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Problem With Two Many Solutions? | |
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Stan Grof's experience with LSD | |
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Rhea White's out-of-the-body
experience | |
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Stan Grof and the patient `possessed by the
devil' | |
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John Mack's Abduction: Human Encounters with
Aliens | |
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The abduction of `Catherine' | |
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The Roper poll: hundreds of thousands of Americans believe
they have been abducted | |
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A dual identity? `I want to go home.' Multiple personality
or possession? Kenneth Arnold and `flying
saucers' | |
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My own lack of interest in UFOs | |
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Where does the universe end? Absurd good
news | |
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The existence of spirits? The Occult and flying
saucers | |
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Puharich's book on Geller | |
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Are we being watched by the Nine? Geller is debunked by
Time | |
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A mass landing on planet Earth? My research into
poltergeists | |
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Crop Circles and Frozen Music | |
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Summer whirlwind? The `punchbowl'
circles | |
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The media discover crop circles | |
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Crop circles in other parts of the
world | |
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Edwin Fuhr sees five UFOs | |
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Ohtsuki and plasma fireballs | |
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Busty Taylor and the Celtic cross | |
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Trilling aliens? Doug and Dave
confess | |
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The Blue Hill investigation: circles appear in spite of
radar | |
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Leavengood and cell changes | |
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Baron Zuckerman intervenes | |
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Gerald Hawkins buys Circular
Evidence | |
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The geometry of crop circles | |
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The theorems that Euclid missed | |
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`Euclid's ghost.' The rune message | |
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The conference on abduction at MTT | |
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Contact with extraterrestrial civilisations? The anthropic
cosmological principle | |
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Is man on the point of a new
mindstep? | |
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How to Get People Confused | |
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The mass extinction around 11,000
BC | |
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Charles Hapgood and Earth's Shifting
Crust | |
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Antarctica before the ice | |
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Von Daniken's ancient astronauts | |
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Shklovskii's Intelligent Life in the
Universe | |
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Von Daniken's inaccuracies | |
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A visit to earth 25 million years ago? Berosus and the
fish gods | |
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Was Tiahuanaco built 15,000 BC? The Negro heads of La
Venta | |
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John Wright's book-shop in Santa
Monica | |
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Michael Talbot's The Holographic
Universe | |
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Where is memory located in the brain? The nature of the
hologram | |
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Why aliens cannot destroy memories | |
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The credibility of witnesses | |
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Ruppelt and the Pan American Airlines
encounter | |
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A UFO shows itself to Pentagon
officials | |
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Matt Punter's UFO encounter | |
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Roy Craig and the Condon Committee | |
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Craig investigates an owl | |
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Stephen Michalak's encounter | |
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Donald Schrum and the smoke-puffing
robots | |
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`Deliberate unbelievableness.' The siege of
Hopkinsville | |
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Little tin men? The case of Herb
Schirmer | |
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`Confusing the public's mind.' The breeding
programme | |
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Colonel Chase is chased by a UFO | |
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Was the Condon Committee a
cover-up? | |
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The Labyrinthine Pilgrimage of Jacques
Vallee | |
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Allen Hynek joins the Condon
Committee | |
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Maurice Masse is paralysed by
aliens | |
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Gill and the Papua sighting | |
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Jacques Vallee sees his first UFO | |
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He joins the Paris Observatory | |
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The destruction of evidence | |
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Orthoteny? The Mars factor? The Gauquelins and
astrology | |
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Paul Misraki and the Fatima
sighting | |
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The Vallees move to Chicago | |
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Have ETs been visiting earth for thousands of years? Credo
Mutwa and UFOs in Africa | |
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Nicolas Roerich sees a UFO over the
Himalayas | |
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Farmer Martin sees a `flying saucer' in
1878 | |
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The monks of Byland Abbey see a UFO in
1290 | |
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Alexander the Great and UFOs | |
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Vallee and Hynek investigate | |
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The Washington flap of 1952 | |
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Hynek's love of the limelight | |
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James McDonald commits suicide | |
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The Air Force sets out to discredit UFO
sightings | |
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Eugenio Douglas and the giants, fairies and
aliens | |
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Archbishop Agobard and the `country in the
sky' | |
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Jerome Cardan's father and the
extraterrestrials | |
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Goethe sees `luminous creatures' | |
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Yeats and Lady Gregory search for
fairies | |
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George Russell and elementals | |
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Official cover-up? Milton Erickson and the confusion
method | |
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Commander Curtis and the Washington
UFOs | |
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Paul Gaetano and the phantom bus | |
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Are UFOs a `control system'? The Invisible
College | |
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UMMO and the metal cylinders | |
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The Melchizedek synchronicity | |
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A new concept of reality? | |
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The woman who saw a scorpion man | |
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Ted Holiday's The Goblin Universe | |
