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Dr. Marc Wittmann The Possibility or Impossibility of Precognition

Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics;

General Relativity

and Supermassive

Black Holes

Dr. Brian A. Sharpless Do Sleep Paralysis and the Exploding Head theory

declare UFO abductions

Tony Damian The Laws that Govern Life in the Universe

Dr. Zahi Hawass Could science be about to reveal

the true image of the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti?

Nick Pope The Man Behind the

Real X-Files

In This Edition

4. Calendar

5. Publisher‘s Letter

6. Contributors

9. “Death Finds a Way or Mud“

by Professor William John Murray

11. The (Really) Astonishing Hypothesis: Looking into the

Future. by Dr. Marc Wittmann

14. "Scary Dreams While Being Awake but Paralyzed!"

15. The First Successful Test of Einstein’s GR Near Super

massive Black Hole

18. Nick Pope; Unexplained and Conspiracy Theories

19. The Mystic Musings Ramblings of PRI-UK

24. The Human Claustrum and a 3D Holographic Hereafter

28. “The Laws That Govern Life in the Universe”

by Tony Damian

32. “Could science be about to reveal the true image of the

ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti?”

by Dr. Zahi Hawass

34: “Sleep paralysis; What Makes It so Scary?

Professor Brian A. Sharpless Weighs in on the Symptoms

and Features of Sleep Paralysis

40. A ‘New’ Look at ‘Old’ Vibrations. Does it open a new

awareness? by Kevin Spindloe

The Next Truth

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Publishers Letter

Describing the accelerated thoughts of our scien-

tists by using single and readable sentences the

audience can key into if they get a bit lost in the

complexity of scientific research findings, is the

key role of science journalism.

I understand it can be a scary and difficult

threshold to go in conclave with a journalist in

general, but now more than ever, we need scien-

tists who are prepared to break the silence. To set

neutrality and the fear within,

aside.

Yes…true…Journalists and

Scientists have different roles,

but they share a goal; an in-

formed public! Like you as a

scientist, we are simply search-

ing for the truth! It is our job to

translate the complex research

findings of your intriguing

work and inform the general

public, in an understandable language. This

search for knowledge is in my genes, our genes…

in the genes of mankind globally and it is never

going to be quenched. To understand and use the

scientific language, as a part of today’s civiliza-

tion, requires an open-hearted but downright

communication between science journalists and

scientifically trained people like you.

The general public needs to experience your en-

thusiasm, understand the complexity in your ad-

vanced theories and your work. So, let us science

journalists, help to open that door to the wonder-

land that is science. Let us take your science, sub-

tract your bullet points and your jargon. Let us

divide it by relevance, share with the world what

is relevant, and multiply it by the passion that

you have for this incredible work that you are do-

ing. And that is going to equal incredible interac-

tions that are full of understanding having the

prospect of plural pleasant collisions in the trans-

fer of comprehensible science with the general

public.

We need you…the world needs you…badly!

2014…that was the year I become really in

touch with my inner nerd due the teachings of

the myriad scientists that I was working with.

As I started writing as a science journalist, being

exposed to the inner workings of both profes-

sions, I experienced a bit of what it must have

been like to be Alice in Wonderland. And I was

scared, really scared! I was scared of these super

intellectuals with their big brains, their big books

and their big, unfamiliar

words. But as conversations

and interviews unfolded, I ex-

perienced what Alice must

have when she went down that

rabbit hole and saw that door

to a whole new world playing

with my curiosity. That is just

how I felt as I had those con-

versations with these open-

minded scientists. I was

amazed at the ideas that they

had, and I wanted others to experience this won-

derland as well. I believe the key to opening that

door is great communication. The general public

is desperately in needs for great communication

from our scientists and engineers in order to

change the world. These supper-minds are the

ones that are tackling our grandest challenges,

from energy to environment to health care,

among others. But if the public does not know

about it and does not understand it, then the

work is not done.

I believe it is our responsibility as science jour-

nalists, to have these interactions. It is our task

to blunt the jargon, which is a barrier to many,

into the understanding of progressive ideas and

groundbreaking experiments in new science, and

invite the general public into the wonderland of

science.

Science journalists are making these ideas acces-

sible to the general public which is not the same

as dumbing it down. Instead, as Einstein said,

“Make everything as simple as possible, but no

simpler.”

Science Journalism: The Communication Channel between

Complex Research Findings and the General Public

I said 500

words…

cut the crap!


Contributors

Tony Damian (Central Florida) As e.g. a Master/Teacher of Usui Shiki Ryoho Traditional and Angelic Reiki,

Tony has experience in Ancient Tribal and Indigenous healing practices since

1985. His career history spans many different fields until that came to abrupt

end in 1982 with a freak, near fatal accident what forced Tony to became his

own health-care provider. www.thepowerofweee.com

Brian A. Sharpless, Ph.D. (Northern Virginia)

Brian A. Sharpless, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the American School of

Professional Psychology (ASPP) at Argosy University, Northern Virginia. He

received his PhD in clinical psychology and MA in philosophy from Pennsylvania

State University and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the University of

Pennsylvania. Dr. Sharpless has authored over 40 publications on psycho-

dynamic therapy, common and lesser-known disorders, professional issues, and

the history/philosophy of clinical psychology.

www.briansharpless.com

Nick Pope (Tucson, Usa) Author, journalist and TV personality Nick Pope used to investigate UFOs and

other mysteries for the British government, and is the world's leading expert on

UFOs, the unexplained and conspiracy theories. Nick used to run the British

Government's UFO project. From 1991 to 1994 he researched and investigated

UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles and other strange phenomena, leading the

media to call him the real Fox Mulder. www.nickpope.net

Zahi Hawass (Egypt) World-renowned archaeologist Dr. Hawass is the former Egyptian Minister

of Antiquities and Director of Excavations at Giza, Saqqara, Bahariya Oasis,

and the Valley of the Kings. Dr. Hawass received his PhD in 1987 from the

University of Pennsylvania, where he studied as a Fulbright Fellow. He has

written numerous scholarly articles and books, and is a highly respected

Egyptologist. Known for his ability to reach out to the public, for more than

thirty years he has been raising awareness of archaeology and the preserva-

tion of Egypt’s precious heritage. www.drhawass.com


Marc Wittmann Ph.D. (Freiburg, Germany) Dr. Marc Wittmann, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Institute for Frontier

Areas in Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg, Germany and received his

Ph.D. at the Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich. He studied

psychology and philosophy at the Universities of Fribourg, Switzerland, and

Munich, Germany. From 2000 to 2004 he was head of the Generation Research

Program, Bad Tölz, University of Munich. Between 2004 to 2009 Dr. Wittmann

was a research fellow in the department of psychiatry at the University of

California, San Diego. https://sites.google.com/site/webmarcwittmann

William John Murray (UK)

Physics professor and Ph.D. Bill Murray is an Edinburgh-born researcher. His invol-

vement at CERN includes understanding the interactions and properties of the Higgs

boson using the ATLAS detector at the LHC. He also searches for new physics, espe-

cially dark matter. Dr. Murray was the ATLAS Higgs convener from 2009 until 2011,

physics coordinator from 2012 until 2014, and was right in the center of the Higgs

discovery in July 2012. Most of his career, Dr. Murray was a researcher at RAL, in

Oxfordshire and in 2013 became a professor at Warwick University, where he now

teaches half time. A physics degree also lead Dr. Bill Murray to a Ph.D. position in

Cambridge on the OPAL experiment at CERN. http://delphiwww.cern.ch/

Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial

Physics (Garching, Germany) The research areas of MPE range from the physics and chemistry of stars

and the interstellar matter, to exotic objects such as neutron stars and black

holes, to near-by and far galaxies and cosmology. In their research, the scien-

tists use mainly experimental methods and observe the cosmos across more

than twelve orders of magnitude in the electromagnetic spectrum.

www.mpe.mpg.de

Nick Howe (UK) Nick’s involvement with the paranormal developed through an interest in reli-

gion, although of no faith it became apparent that the paranormal was a com-

mon theme of belief. Coupling this with personal experiences he was staggered

by the number of events family, friends and acquaintances also experienced.

On retirement he felt it was time to devote more time to studying this which

culminated in the formation of PRI UK and became a member of The Society

for Psychical Research and the Association for the Scientific Study of Anoma-

lous Phenomena. www.paranormalresearchinvestigators.co.uk

Andy Wilson (UK)

Andy’s interest in the paranormal started early in his childhood after some

personal experiences which could not be explained rationally. Since the 1980s

Andy has been researching the paranormal and is involved in regular investi-

gations. He is a member of The Society for Psychical Research and the Associ-

ation for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena and the pioneering

Ghost Club established in 1862. Andy values his contact with clients while

respecting their paranormal experiences.

www.paranormalresearchinvestigators.co.uk

Kevin Spindloe (England, York) Kevin is the Co-founder, soul rescuer and medium of PRY (Paranormal Research

York). He runs a Medium training sessions and meditation classes during PRY‘s

weekend breaks and local classes. „Spirits have a story to tell and at PRY we

give them that voice through various means.“, Kevin says. As the team medium,

Kevin understand that it is hard to provide definitive proof of life after death to

the world; however, he will never stop trying.

www.paranormalresearchyork.co.uk


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Death Finds a Way or Mud

Chapter 5, The Rubicón

By William John Murray

n hour later, at 11, Elly walked out into the

sun. Her return flight was Thursday, the

next day, and the police had offered to take her to

her hotel, but Elly had no reason to go there, and

the mortuary was closer to the centre of town.

Her feet lead her round the old part of town, fol-

lowing, for reasons she could not have explained,

the route around Santander Lola had outlined.

Her phone soon brought her to the square with

the Ventilador in one corner. At midday it

seemed the most innocent of places. A pair of

businessmen were hav-

ing a coffee, but most of

the tables were de-

serted.

Elly talked to the wait-

ress, but she had not

been there on the Mon-

day night, and nor had

the bartender. She

moved on, trying to

find the restaurant. A

couple of blocks, a cor-

ner, and a main street

was all the directions

she had to go on, and it

took her nearly an hour before she was at the

Sandoñana, but looking inside it was clearly the

right place. It was closed at this time of day, so

she went back to a cafe she had rejected, and

bought herself a hamburger. She sat slowly

munching on it and feeling as if she was getting

nowhere. Afterwards she walked across town to

the Rubićon, where she pushed through the door,

and had a little more luck.

“Hello, I wonder if you can help me.” “Of course,

do you want a drink or something to eat?” the

bartender replied in excellent English. “Oh, nei-

ther. I am trying to trace my father”. Elly wasn’t

sure she meant to say that, but it was out. “Ah,

are you the daughter of the man who was found

in the harbour yesterday? The police were asking

about him. It is sad, very sad. Yes, yes, he was in

the bar here.”

“So what happened? I just want to know.” “Well,

he came in about eleven and he had a drink with

a girl. I am not sure you want to hear this

señorita.” “Go on”. “Well the girl, she was Chi-

nese I think, she must have been about your age.

She was dressed... all very sexy. They were

drinking vodka and orange. I think they had two.

And I noticed they were dancing...well, people are

free to do what they like. But most of the people

here in the evening are young and your father

and this girl made an unusual couple – it’s a big

age gap. But they did-

n’t leave together. I

remember the man

bought a single drink

about 1 am.” “Why,

what happened?” “How

would I know? I just

serve drinks. I think I

told you all I know.”

“Thank you, it’s very

helpful. Oh one other

thing, did you say

there were two Chinese

women, or one?” “Just

one, as I told you.”

