May – 2009 – Paranormal Magazine

Anthony Peake, The Grand Theory of Everything!

Friday, May 29th, 2009

We welcome Anthony Peake, author of several highly rated theoretical books on the paranormal, and writer of this month’s cover feature (The Daemon Inside Us All), to tell us about his grandest of theory’s yet…

The hypothesis presented in my first book, “Is There Life after Death – the Extraordinary Science of What Happens When You Die” is known as “Cheating the Ferryman” or CTF. This is an attempt to explain what may happen to human consciousness at the point of death.

However the broader hypothesis presents evidence that as many as 70% of human beings are experiencing life within a three-dimensional, internally generated illusion similar to that described in the movie “The Matrix”. This has become known as ITLAD/CTF. The word ITLAD is simply the first five initial letters of the title of my first book. This is a far more ambitious idea than CTF and includes elements of consciousness studies, psychiatry, particle physics, cosmology as well as additional neurological aspects. Amazingly this wider theory may suggest an explanation for many of the major mysteries of human perception. These include many of the subjects dear to the readers of Paranormal Magazine such as deja vu, precognition, multiple personality syndrome, time dilation, time-slips, synchronicity, coincidences, UFO abductions, night paralysis, and mediumship.

But this is not the end. With the help of other active members of my FORUM (www.anthonypeake.com/forum) ITLAD/CTF is now being broadened to include many other areas of scientific mystery. This, believe it or not, is called BIGTOE! This stands for the “Bohmian IMAX Grand Theory of Everything”.

By “Bohmian IMAX” I mean the internally generated, Matrix-like, illusion mentioned above. BIGTOE joins together my ITLAD/CTF with a fascinating theory suggested by my associate, Karl L LeMarcs. Karl terms this mind-blowing idea “Collapsing the Consciousness Wave” (CtCw). In this Karl applies the latest theories of quantum physics to the mystical and magical traditions of the Western Occult Tradition and in doing so updates the concept of the “Akashic Record”.

When ITLAD/CTF and CtCw are joined together as BIGTOE a model of consciousness and its relationship with the external universe is created that may explain many of the most intractable mysteries of modern physics and neurology. However what is unique about BIGTOE is that it applies the wisdom of the esoteric and mystical philosophies such as Kabbalah, Theosophy, Sufism, Buddhism, Aleister Crowley, Vedanta, Spiritualism, Rudolph Steiner, The Third Way of Ouspensky and Gurdjieff, Krishnamurti, Gnosticism and many others.

By applying these philosophies to modern particle physics we find that such well-reported phenomenon as Distance Viewing, Telepathy, Astral Travel, Past-Life Regression and Lucid Dreaming are suddenly neatly explained.

Amazingly there are many, many recent movies that seem to echo elements of the theory. These include: The Matrix, Butterfly Effect, Sliding Doors, Being John Malkovich, 12 Monkeys, Vanilla Sky, Fight Club, Minority Report, Donnie Darko, American Beauty, Waking Life, Groundhog Day, Deja Vu, Total Recall, Jacob’s Ladder, etc etc. I am also told that the TV series Lost, Dr. Who (particularly the episode – Turn Left), House, Red Dwarf and Ashes To Ashes all have themes similar to ITLAD/CTF.

I could go on about the writers, poets, philosophers and mystics whose writings and theories can be explained by applying BIGTOE but I think that the above will suffice to give an idea of the scope of this theory. All those involved in this project, and there are many from across the world, are really excited about the implications. We are therefore keen to involve as many people as possible in our adventure. As I mentioned earlier, I have a very active FORUM. If you feel the urge (daemonic or otherwise!) do join in with the debates and discussions.

Visit: www.anthonypeake.com to learn more about Anthony Peake and his work.

Paranormal divers go ghost hunting in Tampa Bay

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Those who die at sea might never leave the water — body or soul. And if they’re still there, perhaps haunting the reefs and shipwrecks where they perished, Paranormal Divers aims to find them.

The Cape Coral-based company is preparing for a summer of ghost-hunting in Bay area waters, with investigations of the Gunsmoke, a shrimp trawler that mysteriously sank with a cargo of marijuana 14 miles west of Egmont Key in 1977; the Blackthorn, a Coast Guard buoy tender that collided with a freighter in 1980, killing 23 seamen; and the waters beneath the old Sunshine Skyway, where 35 people died after a freighter rammed the bridge in ‘80.

“We pick a wreck that has some potentially haunted history and then we check it out,” says Lee Ehrlich, president of Ghost Pros Paranormal Inc.

The company films its search and sells the videos, which weave in the story of the site — fact and lore — and the Paranormal Divers’ experience.