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`Pan is not so funny when you encounter him.' Holiday
investigates the Loch Ness monster | |
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Sir Walter Scott's water horse | |
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The phantom who walked through
walls | |
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`Mind the cows.' Holiday sees a UFO | |
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Are UFOs `psychological projections'? The phantom
menagerie | |
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A UFO lands near Loch Ness | |
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The Mystery of Ripperston Farm | |
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Humanoids in silver suits | |
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The translocation of cattle | |
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The horse in the hay loft | |
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John Keel and the poltergeist | |
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Keel and the ghost of Frankenstein | |
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Sheik Abdul kills a snake | |
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Are UFO witnesses `selected'? The lama who floated in the
air | |
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Keel subscribes to a press-cutting
agency | |
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Two thousand sightings in a month | |
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The UFOs that responded to thought | |
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The 1896 airship sightings | |
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The first cattle mutilation | |
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The Scandinavia sightings | |
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Good guys and bad guys? Connie Carpenter sees a bird-man
and gets conjunctivitis | |
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Can UFOs change their frequencies? Marconi stops car
engines | |
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`Another world of intelligent energy.' Keel and
telepathy | |
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Keel's mystical experience in New
York | |
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Bucke's Cosmic Consciousness | |
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`The first faint beginnings of another
race.' | |
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John Michell and flying saucers | |
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Jung and the Age of Aquarius | |
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Mankind's longing for a saviour | |
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Michell and `the flying saucer
vision' | |
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`Two worlds which interpenetrate yet do not touch.' But
are flying saucers real? Jung's theory of
projection | |
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Jung and poltergeist effects | |
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`Earth is purgatory.' The Midwich
Cuckoos | |
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`A profound change in human consciousness.' Doctor
Laughead loses his job | |
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Dino Kraspedon meets a parson from
Jupiter | |
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Kraspedon becomes a terrorist | |
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John Keel and the cosmic hoaxers | |
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`From scepticism to belief-then back to disbelief again.'
The big power failure | |
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The assassination that never
happened | |
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The collapse of the Ohio River
bridge | |
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Mr Apol and his merry pranksters | |
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The time slip of Doctor Moon | |
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Spence and the non-existent cliff | |
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Jane O'Neill and Fotheringhay
church | |
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Other time slips at Fotheringhay | |
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Precognition and the Bayswater taxi | |
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Jan de Hartog and the invisible
lady | |
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Joe Fisher and hungry ghosts | |
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`The extradimensional world.' Keel on demonic
possession. | |
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Harold Wilkins and the disappearing
children | |
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The abduction of a music teacher | |
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Anna Jamerson and Beth Collings appear at
MIT | |
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Incident on a Virginia beach | |
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Beth Collings's pregnancy vanishes | |
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`Nu is saying goodnight.' Beth Collings leaves her
body | |
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`I want to remember this one.' Does hypnosis create false
memories? The Tujunga Canyon abduction | |
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Villas-Boas is seduced by an alien | |
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Hans Holzer's case of Shane Kurz | |
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Seduction in a spacecraft | |
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Budd Hopkins and the Copley Woods
case | |
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Genetic experiments? Can people be hypnotised against
their will? The Heidelberg case | |
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Does hypnosis involve telepathy? Consensus
reality | |
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Budd Hopkins and the case of Linda
Cortile | |
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Is Linda Cortile `one of them'? The holocaust starts in
1993 | |
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John Spencer and the Swedish cases | |
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The case of Kathryn Howard | |
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`Cosmic consciousness.' Five million abductees? The powers
of the extraterrestrials | |
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The table-turning craze in Paris | |
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Allan Kardec encounters a
poltergeist | |
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Brian O'Leary tries `remote
viewing' | |
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His near-death experience | |
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`A collision course with destiny.' The scepticism of Carl
Sagan | |
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Animal mutilation - a horse called
Lady | |
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Aliens invade a Colorado ranch | |
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were said to be essential to the aliens' survival.' Linda
Howe makes a TV programme | |
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Cattle mutilations and lights in the
sky | |
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Myrna Hansen and the Cimarron
abduction | |
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`Mindless robots?' Ron and Paula Watson see a lizard
man | |
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The dream of Jeanne Robinson | |
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Steve Bismarck sees a Bigfoot | |
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Are aliens time travellers? Linda Porter changes
bodies | |
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The abduction of Wanna Lawson | |
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Aliens among us? Jim Sparks is forced to learn alien
script | |
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A government conspiracy? Special Investigations and the
aliens | |
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Specialists in disinformation | |
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The Santilli Roswell film | |
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Colonel Corso's The Day After
Roswell | |
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Nick Pope: `No cover-up in
Britain.' | |
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Robert Monroe's Journeys Out of the
Body | |
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Muldoon and astral projection | |
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`The Belief System Territory.' `You are what you think.'