Elly wasn’t sure what else to say, so she thanked

him again and walked back out into the street.

The sun was shining brightly, making her blink.

Was it possible the barman had forgotten Shi? Or

was Lola trying to hide something? She remem-

bered the taxi in Boston. Why had they gone to

Shi’s hotel first? She felt uncomfortable, remem-

bering that her father sat in the centre, with her

on one side and Lola on the other. Who’s idea was

that really? She turned a corner and walked

down a road, which descended steeply at first to-

wards the harbour.

The dock where Dad had been found was just a

short walk away, and he must have traced these

steps, before... whatever happened, happened.

But she felt no closer to understanding. This was

the night before his triumph. Surely he didn’t

take his own life? Or had he ...done something

A


This was where the body had been found, in the

water just below. It was so calm now, so beauti-

ful, it was hard for her to visualize any of the pos-

sibilities: a drunken slip, a suicide, a murder. She

watched the ripples in the harbour lapping at the

wall, but inspiration elluded her. At last she

came to some sort of a conclusion: if the dead

would not talk to her, she should try the living.

She decided to visit the biochemistry conference.

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to Lola and couldn’t face himself? Could she have

lied to spare him embarrassment? Why had they

split up? They were staying in the same hotel.

There must have been some sort of disagreement,

mustn’t there?

Elly found herself overlooking the harbour at half

-past two. The Centro Botin hovered over the wa-

ter, its underside dappled with dancing light. The

space-craft like building had only been finished a

couple of months, and gleamed on its stilt-like

legs. Next month; Chapter 6; Javier


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n impossible hypothesis is tested

scientifically.

In 2011, an article by the social psychologist

Daryl Bem, "Feeling the future: Experimental evi-

dence for anomalous retroactive influences on cog-

nition and affect." caused a commotion in the sci-

ence community. Daryl Bem showed in a series of

psychological experiments with over 1,000 par-

ticipants that people on average were able to pre-

dict the outcome of future events that could oth-

erwise not be anticipated by “normal” means on

an above-chance level. For example, in one of

these experiments male, heterosexual college stu-

dents had to guess behind which of two curtains,

presented on a computer screen, an erotic photo

was hidden. The chance of guessing the right

door with the stimulating photo lay at 50%.

The participants were able to significantly pre-

dict the right door above chance level, not to a

great extent, but in the statistical terminology

applied in experimental psychology, significantly

so. All but one of nine different experiments in

that article showed this small but statistically

significant above-chance effect. Following this

publication an ongoing debate started about the

possibility or impossibility of precognition, a form

of looking into the future. Were the students

really able to use some information about the fu-

ture (or their own future state), so they could

press the right button?

The discussion of whether these effects are genu-

ine parapsychological effects or artifacts quickly

gets very technical. Psychological theories are not

easily checked or falsified. Therefore, I will try to

summarize this part of the statistically-oriented

discussion that evolved over the past few years.

Individual researchers have voiced their opinion

that regarding parapsychological effects (I am

paraphrasing): "if the statistics show a signifi-

cant effect then the statistics must be wrong."

Accordingly, psychologists like Eric–Jan Wagen-

makers advise the use of a different set of statis-

tical methods called Bayesian analysis. With this

alternative method some of the initially positive

effects indeed had to be discarded. But that is not

the end of the story. There is now a discussion

pertaining to the right use of the Bayesian

method. You see, it is not so much a question of

whether experiments show positive findings, they

often do, but the problem lies in the selection of

the statistical method. It is quite complicated and

not a question of “let’s do an experiment and see

what is the result.”

As usual in science, an initial finding has to be

replicated by other researchers. Meta-analyses

are a means to decide whether, across all these

studies, an effect can be found. Some studies

show an effect, others don’t. In meta-analyses

one combines all studies and tests whether a pre-

sumed effect holds. Such analyses, for example

one performed by Daryl Bem and colleagues,


The (Really) Astonishing Hypothesis:

Looking into the Future

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How does our experience of time develop? Can we change it with conscious

efforts? Why does time matter so much in our personal well-being? "Time

researcher" Dr. Marc Christoph Wittmann, born in 1966 in München, Ger-

many, explains and explores the riddle of subjective time, from why time

speeds up as we grow older to the connection between time and conscious-

ness in his book Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time. (2016)

Dr. Wittmann is a research fellow at the Institute for Frontier Areas of

Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg, Germany and received his PhD.

(1997) and his Habilitation (2007) at the Institute of Medical Psychology,

University of Munich. For more information about Dr. Marc Wittmann and

his latested book Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time

and Self (2018) https://sites.google.com/site/webmarcwittmann/ or his

blog "Sense of Time" on Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com

By Dr. Marc Wittmann, PhD, www.psychologytoday.com

show overall positive effects of “looking into the

future,” also when applying Bayesian analysis.

Actually, there is not the Bayesian analysis, the

selection of the method rests on assumptions one

can endlessly discuss (for the initiated: the use of

priors). Again, there is no clear-cut, rational way

of deciding which method to use.

In this blog, I want to high-

light an additional criticism,

besides the one concerning

the right use of statistics.

This type of critique becomes

apparent in the published dis-

cussion in a series of articles

that appeared in March 2018

in the journal Psychology of

Consciousness: Theory, Re-

search, and Practice.

In their article “Precognition

as a form of prospection: A

review of the evidence,” Julia

Mossbridge and Dean Radin

from the Institute of Noetic

Sciences in California provide

an overview of the current

empirical evidence in investi-

gations of precognition. Each

chapter in this article on dif-

ferent forms of prospection

starts with a historic account

of research in the 20th cen-

tury. It features both positive

and null findings concerning

potential effects of precogni-

tive dreaming and computer experiments on pre-

cognition. Two chapters deal with potential

physiological and psychological mechanisms to

explain the results. Of course, one could say that

the way of presentation in this article is in favor

of the veridicality of precognitive effects. But

then this holds true for any summary where re-

searchers present their ideas. If the results were

concerned with a mainstream topic, then the sig-

nificant results would probably just pass without

a roar.

What I want to turn to is the style of arguments

voiced in two articles in this article series which

represent the critical side of the debate.

The articles by Schwarzkopf and by Houran and

colleagues are telling in that they categorically

deny the possibility of scientific investigations of

precognition.

To cite Schwarzkopf, “No matter how strong the

statistical evidence, if the hypothesis is impossi-

ble, it must necessarily be false… I certainly will

not be convinced of its exis-

tence by some implausible ob-

servations, no matter how sig-

nificant the metaanalsis.” This

then stops any scientific de

bate. That's ideology. Houran

et al. write about the “crap

factor” visible in the parapsy-

chological effect sizes (as if

they knew what effect size

would not fall under a “crap

factor”). These are gut reac-

tions, similar to the one Eric–

Jan Wagenmaker was pur-

ported to have had when he

read Daryl Bem’s 2011 paper:

“Reading it made me physi-

cally unwell.”

Why was there such an uproar

concerning positive psi find-

ings? For sure, the presented

evidence goes against what we

learn in school. It is about an

astonishing hypothesis. But

should we react in such an

emotional manner? The debate

on whether there are true

parapsychological effects or not will continue.

Researchers should work in a non-judgmental

way when trying to weigh the evidence of even

extreme claims. That is actually the approach of

Schooler and colleagues in this series of articles.

And that’s how new and astonishing findings in

science have been made. That’s also how aston-

ishing hypotheses were falsified. A very personal

gut feeling may be a strong motivation in re-

search, but it has to be complemented by rigor-

ously applying scientific methods. The overview

given by Julia Mossbridge and Dean Radin on

evidence for precognition is a strong claim that

demands further research.

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Dr. Wittmann explaines the “error signal”

and points to recent research that

connects time to consciousness.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/felt-

time

http://psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES/journal/cns/5/1



I was wondering what is truly happening in our

‘command center’ while the rest of our body is

offline. To find answers which would bring my

restless mind to ease I contacted Dr. Brian Shar-

pless who is a licensed clinical psychologist and

an Associate Professor of Psychology at the

American School of Professional Psychology at

Argosy University, Northern Virginia and asked

him about the diverse purposes of sleep, the sub-

stantial ongoing research in sleep disorders and

his books, “Unusual and Rare Psychological Dis-

orders: A Handbook for Clinical Practice and Re-

search” and “Sleep Paralyses: Historical, Psycho-

logical, and Medical Perspectives ”.

What exactly is this terrifying experience Sleep

Paralysis? Can it declare UFO abductions and

the shadow people phenomena? How dangerous

are sleeping disorders and...did science found a

cure for it? Please continue reading the interview

on page 34.

For more information about Dr. B. Sharpless:


t is a fact; your brain cannot catch a break! In

fact, your brain, and body stay remarkably

active while you are at sleep. Long after your

muscles have drifted off into the lands of dreams,

your mental engine is still humming and hard at

work finding its way to keep you healthy and

happy.

Sleep is a natural part of our daily routine. It is

a recurring state of mind, characterized by an

altered consciousness, and important to a num-

ber of brain functions, including how nerve cells

(neurons) communicate with each other. While

we are at sleep, sensory activity of nearly all vol-

untary muscles are being reduced to an anabolic

state whereby inhibited interactions with one's

surroundings.

The boundaries between sleeping and waking,

reality and illusion are thin and blurred indeed

especially when we are talking about dreams…

elusive first-person experiences which seem real-

istic while in progress. Over 80 listed sleep disor-

ders have being researched since a Greek physi-

cian, Alcmaeon, postulated around 450 BC, that

sleep was a spell of unconsciousness brought on

by the lack of circulation to the brain. It was in

1953 that REM sleep was first detected by

Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman.

Dreams during this state of mind can seamlessly

incorporate elements within a person's mind that

would not normally go together and create bi-

zarre, terrifying moments during REM sleep.

Sleep paralysis; it sounds unbelievable. You

wake from sleep and sense that someone is

standing over you in the darkness. You try to

move your head only slightly to take a subtle

glance, but you cannot. Someone or something is

surely holding you down. You attempt to thrash

your arms and legs, but you are frozen in place.

Sheer panic washes over you as your paralysis

lingers. Are you dying?!

Though this may sound all too unreal scientific

studies shows that sleep paralysis is indeed a

very real experience.

by Maria Anna van Driel, www.nexttruth.com

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Associate Professor,PhD Brian A. Sharpless.

The author of three books of which

"Psychodynamic therapy techniques: A guide

to expressive and supportive interventions" is

available for pre-order on amazon.com

Scary Dreams While Being Awake

but Paralyzed!


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n the issue of January the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and GRAVITY

project were briefly mentioned in an Q&A with IPP concerning the future of Plasma Energy.

