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Catching Up with Professor Stafford Betty
Posted on 14 January 2019, 15:10
When I interviewed Professor Stafford Betty for the June 2006 issue of The Searchlight, a publication of The Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies, he commented that some of his colleagues in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at California State University, Bakersfield,…
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What does being “Happy” in the New Year mean?
Posted on 29 December 2018, 13:23
Like many other people, I have been wishing numerous friends and acquaintances a “Happy New Year!” as we approach 2019. But how many of us really stop to think what we are wishing for the person? What does it mean to be “happy”? Is the kind of happiness we are wishing…
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Finishing like Bush 41
Posted on 10 December 2018, 10:04
When former President George W. Bush (Bush 43) ended the eulogy for his father, former President George H. W. Bush (Bush 41 below), last week by saying something to the effect that his father was looking forward to a reunion with his beloved wife, Barbara, and their daughter, Robin, I could envision…
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Death or Transcendence as viewed by Dr. Michael Grosso
Posted on 26 November 2018, 10:00
“Brainwashed by mainstream scientistic materialism, we feel constrained by their ideas of what is possible,” Michael Grosso states in his 1985 book The Final Choice: Death or Transcendence, recently republished by White Crow Books. “Tied to constricted worldviews, we submit to the…
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Profiling the Atheist
Posted on 12 November 2018, 9:35
During my lifetime of more than four-score years, I have met many people who call themselves atheists. Usually, when they find out about my interest in afterlife studies and the fact that I have authored six books dealing with the subject, not to mention a hundred or more magazine and journal…
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War Victim: “Great Scot! You don’t mean I’m dead!”
Posted on 29 October 2018, 10:10
With the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I coming up on November 11, it seems like a good time to remember one of the victims of the “The Great War” – Second Lieutenant Claude Herschel Kelway-Bamber, whose plane was shot down by a German fighter pilot as they engaged in a dogfight near the…
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Levitations Explained?
Posted on 15 October 2018, 7:05
The reports of levitations – of both humans and furniture – were abundant in the early research on mediums. Sir William Crookes, a world renowned chemist and physicist, reported seeing medium Daniel D. Home levitated (lifted) on three occasions, while also witnessing several other people levitated…
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When Famous Spirits Collaborate in a Group Soul
Posted on 30 September 2018, 15:42
Much of the early mediumship, from around 1850 until about 1930, involved communication from what has been called a “group soul” – a number of discarnates speaking as one, or different discarnates taking turns communicating through a particular medium. One of the earliest reports of such a phenomenon…
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Shakespeare: Genius, Impostor, or Medium?
Posted on 17 September 2018, 6:43
Much has been written about the possibility that William Shakespeare (below) didn’t author the works credited to him, that he was, in effect, an impostor. The subject is dealt with most recently in September/October issue of “Atlantis Rising” Magazine, in an article entitled…
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Facing Death with Hope
Posted on 03 September 2018, 11:43
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level – Ernest Becker As Hurricane Lane approached Hawaii, where I live, with 170 mph winds on August 23, I began having visions of my departure from this realm of existence. …
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