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Conducting Historical Research with Elizabeth Eagan-Cox Join us as we discuss how to do historical research including how to use free Web Sites to locate when and where a person died and where they are buried, finding the real cause of death, finding the deceased’s occupation, and more. This will make it easier for anomalous researchers to conduct better historical research.
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Crop Circles with Patty Greer
Crop Circles have been appearing all over the world for hundreds of years, becoming more and more elaborate recently. They’ve been photographed and documented in over 60 countries, yet over 90% of the most prolific Crop Circles have occurred within a 20 mile radius of the ancient Avebury Stone Circle in Wiltshire England. Join us as we talk with awardwinning documentary filmmaker, Patty Greer, about crop circles and her experiences with them.
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Miss a show? Check out the Archives! http://www.paranexus.org/index. Here are a few you may have missed: April 6
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Tracking Ghosts and Chupacabras with Benjamin Radford
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The Mayan Book of the People and the Native American-Paranormal Connection with Ron Slusher Chttp://www.paranexus.org/index.php?page=62 lick here to listen
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Should We Worry About 2012? with John Ventre. http://www.paranexus.org/index.php?page=62 C lick here to listen
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Science was Wrong with Stanton Friedman
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ParaNexus has a list of physical items we can use either in the course of our research or that we can potentially convert to operating funds. Some items that we currently have a need for are: • Travel Trailer • Thermal Imaging Camera • Digital Video Equipment of any kind • Infrared Cameras/Surveillance Cameras • Camera traps with IR capability • Computer equipment such as laptops and wide screen monitors • Other miscellaneous equipment such as frequency scanners, EMF meters, audio recorders with USB capabilities etc. If you would like to donate any of these items or have other items that you think ParaNexus may benefit from, please contact Doug Kelley, Executive Director at 941-740-2900. To see more items on our wish list, visit www.paranexus.org/index.php?page=17
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Many mediums used this technique during the Spiritualist movement, however, were proven to be fraudulent, such as using their foot as in this picture. Parapedia Featured Article: Table Tipping Table tipping or sometimes called table tilting, is a Spiritualist technique during a séance to communicate with spirits. Sitters are evenly placed around a table, sitting with their fingertips lightly resting on the top edge. One of the sitters acts as the spokesperson, asking a spirit to make contact. The table may start tilting, shaking, and even rising. One of the main attractions of this method today, is that a medium is not required. Like the Ouija board, however, this crude method is subject to criticism as nothing more than subconscious influence.
History Table tipping became very popular in the mid-1800’s with the rise of spiritualism in America. The Fox sisters, having their table not only move, but also provided rapping noises as answers to their questions, perfected this technique. [1] Spreading to England in 1853, it was taken seriously by the British, when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were convinced that their table tipping experience was real. [2] Another famous national medium of the 1850’s was Daniel Dunglas Home, who was classified as either a gifted psychic or a fantastic magician. He was claimed to move 100-pound tables into the air, -4-
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performing for such notorieties as Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Napoleon III, and Czar Alexander II. Professor David Wells of Harvard, tried to disprove his talents, however, didn’t witness any fraudulent activity while he and two colleagues, in a well-lit room, sat on top of a table during Home’s séance, as it tilted and levitated. [3] In the early 1900’s, medium Eusapia Paladino was proven to be a fraud in her table tilting techniques. When her legs were not tied to her chair, it was witnessed that she would lift the table with her knees. [4] With more in-depth investigations, many mediums were found to be fraudulent in their techniques, and table tipping became more of an entertaining “home-circle” parlor game.
Scientific Theories Michael Faraday’s investigations led to the decline of table tipping’s popularity. Michael Faraday was one of the most brilliant of the 19th Century scientists. He took an interest in the fad of table tipping after some other scientists proposed that the reason it worked was because of a mysterious magnetic or electrical force. Faraday disagreed and instead theorized that the force at work in table tilting was an involuntary and unconscious muscle contraction experienced by séance sitters. This, he believed, was what caused the tables to rock and tilt. [5] Scientists called this unconscious muscular activity of the people with their fingertips on the table, “ectenic force.” [6] Modern parapsychologists state that such table tipping phenomena isn’t caused by spirits, but produced by telekinesis of one or more of the sitters. [7] Kenneth Batcheldor, a British psychologist involved in the study of psychokinesis (PK), has investigated the phenomenon under experimental control. He has shown that PK can be started deliberately, yet secretly, by shoving the table manually. The table moved on its own afterwards, started by what he called “artifact induction.” He believes it works because of its impact on the belief-system of the sitters. Having been fooled by the fake movement, the sitters overcome their skepticism and are free to produce their own genuine effects. [8]
References
1. Spirit Summonings, VA: Time Life Books, 1989 2. Roland, Paul. The Complete Book Of Ghosts. NY: Chartwell Books, 2010 3. Spirit Summonings 4. Stemman, Roy. Spirits and Spirit Worlds. London: Danbury Press, 1975 5. Taylor, Troy. “Table Tipping, Popular Pastime of the Home Spirit Circles”, 2006-2008, http://www.prairieghosts.com/table. html 6. Cheung, Theresa. The Element Encyclopedia of Ghosts & Hauntings. NY: Harper Element, 2006 7. Stemman 8. Rogo, Scott D. On the Track of the Poltergeist. NJ: Prentice Hall, 1986.
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