Founded as sub-institute in 1963, MPE is the neighbour institute of the Max Planck Institute for

Plasma Physics. The scientific activities of the institute are mostly devoted to astrophysics with teles-

copes orbiting in space. A large amount of the resources are spent for studying black holes in the ga-

laxy and in the remote universe. MPE‘s GRAVITY project is the second-generation VLTI instru-

ment for precision narrow-angle astrometry and interferometric imaging. It will bring the most ad-

vanced vision to the VLT: with its fiber-fed integrated optics, wavefront sensors, fringe tracker, beam

stabilization, and a novel metrology concept, GRAVITY will push the sensitivity and accuracy far

beyond what is offered today. Providing precision astrometry of order ten microarcseconds, and ima-

ging with four milliarcsecond resolution, GRAVITY will revolutionize dynamical measurements of

celestial objects: it will probe physics close to the event horizon of the Galactic Center black hole,

unambiguously detect and measure the mass of black holes in massive star clusters throughout the

Milky Way, uncover the details of mass –accretion and jets in young stellar objects and active galactic

nuclei, and probe the motion of binary stars, exoplanets and young stellar disks. www.mpe.mpg.de

MPE‘s GRAVITY Project; The First Successful Test of Einstein’s

General Relativity Near Supermassive Black Hole

MPE Press Release, July 26, 2018

I

Observations of the Galactic Centre team at

the Max Planck Institute for Extraterres-

trial Physics (MPE) have for the first time

revealed the effects predicted by Einstein’s

general relativity on the motion of a star

passing through the extreme gravitational

field near the supermassive black hole in

the centre of the Milky Way. This long-

sought result represents the climax of a 26-

year-long observation campaign using

ESO’s telescopes in Chile.

Obscured by thick clouds of absorbing dust, the

closest supermassive black hole to the Earth lies

26 000 light-years away at the centre of the

Milky Way. This gravitational monster, which

has a mass four million times that of the Sun, is

surrounded by a small group of stars orbiting

around it at high speed. This extreme environ-

ment — the strongest gravitational field in our

galaxy — makes it the perfect place to explore

gravitational physics, and particularly to test

Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

New infrared observations from the exquisitely

sensitive GRAVITY , SINFONI and NACO in-

struments, developed under the lead of the Max

Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

(MPE), have now allowed astronomers to follow

one of these stars, called S2, as it passed very

close to the black hole during May 2018.

At the closest point this star was at a distance of

less than 20 billion kilometres from the black

hole and moving at a speed in excess of 25 million

kilometres per hour — almost three percent of

the speed of light.

The team compared the position and velocity

measurements from GRAVITY and SINFONI

respectively, along with previous observations of

S2 using other instruments, with the predictions

of Newtonian gravity, general relativity and

other theories of gravity. The new results are in-

consistent with Newtonian predictions and in ex-

cellent agreement with the predictions of general

relativity.

These extremely precise measurements were

made by an international team led by Reinhard

Genzel (MPE) in Garching, Germany, in conjunc-

tion with collaborators around the world, at the

Paris Observatory–PSL, the Université Grenoble

Alpes, CNRS, the Max Planck Institute for As-

tronomy, the University of Cologne, the Portu-

guese CENTRA – Centro de Astrofisica e Gravi-

tação and ESO. The observations are the culmi-

nation of a 26-year series of ever-more-precise

observations of the centre of the Milky Way using

ESO instruments.

“This is the second time that we have observed

the close passage of S2 around the black hole


in our galactic centre. But this time, because of

much improved instrumentation, we were able to

observe the star with unprecedented resolution,”

explains Genzel. “We have been preparing in-

tensely for this event over several years, as we

wanted to make the most of this unique opportu-

nity to observe general relativistic effects.”

The new measurements clearly reveal an effect

called gravitational redshift. Light from the star

is stretched to longer wavelengths by the very

strong gravitational field of the black hole. And

the change in the wavelength of light from S2

agrees precisely with that predicted by Einstein’s

theory of general relativity. This is the first time

that this deviation from the predictions of the

simpler Newtonian theory of gravity has been

observed in the motion of a star around a super-

massive black hole.

The team used SINFONI to measure the velocity

of S2 towards and away from Earth and the

GRAVITY instrument in the VLT Interferometer

(VLTI) to make extraordinarily precise measure-

ments of the changing position of S2 in order to

define the shape of its orbit. GRAVITY creates

such sharp images that it can reveal the motion

of the star from night to night as it passes close

to the black hole — 26 000 light-years from

Earth.

“Our first observations of S2 with GRAVITY,

about two years ago, already showed that we

would have the ideal black hole laboratory,” adds

Frank Eisenhauer (MPE), Principal Investigator

of GRAVITY and the SINFONI spectrograph.

“During the close passage, we could even detect

the faint glow around the black hole on most of

the images, which allowed us to precisely follow

the star on its orbit, ultimately leading to the

detection of the gravitational redshift in the spec-

trum of S2.”

More than one hundred years after he published

his paper setting out the equations of general

relativity, Einstein has been proved right once

more — in a much more extreme laboratory than

he could have possibly imagined!

“Due to the extremely strong gravitational field

we expect to see the effects of general relativity -

but only if we can look close enough,” says Stefan

Gillessen, “This is why we needed to push the

technology. With SINFONI we can measure the

radial velocity of stars very accurately and

GRAVITY gives us extremely sharp images and

accurate positions.”

Continuing observations are expected to reveal

another relativistic effect very soon — a small

rotation of the star’s orbit, known as

Schwarzschild precession — as S2 moves away

from the black hole.

Xavier Barcons, ESO’s Director General, con-

cludes: “ESO has worked with Reinhard Genzel

and his team and collaborators in the ESO Mem-

ber States for over a quarter of a century. It was

a huge challenge to develop the uniquely power-

ful instruments needed to make these very deli-

cate measurements and to deploy them at the

VLT in Paranal. The discovery announced today

is the very exciting result of a remarkable part-

nership.”

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The GRAVITY project at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

combines the 4 VLT telescopes to a gigantic virtual telescope with 130 m

in diameter to resolve very detailed structures in distant objects.

http://www.mpe.mpg.de/2169/en


Can you see northern lights with naked eyes?

Our naked eye can most easily see the green-yellow part of

the spectrum where the sun emits most of its light. Green is

the most common color observed but the Northern Lights can

also appear white-gray. And a cloudy night if you've never

seen them before, you might not even be entirely sure of what

you're looking at.

How far south can the Northern Lights be seen?

To observers at far-northern latitudes, the Lights are a

frequent occurrence, but many who live in more temperate

climates have never seen them, even though they are

occasionally seen as far south as 35 degrees North latitude.

How long will Northern Lights last?

How long do the northern lights last? Anywhere from 10 minutes

to all night long, depending on the magnitude of the incoming

solar wind. "Coronal holes" consistently produce nice auroras but

big solar flares and CMEs-coronal mass ejections are responsible

for global-wide aurora displays…the BIG shows!

What is the aura borealis?

The Aurora is an incredible light show caused by collisions between

electrically charged particles released from the sun that enter the

earth's atmosphere and collide with gases such as oxygen and nitrogen.

The lights are seen around the magnetic poles of the northern and

southern hemispheres.

What time of the year can you see

the Northern Lights?

In this period of time, no Northern Lights can be

observed. In the most intense Northern Lights area

(notably Alaska, Iceland, Northern Scandinavia and

Yukon), the lights are observed from late August to

mid April. However, from late September to late

March, it is dark after 6pm, and one enjoys

maximum chances.


ick Pope (born 19 September 1965) was an

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that it raises important defense, national security

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While working on the MoD's UFO project Nick

also looked into alien abductions, crop circles,

ghost sightings at military bases, and people who

claimed to have psychic abilities and wanted to

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Dust and death, That’s how Matt Quill thought of

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n the dark sticky world of that unnamed (for legal reasons) Carshalton pub surrounded by an old

swarthy, sticky carpet and turned up beer mats Andy and Nick's musings and mumblings have

turned to sequences. Care has to be taken because in this land of White Van Man any mistaken refer-

ence to "sequins" could lead to spontaneous flying objects and near death experiences. The paranor-

mal world can indeed be perilous.

What happens in the order of things when people start suffering from poltergeist activity or haunting

and what seems to be a typical sequence of these events? Does the level of activity increase? Does it

fade away or remain? Andy and Nick discuss in their pub philosophy way typical paranormal events

drawn from folklore perpetrated by TV programmes and popular literature.

Firstly, the consensus is that poltergeist and

haunting are two different things, as we already

discussed in our article about entities in the No-

vember issue of The Next Truth. Interestingly,

these manifestations can share similar traits and

it could be argued that somewhere in the middle

ground they are one and the same. But there are

no definitive answers regarding the paranormal

as yet and our ramblings are more about the se-

quence of events rather than definitions, well

that's our excuse and we're sticking to it!

Equally, defining your ghost opens up many lines

of thought so the following does not attempt to

cover every aspect of ghostly manifestations.

The first sequence is, commonly, that the

"hauntee" (we’re still trying to find an appropri-

ate noun for someone who is haunted so we’ve

made this up) has a feeling or sense of being

watched, a feeling that they’re not alone which is

sometimes accompanied by an oppressive atmos-

phere or they start to experience cold spots in the

house. That’s a bit like how Nick felt when he

was at work, the whispering voices behind his

back and the uneasy presence of micromanage-

ment, plenty of demons in that place.

The hauntee then starts noticing peripheral

noises, typically scratching, footsteps, whispering

and murmuring or raps; objects being moved

about out of sight or disappearing altogether;

doors shutting or opening in other parts of the

house, perhaps fleeting glimpses of ghostly

shapes. If there are any children in the house,

they may make invisible friends. In a case we're

currently looking at the child can provide her

mother with a name, description and place where

the "friend" lives in the house.

With poltergeist activity these early occurrences

generally increase in intensity, starting low-key

it’s almost like it doesn’t have the energy to go

full-on at the very beginning; it’s something that

seems to build up. It's easy to believe it’s some

sort of sentient being that enjoys watching the

hauntees at first, then getting to know the people

in the building, finding out their weaknesses, and

finally causing conflict and thriving on the nega-

tive feelings it's generating. Oops, we are back to

Nick’s old boss again so let's move on...

The next part of the poltergeist sequence involves

objects being moved or apparently thrown in the

presence of the hauntee; it might include house-

hold objects as well as items from an unknown

source such as stones or coins which sometimes

seem to travel through walls and roofs and even

pools of water may appear. There are rare cases

recorded whereby fires within the property have

been localised as this intensity builds, and walls

are often daubed with writing and rooms can be

trashed. The human focus of this activity may

appear possessed, that is talking in tongues, levi-

tating and appearing to become the conduit

through which the poltergeist can communicate

with any of the observers.

By Andy Wilson and Nick Howe, www.paranormalresearchinvestigators.co.uk

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The Mystic Musings and Unscripted

Ramblings of PRI-UK


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There’s usually some form of strong negative

emotion within the family unit, generating feel-

ings of depression, fear, anger and conflict. In ex-

treme cases bereavement has been linked to pol-

tergeist activity.

What's interesting is that poltergeist activity

generally fades away; it is as if the "energy"

burns out and finally stops over a relatively short

period. Hauntings however seem to hang around

although there is a view that in time they too

fade away.

"What forces are in

play?" This is the big

question is when we talk

about the activity sur-

rounding poltergeists.

There seems to be some

sort of energy but we

have to be careful be-

cause the obvious ques-

tion that follows is,

‘What sort of energy?’

This still unknown form

of energy is something

inexplicable in terms of

current scientific think-

ing as instrumentation

does not register this en-

ergy but the weight of

evidence demonstrates

‘things’ are clearly happening.

“That why it’s paranormal” the collected masses

shout at our two humble and red faced investiga-

tors. From the very basic description of sequences

given above our intellectually challenged investi-

gators count on their beer stained digits the

forces that manifest themselves during polter-

geist activity and hauntings.

Well, sound, heat and light but what is it that's

energising these forces. The answer is quite sim-

ply "we don't know" and that's why these activi-

ties are paranormal, with thanks to the collected

masses. That's probably the only certainty. There

may be hypotheses but the good old bottom line

says "case not proven" (is that a mixed meta-

phor?) so our musings turns back to the se-

quences and thoughts about what people are ex-

periencing.

