Christine Skolnik
The Expansive Psyche
A Scholarly Review of: Terje Simonsen, A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal: Our Secret Powers—Telepathy, Clairvoyance,...
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Christine Skolnik
Jan 27, 202211 min
Black land; Or, reading Egyptian Hermetica & *Mumbo Jumbo* as ‘Afrotopian’ prophecies
Nat Mengist, M.Ed Abstract: The old gods of the Black land did not retreat to the heavens — they took refuge underground (you can feel it...
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Christine Skolnik
Jan 20, 20221 min
Exploring the Paranormal
Lots of fascinating content in this issue of Watkins MIND BODY SPIRIT . . . including my interview with Terje Simonsen, which focuses on...
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Sam Stoeltje
May 2, 20218 min
Disclosure! UFOs, the Military, the State, the New Yorker, and Structures of Discourse
When I was a kid, somewhere between the ages of eight and twelve, my dad gave me an old briefcase of his. It must have been a gift from some
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Christine Skolnik
Feb 8, 20214 min
Precognition and Free Will
See below an excerpt from my recently published interview with Terje Simonsen, author of A Short History of (Nearly) Everything...
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Christine Skolnik
Nov 26, 20203 min
Intuition from a Logical Perspective
Here is the last of our excerpts from Terje Simonsen's A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal Thank you again to the author...
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Sam Stoeltje
Nov 17, 20204 min
Spivak on the Supernatural (Yes, you read that correctly)
Dualism, or dvaita, becomes through Spivak’s learned (but as she continually emphasizes, non-specialist) consideration, a way of seeing or
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Christine Skolnik
Sep 24, 20202 min
Symposium on Metaphysical Enterprises
By Nat Mengist We hope this invitation finds you safe and greets you with high spirits! Near the pandemic’s beginnings, ten friends came...
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Christine Skolnik
Sep 18, 20201 min
Got Psi?
Reposted from the Institute of Noetic Sciences: Many people have had precognitive dreams or successful intuitive hunches and ask...
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Christine Skolnik
Sep 3, 20203 min
Ancient Egyptian Liberal Arts and Sciences
“Ancient Egypt has a really curious relationship with a lot of paranormal beliefs and practices both because of the kind of Platonic...
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Sam Stoeltje
Aug 24, 20206 min
Fireflies as UFOs, or, Fear of Flying Pt. 2
I meant for my writing here to focus on the paranormal and popular culture, but I find myself called to do another post about death;...
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Christine Skolnik
Aug 16, 20201 min
Controlled Remote Viewing
I just took Lori Williams's free, online Controlled Remote Viewing short course and found her intelligent, credible, and a great teacher....
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Christine Skolnik
Aug 8, 20205 min
Paranormal Communication and Instinct: An Asynchronous Chat with Terje Simonsen
In A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal Terje Simonsen invites us to engage in a thought experiment—to take seriously his...
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Christine Skolnik
Aug 2, 20201 min
How Artificial Neural Networks Paved the Way For A Dramatic New Theory of Dreams
A provocative new theory out of machine learning and the neurosciences suggests dreams are a way of overcoming human "overfitting," the...
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Derek Lee
Jun 23, 20204 min
Communion & UFO Epistemology
Communion has haunted me over 30 years. In 1987, Whitley Strieber published his now (in)famous account of alien abduction in which he was...
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Christine Skolnik
Jun 14, 20201 min
How the coolest Marvel show jumped a high bar to become one of the worst portrayals of Arabs on TV
Reposted from RACEBAITR. Editor’s Note: This post contains spoilers of the FX show Legion. By A’isha Saleh I am one of Marvel’s biggest...
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Christine Skolnik
Jun 8, 20204 min
A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal
Reviews reposted from booktopia. Available in paperback and on Kindle June 9, 2020. A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal....
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Christine Skolnik
May 31, 20205 min
Paradigms and Perils of Synchronicity, Part 1
Examples and explanations of synchronicity abound. There are many published theories and countless personal interpretations. When I first...
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Christine Skolnik
Apr 1, 20202 min
High Weirdness: latest from Erik Davis
"The Ravages of Revelation" by Rob Latham Excerpt from the Los Angeles Review of Books. OCTOBER 19, 2019 ERIK DAVIS’S NEW BOOK is at once...
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Timothy Grieve-Carlson
Mar 28, 20206 min
Rethinking Skepticism, Pt. 1
With all of us in varying states of isolation during this difficult and uncertain time, we wanted to try something a bit more communal...
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