Earlier, we examined the intersection between evil, the devil and how these can impact us in our everyday lives. We drew on the work of postmortem Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the late businessman and out-of-body experience (OOBE) expert Robert Monroe, and medium Chip Coffey to show how paranormal evidence strongly urges us to live ethical […]
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Kabbalah and the Paranormal: Parallels around Consciousness
The mystical component of Judaism, often referred to as Kabbalah, is relatively little known to modern Westerners. Although developed during the Middle Ages, Kabbalah’s 20th-century practitioners who would have been able to carry on the tradition nearly all perished in the Holocaust (Cooper, 13). It is possible that up to 80 percent of religiously observant […]
Offering Hope in the Easter Season: Posts on the Resurrection and the Afterlife
We have discussed the afterlife and related issues, from the perspective of paranormal research, on a number of occasions. These are related to the Christian concept of the resurrection – at least in the sense that Christians’ belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ promises hope of our own eternal life with God after we […]
Reincarnation and Karma: Valuable Concepts for Religion Professionals (and the Rest of Us)
In the New (Christian) Testament parable of the wheat and the weeds, which we explored a few years ago, we noted that the doctrine of reincarnation and its cognate, karma (the law of cause and effect), appear to have been perniciously eradicated from Christian belief and dogma, leaving Christianity and thus the West, from at […]
When the “Bad Guys” Commit Suicide: Insights from Paranormal Research
The death by apparent suicide on August 10, 2019, of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has again raised the issue about how victims achieve justice when the accused perpetrator kills him- or herself while in prison. Epstein may potentially have more victims than most serial killers: dozens (?) of women whom he trafficked for sex, assaulted […]
The Wheat and the Weeds: The Law of Cause and Effect and Christian Judgmentalism
Traditional Christian judgmentalism – the notion that only those who believe in Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior will go to heaven when they die – originates in part from the New (Christian) Testament lesson that was read in many churches on Sunday, July 23, 2017. The lesson is from the Gospel of Matthew, […]
Truth and Trump per Time
Kudos to Nancy Gibbs, reporter Michael Scherer and Time magazine for their superb treatment of President Donald Trump’s disturbing relationship with the truth and what that means for our nation. Gibbs in her “From the Editor” piece was clear and forthright: “Trump says a great many things that are demonstrably false.” She reminds us that […]
Capital Punishment from the Perspective of the “Other Side”
The United States is one of the few Western industrialized nations that still allows the death penalty. Americans who favor capital punishment justify it for several reasons: someone who commits a heinous crime deserves to die; the death penalty is a deterrent to violent crime; and death is the only punishment that comes close […]
Reincarnation and Genetics: A Novel Approach to Facing Racism
Paranormal evidence points to the fact of reincarnation. Near-death experiences, reputable psychics and mediums, the seer Edgar Cayce, out-of-body experiences, electronic voice phenomena, past life regressions in psychotherapy, and instrumental transcommunication together combine to show that most human beings have lived multiple lives on earth – some estimates suggest in the neighborhood of 85-100. Given […]
Past Lives
You may wonder why a blog post entitled “Past Lives” is listed under the Future category! That’s because the related topics of past lives, reincarnation, karma and pre-birth decisions are explored in my book, Paranormal, and are intimately related to the survival of our souls after death. The evidence from scientific instruments and investigations, reputable […]