Let’s go over this in more detail...

Objects being moved, appearing or disappearing

produces some peculiar anomalies. With haunt-

ings, objects generally get moved out of sight and

this is the case in the early stages of poltergeist

activity. As this intensity grows the objects start

to be moved directly in front of witnesses what

makes it look like the entity getting bolder. An-

other factor is that very few people actually ob-

serve the object starting to move, is this because

witnesses are not focused on the object and only

realise it’s moving after the event. So what’s hap-

pening? Is it a form of intelligence making these

objects move or is it

some form of telekine-

sis? Are the witnesses

themselves the unwit-

ting force behind these

objects moving?

Where objects are di-

rected at people and the

victim is hit, they’re not

usually hurt, the objects

invariably move slowly,

almost at half speed.

Could there be a time

and space element to

this? If so, how are ob-

jects being manipulated

in this way? As men-

tioned it's very rare for

someone to see an object

move from a stationary position, it’s usually seen

mid-air. On the subject of motion; what about

those stones? (Amongst other objects) These ap-

pear to be thrown from nowhere! Where do they

come from and why stones?

As we mused earlier they generally appear to

move through the fabric of the building and when

picked up are warm to the touch. There are many

accounts of witnesses throwing stones back in the

direction they came from only to have them

thrown back. Is this due to an unknown and un-

seen intelligent entity or have the stones become

energised in some way? The fact that they are

warm indicates they have possibly been subjected

to some force or energy. Of course this goes back

to the notion that maybe there is some sort of dis-

turbance in time and space and that they appear

from beyond “the veil”. Or maybe it's that ghosts

just don't like to live in glass houses and enjoy

throwing stones ;) If anyone has a haunted green-

house we would love to hear from you.

Shocking scientific research has led to some pretty

awesome inventions and points out when stimulating

the left temporoparietal junction of the brain, that

defines the idea of self, shadow persons become 'real'.


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Where there have been attempts at capturing

recordings of these occurrences, particularly with

a video camera, they don’t get picked up which,

for the sceptic, means they never occurred and

undermines the validity of the claims. But it's

curious that there are so many of these occur-

rences in the first place yet there seem to be a

universal law which means that as soon as you

point a camera at something, it won’t bloody hap-

pen! Does that indicate that investigators are

somehow being defeated by a natural law which

defies the camera?

Andy has read about a pol-

tergeist case where a person

witnessed an apparition,

seemingly it was aware that

it was being watched, it

couldn’t move through the

wall despite its best efforts

and it seemed to get con-

fused. Instead, it moved

down a corridor and out of

sight, the witness ran after it

but it was gone. There

seemed to be something

about him watching the ap-

parition which interfered

with its ability to pass

through the wall.

So, what is that all about?

Andy ponders if it's the same

universal law that states

that if someone stands next

to you in the toilet urinals

you suddenly find you can't pee? Or was the wit-

ness exerting some influence over the poor sod

and that the two have a binding energy or attrac-

tion? That alone, makes Andy’s “universal law”

even more worrying when thinking about it.

But we go on to muse that from a rational point

of view, one may consider this and apply a hefty

dose of scepticism and then declare, “Well, it’s a

load of baloney”. But if you give it the benefit of

doubt to the witness, regardless what’s causing

this event; it would seem to have some sort of in-

telligence. If it’s trying to get through a wall but

then moves along the corridor to be out of sight

because it is unable to do so, that indicates that

it’s got some sort of free will, which is very inter-

esting. Conversely, there are plural of eyewitness

accounts which state that entities can walk

through solid objects and disappeared through

walls so there is no universal pattern to this be-

haviour and you pays your money and take your

choice. OK, so what’s next in the paranormal

goody bag? Hauntees may then discover that

where children are involved there is a connection

with the child's invisible friend to a death in the

property, for example, the same name and, or, a

physical description.

Or how about a prayer and blessing the house

while trying to make peace in the property? At

this point, the owners are

thinking ‘something is going

on here, it’s not just us hallu-

cinating'. Well, you’d like to

think so, but who knows?

Sometimes blessing the

house for the first time brings

a lull in the disturbances and

the activity calms down for a

little bit, but what tends to

happen is that whatever this

energy or entity is, it seems

to come back stronger and

angrier. Think of it like a

wasp that’s just been given a

hefty clip round the mandi-

bles.

Now it becomes more inter-

esting (for the observer) be-

cause after experiencing

these yet unexplained noises,

bangs, knocks, seeing objects

move around, a visual appa-

rition will usually appear for the first time per-

haps in the form of a shadow figure. The entity,

or whatever it might be, becomes more threaten-

ing or increases its night visits to the bedroom

(as per the norm in movie land). Thinks! You’re

probably at your most vulnerable when you’re in

bed and you’re sleeping, or trying to fall asleep.

It’s like a show of power, it’s got stronger and it's

taunting you, ‘not only can you hear me but now

you can see me’!!! People start to hear disembod-

ied whispers, voices or even a growl. Growls are

very common for some reason. People may then

be touched, scratched, bitten, slapped, pushed,

dragged... there is certainly a physical contact

that starts to happen and no pillow or duvet is

going to protect you.

The thing with the Enfield poltergeist was

Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas

and it's dangerous because our red blood cells

absorb CO much easier than they do oxygen.

Oxygen deprivation leads to symptoms such as

weakness, nausea, confusion, and eventually

death. But before you kick the bucket, you might

experience hallucinations...it'll have you seeing

ghosts.


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that once the investigators were able to establish

it could make a noise, it was encouraged to speak

and it started uttering through one of the girls in

the property. It was actually making contact in

that way. So again, it seemed to up the ante in

the sense that it started making growling noises

through the girl which developed into speech.

Was she actually projecting her own voice? Tests

indicate that if you try and speak in that un-

earthly voice which came from the back of the

throat and very guttural, it could be done for a

few minutes before the throat began to hurt. She

was doing that voice for hours and should have

damaged her voice box. What's also interesting

about this case was the personality of the voice

what distinct from this young girl. It sounded, by

many ears, like an old man, swearing, being

rude, pedantic. It was not just a voice change but

a personality change. Was she truly possessed

and was her body now hosting something un-

worldly?

By now the entity from this case, recorded in

England between 1977 and 1979, has increased

its power and its visibility whereby some of it's

unintentionally have being captured in a photo-

graph as well as you can see an unexplained

mass in images and might think ‘What’s that

blob?’ or ‘What’s that blur?’ So people start to

think ‘okay, there’s some kind of physical form to

it’. Others might not. Nick feels a bit awkward

when it comes to photographs and mention of

blobs, his diet is just not working.

Our journey now moves onto Electronic Voice

Phenomenon. When people start to get intelligent

responses to the questions that are being asked

they might also get manifestations of substances,

something that looks like blood. This substance is

actually tested and it's found to be blood group O

- well then it is blood. Bloody hell. But how did

this manifest in our reality or perhaps more in-

terestingly from whom? Insects, particularly

flies, bees and wasps may swarm or become more

obvious. Don’t forget the spiders.

Next, as the family panics (yes, they’ve got the

message) they might start thinking about an-

other blessing or exorcism, usually in the form of

a Christian ritual or the classic Native American

smudging. What happens then? Temperature

dropping can be felt in the room and batteries

start to drain in the equipment brought into the

house. Do 'ghosts’ and ‘poltergeists' feed off

human fear, electrical charged energy, alkaline

batteries, but not rechargeable batteries (they’re

obviously fussy), electrical equipment left on

standby, nearby phone masts and mobile phones?

In poltergeist cases text messages have been re-

ceived to a dismantled mobile phone with no

power and no SIM card which is indeed a bit

weird.

However, in most poltergeist activity cases, the

energy, or whatever it is that’s causing this

event, does actually eventually dissipate and dis-

appear. So it’s very much a temporary thing,

which is quite an interesting point when you talk

about ‘ghosts’ and ‘hauntings’ in the broadest

sense, which are recurring that something is at-

tached to the place. Perhaps poltergeist activity

attaches to the person at a particular moment in

their life. What's interesting is that when the

connected person dies the poltergeist activity

stops altogether. May we conclude that these

events have to do with certain types of people? A

haunted house having residence living there for

four years, moves out, new residence moves in,

nothing happens and as they move out a new

family move in and it all kicks off again. Is there

some kind of link between having the right peo-

ple in the right environment for these things to

happen? Or is it that people are just imagining

the whole?

Within the final sequence of hauntings, objects

continue to be thrown or moved and sometimes

the entity, or energy force, can make the room

shake!! Other times the activity will stop sud-

denly and the room feels lighter, the atmosphere

seems brighter like opening the curtains on a

bright day. In other cases the entity will come

back stronger and angrier forcing the family to

move out for good. However, despite the above

sequence of events reported on TV programmes

and in popular literature, most cases of paranor-

mal activity is reduced to anomalous smells and

sounds only. Very rarely are apparitions seen

and objects thrown. It may be less dramatic but

this is the way that it seems to go.

The conclusion.

There is a pattern starting with low energy,

building up in intensity to a crescendo and then

dying away. The problem about paranormal ac-

tivity in research is it’s very rarely longitudinal,

there is little year on year research or long term

follow up, that is, talking to the same people


years later and establishing whether they are

experiencing any further paranormal activity ei-

ther at the haunted location or elsewhere. We

just get a snapshot of something at that moment

of time. The psychology of hauntings and polter-

geist activity has become a specialised field but it

does not capture tangible proof or satisfactory

explanations of the phenomena.

The science behind it.

Taken from a scientific perspective there is

plenty of anecdotal evidence from reliable wit-

nesses but the whole question of whether this is

proof is another matter. Much of the evidence is

personal experience and cannot be duplicated.

These are spontaneous events which seem to be

linked to the person or a set of physical circum-

stances which are beyond our current under-

standing of time and space and matter (likely but

not provable).

Finally, we encourage all who is curious to what

lurks in the unknown to spend some 10 minutes

completing the largest paranormal survey under-

taken in this world by Rosemary Breen. https://

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The aim of the research is to learn more about

paranormal events in everyday life. They appre-

ciate the topic of paranormal sequences is com-

plex and convoluted and way beyond their intel-

lectual capacity so they have kindly provided an

Executive

Summary:

The sequence of paranormal hauntings and their

associative entities can all be boiled down to a

Trickster Watcher and Tormentor.

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e all wonder so now and then about what

will happen to us after we die. When a

loved one have passed away, we long to see him

or her again after our turn comes and having a

glorious reunion with them as we are walking

one of the most wonderful places containing har-

monic melodies coming straight from the heart.

Is such a reunion a non-illusion moment and

thus a realistic possibility what we experience

with full awareness or is death really the end of

all consciousness?

Well, according to some re-

searcher’s consciousness is

just another property,

emerging as a result of tril-

lions of electrical pulses

shuttling across the brain.

According to this, conscious-

ness is only a property and

not an entity. As on the

other hand the bible, for in-

stance, is teaching us that

life does not end after our

bodies die. “I am the resur-

rection and the life…those

who believe in me, even

though they die like everyone else, will live

again.” The bible describes how eyewitnesses be-

ing the closest to Jesus, told the event in him

demonstrating his power over death by rising

from the dead after being crucified and buried for

three days. But what if we do not have to wait

until our biological clock stops ticking whereas

the universe is absorbing our energy and gravity

gets a definitive hold on to our physical body and

lays it to rest, just below the surface of Mother

Earth.

