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Archive for February, 2008
Council pays psychic for exorcism
A psychic was paid £60 by a council to rid a County Durham home of a “poltergeist” after ghostly goings-on. Easington Council employed medium Suzanne Hadwin after Peterlee tenant Sabrina Fallon reported paranormal activity [...]
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi dies
The man who inspired an entire Beatles album, not to mention everyone who was anyone in the Sixties, has died at his home in Holland. During his 70-year life he taught Transcendental Meditation to such disparate people as Donovan, David Lynch, Doug Henning, and Andy Kaufman. As gurus go he was certainly one of the [...]
Seeing is Believing?
Scientists at UCL (University College London) have found the link between what we expect to see, and what our brain tells us we actually saw. The study reveals that the context surrounding what we see is all important — sometimes overriding the evidence gathered by our eyes and even causing us to imagine things which [...]
Egyptian excavation diary online
John Hopkins University is blogging its latest digs online:
Beginning in February we will also show our work at the Mut temple. Work there began on January 16, as Mr. Charles van Siclen, field director, began work alongside stone mason Franck Burgos. In the summer of 2007 Mr. Burgos dismantled two walls in the Mut temple, [...]
Alan Moore interview in The Word
England’s Greatest Living Magician speaks out (as he so often does)…
… the more you look at the real world, the more you realise that it’s just as interconnected, in just as preposterous a manner, as the fictional one you’re creating.
More at The Word Magazine.
More on those English Jedi…
Wannabe Jedi Knights are advised to brush up on their lightsaber techniques, dust off their copy of the Jedi Handbook, and get down to Surrey, where two Star Wars aficionados have announced their intention to open a training centre dedicated to promoting the popular alternative religion.
The plan is the brainchild of Daniel Jones, aka Morda [...]
Anti-OTO website lands two in jail
Two Tucabia residents have been jailed for contempt of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and sentenced to nine months jail in Victoria after refusing to remove offensive material from their protest website. A warrant for the arrest of Vivienne Legg and Dyson Devine was issued on November 28, 2007 after a lengthy court battle [...]
Woman convicted of witchcraft to be put to death
Human Rights Watch has appealed to Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft.
In a letter to King Abdullah, the rights group described the trial and conviction of Fawza Falih as a miscarriage of justice.
The illiterate woman was detained by religious police in 2005 and allegedly [...]
Valentinus, the great unknown Gnostic
I am established, I am redeemed and I redeem my soul from this aeon and from all that comes from it, in the name of IAO, who redeemed his soul unto the redemption in Christ, the living one. (Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. I. 21,5)
The [...]
Jenna Miscavige slams Scientology
The niece of David Miscavige, current leader of Scientology, has been hitting out at the religion.
“If you flunked your uniform inspection, sometimes if you were late . . . you would be dumped with a five-gallon bucket of ice water,”
“We were also required to write down all transgressions . . . similar to a sin [...]
