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Cap.

PP.

4.

Haunting & Poltergeist cases

57-77

5.

Psychic practitioners

78-94

6.

Performing wondrous events

95-127

7.

Audience-attraction

128-50

8.

Wondrous events in religious history

151-67

9.

Near-Death experiences

168-84

10.

Scientific investigation

185-207

11.

A small group

208-37

12.

The future of religion

238-47

4.

Haunting & Poltergeist cases

57-77

p.

location

episodes

61

Baltimore

"They family moved into the house ... and began hearing unusual knocking sounds almost immediately. ... . [A woman] experienced a strange nightmare that woke her. While awake, she felt paralyzed {sleep-paralysis}, yet saw a bright yellow {the praeternatural object which I saw during sleep-paralysis was green instead} orb of light on the wall {mine (in regard to the same sleep-paralysis session) was on the ceiling, covering it} ... . [Other occupants in the house] had separate

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experiences in which they each saw a large orange orb of light on their bedroom walls. {do all such experiences of praeternatural light on the wall derive from [the dream-universe of] someone else (known to the experiencer) who hath undergone sleep-paralysis?} ... In later incidents, the lights took the form of "an orange light the size of a tennis ball," and of "an orange zigzag, snakelike light on the floor." ... on an almost daily basis .. were experienced ... unexplained knocks, voices, whistling, music, and the sound of percussion instruments ... . ... On one occasion, while [one woman] felt paralyzed by the phenomenon, [her sister] saw [her], and the air surrounding her, turn strangely misty and orange. {I have seen a naked woman turn blurredly transparent; and, frequently, a naked orange-colored praeternatural woman} ... [A man] heard a knocking noise. He became paralyzed and was unable to gesture to [his son] ... . ... The apparitions ... provided ...

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[eventual sequel :] "their experiences gradually became more subjective (unusual dreams and apparitional voices) and less dynamic (movement of objects and bed shaking no longer occurred). This illustrates a typical progression within haunting cases."

65

Alexandria, VA

"They ... heard unusual walking and banging sounds soon after they moved into the house ... . Their glass possessions also began breaking inexplicably. ... They continued hearing unexplained sounds and finding mirrors {7 years’ bad luck!} and glasses broken inexplicably. ...

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Later, [they] reported seeing .. a phantom-like whirlwind, and usual shadows ... . .. At one point, ... a local newspaper reporter ... wrote an article about the case. The article, published in the Alexandria Journal on Halloween, attracted ... attention (Donovan, 1981). {While I was an inmate of an insane asylum in Alexandria, VA, I met a woman-inmate there who claimed to be owner of the Alexandra journal.} ... One of the male occupants reported an anomalous noise that sounded like a "bull or an elephant in a tin can factory" ... (Donovan and George, 1982). ...

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The Alexandria Journal article was summarized by the Associated Press, whose synopsis was carried by newspapers throughout the country. The Weekly Mirror, a supermarket tabloid, featured the case on its front page ... with the subhead : "The most terrifying story of the year!" ... (Cooke, 1982:1)."

68

southern Virginia

"[A woman] moved into a house ... with her [relatives]. Two weeks later, they began experiencing vivid, frightening dreams, seeing apparitional images, and perceiving unusual cold sensations. {A sensation of cold may be a sign of the praesence of a ghost.} ... ... entity ... sexually propositioned the females present through Ouija board messages. ... . ... the shadow of a cross ... burned her".

70

military police in Maryland

"The ghost, nicknamed "Gwendolyn," haunted a headquarters building constructed in 1885. ... The experiences included seeing an apparition of a young female on numerous occasions ... . ...

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On one occasion, a trained German shepherd police dog was brought to the house in an attempt to locate the female intruder. The dog’s handler was amazed to find that the dog refused to go into the station’s basement ... . ... Unlike the other experiencers, [the original experiencer] reported a history of paranormal perceptions and beliefs. Earlier in his life, he had seen an apparition and heard poltergeist-like rapping in a recently built house that he owned. ...

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Once, while alone, [the original experiencer] observed Gwendolyn standing on the station staircase {Some of my own experiences with supernatural entities occurred on staircases – perhaps to those entities the staircases to other floor-levels symbolize (human thought-impressions are utilized for) transitions to layered planes-of-existence}; he dashed up the steps, but she vanished before he reached her. Other military police accepted the existence of Gwendolyn and jokingly referred to her as [the original experiencer]’s girlfriend."

U.S. Marine air station, Okinawa

"Respondents reported seeing an apparitional figure on a cargo ramp, seeing lights inside the airplane when the main battery was disconnected during maintenance, hearing apparitional footsteps on the wings ..., and observing psychokinetic movement of objects such as coffee cups and tools inside the aircraft. On numerous occasions, groups of people saw psychokinetic effects".

5.

Psychic practitioners

78-94

book

effects

Matthew Manning : The Link. NY, 1974.

poltergeists, automatic writing

Ambrose A. (& +Olga N.) Worrall : The Gift of Healing. NY, 1970.

apparitions, poltergeists

Dean Kraft : Portrait of a Psychic Healer. NY, 1981.

psychokinesis

Alex Tanous : Beyond Coincidence. NY, 1976.

psychometry, OBE

p.

effects

country

86

M

spirit-medium treating sleep-paralysis

Siam

87-8

F

praecognition, exorcisms

Siam

89

M

healings

Philippines

90

M

causing faintings

Okinawa

6.

