Science and the Paranormal – The Question of Consciousness
Brendan D. Murphy – Is there something more to consciousness than our present “scientific” paradigms would have us believe?
Brendan D. Murphy – Is there something more to consciousness than our present “scientific” paradigms would have us believe?
Jon Rappoport – “What exists outside a psychic prison defined by rabid consumerism, limited and false science and peer pressure?
Robert Torres – Are computers from the future already traveling back in time to communicate with the present?
Arjun Walia – Extended human capacities are beginning to exit the realm of superstitious thinking and find their way into the world of confirmed phenomena.
Buck Rogers – Are ghosts merely creations of the brain, or do some people have more developed perception than others?
Andy Dilks, Staff Writer Waking Times Ever since the emergence of the study of the paranormal it has had a tentative at best relationship with mainstream science – by definition the study of phenomena outside the orbit of scientific explanation, the study of the paranormal has been largely rejected by the scientific community – after …
Drago DeSilver, Contributor Waking Times Paranormal is a term (coined between 1915 and 1920) which consists of two parts: “para” and “normal.” In most definitions of the word paranormal, it is described as anything which is beyond or contrary to what is deemed scientifically possible. The definition implies that the scientific explanation of the world …
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Guest Waking Times Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Chapter 9 – Are Psychic Phenomena Illusory?, of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake’s book Science Set Free. Reproduced here with permission. Please visit Sheldrake.org for more of Rupert’s inspiring work. How an open-minded scientist opened my mind Telepathy literally means “distant feeling”, from the Greek tele, distant, …
Richard Smoley, New Dawn Waking Times Man is born an unfinished creature. He cannot walk or talk or feed himself. Long years of care are required to bring him to even the most minimal levels of self-sufficiency. And yet even after the typical person has reached the stage of functioning that we call adulthood, something …
Marie D. Jones, New Dawn Waking Times As a kid, watching the synchronised swimming competition of the summer Olympic games, I was always struck by how silly the sport seemed. Not to mention how it looked! Later, as a wise adult, I came to understand and appreciate both the degree of difficulty of getting human …
Robert Schoch, New Dawn Waking Times Do we survive the death of our physical bodies? Is there such a thing as a postmortem continuation of the individual? If there is survival, what survives? Does everyone survive? What does it even mean to survive? Answers to these questions are central to the dogmas of many religions. These …
Robert Schoch, New Dawn Waking Times Parapsychology is full of anecdotal accounts of strange occurrences, which cause many people to simply shake their heads in disbelief.1 The phenomena of parapsychology grade into the mysteries and miracles that are the boon and bane of much religion. After all, to use a Christian example (and in no way …
Amy L. Lansky, PhD, Reality Sandwich Waking Times The following is excerpted from Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within [1], recently released from R.L.Ranch Press. One piece of evidence for the holographic nature of nonstandard fields that have been proposed in recent years — the zero-point field (a candidate for the unified field [2]), the …