Now that would be something right, accessing

the ‘powers’ of Cellular Memory Release (CMR)

in multidimensional existences while we are still

alive and well? Could this be a fact. Straightfor-

ward, WE CAN! But before we can ‘control’ this

superpower we have to understand how these

subtle bundles of ‘info-energy’, which are com-

prised of physical, mental and emotional data

and comes from all of your life experiences, ge-

netic heritage, and past generations, looks like in

its behavior.

First of all, you have to know that ‘The Cellular

Memory phenomenon’ (a consciousness at cellu-

lar level) is the collective energy field in your

body, like the Higgs-field is to quantum particles,

and generated by these individual cell memories.

Nothing we experience escapes from our reality

and is being imprinted into

our cellular holographic

memory in the form of a cell

memory whereas it operates

behind the scenes of our

subconscious mind.

These subtle bundles of ‘info

-energy’ in the Cellular

Memory pre-disposes or,

‘programs’, you to perceive

and behave in a certain way

as thoughts and feelings are

made. A new world pro-

duced by a thin, irregular

sheet of neurons in the cen-

ter of the brain what is

called ‘the Claustrum’ it manifests within your

consciousness. In this idea we can use the anal-

ogy of a computer in were the holistic beingness

is the hard disk, as the Cellular Memory is the

database on the storage disk whereas the files

within the database are the cell memories. It can

be stated that everything, which has ever hap-

pened to us, is recorded in the cells of our body

similarly to files being stored within a computer.

Looking at the behavior of our cells and their info

-energy in such a manner, a great part of the

Theory of Everything (ToE), which e.g. speaks

about the one’s and zero’s (the Binary-code em-

bedded in string theory) of the universe can,

crazy as it sounds, be applied to a holographic

reality in our visible spectrum as well as in the

hereafter. (The idea of we living in a computer

generated universe was already suggested in the

1940ths, as the code was discovered by Prof.

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wave hitting our magnetic field (aura) due cer-

tain chemical reactions in our brain and thus our

cells. (Histone code)

Our body has the capability to release the electric

impulses of these subtle bundles of info-energy

(CMR), stored in the cellular memory, as soon as

our atoms are started to get excited and slightly

crack, they release its nuclear photonic light from

the core. This coded bright light is then trans-

ported via the nerve-system to the brain where is

starts a plural electric explosion what we became

to understand as neuronal behavior. Now the

brain received this ‘collective energy’, it can

transmit the information, in vibrations/waves,

towards the magnetic field of

the body where it becomes a

readable language for those

who have learned to received

it as well as transforming it in

images, sound and or feelings,

in other words…telepathy. So,

like an e+/e- pair can spawn

from photonic-light from in-

side a black hole and commu-

nicate with the Higgs field,

our ‘inner-light’ can transform

into electro-magnetic waves

whereas it is triggering the

aura and even light it up a little bit.

Creating this crazy transformation from particle

into waves, a closer look to the, in science, well

known ‘slit experiment’ which was performed by

Davisson and Germer in 1927, is also not entirely

useless. Skipping the complicated interior of this

experiment, which is not magical or weird but a

completely straightforward consequence of quan-

tum mechanics, it comes down to the behavior of

photonic light, static or not, changing from parti-

cles to waves and probably vise verse whereby

the Fabric of Reality is swirling a Schrödinger-

box providing a strange evidence for the many-

worlds interpretation.

Now let us bend the borders of our thoughts just

one more time by replacing this slit-experiment

for the human retina and maybe even in reverse.

Many say it is not possible for the human eye to

observe this form of light with full awareness

but, looking at the possibility of how photonic

light can be polarized by a medium like the hu-

man retina, it does have the ability in creating

both a vivid image inside the brain as it can

James Gate jr. whom he refers to as "adinkras".)

In this way, the Cellular Memory is, so to speak,

a bio-computer what is charged up due an electric

spark and influences our relationships to every-

thing and anything that is happening in our per-

spective of time, space and matter.

Now, let us take a brief look at an underlying

level in this idea of the similarity between the

blueprint of our existence and that of the uni-

verse by trying to imagine an endless rotating

spiral of plasma, which is representing time, in a

pitch black place containing nothing except for

one tiny bright spot. This electric charged spot,

floating in a soundless place

a such and is slowly bending

some arrows of time as it is

drifting through the center of

this spiral, towards a form-

less gas-cloud of hydrogen

(H2) and Helium (He) which

is present around the core of

a black hole (BH).

We all know these days that

a black hole is pre-eminently

one of the creepiest places

the universe has to offer as it

is exhibiting such strong

gravitational effects that nothing, nor particles

nor electromagnetic radiation, such as light, can

escape from inside it. With this being said, a bor-

der in our way of thinking has being created in-

stantly…but these invisible borders should not be

a fact in their existing.

So, like the nuclear energy in our atoms, we leave

those particles exactly where they are … inside

the black hole as we leave the info- energy inside

our cells. Like the particles inside the black hole

and the info-energy inside our cells, we are going

to force our thoughts again and bend the borders

of the fabric of time as we transform them into a

clear vision containing vibrating energy having

the capability to communicate with a field what

is connecting us all together.

Looking at the behavior of a strange alpha or

photonic light, which is being pressed against the

edge of the inner-shell of a black hole due the

centrifugal force (CF) and starting to act as an

electron-positron pair (e-/e+) just on the outer-

shell, our info-energy is starting to act in a simi-

lar manner and shows itself as an electric coded

‘Info-Energy’; it is

the blueprint for

your existence as it

is the energetic

expression of you as

a holistic being.


created a multiply dimensional holographic pro-

jection in the visible spectrum and perceptible by

bystanders.

Four methods in creating this form of light con-

taining electromagnetic waves, are known; po-

larization by transmission, by reflection, by re-

fraction and by scattering whereby scattering is

the one closest possibility in creating a natural

holographic effect in ‘The Eye of Ra’ (mid-brain)

while traveling through a medium like that of the

human retina. And as we are entering the know-

ledge of physical chemistry as well as we are

scraping the surface of basic physics, we can see

that this manner of scattering speaks of light

striking the atoms of such a medium and often

sets the electrons of those atoms into vibration.

The vibrating electrons then produce their own

electromagnetic wave that is radiated outward in

all directions.

This newly generated wave strikes neighboring

atoms, forcing their electrons into vibrations at

the same original frequency which we under-

stand as communication in the form of transmit-

ting images, sound or/and emotions by telepathy.

These vibrating electrons produce another elec-

tromagnetic wave that is once more radiated out-

ward in all directions as this absorption and re-

emission of light waves causes the light to be

scattered about the medium and is partially po-

larized.

So, if the human retina has the ability to absorb

these polarized photons and is creating a strange

effect in a possible distortion of our visible spec-

trum, a behavior as such can trigger the optic

nerves and thus the neuron activity in the brain

which again gives an effect in the Claustrum, or

‘Key stone’ when looking at certain medieval leg-

ends, being charged and transmits this electricity

to the nerve system as well as it is charging the

fluid in the mid-brain also known as ‘the eye of

Ra’. Due an effect like this, the fluid in the mid-

brain is being slightly charged (heated up)

whereas it is merging with the chemicals the Pin-

eal gland is releasing. This gives a result of,

around the Corpus Callosum, Hydrogen release

due extern magnetic fluctuations from the aura

and the intern electricity the body gained due

photon polarization.

Looking at the info-energy our cells contain in

such a manner, we could say that a crazy galactic

behavior is taking place inside our body meaning

that there is a plausible possibility that the uni-

verse could have its origin in our minds as we

projecting our ideas, emotions and experiences on

a place which is bearing the name ‘The Eather’.

So, everything you see and experience in 3D, in-

cluding time and matter, could be a reversed in-

terpretation of a reality existing somewhere in

another universe … a one of a four-strand Theory

of Everything (TOE) which is a state of mind and

matter whereby an equation is 'ALMOST' utterly

useless due the chaotic behavior of an subatomic

universe.

Will there ever be tangible evidence of its exis-

tence and will we ever accept a scientific explana-

tion as such which definitely has the power of

proving the reality of the paranormal?

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ome laws can be bent, and some can be bro-

ken...But NOT the Laws of Nature and the

Universe! These laws govern ALL things, every-

where and ALL the time! The laws of the Uni-

verse are not like rules and regulations; they can-

not be bent, avoided, or broken. They are the way

things have to be, the way things work, no mat-

ter what. Everything follows these Laws.

The Universal Law of Karma (Cause and Ef-

fect) In chaos theory, “the butterfly effect” is the

sensitive dependence on initial conditions in

which a small change in one state of a determi-

nistic nonlinear system can result in large differ-

ences in a later state. The name of the effect,

coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the

metaphorical example of the details of a hurri-

cane (exact time of formation, exact path taken)

being influenced by minor perturbations such as

the flapping of the wings of a distant butterfly

several weeks earlier. -Wikipedia

The universal law of Karma says for every action

there is a counteraction. Karma is not punish-

ment or retribution, but simply an absolute ex-

pression or consequence of natural acts. Karma

means "deed" or "act" and more broadly names

the universal principle of cause and effect, action

and reaction, which governs all life. The effects

experienced from an action are not automatically

fated. That is to say, a particular deed now is not

obligatory to some particular, predestined

future experience or reaction; it is not a simple,

one-to-one association of reward or punishment.

But of course, the prevailing belief is that it is. I

guess instant Karma would be just that.

Karma is consequence of our actions.

Karma is not doom, luck, providence, or fate. We

act of “free will,” creating our own destiny

whether we realize it or not. According to the

Vedas, if one shows goodness, one will reap good-

ness; if one sows evil, one will reap evil. Karma

refers to the totality of our actions and their asso-

ciated reactions in this and previous lives, all of

which determines our future and future lives.

The conquest of karma lies in intelligent action

and dispassionate response.

The Hindu say:

If you treat others with good will, you will experi-

ence the same, although not necessarily from the

same place or immediately.

In Christianity, it is said:

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto

you.” “Love thy neighbor as thyself, for love of

thee (God).” And “whatever ye shall sow, that

also shall ye reap.” Karma is the energy released

to the universe in thoughts, words, and deeds.

This can be in the ways of daily interactions with

others or nature. In spoken and written words,

prayers, spells, intentions, and conversations,

also through thoughts.

The Laws That Govern Life in the Universe

By Tony Damian, www.thepowerofweee.com

Chapter IX

"Finding

The Alchemist

Within"

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Prayer, intentions, or spells are all the same

thing. Putting our desires, wants and needs into

a concentrated chain of thoughts and words and

then releasing it to the Universe/God/Goddess/

Deity.

The Universal Law of Karma also says: “No Kar-

mic Debt ever goes unpaid.” If not “instant

Karma,” then it could be days, months, years, or

even in the next life. But it will come back.

“Cause and Effect” is a universal law on all

levels; everywhere in Physics, in all kinds of Re-

lationships, throughout life. For every action,

there is a counteraction. The reason I am spend-

ing so much time explaining this is because peo-

ple do not believe this actually exists, but they

are so wrong. “Out of sight, out of mind” is the

way most humans deal with Karma. It is a Law

that governs all things in existence. There is no

breaking this law or attempting to go against it

because it will always inevitably come back to

you.

In Paganism, the Rede proclaims:

“Ever mind the rule of three; what ye send out

comes back to ye.” In this belief system, what you

do, think, or say comes back three-fold, be it good

or not. This is why “spells” rhyme, to make the

intender of the manifestation (prayer or request)

fully think through what it is that he/she is ask-

ing for – besides making it easier to remember

and pass on to others if it worked.

