UFOs and Electromagnetic Effects

Remembering “Zetetic Scholar”

Established in 1978, the Zetetic Scholar was an attempt to enhance communication between critics and proponents of claims of the paranormal, and also to explore the sociology and psychology of the debates themselves. The journal was edited and published by the late Marcello Truzzi of the Eastern Michigan University.

Download all issues free at:

http://tricksterbook.com/truzzi/ZeteticScholars.html/

Fortean Times # 268

Fortean Times, n. 268, November 2010.

http://www.forteantimes.com

Some articles and book reviews of interest:

-  Randles, J.: Life with the Aliens, Part 4.

- Needham, D.: Renovation Hauntings.

- Brookesmith, P.: Budd and the Abduction Trap.

Book reviews:

- Albert Jones: Angels – a History.

- Chaplin: The Portal – An Initiate’s Journey into the Secret of Rennes-le-Château.

Invasores-Historias Reales de Extraterrestres en la Argentina

Agostinelli, A.: “Invasores-Historias Reales de Extraterrestres en la Argentina”, Ed. Sudamericana, 2009.

http://invasoresellibro.wordpress.com/

Classical UFO tales from Argentina. Chapters on Ganimedes and the Duclot brothers, Pedro Romaniuk, the Vidal teleportation, the Peccineti case, Chupacabras and many more farcical CE.

A good-humored book from someone who has been on the field for more than 30 years.

FT Unconvention 2010

Fortean Times Uncon 2010. Weekend of 23-24 October 2010, 10AM-5 PM.

University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS.

(Opposite Madam Tussauds, nearest tube Baker Street).

Two special Sunday panels:

- Rendlesham and Ufology, with David Clarke, Ian Ridpath, Peter Brookesmith and special guest Nick Pope.

- Forteana and Fiction, with authors Mark Chadbourn, Adam Nevill and Natasha Mostert.

http://forteantimes.com/uncon2010

UMMO Affair

UMMO-Ciencias is a webpage (mostly in Spanish) dedicated to the infamous UMMO case. One can find here plentiful information, including the letters (some accessible to translations in French and Italian). The whole affair is believed to be the work of José Luis Jordán Peña, who himself confessed to be the “father” of  the most enduring Spanish UFO myth.

http://www.ummo-ciencias.org/

Egyptian Magic Exhibition

Magic wand, Late Period (712 – 332 B.C.) – Louvre.

Exhibition of Egyptian Magic at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (Holland). The objects in the exhibition come from Holland, Louvre, the British Museum and the Allard Museum. On display are amulets, scarabs, magical images and spells written on papyrus, wands and pictures of deities.

The exhibition will open on October 16, 2010 and run until March 13, 2011.

http://www.rmo.nl/english/current/exhibitions/egyptian-magic

Egyptian Magic - find out more:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/magic_01.shtml

Edge Science Magazine

Main articles:

- Rubtsov, V.: The Tunguska Event: Maybe It Wasn’t What We Thought.

- DeMeo, J.: Following the Red Thread of Wilhelm Reich: A Personal Adventure.

Download free at:

http://www.scientificexploration.org/edgescience/

UFOS and the Portuguese Air Force

NARCAP

Project Sphere

National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena

http://www.narcap.org

Journal of the SPR

Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, V. 74.3, n. 900, July 2010

http://www.spr.ac.uk/

Main articles and book reviews:

- Parra, A. & Paul, L.: Extrasensory Experience and Hallucinatory Experience: Comparision Between Two Non-Clinical Samples Linked With Psychological Measures.

- Carter, C.: “Heads I Lose, Tails You Win”, or, How Richard Wiseman Nullifies Positive Results: A Response to Wiseman’s (2010) Critique of Parapsychology.

- Schredl, M. et al.: Precognitive Dreams: A Pilot Diary Study.

Book reviews:

- Adams et al.: The Borley Rectory Companion: The Complete Guide to “The Most Haunted House in England”.

- Beichler: To Die For: The Physical Reality of Conscious Survival.

- Schoch & Yonavjak: The Parapsychology Revolution: A Concise Anthology of Paranormal and Psychical Research.

Fortean Times

Fortean Times, n. 267, October 2010

http://www.forteantimes.com

Some articles and book reviews of interest:

- Randles, J.: Life With the Aliens, Part 3.

- Evans, D. & Sutton, D: The Magical Battle of Britain.

(On the 70^th anniversary of the Battle of Britain this article looks at the ways magic was used in WWII. Aleister Crowley and the operation “mistletoe”, Gerald Gardner and operation “cone of power”, the role played by Dion Fortune and The Fraternity of the Inner Light - all these topics are discussed)

- Tucker, S: Poetry and the Paranormal.

-  ESP: Part 3, Precognition.

Book reviews:

- Binhi: Electromagnetic Mind Control: Fact or Fiction? A Scientific View.

- Evans & Green (Eds.): Ten Years of “Triumph of the Moon”: Academic Approaches to Studying Magic and the Occult.

EnlightenNext

EnligntenNext,  issue 46, Spring/Summer 2010

http://www.enlightennext.org/

Main articles:

Finding Spirit in the Fabric of Space and Time - Interview with Stuart Hameroff

http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j46/hameroff.asp

- Jean Gebser: Cartographer of Consciousness.

- Field Work at the Frontier of Consciousness - Interview with Marilyn Schlitz.

- Intuitions of the Beyond - Interview with Michael Grosso.

- Irreducible mind - Interview with Henry Stapp.

http://www-physics.lbl.gov/~stapp/StappEditedNew.pdf

- Cohen, A., Wilber, K.: The Guru and the Pandit – Vertical vs. Horizontal Development.