there to chase this thing. The possibility of my missing it was zero.’

“The object Santa-Maria was chasing was about 30 feet in diameter with a dome on top, no visible engine, wings or windows. He told the committee he tried to figure out how to better attack the unknown craft.

“‘I tried different positions. When it went up, it had supersonic speed. When I moved to the side of the UFO at 1.3 Mach, it stopped, and then, in a matter of seconds, it achieved 1.2 Mach without any engines! This is something that nobody, no craft can do, to just go from zero to 1.2 Mach, vertically, to reach my same position — it was able to anticipate my moves and then follow me.

“‘Once I landed, I met with intelligence officers, and we looked at all catalogues to see what possible spy object this might have been, but there was nothing similar to what I had observed, and we were unaware of any type of technology [like this] on Earth that existed.”

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You probably won’t read about that case or any others in most newspapers, or even on cable TV. If someone has seen any other media reports that actually over the hearings without the element of ridicule, please let us know.

Number synchronicities are something that captivate many people. But we’ve found that this particular type of synchronicity seems to especially appeal to people who don’t pay much attention to other aspects of meaningful coincidences in their lives. In other words, the frequency of an appearance of a particular number seems to be an entry point for some people into the world of synchronicity.

As a recent example, we  were involved in talks with a man who had been the programming director for a large cable channel company for more than twenty years. He had retired and was working as a consultant bringing ideas for TV series to a production company called Jupiter Entertainment. He knew that the H2 channel was looking for a new series to follow Ancient Aliens and he’d come across Aliens in the Backyard, and was fascinated.

As it turned out, JE was busy with other projects and passed on Aliens.  We’d been hopeful, but having been there before, we were aware that it was a long shot.

We’d talked on the phone and exchanged e-mails with this man who seemed fairly traditional – in other words, not into the paranormal or synchronicity. But he did confess to being baffled by one set of numbers that repeatedly appeared in his life.

After things culminated with his pursuit of bringing Aliens to the small screen, he wrote us and said that his daughter had also been plagued by a number synchronicity. When he asked her what number, he was amazed to find out that it was the same number he was seeing.

So we asked him what the number was and when Trish heard that it was 4-4-4, she was startled because she had seen that same string of numbers herself before the man had contacted us. Once we were talking with him, she no longer saw the numbers.

That story is an extended intro to a fascinating tale about number synchronicities from History Computed, by Arthur Finnessey, who found that the number 57 is an intimate characteristic of the American Revolution.

Among examples he cites is the last time the Liberty Bell rang, in tribute to George Washington, before it cracked on February 22, 1846 – 57 years after Washington’s 57th birthday.

> The closing paragraph of the US Constitution, following its original seven articles, makes up 57 words. It was ratified by 57 yes-votes from New Hampshire, and all Constitutional law begins with the Constitution’s 57th word –  “All.”

> On February 6, 1777, 57 weeks to the day after the pivotal Battle of Princeton, another turning-point took place when the French joined the American cause. They fought off 19 British warships, making it possible for Washington to defeat Cornwallis on October 19, 1781, in a war which began on the 19th of April, 1775. So those three significant 19’s add up to 57.

>Washington’s only two victories over British Commander Cornwallis were 57 days apart.

> So too, 57 days separated the other decisive battles of the war, at Cowpens and the Guilford Courthouse.

> The final anniversary of Lexington and Concord celebrated during the Revolutionary War was precisely 57 months, 57 weeks and 57 days after they were fought.

> In South Carolina’s most famous assault at Fort Ninety-Six, 57 Americans were killed. Interestingly, 96 is the sum total of the number of men who signed the Declaration of Independence (57) and the Constitution (39). The American Revolution’s 57th month concluded on 19 January, 1780; the Redcoats took Charleston exactly twice times 57 (114) days later. Twelve times 57 (684) days before, the decisive Battle of Monmouth was fought.

Symbolically, five is associated with male energy (i.e., war), while seven signifies the completion of cycles. Together, five and seven reflect the completion of major military cycles running like inter-linking themes throughout the history of the Revolutionary War. Isodore Kozminsky, in Numbers, Their Meaning & Magic, refers to any number from 55 to 64 as “the Sword.”

Author Frank Joseph wondered  if the presence of the number 57 determined historical events. Or was it somehow an outgrowth or expression of America’s violent struggle for freedom? (Yes, we’ve read the terrible stuff about him, and don’t know whether it’s true, but if it is, does that automatically make his take on synchros invalid?)