Just thinking about something releases an inten-

tion. “Be mindful of this” is an ounce of preven-

tion. “Be careful of what you wish for" warns us

of this. Your prayers will now be answered with

joy and bliss.

Our body’s energies are interconnected from

chakra to chakra to energy layers or auric bodies

to the Universe. Within these layers of energy is

where thoughts, desires, wishes, and prayers are

formed through the Astral-Bridge of the Heart

Chakra and then broadcasted out to the Universe

through what I refer to as the Cosmic-Bridge, or

the 8th Auric Layer. (See Auric Layers in Chapter

10 for details of the inner workings.) So the Uni-

verse acts on our thoughts as soon as they pop

into our mind.

Here is an example of what I’m talking

about. Let’s say you really need $50,000 to keep

the house out of foreclosure, keep the car from

being repossessed, and pay the utilities before

they are shut off, all due to a layoff or cutbacks at

work. Therefore, this prayer/intention, goes out

to the universe off the top of your head in des-

peration: “Please, please, please (insert favorite

deity), I need $50,000, and I don’t care how I get

it. I just need it really, really fast! I’ll be good (go

to church, listen to parents, blah, blah, blah) …

I’ll do anything.” And exasperated you fall asleep

on this.

The desire was stated, and the intention was re-

leased to the universe with detachment. A day or

two later you get a message telling you that rich

Uncle Fred dropped dead, and you inherited

$50Gs.

What will really bake your noodle is,

• Did your intention cause his death?

• Was it a premonition to know he was dying?

• Was it a premonition to know the exact amount

of money you were to receive?

• Or was he just old and unhealthy, and the

whole thing was just a very strange coincidence?

These questions can never truly be answered in-

disputably, so now for the rest of your life, you go

on wondering. Talk about bad karma.

Truth is, there is no definitive answer to that…

so it would be bad karma following you around

forever. "Watch your thoughts; they become your

words. Watch your words; they become actions.

Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch

your habits; they become your character. Watch

your character; it becomes your destiny. -Lao

Tzu

The lesson to be learned here in setting up and

sending out your intentions, prayers, spells, or

manifestations is to always follow these rules. Be

mindful of your thoughts… two thoughts cannot

coexist at the same time. Your thoughts exist

only in the “here and now,” the only time that

change can occur.

All of your intentions, desires, and needs must be

of free-will to anyone involved; known and un-

known. Always for the best and highest good to

everyone involved; known and unknown. With

harm to none unless in self-defense. There, now

you’re covered. May good karma be in all desires

you conjure.


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The Universal Law of Attraction (The Law of

Manifestation – Through Positive Affirmation)

There are so many good books, CDs, DVDs, and

entire modalities based on the Law of Attraction.

There is more written about this Law of the Uni-

verse than there is about the Universe. The Uni-

verse only knows what is being concentrated on,

your center of focus; whether it is something you

want or do not want. It does not know the differ-

ence, only the focus. Whatever you dwell upon,

increases.

Talking about your problems and solving them is

not the same thing. In fact, talking about them

undoes any intention of solving them. Complain-

ing only entrenches and intensifies the very thing

you are complaining about. When you talk of a

problem, do so from the standpoint of finding a

solution to it. Focus only on what you want,

never on what you do not want. Whatever the

focus is becomes greater: happiness, wealth, suc-

cess, etc. Example: you are in need. Focus on

abundance rather than the lack of. If you do not

want to be a victim, stop focusing on the experi-

ences in which you were mistreated. If you desire

more money, see yourself already rich.

If you want peace of mind, stop focusing on

things that call up fear, anger, jealousy, and

anxiety. Dwell on the things you want even as

you take action to remedy what you do not want.

Put the intention out and let it go, “AS IF” it is

already manifested.

The Universal Law of Reverse Effect

Overkill -- Trying to force something to happen

by hanging onto the thought and excessively ob-

sessing over it. One need only put the intention

out to the Universe and release it “AS IF” it is

already taken care of. Overkill or obsessing on an

outcome can include such constant phrases as “I

hope this works,” “I wish this would work,” “I

pray this comes true,” “I think I did this right,”

and “I hope I did everything correctly.” This re-

duces the likelihood of success.

Phrases like “I hope,” “I wish,” “I pray,” are actu-

ally negatives. They imply that it would be nice

for the intention to come true, but there is doubt

and fear that they won’t so obsessive and self-

validating words are used. The ego wants us to

obsess over an outcome “AS IF” we know better.

Chances of success = zero

The Universal Law of Opposites

This relates to the Laws of Attraction, the Law of

Reverse Effect, and the Law of Non-Resistance.

Failure to release the intention causes the oppo-

site to come about. Fear, doubt, worry, anxiety,

stress, obsession, and overkill all attract the op-

posite of what you want.


Resistance, which is a negative form of concen-

tration, also tends to bring about the opposite of

what you intended.

The Universal Law of Non-Resistance

Surrender your hold on your desires and release

them to the Universe. Resistance keeps you

locked in struggle. It creates more of the same

problem through the Law of Concentration and

Manifestation, more commonly known as the

Law of Attraction.

Non-resistance is letting go of the pain, and it

frees your energy. Letting go is not defeat. Wis-

dom is putting your time, attention, and energy

into something you can do something about

rather than what you cannot change.

“GOD, grant me the Serenity to accept the things

I cannot change, the Courage to change the

things that I can, and the Wisdom to know the

difference.” By “turning the other cheek,” we are

not inviting abuse but rather changing our focus

of attention towards where the problem is not.

Non-resistance is letting go of physical, emo-

tional, psychological and spiritual pain or disease

(dis-ease).

We are healing the hurt and turning our atten-

tion and energy towards where we are going and

want to be rather than where we came from and

don’t want to be. Remember, the Universal Law

of Attraction answers our focus, be it what we

want or not. We let go of resistance, not as a sign

of weakness, doubt, defeat, passivity, or compli-

ance, but of freedom to move on with our lives.

Resistance, like constantly trying to prove our-

selves right, is a no-win situation. It usually

comes from polarity mindsets, seeing things in

black and white, right and wrong, good and bad,

all or nothing. Truth is beyond both and encom-

passes all.

We each have a piece of the whole, and there is

some truth, some good and some bad, on both

sides. Nonresistance is when you are willing to

concede that you are not ALL right and the other

is not ALL wrong and are willing to look for a

common goal. When you seek the common good

and a truth that is truly bipartisan, you bring

about a third alternative that both sides can

agree upon. This is non-resistance, not allowing

the ego to rule. If you refuse to be disturbed, the

problem will fall away on its own.

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n a few years on 4 November 2022, the whole

world will celebrate the centennial of the dis-

covery of the tomb of the ancient Egyptian boy

king Tutankhamun.

The Ministry of Antiquities has launched the

exhibition “Tutankhamun: Treasures of the

Golden Pharaoh” to celebrate the most important

archaeological discovery of the 20th century,

when the intact tomb of Tutankhamun, known

formally to Egyptologists as KV62, was found in

November 1922.

This exhibition will be touring the world at the

very same time that the Valley of the Kings in

Luxor may reveal other secrets. A hypothesis pro-

posing that queen Nefertiti’s tomb could be hid-

den behind the north and west walls of the tomb

of Tutankhamun will be scientifically investi-

gated, and the search is on for the mummy of

Nefertiti herself. Of all the queens of ancient

Egypt, none is as famous as Nefertiti, the beauti-

ful 18th-Dynasty royal wife who ruled Egypt

alongside her husband, Akhenaten, and briefly

after him. No ancient text mentions what became

of her, and 200 years of archaeological investiga-

tion in Egypt has never found her mummy. The

fate of Nefertiti is one of ancient Egypt’s greatest

mysteries.

Through the Egyptian Mummy Project, my

goal was to start a fresh and scientific search for

Nefertiti’s mummy. In the investigations to dis-

cover the family of Tutankhamun, we tested the

DNA of the two fetuses included among the

treasures of Tutankhamun’s tomb. These had

long been thought to be the stillborn daughters of

Tutankhamun and his royal wife Ankhesenamun,

the daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.

We compared their DNA to that of a headless

mummy of a royal woman, one of two poorly pre-

served female mummies discovered in another

tomb in the Valley of the Kings, KV21. The tests

revealed that the headless KV21 mummy was in

fact the mother of the two fetuses, which should

mean that this was Tutankhamun’s queen Ank-

hesenamun. The mummies from KV21 are in

poor condition due to the effects of the floods that

have occasionally swept through the valley and

into the tomb. To prevent further degradation of

the remains, I moved the two mummies to the

Egyptian Museum in Cairo for conservation.

I believe that the second female mummy in

KV21 could be none other than Queen Nefertiti.

The ancient Egyptians sometimes placed mother

and daughter near each other in burial cham-

bers. This was the case in KV35, where the

mummy of Tutankhamun’s grandmother queen

Tiye was placed next to the mummy of one of

Tiye’s many daughters, a woman revealed by

DNA tests to be Tutankhamun’s mother. We will

now also begin the search for other mummies

that belong to Nefertiti’s family, including her

five other missing daughters and her sister queen

Mutnodjmet.

Nefertiti was a strong queen who drove her

own chariot and had her own palace in her hus-

band’s new and short-lived capital of Akhetaten

(Horizon of the Sun Disk) at the site known today

as Amarna. There are even images that show

By Dr. Zahi Hawass, www.drhawass.com

Dr Hawass has made a number of major discoveries

over the course of his career, including the Tombs of

the Pyramid Builders at Giza and the Valley of the

Golden Mummies at Bahariya Oasis.

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Could Science be About to Reveal the True Image of

the Ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti?


If the DNA analysis definitively identifies

Nefertiti’s mummy, we will commission CT scans

of the head of the newly discovered Nefertiti.

A digital reconstruction of the face from the CT

scan will then be combined with the artistic

rendering of the famous bust to reveal the most

complete and accurate image of the queen. After

more than three thousand years, the light of the

sun will shine once again upon the exquisite face

of Nefertiti.

When we attempted to reconstruct the face

of Tutankhamun, we used three teams from the

US, Egypt and France. Without telling the

American team that they were reconstructing the

face of Tutankhamun, we gave them CT scans of

the young king’s mummy. Having no idea of the

identity of their subject, the Americans recon-

structed the face as that of an old man.

I told the Egyptian team that they were re-

ceiving Tutankhamun’s CT scans, and they re-

constructed a face that did not convince me at all

that this was how the king had appeared in life.

The French team introduced their reconstruction

to us, and it showed a person with blue eyes,

which made us all joke about how French he

looked.

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her smiting the female enemies of Egypt. She

was very often shown in the art of the Amarna

Period as a loyal, devoted wife and mother in the

company of her husband and daughters. The

princesses participated in life at court and in

worship with their mother.

A group of scientists has also made an amaz-

ing new digital reconstruction of Nefertiti’s face

based on her artistic representations. They com-

piled images of the famous painted bust of the

queen on display in Berlin, another limestone

bust in Cairo, and wall reliefs at Amarna show-

ing the queen. The Berlin bust was discovered to

conceal a slightly different image of the queen as

an older woman beneath its outer layer of

painted plaster. The researchers assembled the

various renderings of her features and presented

the “first revelation” of her face.

Was the final version of the Berlin bust,

showing an image of a youthful, yet mature,

woman, a more acceptable version than the

initial bust carved in stone, which showed the

effects of aging? Is this beautiful portrait a

realistic representation of Nefertiti, or does it

reflect the artistic conventions of the Amarna

Period?


