Noumenal News

Footprints in the mud. Tufts of hair on a fence. Ear-piercing screeches in the night. These are only fragments of the stories now coming from the White Mountains in Eastern Arizona.

For years the White Mountain Apache Nation has kept the secret within tribal boundaries. “We’re not prone to easily talk to outsiders,” said spokeswoman Collette […]

Pinyo Pongcharern, 51, president of Thailand’s Association of Astrology, believes that last week’s decision by the world astronomy body to downgrade Pluto from one of the nine planets in the solar system to a “dwarf planet” will affect how astrologers make predictions based on the stars, their motion and relative positions.
“At the very least, the […]

Cults can be scary.
Not just the kind that police officer Nicolas Cage uncovers on a remote island off the coast of Washington in the movie “The Wicker Man” (opening Friday), involving pagan rituals and possibly human sacrifice.
Movie cults can be scary.
The one surrounding the original 1973 “The Wicker […]

THERE are clear gaps in our healthcare system and this could well complemented by holistic medicine. Holistic medicine is the cluster of healing arts — both modern and ancient. It accepts the practice of modern medicine when, especially in crisis and trauma situations, no better alternative is available.

But there is a […]

Despite popular belief, the legendary Bigfoot trap west of Applegate Lake was never designed to capture the elusive creature for public display.
“I wouldn’t ever want to see Bigfoot held in captivity,” stresses Ron Olson. “The idea was to learn about him. We wanted to put a transmitter on him. We wanted to find out how […]

Rozi Frye carefully places different colored candles in the mandala, a chalk sketch of what looks like a kite, drawn in preparation for a Divine Magic healing ceremony, also called a “curativa.” In the small rectangular room above an art gallery, the white walls are decorated by 10 of Frye’s original paintings of orixas, deities […]

Reiki teachers have hit out at a priest who branded the Japanese healing methods as the work of Satan, it emerged today.
Fr Tom Ingoldsby of the Salesian Order accused patients of the complementary therapy of “opening the door to evil and occult forces which have later side effects”.
But the Reiki Federation of Ireland (RFI), which […]

CATEMACO, Mexico - The witch is cloaked in a black gown with a Chinese yin-and-yang sign, representing the moon and sun. Dark and light.
Through lace curtains, a shaft of light casts an eerie glow onto the altar. A spindly, wooden red devil dominates the table, towering over the potbellied Hindu elephant deity Lord Ganesha and […]

NEW ORLEANS, LA. — Allan Villeneuve has good reason to stay faithful to his new wife. Because among the unspoken rules governing the universe, is you just don’t mess around on a voodoo priestess.
For two years, Ontario-born Villeneuve has been married to one of the best known voodoo leaders in the Big Easy. From across […]

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