February 2nd, 2008 at 12:21 pm (interview, Paranormal, Belief)
Every day, thousands of people across America turn to total strangers for advice and consultation as a coping mechanism for the lack of control or clarity in their own lives. Though usually fun and harmless, there’s another story lurking beneath the online world of pay-by-the-minute psychics. A story that has gone virtually untold. The story of the psychic junkie.
Most psychics work anonymously from home. They could be housewives, college students, unemployed, or just decent people who found a great way to make a living and help some people while they are at it. However, none of them are licensed or trained to deal with addiction.
In this episode of AfterlifeFM Profiles, Marcel travels back to his days as co-host of “In Good Spirit,” where he spoke to former psychic junkie, Sarah Lassez, about her own personal struggle through psychic addiction, and about her popular book, Psychic Junkie: a memoir.
Plus, a Canadian psychic, Wendy Wallace, calls in to come to the defense of her profession.
Lots of fun, laughs and insight you won’t hear anywhere else.
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January 22nd, 2008 at 2:27 am (History, Belief, Secularism, Religion)
When most of us think about the modern philosophical and scientific battle between secular materialist and those who believe in “something” beyond that material world, we definitely don’t think about the sixties, and we especially don’t associate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the center of this battle.
Yet, for more than a decade, Dr. King gave different versions of a sermon/speech now commonly known as “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life.”
Here is a small audio excerpt from an early version of this sermon, simply titled, “Dimensions of a Complete Life,” delivered on January 14, 1962 at Battell Chapel, Yale University. It’s current relevance in describing the battle over consciousness survival is uncanny in light of it being 46 years old.
This excerpt comes courtesy of Pacifica Radio Archives
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January 15th, 2008 at 11:09 pm (Consciousness Survival, Psi, Parapsychology, Skepticism)
AfterlifeFM Profiles host, Marcel Cairo, talks shop with America’s top medium researcher, Dr. Gary E. Schwartz, as they take a closer look at some of the more captivating discoveries, mysteries and controversies of Dr. Schwartz first decade as a world renown investigator of consciousness survival.
Highlights include:•Systemic Memory/Morphic Resonance •Skeptics & Science •Geraldo Controversy •Intelligent Design & Evolution •Challenge to Dr. Don Watson
Dr. Gary E. Schwartz is currently a professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry and surgery at The University of Arizona. He is also the Director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health in the University of Arizona’s department of Psychology.
Dr. Schwartz’s educational background is equally impressive, with an undergraduate degree in psychology from Cornell University, a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Harvard, and a PhD in personal psychology, also from Harvard University.
He is the author of many books, including The Energy Healing Experiments, The Afterlife Experiments and the Truth about Medium and co-author of the Living Energy Universe. He has published over four-hundred and fifty articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has presented over six-hundred papers at scientific meetings.
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November 27th, 2007 at 11:48 am (interview, Paranormal, Consciousness Survival, Psi, Parapsychology)
An interview with the man behind The Trickster, George P. Hansen.
The paranormal encompasses everything from levitating monks to ESP, from spirits to cattle mutilations—an incredible and unsavory hodgepodge. The mix seems incoherent. But the trickster makes sense of it.
Psi, the paranormal, and the supernatural are fundamentally linked to destructuring, change, transition, disorder, marginality, the ephemeral, fluidity, ambiguity, and blurring of boundaries. In contrast, the phenomena are repressed or excluded with order, structure, routine, stasis, regularity, precision, rigidity, and clear demarcation.
Understanding the role and nature of the Trickster is fundamental to understanding the paranormal.
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