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Dr. Brian A. Sharpless Weighs in on the Symptoms and Features

elcome Dr. Sharpless, I appreciate the

time and efforts you took for letting us

peer into your career and/or some of your

ideas/theories/research within the complex-

ity of Clinical Psychology.

Dr. Sharpless: Thank you Maria for chatting

with me.

Q: Dr. Sharpless, you are well known within

the community of clinical psychology. But

for those people who don’t know much

about your background, can you tell us a

little about yourself? Who is Associate Pro-

fessor, PhD, Brian A. Sharpless?

Dr. Sharpless: I think I’m a curious and some-

what obsessive person interested in a lot of differ-

ent things. I spend the majority of my time doing

research, teaching, seeing patients and I also love

to write. My girlfriend would tell you that I love

to cook but hate housework :)

Q: Surfing to the website of the Argosy Uni-

versity (Northern Virginia), American

School of Professional Psychology https://

www.argosy.edu/clinical-psychology/

locations/northern-virginia/faculty/brian-a-

sharpless we can read that your girlfriend

is right and that the areas of your focus are

not housework but Psychopathology,

Psychodynamic, and Psychotherapy. Can

you explain what this corner of psychology

is speaking of?

Dr. Sharpless: Sure. Psychopathology is the sci-

entific study of psychological disorders. It’s a very

broad subject and, from my perspective, one of

the most interesting ones. I specifically study

some of the more rare and unusual disorders that

people can suffer from.

In terms of psychodynamic therapy, it is the con-

temporary version of the treatment formulated

by Sigmund Freud. It basically assumes that

people are not transparent to themselves, and

that we all do things that we don’t understand

And have repetitive patterns of thoughts, emo-

tions, and behaviors that can sometimes get us

into trouble. Psychodynamic therapy helps us to

gain more freedom in our lives by figuring out the

ways that we are not free and then choosing to do

something different. It’s one of the most popular

versions of therapy practiced today and fortu-

nately has evidence that it is effective and cost-

efficient.

Q: What was it that inspired you to step into

the science of clinical psychology?

Dr. Sharpless: I think the clichéd answer that

many psychologists give is that they entered the

field to help people. That’s partially true, of

course, but if I’m being honest with myself it’s

certainly not the main reason. I find people abso-

lutely fascinating, especially the strange things

they feel, say, and do. I think I went into clinical

psychology to try to better understand people.

At a more practical level, though, I never wanted

to have a boring job. I’ve been very lucky to cob-

ble together a life that’s allowed me to read and

write about things I’m interested in, traveling the

world, and chat with amazing people.

I sometimes can’t believe that I get paid to do

what I do. For instance, when I was writing my

first book, I was able to spend several

Sleep paralysis; What Makes It so Scary?

by Maria Anna van Driel

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Dr. Brian A. Sharpless; "I am pretty much a skeptic

when it comes to most paranormal claims. Though

I’m open to the possibility of many things."


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weeks studying 15th and 16th century “witch hunt-

ing” manuals like the Malleus Maleficarum.

What other job would pay me to do that?

Q: Getting paid for studying and writing

that is a dream job indeed. Did you already

know at a young age you wanted to study

clinical psychology?

Dr. Sharpless: Yes. I even had it written in my

high school yearbook. However, I thought back

then that I would solely be a clinician, and not an

academic. The biggest decision for me was be-

tween philosophy and clinical psychology. After a

lot of back and forth I decided that I could still do

philosophy without a PhD in that field, but I

could not do clinical psychology without a degree

and a license.

Q: How did you experience your study time

at the universities?

Dr. Sharpless: Graduate school was a lot of

work, but a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it and I am

still close to many of those people I met back then

to this day. Learning psychotherapy was amaz-

ingly hard. My first patient was a very severe

paranoid schizophrenic man and, while anxiously

waiting to start the first session, I can vividly re-

member thinking that the $10 that the Penn

State Psychological Clinic was charging for my

services was outrageously overpriced. I ended up

loving psychotherapy, and still maintain a small

practice.

Q: What inspired you to become involved

with the research in the field of rare psy-

chological disorders?

Dr. Sharpless: I was always interested in the

stranger parts of the human experience, even

when I was a kid. I used to love all those popular

books and TV documentaries on rare disorders

and strange beliefs. However, when I went to

university I became involved in researching more

“mainstream” topics like anxiety, philosophy, the

effects of trauma, etc. I’m very glad that I did,

and all those areas are still fascinating. However,

I didn’t really get to return to the earlier inter-

ests until I started my post-doc at the University

of Pennsylvania.

While there, I was involved in a very large panic

disorder treatment outcome study with access to

hundreds of research subjects.

It was a great opportunity to tack some of my in-

terests onto an existing (and funded) study. So,

given that I had access to a diverse group of peo-

ple with panic attacks, I developed an interview

to reliably assess sleep paralysis. People seemed

to be really fascinated by this topic, and I found

out some interesting things, so I’ve been re-

searching it ever since.

Sleep paralysis also became a good springboard

toward other topics like exploding head syndrome

and other unusual disorders. It’s an exciting re-

search area because so little is known about

them. The way I see it, there are dozens of good

people working on depression and PTSD, so I de-

cided to devote part of my time to disorders that

don’t get as much study.

Q: Even though your main study lies in un-

usual and rare psychological disorders,

what is the most hilarious moment in your

career?

Dr. Sharpless: Wow, there are probably too

many to count. Any time you’re teaching or lec-

turing for hours on end, you end up saying ridicu-

lous and/or stupid things. Some of them can be

funny. I remember giving a guest lecture for an

abnormal psychology class. It was for a class of

300+ students, so I had a lavalier microphone on

my blazer so that everyone could hear me. I talk

with my hands a lot when I lecture, and at some

point I accidentally hit the microphone with my

hand. It created a monumentally loud “boom”

that startled everyone and made a few people

gasp. So, I said, “Wow! I guess I shouldn’t touch

myself.” Perhaps not surprisingly, I heard a few

snickers from the crowd. So, I just decided to go

with it and then said, “Priests have been telling

me that for years.”

Apart from funny things, there are also just some

surreal moments. This happened in July when I

was giving a public lecture for a popular science

group in Sofia Bulgaria. I was in an open-air bar,

had a beer in my hand, and was talking about

clinical psychology to 250 or so non-psychologists.

We were having a great time and they asked

really astute questions. It was such a strange ex-

perience to have as an academic that I felt very

lucky to have been part of it.

Q: You told us in the beginning of the inter-

view that you are interested in a lot of


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things and that you spend the majority of

your time doing research, teaching and see-

ing patients. Do you have hobbies which are

giving a different melody to your carrier as

clinical psychologist?

Dr. Sharpless: Yes, in fact I have. I design and

play electric guitars. It’s my biggest vice. I have

around 15 or so, but don’t keep track of the exact

number. I play everything from punk and metal

to blues and classic rock.

Q: Designing and playing

electric guitars, I am as

stunned as I was im-

pressed by your Curricu-

lum Vitae of which you

gave me the privilege to

peer into. Many awards

you have received since

1996. Which of the 12

awards means the most to

you and which award

made the biggest change in

your career?

Dr. Sharpless: To be honest,

I think that publishing has led

to the biggest changes in my

life. If you write about things

that other people are inter-

ested in - especially if the gen-

eral public has an interest, too

- a whole host of opportunities present them-

selves. You can give lectures and go to confer-

ences. After a while, people start inviting you to

give talks in countries that you’ve never been to.

I found out that I love travelling more than most

things in my life, but came to it fairly late. I went

to my first international conference in 2008 and

have now been to 11 different countries. Travel-

ling and writing are probably the best parts of

my job.

Q: You being an expert in the history and

philosophy of clinical psychology, can you

give us some insight in how it all came into

being as well as what the philosophy is

within?

Dr. Sharpless: Like many academic disciplines,

psychology arose directly from philosophy. Some

of the most astute psychologists (e.g., Nietzsche,

Aristotle) were writing about important

psychological topics before anyone could actually

get a university degree in psychology.

Q: Watching your teachings via You Tube

and National Geographic documentaries,

we learn that humans throughout history

have described a peculiar state between

sleep and wakefulness characterized by pa-

ralysis, and terrifying hallucinations while

having a conscious awareness of one’s sur-

roundings. Which hallucina-

tions are the most common

ones?

Dr. Sharpless: During sleep

paralysis, you have two aspects

of rapid eye movement (REM)

sleep going on while you’re

awake. First, during this stage

of sleep we have the most dream

activity. Second, except for our

eyes we are completely para-

lyzed during REM sleep. This is

presumably so that we don’t act

out our dreams. So, during sleep

paralysis, we are paralyzed

while we are awake and often

have waking dreams as well

(i.e., hallucinations). Some of

the more common hallucina-

tions during sleep paralysis are

sensing or seeing something in

the room, feeling strange body

movements, and hearing illusory sounds.

Q: Why do you think that sleep paralyses is

this close connected in myth, folklore and

to paranormal beliefs?

Dr. Sharpless: Sleep paralysis is not a pleasant

experience for most people. Due to a number of

reasons, the hallucinations during sleep paralysis

are usually scary and involve attacks from other

people or non-human entities. Given that you’re’

paralyzed during these “assaults”, it can be abso-

lutely terrifying, as you have no means of de-

fense. Plus, given that you’re awake, you are

clearly aware that you are not just dreaming, and

the hallucinations are as vivid and “real” as any-

thing in your room right now.

Therefore, it’s not surprising that many people

have mistaken these hallucinations for real world

attacks. Many scholars believe that sleep


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Dr. Sharpless: Studying unusual disorders may

not only help people who are suffering from

them, but may also teach us basic things about

how people function. For instance, studying sleep

paralysis and any of the other ways that sleep

can go wrong can tell us more about normal

sleep.

Q: Which people are most likely to be af-

fected by a sleep- and/or anxiety attack? I

mean, are disorders as such related to age,

gender, or origin?

Dr. Sharpless: Sleep

paralysis can affect

anyone and, in fact,

around 8% of the gen-

eral population will

experience it at least

once in their lives.

Certain people seem

to get it more fre-

quently, though. A

certain percentage of

people get it so regu-

larly or so severely

that it can signifi-

cantly affect their

lives. People that

have insomnia (also known as sleeplessness) or

other sleep disorders tend to get it more often.

People with histories of trauma are also more

likely to have episodes. In general, anything that

disrupts normal sleep patterns makes sleep pa-

ralysis more likely to occur.

So, if you drink alcohol before bed, take certain

drugs, suffer from certain types of anxiety, or

even just get jet-lagged after a plane ride, you are

more likely to experience an episode.

Q: Not only do you speak about sleep pa-

ralyses via television or radio, your re-

search can also be read in your book "Sleep

Paralysis: Historical, Psychological, and

Medical Perspectives" in where you, along

with Karl Doghrmaji, MD, examining this

very scary experience in sleep paralysis

from scientific and cultural perspectives.

What inspired you to write this book?

Dr. Sharpless: It is such an interesting topic I

thought it would be a lot of fun. Sleep paralysis

also has so many connections to other

paralysis is a very good naturalistic explanation

for any number of “paranormal” experiences

ranging from ghostly visitations to alien abduc-

tions. The “attacker” seems to vary according to

time, place, and culture. Whereas a 12th century

Italian may believe they were attacked by a de-

mon (e.g., a succubus), a 21st century American

may believe that they were visited by a “shadow

person”.

Q: Even this sleep disorder is connected

with unexplained phenomenon current

medical and psy-

chological research

is pointing out to a

more logical expla-

nation and various

manners in treat-

ing this disorder.