Encounter with a ghost | |
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The brain's two hemispheres | |
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David Morehouse is trained to use remote
viewing | |
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Astral travel to a museum | |
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Morehouse resigns from the army | |
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Do human beings possess `alien powers'? Peter Hurkos
becomes psychic | |
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Why human beings got rid of their psychic
powers | |
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Frank DeMarco discovers the Monroe
Institute | |
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Joseph McMoneagle teaches remote
viewing | |
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Yeats and astral projection | |
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The experiments of Robert Jahn and Brenda
Dunne | |
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Remote-viewing the Rockefeller
Chapel | |
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Donald Hotson's theory of right
brainers | |
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Ouspensky and `Experimental
Mysticism' | |
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Arnold Toynbee and Faculty X | |
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`Falling into a time pocket.' Alphonse Bue falls off a
cliff | |
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Hilary Evans and hypnosis | |
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Wolf Messing walks into Stalin's
dacha. | |
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Who are we? `World strangeness.' Stephen Hawking and the
`theory of everything' | |
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Psychical research and nineteenth-century
science | |
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Lewis Carroll's `new force' | |
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Huxley: `I simply could not get up an interest in the
subject.' The history of the atom | |
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Planck invents the quantum | |
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Is light waves or particles? Bohr's picture of the solar
system atom | |
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Dirac, Schrodinger and Heisenberg: three statements of the
same idea | |
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`The uncertainty principle.' The Copenhagen
Interpretation | |
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Bell's Inequality Theorem | |
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Are photons telepathic? The double-slit
experiment | |
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Hugh Everett and multiple universes | |
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John Wheeler's `Participatory Anthropic
Principle' | |
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The way of the left brain | |
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Deconditioning consensus reality | |
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The abduction of John and Sue Day | |
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`All things are made by you.' David Bohm's `living
plasma' | |
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What is zero-point energy? Donald Hotson's Virtual Quantum
Reality | |
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Was Einstein wrong about the ether? Special
relativity | |
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Does the old ether theory make more sense? `The body
alpha.' Did the Big Bang really happen? Hal Puthoff on
zero-point energy | |
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Does zero-point energy create gravity? The riddle of
inertia | |
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`The SHARP drive.' Parallel realities and
T.C | |
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The universe as pure energy | |
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The Outsider and the Romantic
vision | |
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Van Gogh understood the underlying reality of the
universe | |
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The philosophy of meaninglessness | |
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The ETs as `evolutionary midwives' | |
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Ian Watson's theory of UFOs | |
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Ralph Noyes and the psychosphere | |
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Patrick Harpur's `daimonic reality' | |
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`Psychic reality runs parallel to physical reality.' A
Martian visit to earth | |
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Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons | |
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Julian Jaynes and the bicameral
mind | |
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The problem of left-brain awareness | |
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Mankind in a spiritual cul de sac | |
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The robot and left-brain
consciousness | |
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Mankind's basic problem: leakage | |
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Religion and `high-pressure
consciousness' | |
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William James and the energies of
men | |
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`To be free is nothing; to become free is heaven.' Closing
the leaks | |
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`It is part of the change.' H.G | |
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Are we all Martians? Rupert Sheldrake's morphic
resonance | |
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Odd synchronicities: a digital
clock | |
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The seven levels of consciousness | |
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Abductions and human evolution | |
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Andrija Puharich and `unusual
children' | |
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Selected Bibliography |
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