Category: Channeling
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NOTE: I used to have several older essays on the paranormal posted on my author site. When I recently updated the site, I removed all this material and decided to post it here. Here's one of those essays, originally posted in 2004. —- The Dark Side of the Paranormal Years ago, on a whim,…
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Though this blog is kaput, its content — appropriately enough — lives on after death! Recently I published a nonfiction book culled from years of blog posts and also containing a great deal of original work. I call it LIFE & AFTERLIFE, and it's available in a variety of editions, including Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Apple…
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Back in 2007, I wrote a post about the book The Open Door, by Theon Wright, which had been recommended by a reader. I described the book as the detailed record of experiments in automatic writing carried out by Wright's parents, Nella and George, and later by Theon's brother Stowell and by Theon himself. The…
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This post is from 2008. If I were writing it now, I might give more attention to the possibility of low-level spirits communicating through the planchette, rather than focusing on "ordinary" psi. The title, by the way, is a pun on a movie called Things to Do in Jersey when You're Dead. Or at least…
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In a comment on my post "Four Bodies," a reader named frith objected that Crookall's scheme of four bodies seemed overly elaborate. I gave this reply: Well, Crookall was trying to work out an organizational scheme that would make sense of the various accounts. What he found was that people reporting leaving the physical body,…
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I finished The Seth Material a little while ago, and I have to say that the channeled information became more compelling as the book proceeded – or maybe I was just starting to buy into the Seth worldview a little more. Here we cover Chapter 14 through the appendix. The first of these chapters deals…
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Continuing my look at Jane Roberts's 1970 book The Seth Material, today I'll cover chapters 8 through 13. This takes us about two-thirds of the way through the book. A good part of this section deals with Jane's ESP abilities, which seem to be legitimate (if we can accept her account at face value –…
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I've read bits and pieces of the writings attributed to Seth, an entity purportedly channeled by Jane Roberts, whose teachings were reproduced in a series of bestselling books, but I haven't made a sustained study of the subject. Recently, since I've been looking into the subject of possession, and Jane Roberts's trance states seem to…
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Let’s consider a series of items, and then look at where they may take us. Item: During a near-death experience, a man found himself being tormented by demons. Terrified, he reached back into his childhood to the only faith he had ever been taught and prayed to Jesus for salvation. Instantly he found himself lifted…
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If we look at channeled descriptions of the afterlife, we observe a fair amount of consistency, but also notable omissions and anomalies. Even in the most detailed narratives, we get no clear sense of what people do all day. We are told about their pleasant lives spent relaxing in a garden, or attending a symphony,…