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A really enjoyable show. I've been sometimes a bit critical of Guiley (if not in word, then in thought), but this was a very good, clearheaded interview. The lucid dreaming interaction was particularly interesting and her suggestion that the vibrational (not the word she used) state suggests...

Loren's a great guy, nice catch. Allright, here's a few: What about the 'high strangeness' cases. Great Fortean showman John Keel tied Bigfoot with the paranormal. So does Stan Gordon and many others. We hear many stories of glowing red eyes. How do you as a scientist reconcile with such...

I've had it a few times, and I've tried to have it happen more often (with some success). It's a great launching pad to lucid dreams, and as long as you allow for it to happen, realize it's nothing to be afraid of, and flow with it. Personally I think sleep paralysis (which sometimes includes...

I'll second tyder's suggestion of Steve Volk. Fringe-ology is a really good overview of a lot of Paracast subjects from a middle-of-the-road perspective. Not a believer and not a debunker, but somebody willing to avoid agenda's and say "I don't know." ---------- Post added at 09:24 AM...

I think tyder was recommending the book..... and I'd second that recommendation.

Terrific show, loved the discussion on tulpas and thought-forms and the weird theorizing and all the rest, but the bit that really got me -- and I certainly hadn't heard it before -- was the brief interlude about the 'thunderbird photo.' That was one of those brain booster moments, a conceptual...

I don't think so. What monetary reason is there to study the age of the universe? Or the mating habits of ants? Or looking into what consciousness is? Or multiple dimensions and string theory? It's to understand ourselves and our environment. I'm sure there is no shortage of studies with no...

You got me there, though you only got a flaw in my reshaping of my original analogy. You address a detail, ignore the argument. I repeat: I don't think there is money to be made from these subjects. The effects are unreliable. It's ignorant not to study a subject that yields significant...

I don't. But your sentence "Thunderstorms are studied all the time with the purpose of the practical application of that knowledge to help predict them" could be applied to ESP: "ESP [should be] studied all the time with the purpose of the practical application of that knowledge to help...

The problem with the economic argument is that it supposed there is something solid and extraordinary at work here, not something natural and unreliable. You can exploit a river flowing downstream, but much harder to catch a freak thunderstorm.

Reason I keep coming across is that it was unreliable in its accuracy. Hard to decode signal from noise and not detailed/accurate enough to warrant all the money and time. Doesn't mean there wasn't something to it, just means they couldn't tame it to fit their needs. Could there be proof to the...

I think it has to do with it being unreliable, fickle, and under-researched. The suggestion of it brings out the tinfoil hats, and that scares off most people. Research is difficult since it's not any 'super-sense,' but only perhaps a remnant from our ancestors. I doubt anyone who claims to read...

Now that it's somebody besides Rupert Sheldrake, perhaps debunkers will take notice: Dogs Likely Born with 'Canine Telepathy' : Discovery News Of course, this was already discussed by William J. Long about a century ago in "How Animals Talk": Free Google eBook

Interesting, opinionated, I like that. I'll stay out of this except to say that hugging a nuke has become a bit more difficult these days. I'll start trusting corporate energy when they have their grandkids living within one mile radius of a reactor. In fact anybody on the board of a nuclear...

I'm curious, though, if you say: "Extraordinary claims require the same type of evidence any other claim requires. Supportable evidence." Then that means you do acknowledge psi and remote viewing as 'real,' at least in the sense that they are producing a measurable effect? Given that both...

Sagan popularized the Truzzi quote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello_Truzzi

That was interesting, though the problem is that skepticism often fails to apply its own criteria to what it preaches. The intent often seems to be a religious desire to make grandiose statements suggesting there is no evidence of esp, ghosts, ufos, whatever. There is a massive volume of...

Thanks for this -- I like Mike Dash's work, didn't know about this one. I suspect I'd recommend it, too... had I read it.

I've read several of Dawkins' books, and enjoyed them quite a bit. He's an entertaining and smart fellow, who nevertheless seems to get swallowed up in his own ideas a bit too deeply. Dogmatic to a fault, though that does make very entertaining television and surely boosts his sales numbers...

Absolutely. And the more widely you read the better. You can't draw conclusions for yourself from reading just one side of any subject. Much as I like Colin Wilson, I think it's equally important to read Sagan and Dawkins and everybody in between to at least be able to grasp at the vastness of...