With the proliferation of many alternative forms of healing, it is often confusing to the average person how to classify...
A third-year college student named Cindy e-mailed me the following questions: 1. Are my strange psychic experiences signs that I have a special gift?
People I’ve met, and those I’ve read about, who claim that psychic abilities (such as telepathy, clairvoyance or telekinesis) or paranormal phenomena (such as ghostly apparitions) do not exist because there is no scientific basis or proof for such things, do so out of sheer ignorance.
The other Inquirer story that caught my attention recently was the case of a Cebuana, Laura D. Banzon, who was clinically dead for one hour and then came back to life.
Our regular reader named Leah, 46, married and working in an international airline company in Davao, wrote me recently about her many strange psychic experiences, which she could not understand.
I was recently interviewed by a 30-year-old Swiss graduate student of anthropology on the topic “Paranormal Anthropology,” and specifically zeroing in on psychic surgery in the Philippines and Brazil, the two countries in the world where this practice is most prevalent or well-known.
There are several often-used terms in the paranormal and occult fields which I wish were never invented, because they tend to confuse rather than clarify.
Debbie, a radio listener of mine, texted me the following intriguing questions:
Last week, I discussed teleportation, a paranormal phenomenon where a person disappears from one place and simultaneously appears in another...
About a week before Halloween, the Inquirer ran stories about numerous encounters with ghosts by people, from celebrities to ordinary folk. Such stories have become an annual ritual of newspapers, magazines, TV and radio shows.
