I’ve moved my old blog to WordPress because my former host, Typepad, is going out of business. The migration appears to have successfully transferred all posts and images, but only the more recent comments, as far as I can tell. I don’t know why. Frankly, it was a minor miracle that I was able to…

This will be a rather dense post, because I'm adapting it from some notes I wrote last night when I was noodling on the question of how to make sense of paranormal and postmortem phenomena. The idea requires more elaboration than I can give it here. But at least this is a start. The basic…

At the link, there's an NBC News video about a child who recalls a past life — a case investigated by Jim Tucker, a well-known researcher in this field. The child got at least 55 details of Marty Martin's life correct, including the fact that he danced on Broadway, appeared in some movies (only as…

Thoughts on my last post and some of the comments it elicited.  Matt Rouge pointed out that deceased communicators can show agency, greet the dying, or announce their recent departure by means of a "crisis apparition." He argues that this is not behavior we would expect from those who are lost. Good point, so instead…

Yeah, that's right. En-psi-clopedia. See what I did there? It's my way of introducing the new online Psi Encyclopedia created by the Society for Psychical Research. Screenshot of the homepage:     Click on a topic, such as "Mediums & Psychics," and you get a list of articles:     Choose a story, and you…

Facebook friend Eric Newhill points me to this article on comedian Tracy Morgan, who survived a car crash and a coma. Morgan says that while comatose he had an NDE. "Morgan said he 'went to the other side' while he was in his coma and learned that his time on Earth was not quite up.…

Quick link to an experiment that purportedly suggests that time is an emergent property of quantum entanglement: https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/quantum-experiment-shows-how-time-emerges-from-entanglement-d5d3dc850933 The implication, apparently, is that if we could look at the spacetime universe from outside, time would not exist for us.

Promising new website devoted to open-minded science: http://www.opensciences.org/ Rupert Sheldrake is one of the organizers.

A Facebook friend posted a link to this BBC story: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29093700 You need to play the 4-minute audio clip to get the details. The claim is that new research has demonstrated a form of telepathy. But what's being discussed isn't really telepathy, at least as the term is used in parapsychology. The procedure involves digitizing…

Cool story. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/07/angel-crash-missouri/2630227/