Two Metaphors for Paranormal Events

Herrick Hospital in Berkeley, CA, site of my near death experience Many theories and mechanisms have been proposed to explain paranormal events. These include psychokinesis, telepathy among the living or between the living and the dead, retrocausality, and so on. I find that these ideas have much to recommend them, and there are certain events … Continue reading Two Metaphors for Paranormal Events →

REDACTED: The Gnostic Closet

a picture of me taken a month after the cupcake incident at the spot where it occurred. You can see the beaver lodge behind me and my father's dog Pi.   A few weeks ago I heard Jeffrey Kripal interviewed on the Weird Studies podcast. While the entire discussion is worthwhile, I have really been … Continue reading REDACTED: The Gnostic Closet →

Project Archivist Apperances: Book and Podcast List

  I was delighted to speak with Roejen Razorwire and Lobo Matias after listening to their podcast, and corresponding with them, for about eight years. It turns out that Roejen and I have had very similar experiences with telepathic empathy over the decades. Admitting such a thing in relation to the well being of a … Continue reading Project Archivist Apperances: Book and Podcast List →

Energy Predation and Emotional Manipulation at a Tibetan Meditation Centre

I wrote this piece in 2011 and published it on my vanishingly obscure personal blog.  It describes events which took place in probably 1996. I've never heard much in the intervening years about any similar circumstances until today when I was catching up with a college friend on the phone and I figured now was … Continue reading Energy Predation and Emotional Manipulation at a Tibetan Meditation Centre →

Creating Tulpas on The Alexxcast with Roejen Razorwire

Alexx Bollen, author and host of the alexxcast, interviews Roejen Razorwire of the Project Archivist podcast in this episode covering a huge range of paranormal, esoteric, and Fortean topics including UFOs, ghosts, podcasting, empathic abilities, and how to get rid of the Fenris wolf Tulpa you may have accidentally summoned. That last is where I … Continue reading Creating Tulpas on The Alexxcast with Roejen Razorwire →

Liminality 101

  With the growing attention to George P. Hansen’s work on the trickster and the paranormal, more paranormal researchers are grappling with the concept of  liminality and it’s relationship to paranormal experiences. Recently I’ve come across researchers who are completely flummoxed by what does and does not constitute liminality. While liminality does take many forms, … Continue reading Liminality 101 →

How To Induce Synchronicities

After I posted my “ghost dog” experience on a facebook group last year some readers asked for my procedure for inducing synchronicities.  I wrote up this piece and distributed it privately. I’ve edited it slightly for readers of this blog. I used the same procedure when Steve Ray and I performed our psychic influencing experiment … Continue reading How To Induce Synchronicities →

Intentional OBE and Crown Synchronicity

Four Stories from the Life of St. Nicholas by Ambrogio Lorenzetti c. 1327-1332   I will be publishing my method for precipitating synchronicities on this blog. Before I do so I want to publish this account of psychic experimentation which possibly produced an unintended, harmful result. Thankfully this result had no lasting repercussions. But I … Continue reading Intentional OBE and Crown Synchronicity →