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I defend no opinions but my own, because I always suppose others have at least some arguments to stand by theirs. I don't agree with much of what is said in this forum, but that doesn't mean I have to go into direct confrontation with another poster. This discussion was quite nice until we got...

Some parapsychological studies mention the possibility that some thought forms can assume a certain degree of materialization, making them visible both to the human eye and photographic cameras. I can also recall the tibetan concept of the tulpa, mentioned by John Keel in some of his works. The...

This is yet another sad example of people washing their dirty clothes in public. Mixing personal relationships with abduction research and evidence is utterly ridiculous. Sadder yet is the fact that some people are actively interested in using this type of material to corrode the image of a man...

It's amazing how the Atlantis myth evolved during the 20th century. The only historical mention to such place are Plato's dialogues which, as a source for historical investigation, are just very thin. There were also other supposed sunken cities/continents like Mu and Lemuria, but Atlantis was...

I don't know if King Arthur ever existed, but I'm still waiting for Avalon to appear from the mist :) Curiously we have a legend here in Portugal that say that our King D. Sebastião, who disappeared in a battle in Alcácer-Quibir (Morocco) in the 16th century, will reappear in a foggy morning...

Your ouroboros avatar is quite nice. :) If we look carefully into all the perspectives you mention in your post, we can detect a characteristic they have in common: they're all observer-centric. That, I think, is a good place to start since the human factor in UFO manifestations is often...

That's the question isn't it? If there were large bipedal primates living in various parts of the world, wouldn't some of their corpses have been found yet? Sure someone can say that they bury their own dead (there are some examples of such behavior in nature), but I think its impossible that ...

Of course there are always those who believe they are funny :)

Dealing with a feeling as complex as anger is always a difficult thing to do. Former christians often make quite rabid disbelievers, but you can frequently read that feeling as an insatisfaction, a disappointment with their past being projected as anger towards that which they formerly embraced...

I don't see a waning of belief in "holy joe". What we're seeing is a growing shift of believers from older christian denominations towards more recent religious sects and groups. We must also add that many christians are turning to islam (the fastest growing religion nowadays) and other...

Assuming that a superior entity created life on Earth, that would still leave us with the question about who/what created that god. Basically, that is replacing a question with a whole new array of questions, many of them unanswerable because God cannot be tested (the concept of a superior...

The main problem here is that we only have a single template of life on which to support our theories: life on Earth. Our science is well on the way of replicating life, either through cloning processes or growing organs, but that is quite different from creating life out of inert elements...

UFOs are just a hobby for most people, a mystery that creates the opportunity for some healthy discussion, defying thinking and a good laugh from time to time. For a few, the phenomena is the fulcrum around which their lives turn in an endless spinning of hopes and beliefs. The UFO field is so...

I was trying to be funny. :) From what I know enemy forces are usually far less kind in their methods of interrogation. Currently, the polygraph is a machine that only makes sense for TV show producers.

I don't think that the UFO problem will have just one answer, simply because it consists of a variety of phenomena. In fact, the search for an overarching solution has led us nowhere. The core data still needs to be thouroughly analised and separated into researchable pieces. The...

Alas...the mark of the illuminated. One interesting characteristic of our culture has always been the need for secret knowledges, contents beyond the realm of both the common citizen and the hard-nosed scientist that make one feel special. By making part of a restrict group of people that...

One may also say that faith may persist in spite of scientific facts contradicting it. What happens is that the lack of scientific investigation of certain subjects (UFOs for instance) leaves the field wide open for faith (in angels, extraterrestrials, interdimensional beings, time travellers...

Qualifying something as demonic or angelic fills a basic human manicheistic need for bipolarizing the subjects (again. it's essential to ponder the psychological dimension of Man when studying these phenomena). The wilder extraterrestrial theories also imply the existence of good and bad aliens...

I hope you didn't have beans for lunch today :)

I'd just like to add that the original "surgeon of the rusty knife", as mentioned in the homonymous book by John G. Fuller, was José Pedro de Freitas (also known as Arigô or Zé Arigô). João de Deus (John of God) appeared in the "psychic surgery" scene around 1978, when Arigô was already dead.