Performing wondrous events

95-127

p. 106

"Famous meditation masters have the reputation for knowing the thoughts of others. They sometimes reveal this knowledge during counseling sessions by answering questions before they are asked." "Many practitioners show greater intelligence in trance than during normal consciousness."

p. 127

"Korean shamans dance on the blades of metal choppers. ... Chinese qi gong masters break huge rocks with their hands and resist the cutting action of blades."

7.

Audience-attraction

128-50

p.

effects

country

132

F

remove sorcery-curses, praecognitive dreams

Philippines

134-7

M

painting during trance

Taiwan

140

F

telepathic

Okinawa

141

M

treating mental disorders by psychic energy

Okinawa

142

M

receive messages from outer space

Okinawa

145-7

M

spirit-medium, exorcist

Ceylon

8.

Wondrous events in religious history

151-67

p. 152

"... are they caused by some law of predetermination? I have written these down in detail ..." (Kao, 1985).

an incident of two people having the same dream (Braxell, 1973)."

p. 153

Pot-shards were thrown down from the air, ... and the resident ... found no rest at night. A Taoist doctor attempted to exorcise the temple but the poltergeistry caused various pieces of his clothing to fly off or disappear, disrupting his ceremony. ... (De Groot, ... 1892:472)"

"Sometimes the spectre lay down in the bed of a lady of the harem ... . And when ladies of the harem

p. 154

dreamed that they were sleeping with somebody, that somebody was the lai. (De Groot, ... 1892:473)"

9.

Near-Death experiences

168-84

"Bede ... (Colgrave and Mynors, 1969:488), describes ... Drythelm. Drythelm "died" ... in A.D. 696, yet revived ... to report meeting a man "of shining countenance and bright apparel" who led him through an enormous valley. One side of the valley was filled with flames while the other side had hail and snow. ... Later ..., his guide reappeared as a bright star. Together, they traveled to a realm of clear light, saw a vast wall, and suddenly were on top of it. Beyond was a bright, flowery meadow".

In 1198 Ch.E., "a bright light appeared to him, then a body of clear water and finally some blue emerald [sic] ground. In ... the same year, he saw the so-called jewel-ground, the jewel-pond and the jewel-palace. ... (Coates and Ishizuka, 1930:207)"

10.

Scientific investigation of wondrous events

185-207

p. 188

Experiments with mesmerism and telepathy were described by Dr. Alexandre Berthrand in his Traite’ du Somnambulisme, published in 1823. In 1825, Bron du Potet claimed to induce somnambulism from a distance. ... .

... London in 1837 ... John Elliotson, founder of University College Hospital ... became satisfied that mesmerized individuals could sometimes experience sensations felt by the mesmerizer even when there was no direct contact between them."

p. 189

"The Spiritualist movement began with the poltergeist rapping that occurred in 1848 at the Fox family home in Hydesville, New York. ...

p. 190

The town of Rochester had between fifty to one hundred individuals who could contact spirits by the summer of 1850. By 1853, there were perhaps thirty thousand such people in the United States (Gauld, 1968)."

p. 191

"Daniel Dunglas Home (1833-1886) ... demonstrated ... anomalous effects : fireballs wandered about the room ..., spirits appeared ..., furniture moved about as though weightless, and Homes himself could float like a balloon (Medhurst et al., 1972). Home also ... handled fire, ... and played an accordion without touching the keys".

p. 192

... raps, ... independent movement of objects; levitation of the medium; ... mysterious musical sounds, direct writing; and the drenching of the medium and sitters with various liquid scents. (Gauld, 1968:217)"

p. 193

"Eusapia Palladino (1854-1918) ... While she was in trance, objects would move about her seance room, apparitional figures would appear ... . ... Tables moved inexplicably, participants felt phantom hands, objects moved about, an accordion and music box played without being touched, and phantom shapes were observed ... (Feilding, 1963)."

"Some people are at the table who expect tricks – in fact they want them. I am in a trance. ... They think of the tricks – nothing but tricks. They put their mind on the tricks, and – I – and I automatically respond. ... They merely will me to do them." {telepathic suggestion from spectators to medium is able to influence medium}

11.

Wondrous events in small group

208-37

p. 208

"The Society for Research on Rapport and Telekinesis (SORRAT) was founded by John G. Neihardt in 1961."

p. 216

"Black Elk was the Sioux medicine man with whom John G. Neihardt, the founder of SORRAT, had been closely associated. Neihardt had ... described the medicine man’s

p. 217

philosophy in the best-selling book, Black Elk Speaks. During his lifetime, Neihardt had been poet laureate of Nebraska".

pp. 210-31

(15 Narratives, mostly as personally witnessed by the author)

12.

Wondrous events in he future of religion

238-47

"Animals reported have acted in ways that foretold unanticipated events, have demonstrated anomalous navigational abilities, and have behaved unusually in haunted houses and mediumistic sittings (Bayless, 1970; Fodor, 1974:3; Morris, 1977)."