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The Academy of Mystic Arts
[From Amazing Science Fiction magazine for August 1973.]
The "Academy for Mystic Arts" which sponsored this ad seems no longer to exist, although there are other, newer organizations with that name. The original Academy has left very few traces behind on the internet, although one lead seems to point to a connection with the famed astrologer named Zolar.
I love the testimony at the end about how relations with the boyfriend have improved. Well, of course they have--you put a zombie spell on him!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 27, 2008 -
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Category: New Age, Paranormal, Advertising, 1970s
Shamans in Peru
Time to look at some curanderos. The best part comes after the three-minute mark.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 04, 2008 -
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Category: Medicine, Paranormal, Religion, Foreign Customs, South America
The ETs are on their way
Two highly credible sources -- the mediums Blossom Goodchild and Mike Quinsey -- have predicted that Earth will be visited by extraterrestrials on October 14. The mediums are getting their info from a group of aliens known as the "galactic Federation of Light". Quinsey has specifically been in dialogue with "SaLuSa of Sirius".The contact event is apparently going to be undeniable, but thankfully these ETs are friendly. Their goal is to "help us and our planet move to a new higher vibration of love".
Pair this with the email rumor going around India that on "October 17, 2008 the sun will rise continuously for 36 hrs (1.5 days)" and that "During this time the US countries will be dark for 1.5 days," and I'd say that's going to be an interesting week.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 02, 2008 -
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Category: Paranormal
Dion Fortune
I haven't read it yet, but I'm much looking forward to learning how to protect myself against various types of intrusive mind assaults. Sample a few pages yourselves below.
And thanks to Google Books, you can read the whole thing online here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 26, 2008 -
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Category: New Age, Paranormal, Self-help Schemes, Psychology, Books, 1930s
Who’s coming to see the LHC?
The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva may not have caused the end of the world, but some believe it's attracting extraterrestrial visitors. The Louth Leader is on top of this important story:sightings of 'orange lights' UFOs near Louth have been pouring into the Leader – with some wondering if recent UFO activity is connected to the Large Hadron Collider experiment in Geneva. A man called Anthony from Wales emailed a similar account of what he saw:
"I was having a cigarette outside my front door on Saturday at around 9pm and I looked over the roof tops and saw two orange-red glowing lights coming from over the hill where I live... We live in a little village in Swansea and after 47 years of looking up at night this is the first UFO I have ever seen."
He added: "Could it be something to do with that experiment they are doing under ground in Geneva letting out pockets of energy or something?"
"I was having a cigarette outside my front door on Saturday at around 9pm and I looked over the roof tops and saw two orange-red glowing lights coming from over the hill where I live... We live in a little village in Swansea and after 47 years of looking up at night this is the first UFO I have ever seen."
He added: "Could it be something to do with that experiment they are doing under ground in Geneva letting out pockets of energy or something?"
To be fair to "Anthony from Wales," it's not clear to me whether he's suggesting that the collider is attracting ETs, or if it's releasing visible flashes of energy into the atmosphere. Not that one option would be any more logical than the other.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 17, 2008 -
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Category: Paranormal, Science
World D
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 11, 2008 -
Comments (11) Category: Aliens, Eccentrics, Government, Inventions, Literature, Books, Science Fiction, Writers, Nature, New Age, Paranormal, Pop Culture, Science, Psychology, Self-help Schemes, Foreign Customs, 1930s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
The Haunted House Test
This is a good accompaniment to the Have You Been Abducted By Aliens test that I posted two months ago. It's a Haunted House Test, from hauntedhousebuster.com (via J-Walk):IF YOU CAN SAY YES TO JUST ONE THEN YOUR PLACE IS HAUNTED!
1. Flies appear from nowhere when doors and windows are closed, especially in the winter when they are not supposed to be there.
2. Hearing voices, someone calling your name. Children complain of hearing a man's, woman's or children's voices.
3. You can see something pass you at the corner of your eye.
4. A smell of roses, perfume, or any smell that doesn't belong in your home.
5. Apports or Exports - objects appearing or your belongings disappear.
6. Cold spots or winds in certain areas of the haunted places
7. Things fall when you leave a room, especially when you go to bed.
8. Television, radio, coffeemakers, lights turn on by themsleves and lights flicker making you think that you need to replace light bulps
9. You can feel someone watching you or feel someone follow you around the house.
10. Static on the phone especially when you talk about the spirits that are haunting your home, hotel or haunted place.
11. The room is rearranged.
12. Toliets flush by themselves.
13. The water is running when you arrive home and you know that you made sure it was off when you left the house.
14. Objects drift in the air by themselves.
15. You receive visions of what might have happened on the property.
16. You receive visions of people that have died.
17. You receive visions of future events.
18. Family members get hot and cold flashes, have pain, headaches, or bruises on their body.
19. Family members are in many accidents.
20. Family members change their attitude. (Don't blame them for this.)
21. Fighting and divorce.
22. You receive a very uncomfortable feeling when you start reading the King James Bible out loud and putting olive oil around the house.
23. Depression, cancer or death in the family where the haunting is taking place or has taken place with past residents.
24. When pictures are taken you can see orbs or streams of light.
25. Fog is in only one of the rooms.
26. You receive information in your head about something when nobody is there. You might think that you thought of the idea. You didn't. It's the demons.
27. You hear scratching noises. (If this happens, IMMEDIATELY say, "I bind you and command you to leave in the Name of Jesus Christ!")
Haunting doesn't seem like the most logical explanation for many of these phenomena. For instance, if you notice fog in one of your rooms, could it be that you're standing in the bathroom and someone's taking a shower? And if you get divorced it means your house is haunted? Give me a break. However, if you notice objects drifting in the air by themselves, I'd say, yeah, your house might be haunted.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Sep 11, 2008 -
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Category: Paranormal
Six Faces of FATE
Please enjoy this imagery from one of the spiritual ancestors of WEIRD UNIVERSE, FATE MAGAZINE.
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 21, 2008 -
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Category: Art, Eccentrics, Forteana, Magazines, Paranormal, Pop Culture, Unsolved Mysteries, 1950s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Pyramid Power
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 18, 2008 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Fads, Frauds, Cons and Scams, New Age, Paranormal, Unsolved Mysteries, Foreign Customs, Russia
Dime-Dropping Ghosts
Researchers of the paranormal have identified a common theme in ghost tales: dime-dropping ghosts. That is, many people report the belief that ghosts are leaving them dimes. Consider this example reported on about.com's paranormal phenomena blog:My aunt Julie died two years ago, on November 14, 2006. She had three children. Her youngest was only 14. Not long after her death, my uncle (her husband) found a dime on the floor of his workout room. No one, but him goes in that room. It was weird because he never has money when working out! He told my mom about it, and my mom had found a dime too! That same day. She found it at work, in the corner of her office. She called my mom about the stories. She found that very odd because she just found two dimes underneath my pop's chair at the kitchen table. Neither one of them put the dimes there. After almost the whole family found many dimes that were randomly anywhere, we knew it was Aunt Julie.
That's just one example. There are many more. My dead relatives must be stingy because they never leave me any dimes. But if any of them are listening out there, and are feeling generous, please consider leaving more than ten cents! $100 bills would be nice.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Aug 11, 2008 -
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Category: Forteana, Paranormal
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