Looking at contem-

porary psychology,

what is the best

treatment for this

mysterious condi-

tion?

Dr. Sharpless:

There’s still a lot to be

learned about how to

treat it. As of today, there has not been a single

large -scale study of any treatment, but some are

promising. Certain medical drugs may be helpful

and I am currently testing a psychotherapeutic

treatment. If any of your readers are suffering

from this condition and are in the Washington

DC area, they should get in contact with me

through my website, as they may qualify to re-

ceive treatment at no cost.


Q: How different are contemporary treat-

ments compared to when this disorder was

first recognized?

Dr. Sharpless: Some of the earliest “treatments”

were to ward off “attacks”. These might include

amulets, using horseshoes, throwing a handful of

millet outside your bedroom door, etc. Early

medical doctors used venesection (i.e., bleeding)

and changed their patients’ diet. Today, we pri-

marily use medications and psychotherapy.

Q: Why is the research in these rare sleep-

and anxiety disorders so important?


Dr. Sharpless: “I think that sleep paralysis is a good,

naturalistic explanation for why people believe

they were abducted by aliens.”

Dr. Sharpless: There appears to have been a

shift in what people “see” during sleep paralysis

episodes. In the college students I’ve worked

with, the most common hallucination is of these

“shadow people”. To be honest, shadow people

somehow flew under my radar as I was reading

about all these supernatural topics, and I had to

do some digging to understand what they were.

Some people have speculated that they are time

travelers or inter-dimensional beings that, for

whatever reason, are unable to fully materialize

in our realm. Thus, they appear to be wispy and

inchoate. However, if you read

some of the earlier mytholo-

gies, there are precedents for

some aspects of their appear-

ance. Vampires, for instance,

were often seen as shadowy,

and could even turn into mist

at will.

Q: If there is any, what is

the psychological function

for humans to have these

paranormal believes con-

cerning this rare sleep dis-

order?

Dr. Sharpless: Good question.

I think it could serve a lot of

functions. I suppose that hav-

ing an explanation for some-

thing - even one that others

might disagree with - is better

than no explanation at all. We have a real human

need to understand, and sleep paralysis experi-

ences are extremely provocative.

Susan Clancy speculated that paranormal beliefs

can give a sense of order, or even purpose. Sadly,

the world doesn’t often seem to give us clear

guidelines for what to do in every situation or

how to live our lives to the fullest. Uncertainly is

uncomfortable for most of us to bear.

Q: What can someone or his /her partner do

to reduce the time period when experienc-

ing the scary moments of sleep paralyses?

Dr. Sharpless: The answer to this is, not sur-

prisingly “it depends”, as everyone is different.

Some easy things to do are to try to calm down

and recognize that you are in an episode of

sleep paralysis and not being assaulted by

subjects that I’m interested in. Since Karl and I

attacked the subject fairly broadly, it allowed me

to incorporate history, philosophy, folklore, and

the paranormal into a mainstream psychiatric

treatise.

Q: Which cultural perspectives are the most

involved?

Dr. Sharpless: This is where individual and cul-

tural differences come into play. The core aspects

of sleep paralysis seem to be the same for every-

one, but the person’s pre-existing beliefs shape

the hallucinations and, in ef-

fect, add the “color”.

Just by being human, we all

have a massive need to under-

stand our world. We’re quite

limited creatures, though, and

can only use what we have

around us to make sense of

things. So, when we have

strange events like sleep pa-

ralysis, we use the explanatory

categories that we have in or-

der to try to understand them.

So, if we believe that we are in

a world populated by witches

and demons, they are the

cause. If we are in a world of

brain science, a problem with

neurotransmitters might make

more sense. Interestingly, some

people I’ve worked with who

know all about the scientific theories for sleep

paralysis still believe that it is an actual

“supernatural” attack. Pre-existing beliefs can be

very powerful.

Q: Googling your book "Sleep Paralysis: His-

torical, Psychological, and Medical Perspec-

tives “via Amazon, we can read in the de-

scription; “Early interpretations of this event

were that it was an actual attack by malevolent

and supernatural entities such as demons, ghosts,

or witches. Some of these beliefs persist to the pre-

sent day in the form of nocturnal visitations by

extraterrestrials and shadow people.”

Apart from your scientific research, what

are your personal thoughts of what these

shadows are and what is the science behind

these eerie shadows that seem to have a cer-

tain kind of density?


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The average adult human brain

weighs in at 1300 to 1400 grams (3

pounds). In terms of length, around 15

centimeters long and makes up about

2 % of a human's body weight.

They are sensed, seen, and then felt. So, for in-

stance, a patient may wake up with the vague

feeling that they are being watched. Next, their

brain organizes this into an image. Finally, this

“being” or “object” is no longer occurring in a

purely visual modality, but is now heard, felt, or

even smelled.

Thank you Dr. Sharpless for your time and

open minded answers. You have brought us

definitely a little bit closer in understand-

ing some of the bizarre effects which come

with sleep disorders by e.g. pointing out to

the historical and modern science behind it

all. I would like to invite you back for the

issue of April. We then can discus i.e. the

infamous cataleptic attack/shocks, take a

closer look at your books and how sleep pa-

ralysis can declare UFO abductions.

Dr. Sharpless: Sure. I would love to come back

and discus the varied connections which come

with unusual and rare sleep disorders. And

again, if any of your readers are struggling with

this condition and are in the Washington DC

area, they can contact me through my website, as

they may qualify to receive treatment at no cost.


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an evil entity. Next, a number of people have

found it helpful to try to move a single body part.

For instance, try to move a finger or wiggle your

big toe. There are a few easy ways to prevent

sleep paralysis. For instance, try not to sleep on

your back. The research is extremely clear that

episodes are far more likely to occur in that posi-

tion. Also, keep your sleep consistent. Go to bed

and wake up at the same times every day (yes,

even on weekends).

Q: With my humble knowledge in psychol-

ogy and neuroscience, may I throw in an

idea within this phenomenon of ‘shadow

people’. Is it possible that these shadows

are caused by a strange form of vibration in

the liquid of the eye which becomes a stand-

ing wave when it is reflecting on the back-

side of the lens? Could such an effect in re-

flection be triggered by the released exited

electron energy from a, by external infra- or

ultrasound, charged Claustrum hitting the

retina cones, while absorbing radiated UV-

light, when directed through the optic

nerve?

Dr. Sharpless: It’s possible that there could be a

physical reason for shadow people like that. In-

terestingly, there seems to be a progression of

sleep paralysis hallucinations.


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By doing so this new area is changing the ener-

gies and the frequency of the planet was raised.

In 2012 the new frequencies were fully anchored

and now these frequencies became lighter and as

a result, inter dimensional communication is eas-

ier. Therefore more people are becoming con-

nected to spirit and raising the profile in the

field, unfortunately not always in a good way.

2012, it was the end of a familiar era and the be-

ginning of the Age of Aquarius. https://

earthsky.org/human-world/when-will-the-age-of-

aquarius-begin These new frequencies have af-

fect on negative vibrating entities; it agitates

them and affects them in one of two ways. They

do not like the higher frequencies and want to

leave the planet so to speak, or they can

y name is Kevin Spindloe and I am the Co-

founder and Team Medium of PRY

(Paranormal Research York). PRY is a new team

made up of experienced paranormal investigators

who are all local to York and have come together

to investigate predominantly in the city of York.

PRY consists from a mix of believers and non-

believers and will always seek the logical expla-

nation first. Researching every aspect of the loca-

tion to be investigated, we are able to build com-

plex time lines with compelling evidence and re-

build the story of historical events including the

people who were involved what then will provide

detailed reports with excellent results.

I have been involved with spirits for most of my

life with a strong interest in the paranormal. I’m

not religious, I believe in a multi-dimensional

world but I do believe in a creator of some form.

As an experienced Medium I tend to look at the

pragmatic angle while working in the ‘new vibra-

tions’ which can be different to other Mediums.

Let me begin by helping you understand the new

vibrations. Up until recently Mediums were

working with the well-known vibrations which,

most of the time, speak of the rising of a univer-

sal consciousness while a new gate or realm has

being opened all by the same energy or wave.

These vibrations are the motion of physical and

non-physical atoms within all matter and sub-

stances, and are measured by their frequency per

second. Touch, sound, odour, taste and sight are

each characterized by particular ranges of vibra-

tions and all phenomena perceived by these

senses occur within defined ranges of vibration.

These vibrations made many people think the

world was ending in 1999 and in various years up

until 2012. I, on the other hand, have been

taught that the Earth is shifting, or sliding, into

a different area of the universe.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/

mg21228411-500-earths-wild-ride-our-voyage-

through-the-milky-way/

Besides being a devoted team member of

PRY I also run Medium Training sessions

and Meditation Classes during our weekend

breaks at PRY and local classes.

https://www.freewebs.com/norton-christian-

spiritualist-church/calendarofevents.htm

By Kevin Spindloe, www.paranormalresearchyork.co.uk

M

A ‘New’ Look at ‘Old’ Vibrations Does it open a new awareness?


http://www.paranormalresearchyork.co.uk

An example; A young man was involved in a

hanging of a horse thief, horse thieves were

hanged by being positioned on horseback with a

noose around their necks, and the horse is then

startled and allowed to run leaving the guilty

hanging until dead. The young man wasn’t the

one who was hanged but the one who spooked the

horse to make it bolt. This was part of his initia-

tion to make him a man. His guilt stayed with

him for those hundreds of years until we were

able to pass him back to higher vibrations.

I believe that spirits have a story to tell and at

PRY we give them that voice through various

means. We use traditional methods such as crys-

tal pendulums and divining rods and even a hu-

man pendulum to get “yes-no” answers to our

questions. https://haunted-discoveries.co.uk/

db/2018/05/02/the-human-pendulum/ We use new

technology such as EMF meters, Sprit Boxes that

allows spirits to communicate audibly across the

white radio frequencies (white noise) and voice

recorders that record electronic voice phenome-

non (EVP) and record those sounds which are in-

audible to the human ear. I also believe that peo-

ple will find their own proof eventually and then

what we do is well worth our efforts! As a team

we also believe that we need to be accurate and

truthful in everything we do, I would never want

to fake anything to succed.

At PRY, we understand that we are unlikely to

provide definitive proof of life after death to the

world; however, we will never stop trying.

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choose to stay and try to beat it. This still agi-

tates them and they become more active and be-

gin to influence more and more people. It is the

equivalent to turning the heat up in a room, some

will passively leave if there is an open door and

some will get angry that the heat has been

turned up. However, the energy will get stronger

in the coming years and the two scenarios will

continue.

At PRY I am using my skills and experience to

help clients have the best experience they can

while they are with us for our events and work-

shops. But my work is mainly focused on soul

rescue; also know as ‘spirit rescue’. Soul rescue is

about helping ghosts, or earthbound spirits, to

cross-over. From their perspective, they are still

the same person as they were when they were

‘alive’. But between their reality and ours time is

distorted in such a way that their energy is un-

aware that several years, or even several decades

may have gone by from the time when they were

alive. Each ‘ghost’ has the ability to view the

world in a way that makes sense to them. If an

entity still believes that he or she is living in the

year 1650, everything that he or she observes will

be from that time period. Instead of airplanes,

cars and freeways, the spirit may see horse-

drawn carriages and stone covered roads.

As a medium working with new vibrations, I lis-

ten to their stories to give them peace and try to

escort these spirits so they can be released from

these dimensions.


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