Although not a UFOlogist, Upton feels that the Traditionalist metaphysics of René Guénon affords him a foundation from which he can criticize the current wave of interest in UFOs. Guénon maintains that we are at the “end of times” in which dark paranormal forces are breaking through into our physical world. The UFO abduction literature [...]

Here she explains to Emmy Vadnais how she began working in the classroom to assist children in cultivating and understanding their natural intuitive gifts. She describes a variety of exercises and provides examples showing how young children responded. She points out that children can learn to acknowledge their innate psychic potentials without feeling ego-attached. Such [...]

Human intuition and perception are basic and essential phenomena of consciousness. As such, they will never be replicated by computers. This is the challenging notion of Hubert Dreyfus, PhD, archcritic of the artificial intelligence establishment. Dr. Dreyfus, was professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, is author of What Computers Can’t Do and co-author of Mind [...]

Arthur M. Young was the inventor of the Bell Helicoptor.  He was also founder of the Institute for the Study of Consciousness in Berkeley, California, and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.  Here he states that insights about angular relationships were very important in the development of the helicoptor and led [...]

Russell describes his own remote viewing experiences, starting as early as 1956. While conducting research at SRI International in 1974, when the remote viewer (Pat Price) failed to show up, Russell filled in and achieved an outstanding description of an airport target. He also describes an amazing series of coincidences that resulted in the first [...]

Here he maintains that the afterlife depictions from near-death experiencers are quite similar to the accounts provided by young children who remember the intermission period between lives. With important exceptions, mediumistic descriptions as well as reports obtained during hypnotic regression tend to be laden with cultural prejudices. This raises the question of the extent to [...]

Professor Kripal organized the Archives of the Impossible symposium at Ric University. See https://impossiblearchives.rice.edu/