2003 DPE Reports

December 2003 DPE Report

How They Let us Know that They are Near. The International Survivalist Society now has the book, Precognition and Human Survival, by Charles Drayton Thomas, available in their online library. The book is the outcome of thirty years intensive study of the trance mediumship of the gifted sensitive, Mrs. Osborne Leonard. This quote from the book may give you pause when you think about a loved one during the holidays. 

“A few weeks after my sister Etta died she spoke at my sitting with Mrs. Osborne Leonard, the gifted trance sensitive, and said, ‘I came to see you recently. You were in your study, standing near the table on which were several books. You were too interested in what you were doing to think of me. I stood near you by the corner of the table, but you did not feel me in the least. I wondered how it was you did not feel my presence; I had forgotten that I was not trying. Then the Guide who had come with me said, ‘Concentrate.’ I calmed myself and tried for the time not to feel too loving, not to want to touch you, but that you should feel me. You did not at first; then you suddenly thought of me and forgot what you were doing; at least, you closed the book you had been looking at, placed it on the table, and sighed, thinking of me very strongly. You then turned round and faced me, but you did not see me and, of course, thought it quite natural that the memory of me should come in and interrupt what you were doing.’”

From: www.survivalafterdeath.org/books/thomas/human/intro.htm

Animals Healed by Touch. This was the name of an article written by Carly Wall in the September 2003 Fate Magazine. The article gives an overview of Healing Touch or laying on of hands healing and how it has been successfully used on animals. We read that the healing classes for animals given by Dr. Joy Craft are, “charged with energy as she explains her healing methods and demonstrates her techniques to relax the bodies of pets, helping release toxins that restrict and harm…. She instructs that you must channel love while focusing on the presence of a higher healing energy, learn to listen to your animal’s needs and feel that vibration opening to an innate power that even a beginner can use and develop.”

A Book on Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). Voices of Eternity, written in 1988 by United States EVP pioneer researcher, Sarah Estep, is now available to be downloaded at the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomenon web site at http://aaevp.com/resources.html. The book details Sarah’s communication with the spirit world using her tape recorder and the messages that she received.

As researchers study how spiritual experiences happen inside the brain. Mario Beauregard, a University of Montreal neuroscientist, wants to find out exactly what is going on during the most intimate of religious experiences. Mario is using resonance imaging, positron emission tomography and multichannel electroencephalograms to peek inside the minds of nuns as they have mystical experiences.

Beauregard is one of a growing number of scientists using the latest technology to study the physiological basis of religious and spiritual experience. In addition to nuns and monks, researchers are studying epileptics—who often report visions during seizures—as well as people who do not have intense religious experiences. This new field, known as neurotheology, is raising questions about the nature of God and the human soul in an unprecedented—and controversial—effort to bridge the gap between science and religion. From: “A push to map the mystica,” by Jeremy Licht,

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/

Dowsing Data Defy the Skeptics. There is no scientific reason why dowsing should work, yet it does. Two organization, the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (Csicop) and the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) dismiss dowsing as paranormal nonsense. They have both staged demonstrations in which dowsers were asked to find buried pipes. Dowsers did no better than the laws of chance predict.

Now comes a massive set of data that suggests there may be validity to dowsers’ claims. The study was financed by the German government and published in the Journal Of Scientific Exploration. The project was conducted in the hope of finding cheaper and more reliable ways of locating drinking water supplies in Third World countries.

Researchers analyzed the successes and failures of dowsers in attempting to locate water at more than 2000 sites in arid regions of Sri Lanka, Zaire, Kenya, Namibia and Yemen over a ten year period. Drill crews guided by dowsers did not hit water every time but their success rate was impressive. In Sri Lanka, for instance, they drilled 691 holes and had an overall success rate of 96 percent.

In hundreds of cases the dowsers were able to predict the depth of the water source and the yield of the well to within 10 or 20 percent. The sites in Sri Lanka were in regions where the odds of finding water by random drilling were extremely low. As for a USGS notion that dowsers get subtle clues from the landscape and geology, Dieter Betz, a physicist at the University of Munich, who headed the research, pointed out that the underground sources were often more than 100 feet deep and so narrow that misplacing the drill only a few feet would mean digging a dry hole.

By the way when the German researchers did laboratory experiments with these same dowsers trying to find buried pipes the tests were similar to those of CSICOP and JREF.

“The Ultimate Psychic Challenge” was shown on the Channel 4 in England in August. The audience was constantly reminded that the program was devoted solely to discovering the answer to the question, “Can we talk to the dead?” Yet there was deliberate suppression of important and relevant material in favor of irrelevant gimmickry. Viewers were denied information about the scientific evidence that comes from mediumship. Montague Keen had been asked to contribute to the program and would have provided evidence in support of mediumship. His contribution was edited down to one minute. This was in stark contrast to Randi, the notorious closed minded skeptic, who was given 40 minutes of air time.

From: Victor Zammit’s Friday Report Aug.23 2003 at www.victorzammit.com/index.html

Dead Skeptics: all dressed up and nowhere to go.

(Thanks to Victor Zammit’s Friday Report for this funny one liner.)

Please send information about phenomena in your church, life or community to Tom and Lisa Butler, PO Box 13111