Do Some People Attract Lightning?

There is a saying that “lightning never strikes twice in the same place.”  That is obviously absurd, as lightning regularly strikes tall buildings, particularly those with lightning conductors, several times during a storm.  But what about people? There are people who have been struck by lightning, or had near misses, more than once.  While some [...]

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The Third Eye: Short Profile of Lobsang Rampa

I first heard about the Third Eye when working for the Government Radio Regulatory Department in 1976 when a Communications Technician told me about a book he had read by one Lobsang Rampa. He said it was all about being attuned to your senses. As an example he said in one part of the book, Rampa [...]

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The Weight of the Soul

Most people will know of the experiments conducted by  Dr. Duncan McDougall in the early 1900s which led to the theory that the human body weighed 21 grams less at the moment of death.  McDougall weighed six patients, while they were in the process of dying from tuberculosis. When death was imminent, the entire bed [...]

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Bigfoot or Bigcon? “Lair” Discovered

An abandoned large nest-like structure was discovered in a fairly remote of Arizona, US, a few weeks ago.  It was covered by branches and grass and is believed by some to be a possible home of the legendary Bigfoot. Bigfoot expert Mitch Waite and his wife discovered and filmed the nest. It’s quite big,  has [...]

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The Drake Equation versus the Fermi Paradox: Is There Intelligent Life out There?

US Radio astronomer Frank Drake developed the Drake equation so he could estimate the possible/probable number of  planets containing intelligent life in the galaxy. He did this by taking into consideration the factors listed below, in preparation for one of the first “serious” discussions about the probability of life on other planets in the early [...]

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Wave Goodbye, Maybe Say Hello! – The Voyager 1

We have now sent something man-made beyond the reaches of our solar system. 35 years ago Voyager 1 was launched with the intention of  exploring the major planets. The then US President, Jimmy Carter, said; “This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, [...]

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Are you Lucky? Professor Richard Wiseman the Leading Authority On Luck

If you’re into hard analysis of the edge of sciences such as noetics,  the paranormal and such-like, then you should have heard of professor Richard Wiseman. Born in 1966 he is the Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in England. Interestingly, before he became an author and  leading light [...]

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What is reality? “The Brain in a Vat” Hypothesis

The Brain in a Vat hypothesis is one of the better known “thought experiments” where someone (usually a philosopher, scientist or student of noetics) thinks up a situation, experiment or hypothesis, to illustrate a conundrum, moral dilemma or illustrate a theory. It is said that Einstein’s Theory of Relativity was based on a thought he [...]

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Methuselah Star is Older than the Big Bang?

Methuselah, according to the Bible, lived to a ripe old age of 969.  Methuselah, the star, formally known as HD 140283,  is somewhat older.  Scientists say that according to their calculations, it is between 14 and 15 billion years old.  That not only makes it the oldest object currently known to astronomers, but also pre-dates [...]

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Rats Communicate across Continent

In a slightly bizarre experiment, Researchers have managed to establish communication between two rats, one in North Carolina, the other in Natal, Brazil. (Picture copyright of Duke University) The neurological signals were records by one rodent, in Duke University, Durham, NC, and then sent over the internet to the other. The receiving rat’s behaviour responded [...]

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Presentiment. Did you see it Coming?

Here is a scenario. You are at work on your official break. You have been told that you shouldn’t use your Office PC to access social media- you should go to the library to do that. You just want to check Facebook quickly and can’t be bothered top leave your desk. While you’re looking at [...]

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Are You Affected by Sunspots? Watch Out this Summer!

Did you notice anything peculiar about your behaviour on 19 and 20 February this year? On those days a massive sunspot expanded and retracted. Over the next few months the sun will enter the peak of sunspot activity, a cycle that occurs every eleven years. But does it really have an effect on human behaviour? [...]

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Bigfoot:Big Rumpus!

Sightings of Bigfoot crop up with fair regularity, and there are Sasquatch sceptics and Sasquatch supporters. But it’s not often a dispute erupts based on scientific evidence. Texan Melba Ketchum says that she has spent five years studying DNA samples of the Bigfoot and says that she can prove from samples of hair, blood, saliva and [...]

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Have “His Dark Materials” been found?

The search for what is now known as dark matter may have been going on for centuries. Early philisophers and alchemists quested for the thing that was present in everything. They cosnidered that if it could be discovered it could be manipulated to make base metals into gold, and even provide an elixir for immortality. [...]

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Futurology and Future Studies

  Did you know that there is a BT Foresight and Futurology Unit? It was established in the 1990s and has a small nucleus of people who have made this think tank on the future and how to prepare for it, highly respected and influential. Futurology is an analytical, fully reasoned-out prediction of the future. [...]

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