“We look for the stories, the romance,” Ehrlich says. “We’re putting the ghost back in the ghost ship.”

At each site, the dive team first sets up sonar drones to record the underwater sounds. The recordings are analyzed “to determine what sounds you are not suppose to hear … possibly sounds of the paranormal,” Ehrlich says.

To capture the sights, Paranormal Divers has teamed with Tampa-based SeaViewer Underwater Video Systems, whose clients include The Discovery Channel, NOAA’s National Weather Service, The Army Engineers and ESPN. SeaViewer’s high-definition studio cameras were used to film scenes in the Russell Crowe movie “Master and Commander”.

Once all the recorded data is collected, Ghost Pros will plan a nighttime excursion. At the Gunsmoke, Ehrlich says, divers will thoroughly explore the wreckage.

“What makes the Gunsmoke compelling is nobody knows what happened,”he says.

The trawler was found abandoned and sinking in January 1977, according to news accounts. Ehrlich says two people disappeared.

“We want to go into that ship, really see what’s in there,” he says.

The divers will also watch for the telltale glow of bioluminescence light forms and listen for unusual sounds.

Ehrlich says he’s not trying to convince anyone of paranormal activity.

“We offer our evidence in good-faith for both Scientific (as applicable) and Entertainment value, and it is up to the viewer to believe what he or she feels is the truth,” according to a disclaimer at http://www.ghostpros.com.

But the sites Ghost Pros explores are rich in lore, and the explorations are fascinating, Ehrlich says.

“If you were to die in some strange setting,“ he says, “wouldn’t you want to know that someone was looking for you?”

[via scnow.com, by Gayle Guyardo]

Tourist in Xi’an inadvertently takes photo of UFO

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Sometime after 10 pm on May 21, Mr. Zhang, a Shanghai tourist inadvertently noticed two purple spaceship-like objects in night view photos that he took from the North Square of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Mr. Zhang suspects that the objects are “UFOs.”

On the morning of May 22, Mr. Zhang came to the editorial department with his own camera, and claimed he had photos of “aliens.” In the three photos of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda taken by Mr. Zhang, the appearance of the “UFOs” was revealed by two small points of light side by side on two of the photos and a much clearer appearance of the two points of light on the third photo. These two disk-shaped “UFOs” emitted purple lights, leaving two green balloon-like trails as well.

From the photos, the two “UFOs” are moving continuously towards the Big Wild Goose Pagoda from a distance. According to Zhang, all these photos were taken with a Canon 400D camera at around 10:30 pm of May 21. Zhang set the camera at five-second exposure, aperture at 13 and fixed it on a tripod when taking the pictures.

Zhang himself felt quite astonished when talking about the photo shooting experience. Working in Shanghai, Zhang went to Xi’an on a business trip. He intended to visit some of the famous attractions in the area. After dinner on May 21, he and his friend came to the Clock Tower to take some night view shots. They took a taxi and asked the taxi driver to recommend some other attractions in Xi’an as they still had some time after they finished taking pictures of the Bell Tower. Under the taxi driver’s recommendation, the two friends went to the North Square of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda to take some more night shots. This was when they unexpectedly took the photos of “UFOs.”

[via CCTV.com]

Scientists test psychic’s paranormal skills

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Professional medium Patricia Putt was last week subjected to a rigorous scientific test of her powers as the first stage of her bid to claim a $1m prize from the James Randi Educational Foundation

Arch-sceptic, conjuror and debunker James Randi first offered a cash prize in the 1960s to anyone who could prove a paranormal claim under controlled conditions.

The young female volunteer in front of me could not suppress an embarrassed giggle as she sat there wearing a ski mask, wraparound sunglasses, an oversized graduation gown and a pair of white socks, a large laminated sheet hung around her neck displaying her participant number.

Then things got even weirder. Professor Richard Wiseman knocked on the door to collect our volunteer. He accompanied her into a large room where she was instructed to sit in a chair facing the wall and do nothing for 15 minutes or so. Professional medium Mrs Patricia Putt was then brought into the room and sat down at a small table around 12 feet away. Sometimes Mrs Putt would request that a volunteer read a pre-specified short passage, as she had found from past experience that often “the Spirit enters and makes contact through the sound of the sitter’s voice”. After that, no talking was allowed whatsoever as our medium wrote down a “reading” describing the volunteer using her alleged paranormal abilities. At the end of the reading, Mrs Putt left the room and the volunteer was allowed to change back into somewhat more conventional garb and given a reminder to return later in the day for the all-important judging phase.

[sourced from: guardian.co.uk, Chris French]

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