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(Photo: Georgia Power) Electrical phenomena are not that uncommon, but many people either don't notice or decide not to notice. Here are my personal experiences with them. Perhaps if more people read about them, they'll start to notice. Over a decade ago, I was in a difficult life pattern. Things weren't going too well for me, and I was working with a psychologist to try to loosen the stuck patterns. Some strange things happened during this period, but I was so focused on my

Islamic miniature depicting Muhammad's visit to Paradise from an 1808 Kashmiri manuscript of Bâzil's Hamla-i haydarî Blue has been my favorite color for as long as I can remember. My security blanket as a child was a blue wool blanket trimmed with blue satin. I still have it. But, another blue image arose during a meditation recently: a blue flannelboard. Flannelboards were a thing when I was a child. Mine was blue felt with a black backing. I had sets of flannel-backed items

Most of us have had some kind of precognitive dream, so we know that dreams can seem to foretell the future, but can they work in reverse? One evening, I watched a movie that had a scene featuring a bus. That night, I had a dream featuring a bus. Did I dream about the bus because I saw one in the movie? or did I see one in a movie because I would dream about a bus that night? These are the kinds of mind-bending questions that arise and show me how deeply embedded are my conce

Federal high court hearing in Calabar, Nigeria (Photo: Oto-Obongo Clement/CrossRiverWatch) Who is writing this? Perhaps you know me personally. How do you know that the person whom you know as me is writing this? And if you don't know me personally but have read other entries here, you at least have a sense of my flavor. How do you know that the same person who wrote those other entries is writing this one? Or let's say you receive an email from someone who says they are me.

Clock constructed in 1390 at Wells Cathedral What is balanced time perspective? and why is it wyrd and highly strange? Well you may ask! Balanced time perspective is... the often nonconscious process whereby the continual flows of personal and social experiences are assigned to temporal categories, or time frames, that help to give order, coherence, and meaning to those events. ( Zimbardo and Boyd ) Some of us lean more into the past, some into the future, and some are firmly

The UFO Welcome Center , Bowman, SC, burned to the ground in 2024. Sadly, I never got to visit. This weekend, I visited my best friend...

I am betting you can finish that phrase, especially with the TV as a hint. I think the first time I ever heard of Marshall McLuhan was in...

Kali, artist unknown, ca. 1865, Victoria & Albert Museum What goes around, comes around. Kali first showed up for me in 2018. She stood...

Birthday, 1915, Marc Chagall - © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Levitation. Did I ever disbelieve it?...

Film still from "Arrival"* What's your take on free will? Are you fer it or agin it? Or do you shrug when you hear the phrase? Or does it...

Film still from Dario Robleto 's transcendent "Ancient Beacons Long for Notice." Last year, I saw the projected experience, " Ancient...

Table top view of some of the Mercury suit components including gloves, boots, and helmet; 1961 (NASA) I don't know to describe what this...

Model of a Brookes slave ship , (c) Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives I just remembered that after my experience with a "presence,"...

Photo credit: Corey Coyle I've been caught up in The Phenomenon recently, watching videos, listening to podcasts, reading books. I've...

Illustration of Tria Prima, from a German alchemical ms., c. 1600, Yale University Library When I try to look at a star in the night sky,...

An underwater bubble ring, similar to those made by humpback whales, possibly as a form of communication . Here is an example of how...

The Torment of St Anthony (1487), Michelangelo (1475-1564) Did you read the caption of this photo and do the math? Michelangelo was 12 or...

Cary Grant and Constance Bennett star in "Topper" (1937) There's a lot to say about how media affects us humans. Probably I will say more...

Photo: Frederick Hudson, Album of Spirit Photographs , Metropolitan Museum of Art "How do I know I'm not dead?" That question arose like...

Memento mori photo: " Long exposures when taking photographs meant that the dead were often seen more sharply than the slightly-blurred...