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Officially, the US military does not make use of Remote Viewing activities, having closed down the departments that were involved in them in the 1990s. Private Remote Viewing experts however, are involved in drawing sketches of far off locations, some of which turn out remarkably precise. One US ex-army officer involved from Texas who’s involved […]

Sherlock Holmes may have been the epitome of scientific reason, but Arthur Conan Doyle, his creator, was obsessed by seances and spiritualism.
Notebooks describing his earliest contact with mediums and psychic phenomena have emerged this week, 120 years after he wrote them, proving that his interest in seances had started 30 years earlier than previously thought.
The […]

He rediscovered love by finding the Ark of the Covenant, redeemed himself by rescuing the Sankara Stones and tasted illumination the second he sipped from the Holy Grail, but what sort of fortune and glory await Indiana Jones in his next adventure, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”?
“Dawning consciousness, free brotherly love, […]

Hi folks. I’ll be participating in the Blogathon again this year, blogging for 24 hours straight over at my personal blog, the Shattered Prayer. Like last year, this year I will be blogging to raise money for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.
This year, the Shattered Prayer welcomes guest-bloggers Mojo and Richard […]

ANYONEwho grew up in the 70s will remember Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, the iconic conceptual album featuring weird and wonderful instrumentals and that striking record sleeve of the angular silver tube.
The album, released in 1973, spent some 250 weeks in the UK album charts once it had reached No 1, was used as the theme […]

A majestic 17-foot-long green dragon, a stately 10-foot-long white unicorn and a threatening roc (a mythical bird of prey with a 20-foot wingspan), are just some of the models of mythical creatures on display at the American Museum of Natural History’s new exhibit “Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids.”
The exhibit, which opens Saturday and runs […]

Women’s voices have not survived from the past as well as we might like, and this is more true in ancient history than in modern. In worlds where most of the writing was done by and for men, the few literate women whose writings were did not always survive. But there are a few wonderful […]

Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against yoga—or Eastern
disciplines in general. In fact, I’ve done tai chi exercises for many
years.
No, it’s the commodification and rhetorical dumbing-down
of yoga culture that gets to me. The way something that once was—and
still can be—pure and purifying has been larded with mystical schlock. Once a counterweight to our sweaty […]

A British vampire story
written as a “lark” by William Faulkner, the Nobel Prize-winning author
of “The Sound and the Fury,” is to be turned into a 40-million-pound
Hollywood movie.

The
cameras will roll later this year on “Dreadful Hollow,” about an evil
eastern European countess who preys on a young visitor to her mansion
in Victorian England.
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The dynamic legend of Dracula never ceases to captivate audiences around the world.

Since 1897 when Bram Stoker
first introduced the world to the literary bloodsucker, Dracula became
enmeshed in popular culture. He’s gone from a bottom feeding lowlife to
a romanticized hero.

Elizabeth Miller is a
professor emerita at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and
international expert on all things Dracula. […]