Joseph says: “The outstanding feature of 57, around which acausal incidents revolved, was a major rift in the fabric of history – the American Revolution. All other, similarly powerful historical events likewise produce extraordinary high levels of meaningful coincidence.”

Yes. In fact, that last comment relates to the 7th secret of The 7 Secrets of Synchronicity: When synchronicities manifest themselves through global events, the universe seems to be addressing us as a collective.

On Sunday, April 28, I received an hour-long healing from Don Pascual Flores, the Q’ero Indian shaman, who was visiting South Florida under the auspices of Carey Stokes, a healer in his own right. As Trish mentioned in her comments about our group session the evening before, we were surprised that the despacho ceremony included cleansing procedure with condor feathers and Florida water that was very similar to what we experienced years ago in ceremonies with Santeria practitioners in Miami.

The healing ceremony involved lots of spit-spraying of Florida water as well as work with crystals, stones, feathers, and bells. For much of the healing, I was holding large pieces of crystal quartz in either hand along with an eagle feather in each hand as I lay on my back. Meanwhile, Don Pascual was chanting and singing and placing stones on my forehead and rubbing other stones across my body.

I quickly entered the alpha state between wakefulness and sleep, and as he called on the spirits, I seemingly glimpsed one watching us. I was in a deeply relaxed state of mind where I was seeing an entity – which looked sort of like an owl – for some time before I realized what I was looking at. So at first it was there, but I didn’t comprehend what I was seeing. It’s like staring at something in the refrigerator that you’re looking for, but somehow not seeing it.

One of the oddities of this healing, something a bit hard to conceive and sort of humorous as well, was something that Don Pascual did while he was working on my feet. He sprayed my feet with Florida water, rubbed them with stones, then tied the big toes together and stuck an eagle feather between them. So the reading was definitely from ‘head to toe.’

Don Pascual only had one question for me, what was my name.  I told him Roberto, my traveling name when I’m in Latin countries. He invoked the spirits over and over in the name of mi hermano (my brother) Roberto. His effort, as I understand it, was to remove any negative attachments from ancestors.

Did the healing work? It’s hard to say so soon after the experience, which at this writing was about four hours ago. As I recall, the last time I was involved in a Q’ero ceremony, around 1995, nothing much happened for me at the time. However, I completed Prophecy Rock shortly afterwards, and it went on to win the Edgar Allan Poe Award. In fact, an article that appeared in Publisher’s Weekly about the awards featured a photo of me receiving my Edgar–one of more than 25 Edgars that were awarded in various categories. I have always attributed the energy transmission from that despacho ceremony with the Q’eros as a turning point for that novel.

There’s a very interesting synchronicity here. Prior to hearing about Don Pascual’s appearance in South Florida, I had been receiving long-distance healing transmissions from Jane Clifford, the healer in Wales who comes to our blog. Surprisingly, the type of healing transmissions that Jane was using were based on the same ancient Inca (Q’ero) methods. She had studied the Munay Ki system through an on-line course offered by The Four Winds Society and found that it worked very well for her. It was unusual for her to work with a group and she was already a renowned healer in her own right. So she had been working with Snake and Leopard medicine for several weeks.

Finally, one day I told her that I would probably end up in surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) fairly soon. The specialist I was seeing was encouraging it. There was no more time for alternative healing methods. She replied: “No, there’s still time for a miracle.” It was that same morning, after reading her comment, that I opened up the newspaper and found the article about Don Pascual Flores.

ADDENDUM:

One day after the healing ceremony, something happened that linked Don Pascual and Jane Clifford’s energy transmissions. Jane has been sending healing energies now for several weeks. But I’ve never had any particular reaction. However, this morning, she sent an e-mail suggesting that I try visualizing a golden snake entering my body and healing me. After reading it, I closed my eyes, relaxed and focused, imagining the golden snake entering and healing. Almost immediately, I felt an energy field swirling around me, moving counter-clock wise and I felt empathy and compassion within it.

I knew it was from Jane, and when I told her about it, she remarked that it was the healing ceremony with Don Pascual that had opened me and made me more receptive. She also said that as she wrote about the golden snake, she felt the energy moving out from her to me.

A day later, another twist. I have told the doctor nothing about the healing ceremony.  Shamans are in another world from most medical professionals. In fact, I haven’t seen the doctor since early April., Yet, when I called his office in reference to an upcoming appointment, which was to talk about surgery, he now says he doesn’t think it’s a good idea to rush into it. I’m curious about his shift in thinking. I’ll find out more when I see him.