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Edgar Cayce

Divination is a cultural universal which anthropologists have observed as being present in many religions and cultures in all ages up to the present day (see sibyl). Divination may be defined as a mechanism for ascertaining information by interpretation of omens or an alleged supernatural agency and as divination often entails ritual as different to [...]

Therapeutic Touch

The cover story of the magazine’s very first issue was a tribute to scientist and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. The robot on the cover of volume 12, #2 (2006) is depicted sitting on a park bench reading that issue. (Asimov wrote a number of stories featuring robots and coined the term robotics.) Every issue [...]

The story is set in 1997, 10 years after its production. the plot follows Zak (full name Francis Zachary McKracken), a writer for the ”National Inquisitor”, a tabloid newspaper; Annie Larris, a freelance scientist; and Melissa China and Leslie Bennett, two Yale University coed students, in their attempt to prevent the nefarious alien Caponians (who [...]

Iridology

Among the most notable developments in the history of pseudoscience in the 19th century are the rise of Spiritualism (traced in America to 1848), homeopathy (first formulated in 1796), and phrenology (developed around 1800). Another popular pseudoscientific belief that arose during the 19th century was the idea that there were canals visible on Mars. A [...]

Edgar Cayce

Modern occultists suggest that some Hermetic texts may be of Pharaonic origin, and that the legendary “forty-two essential texts” that contain the core Hermetic religious beliefs and philosophy of life remain hidden in a secret library. In some trance “readings” of Edgar Cayce, Hermes or Thoth was an engineer from the submerged Atlantis, who also [...]

Neale Donald Walsch

Books and comics *H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) included Mu in his ”Cthulhu” mythos. *In Robert E. Howard’s Kull stories, Mu was a continent with many cities; when it sank, the mountain tops became the isles of Lemuria. *Robert A. Heinlein’s story Lost Legacy describes Mu as a “mother of empires” that sank without a trace [...]

Gaia Philosophy

In Sleeper religion, philosophy and occult systems, the Thyrsus are often associated with Shamanic customs, Australian aboriginal mythology, Native American mythology, indigenous myth the world over and Greek Orphic and Dionysian mysteries. In addition to Dionysus or Bacchus, other Nature deities such as Pan, Diana, Gaia, Cernunnos, Shiva and the Green Man are associated with [...]

Edgar Cayce

Edgar Cayce has variously been referred to as a “prophet” (cf. Jess Stearn’s book, ”The Sleeping Prophet”), a “mystic”, a “seer”, and a “clairvoyant”. Cayce’s methods involved lying down and entering into what appeared to be a trance or sleep state, usually at the request of a subject who was seeking help with health or [...]

Evolution and Race Theosophists believe that religion, philosophy, science, the arts, commerce, and philanthropy, among other “virtues”, lead people ever closer to “the Absolute.” Planets, solar systems, galaxies, and the cosmos itself are regarded as conscious entities, fulfilling their own evolutionary paths. The spiritual units of consciousness in the universe are the Monads, which may [...]