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Media Watch for March 2007 (Issue 64)
Spiritualist’s Art Now has Cult Following: The life’s work of one of East London’s most prolific and collectable artists remains hidden in storage in the borough of Newham. Madge Gill hoarded thousands of drawings over a period of forty years, rarely exhibiting her work and never selling any of it. Her art is now highly prized by a cult following willing to pay thousands of pounds for a full-size piece.
Madge showed no interest in drawing until she lost the second of her three sons to the Spanish flu and gave birth to a stillborn baby girl the following year. She then became ill and lost sight in one eye. She was confined to bed for months and became interest in spiritualism during her recovery.
Madge regularly held séances and maintained that her drawings were not her own work, but that of her spirit guide, Myrninerest. Although she occasionally exhibited her work, she refused to sell it as she was reluctant to take ownership of it. A near-constant in her work is repeated and disembodied doll-like faces. Although the drawing technique was not advanced, the work shows an expert eye for composition and arrangement of form and line. From: “A lifetime’s work preserved by David Williams Croydon Guardian, www.croydonguardian.co.uk.
Bilocation: In an article written by Jamie Licauco, the author asks, “What causes a person to bilocate unconsciously and if you see your doppelganger (your double) does it mean you are about to die? Or, is it just a spirit trying to imitate you? Is it possible to control or prevent this from happening so you don’t start doing or saying things you are not aware of?”
Bilocation is a phenomenon in which a person is seen in two places at the same time. Bilocation is thought to be possible because it is believed that we have more than one body. Eastern mystics say that we have seven such bodies. Whereas western philosophy is aware of only two: the body and the spirit. Of course most western scientists deny the existence of the spiritual body.
The author states that when a person is tired, sick, or completely relaxed, the astral body can sometimes detach and go elsewhere. This is called astral projection or an out-of body experience (OOBE). When this body is seen somewhere else by another person, we have bilocation.
In his article, Licauco says that unintentional
bilocation is not as rare as might be thought. Lisa found a particular
interest in this article as she remembers an incident many years ago in
which she parked her car in a multi-story garage at work and then headed
to the bottom floor to exit for her office only to see herself, in her
car, drive by right in front of her and exit the garage. That experience
may have involved something more like a time shift or vision of the past
then a bilocation, but it was quite shocking and she even returned to
the upper level to make sure her car was where she had left it. The “God Spot” is a Myth: According to a new study detailed in Neuroscience Letters, the human brain does not contain a single “God Spot” responsible for mystical and religious experiences. This is contrary to claims that have come from skeptics and atheists. Instead, the sense of union with God or something greater than the self often described by those who have undergone such experiences involves the recruitment and activation of a variety of brain regions normally implicated in different functions such as self-consciousness, emotion and body representation. From: Live Science, www.livescience.com
Research Upsets UK’s Top Scientists: Presentations by Dr. Rupert Sheldrake on Telepathy and neuro-psychiatrist, Dr. Peter Fenwick, on the survival of consciousness after death, received a cold shoulder at the annual British Association for the Advancement of Science this past September. According to the national newspaper, The Independent (6 September): “Leading scientists have criticized Britain’s premier public forum on science for hosting a series of lectures on controversial research into the paranormal that suggests the possibility of mental telepathy and the existence of consciousness after death.” Professor Peter Atkins of Oxford University even called research on telepathy and life after death a “charlatan’s fantasy.” Dr. Sheldrake believes his telepathy research, recording the percentage of correct anticipations of the identity of telephone callers and email senders, has produced results that are “a thousand billion to one against it being a chance effect,” while Dr. Fenwick states, “If when all brain functions are down, the patient is able to receive information, then it follows that the mind can act independently of the brain.” From: The Independent, www.independent.co.uk/
Direct Communication Between Brains: In an article in the Paranormal Review, Robert Charman wrote, “Direct communication between brains can and does, occur. This claim is supported by extraordinary evidence provided by EEG and fMRI data obtained from … over some twenty published studies.… If science is the unbiased exploration of ourselves and the universe, then the same courtesy of acceptance should be extended to the objective findings of these experiments. To reject them on the grounds that ‘It can’t happen, therefore it doesn’t happen,’ when there is objective replicated, evidence that the ‘it’ in question does happen, is not good science. It is the blind dogma of a priori scientism.” From: “Driect Brain to Brain Communication – Further Evidence from EEG and FMRI Studies” By Robert A. Charman The Paranormal Review October 2006 Issue 40, http://paranormalreview.com/.
Life After Death: The Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Inc (ASPSI) has added a new section to their web site called, “Life After Death.” In it, they have placed twenty-five intriguing cases suggesting survival of consciousness and they intend to add more cases in the future. There are eleven interviews with people who are currently involved in survival research or related fields with more to be added, along with Interviews and testimonials from researchers and mediums of yesteryear. Go to www.lightlink.com/arpr and click on the “Life After Death” button.
Happiness Protects Against Colds: A new study that exposed healthy volunteers to a cold or flu virus found that staying positive could be your best defense against getting sick. The research showed that people with upbeat dispositions were less likely to fall ill. The findings were published in the Journal Psychosomatic Medicine and researchers feel that the reasons for their findings may be both objective -- happiness boosting the immune system-- and subjective -- as in happy people being less troubled by symptoms such as a runny nose or scratchy throat. From: Reuters Health, “Happy people may suffer fewer colds” by Amy Norton
Last Laugh: Another study shows positive thinking increases life expectancy: According to a study done by Erik Giltay of the Psychiatric Center GGZ Delfland, in the Netherlands, if you’re an optimist you will get the last laugh. Over nine years ago, 999 men and women ages 65 to 85, completed a questionnaire on health, relationships, morale, self-respect and optimism. Since then 397 have died. Optimistic participants had a 23 percent lower risk of death from heart failure and a 55 percent lower risk of death from all causes. From: Live Science, www.livescience.com/humanbiology/041101_optimist_heart.html
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