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The Enduring Enigma of the UFO
Despite significant evidence that something unusual has been going on in the skies above planet Earth, serious investigation remains taboo. The result: far more questions than answers. Like psi phenomena ...
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- Winter 2008 - 2009
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Shift Issue 21
THE EVERYDAY MIRACLE OF HEALING: A PROFILE OF MOTHER MAYA
by Catherine Elliott EscobedoEXPLORING CONSCIOUSNESS WITH DAVID HAWKINS
Interview by Pamela BeckerTHE ENDURING ENIGMA OF THE UFO
by Dean RadinA WORLD IN TRANSITION
by Edmund J. BourneFrontiers of Research
Humanizing Health Care: A Call for Transformation
by Marilyn Mandala Schlitz- Winter 2008 — 2009
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Diane Hennacy Powell, MD
Dr. Powell is an author, clinician, consultant, and researcher of neuroscience and anomalous psychological phenomena. She has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, was a member of a part-time think tank on consciousness at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA, and the Director of Research for the John E. Mack Institute. She currently is a member of the Board of Directors of the Jean Houston Foundation. She participated in the United Nations Conference on Women and Children in Beijing in 1995 and is one of the panelists for the PBS documentary, The Science of Peace. Her book, The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena
, was written for both scientists and lay people and was published in 2008 by Walker & Company. For more, visit www.dianehennacypowell.com.
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Henry Bauer
Henry Bauer is Austrian by birth (1931), Australian by education (1939-56), and American (since 1969) by choice. His Austrian background is evident in his pronunciation of the consonants and slow tempo of speech; his childhood experience in Austria of the Nazi takeover in 1938 led to an unshakeable belief that human beings should be treated as individuals and not as members of groups. His Australian upbringing is discernible in his pronunciation of the vowels and in a relish for plain-speaking argument; his education in Australia led to an unshakeable wish that everyone should be able, as he did, to benefit from free public education focused on intellectual development.
Bauer taught chemistry and carried on research in electrochemistry for about 25 years, at the Universities of Sydney (Australia), Michigan, Southampton (England), and Kentucky. In the 1970s he turned to “science studies” (history, philosophy, and sociology of science), looking particularly into how to differentiate science from pseudo-science. He was a founding member of the Center for the Study of Science in Society at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, teaching in the undergraduate program in Humanities, Science & Technology and the graduate program in Science & Technology Studies. From 1978 until 1986 he served as Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. When political correctness arrived, he joined the National Association of Scholars, and founded and edited (1993--99) Virginia Scholar, newsletter of the Virginia Association of Scholars. Retired from teaching at the end of 1999, he became Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration.
Bauer’s studies and writings in recent years have focused on the takeover of science and medicine by bureaucracies, resulting in the creation of knowledge monopolies and research cartels and in the suppression of substantively valid though heterodox approaches--regarding Big-Bang cosmology, “cold fusion”, global warming, HIV/AIDS. His latest book, The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory
(McFarland 2007), draws on official reports and data to demonstrate that almost everything that “everyone knows” about HIV/AIDS is plainly wrong.
Bauer’s earlier books include--as well as texts in electrochemistry and analytical chemistry-- Science or Pseudoscience: Magnetic Healing, Psychic Phenomena, and Other Heterodoxies (2001/2004); Fatal Attractions: The Troubles with Science (2001); Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method (1992/1994/2005); To Rise Above Principle: The Memoirs of an Unreconstructed Dean (1988, as ‘Josef Martin’); The Enigma of Loch Ness: Making Sense of a Mystery (1986/1988; U.K. edition, 1991); Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy (1984/1999).
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Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science
The topic of consciousness is as vast as the cosmos and as close to us as sleep. Noetics is the discipline that is arising from this confluence of outer- and inner-space research. It is the ultimate frontier in man’s attempt to understand the nature of the universe and himself.
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Ancient Cosmology: A Map of the Future?
Like the mayfly, which lives but one day a year and knows nothing of the seasons, the human being has an average life span that comprises only one-360th of the roughly 24,000-year precessional cycle. And just as the mayfly born on an overcast, windless day has no idea that there is anything as splendid as sunshine or a breeze, so do we, born in an era of materialistic rationality, have little awareness of a golden age or higher states of consciousness – though that is the ancestral message.
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Twin Telepathy and the Illusion of Separation
Evidence of remarkable synchronicities and communications between twins continues to confound conventional research into human consciousness.