Paul Kurtz, skeptic of paranormal claims, can test hypotheses — or not — with death at 86

Paul Kurtz, skeptic of paranormal claims, can test hypotheses — or not — with death at 86

Paul Kurtz, who became a national leader in efforts to debunk paranormal phenomena and pseudoscience — what he called “insidious” gimmicks that had blossomed into an industry profiting on ignorance, died Oct. 20 at his home in Amherst, N.Y. He was 86. … Dr. Kurtz taught philosophy for 25 years at the State University of New […]

N. Korea’s Kim Jong-Il unrepentant despite dream which showed him how hated he was

N. Korea’s Kim Jong-Il unrepentant despite dream which showed him how hated he was

Escape from North Korea, the Untold Story of Asia’s Underground Railroad, by journalist Melanie Kirkpatrick, describes how Chinese Christians and churches are supporting escapees in defiance of laws prohibiting such assistance. How do Christians explain their willingness to risk so much for the North Koreans coming into China? It’s a really powerful example of Christian […]

Harvard-trained neurosurgeon changes views on life after life after experiencing it

Harvard-trained neurosurgeon changes views on life after life after experiencing it

Dr Eben Alexander, a Harvard-educated neurosurgeon, fell into a coma for seven days in 2008 after contracting meningitis. During his illness Dr Alexander says that the part of his brain which controls human thought and emotion “shut down” and that he then experienced “something so profound that it gave me a scientific reason to believe […]

Travel Channel’s Paranormal Paparazzi takes viewers to out-of-the-way places

Travel Channel’s Paranormal Paparazzi takes viewers to out-of-the-way places

Asheville, N.C. native, and paranormal investigator, Joshua P. Warren is a cast member on the Travel Channel’s new series, Paranormal Paparazzi. … Warren, who will appear on every episode, is one of six reporters sent around the country to explore strange activity in a fast-paced, fun forum.  … “This has been an amazing year,” says […]

Sun Myung Moon: Son of the broken-hearted God

Sun Myung Moon: Son of the broken-hearted God

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 16, 2012 By Michael Breen [Originally published by Korea Times] On a freezing night in December 1950 during the last refugee exodus from North Korea, a heretic Christian preacher named Moon Sun-Myung stepped onto an iceflow and pushed out into the Imjin River. When he reached the far side, U.S. and […]

Nancy Peolosi reveals she communed with spirits at White House meeting

Nancy Peolosi reveals she communed with spirits at White House meeting

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) told a recent gathering of the Women’s Political Committee that the spirits of suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul spoke to her at the White House. … A video recently posted on Youtube … says, “He’s (Bush) saying something to the effect of we’re so […]

Twins, telepathy and the doorway to another reality

Twins, telepathy and the doorway to another reality

Proof of telepathy does not serve directly as proof of life after death.  It, however, defies the laws of physics and suggests a non-mechanistic world, thereby opening the door to another reality, one in which life after death is at least a reasonable hypothesis.  One of the most fascinating areas in the study of telepathy […]

Testing Uri Gellar’s powers

Testing Uri Gellar’s powers

By the time Uri arrived at the apartment the next afternoon, all of my equipment was operative and in place.  Two of my Israeli friends were present, Jacov and Ms. Shifra Mor.  I began by asking Uri to show me those talents of his that he felt the most sure of and to do them […]