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The Ballad of Emma and James I am in Dubai under desert skies, about to attend the annual Arab Health Congress. In the UAE, the night-life sucks. Having little to do in the evening before the conference begins, I thought I might peruse some of the recent paracast forum threads. Most of...

Wish I knew. I just know THAT it works, and you can see it in people, especially the interplay between the rising sign, the Sun and the Moon. With synastry the aspects seem to have a really noticeble influence on how people relate: whether there's frissant, tension, same sense of humor, or they...

That's pretty much it. I remain BTW unconvinced about the effectiveness of predictive astrology - i.e. plotting progressions and transits to forecast future trends. Transits possibly do count for something in determining what the Germans call the Zeitgeist: as an example the planet Neptune was...

Sure TO, people believe some weird shit. It's sad. We're not talking about belief. We're talking about studying something in depth, over a long period of time, with a skeptical attitude and from initial incredulity. I can have my mind changed by evidence, if the evidence is compelling enough...

As with so many things Eddie, it depends how deeply and how long you study it. You might be surprised, if you gave it the effort and time, to learn why so many millions have valued it for so many millennia. People are generally not deluded on this scale. Unfortunately, most people have neither...

The house positions of his planets would be a little different had the astrologer calculating the chart employed the equal house system - i.e. Uranus in 2nd, Moon in 5th and a ton of planetary placings in the 9th house (including the Sun) instead of the tenth. More Einstein's true character, I...

This is Odd! And you, sir, are a master of understatement.

Geller was tested to exhaustion at SRI and at Ed Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Sciences throughout the 1970s and 1980s under the control of a bunch of skeptics in conditions and procedures which no way could be staged or fixed. He was the real deal: no question. He could do that stuff, maybe...

Add: 6. The quirky mid-lake tea house in Shanghai 7. The Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou which has a charm almost unmatched by anywhere else on Earth (take the train from Hangzhou or Shanghai) 8. The Dazu rock carvings near Chongqing 9. Ming Tombs 10. If Hong Kong counts as China...

Bill Birnes is often compared to a used car salesman, playing fast and loose with the truth and more concerned with selling copy and stirring controversy than in factual reporting. Look at how the previously high standards (under the Eckers) of UFO Magazine have been trashed under Birnes'...

It's not a "wobble", it's caused by the precession of the equinox - known by astronomers/astrologers (the distinction has only applied in the past couple of centuries) for millenia. The first comment posted on Gene's link, from Rodsmith, explains the concept pretty much 100%. Astrology is not...

Intelligent debate, guys. No easy answers. At the end of the day, the CE3 & CE4 evidence is what it is: consistent, pervasive, global in scale, puzzling and weird. We can only guess at origins and motivation from the limits of our cultural paradigms and experience. On the pervasive and...

Well, for the record this is what Nick says about this: "A trailer can only ever tell part of the story. There's lots of interesting new information in the show, including the longest and most detailed interview Charles Halt has ever given. And because I was asking the questions, it's the...

Damned shame, Don. Despite the lack of any paper trail to validate his experiences with Axelrod and The Twins ("...in the category of having experienced what I cannot prove"), Ingo's story sure was extraordinary with details so quirky and original there is IMO no credible way he could have...

Sure Kieran I know that. With codebreaking, you have to have an assumption of the language or reference framework intended by the original encoder. If for example you want to break Russian military codes, the assumption is that the eventual encoding can be resolved into the Russian language. The...

Yeah Blowfish, I've known the case very well for decades. Peter and Robert are both good personal friends of mine. I've also met Jim Penniston, John Burroughs and LMH and discussed this binary code issue with them face-to-face - not that they'd reveal much about the interpretation before last...

Does anyone understand in detail the process by which these 6 pages of "0"s and "1"s in Jim Penniston's notebook were interpreted into this specific message? Does this mean the ancient aliens speak English, and encode the English language, including our system used for latitude/longitude...

Guys, get a hold on reality. You can't hypnotise someone using instant messaging - i.e. text sent from one computer to another, which has to be read and a typed response sent. The idea is utterly ridiculous, and the claims manifestly bogus. If you really are gullible enough to believe anyone in...

Gene: Peter is staying with us here for a few days, and we're meeting up with Nick later today so if you want to invite them on the show, call or PM.

Obviously, anyone can IM anyone else and have a conversation. But the idea you can call it "hypnosis" is ridiculous. For one thing, the subject needs to be relaxed on a couch, invariably with eyes closed so they are not gonna be able to operate a computer. Voice contact in theory is fine: I have...