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Linda Howe leadsDreamlandoff this week with one of the most bizarre biologicalmysteries in decades:explodingtoads. Then Whitley, who has personally studied remoteviewing, talks with one of its legendary originators:RussellTarg. OnMysteriousPowers,Anne talks with Doug Kenyon,who has just published an amazing book of essays about theForbiddenHistory of the unknown, and unexplained, deep past.

For subscribers,Whitley interviews Kurt Leland,whose books about the afterlife,Otherwhereand TheUnanswered Question are favorites of our listeners. Whitleytalks to Kurt about his exciting new bookMusic & theSoul.

Tune in to his week’s Dreamland and s-t-r-e-t-c-h yourmind!

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As we did in the Gulf War and in Afghanistan, we will leavea legacy of death behind us in Iraq in the form of depleteduranium (DU) bullets. At one time, retreating armies leftland-minds behind, buried in the dirt, where they couldn’tbe seen by children at play, who would suddenly have a limbblown off (if they weren’t killed immediately). The latePrincess Diana was an advocate for the removal ofland-mines. The use of DU bullets is illegal according tointernational law, but as we learned with bioweapons, thisdoesn’t make much difference–it doesn’t keep both sides, ina conflict, from making and using them.
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Damming rivers to produce hydropower sounds like the perfectsolution the problem of relying on fossil fuels?EXCEPT thatit also produces large amounts of methane, which is one ofthe worst greenhouse gases. Methane’s effect on globalwarming is over 20 times more than carbon dioxide?andhydroelectric dams also give off CO2. This will be anespecially big problem for China, which is relying on itsdams to produce the high volume of electricity it will needin the future. In 1990, the greenhouse emissions from a hugenew dam in Brazil were more than 3? times more than wouldhave been produced by creating the same amount ofelectricity from fossil fuels.
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Newswise – We recently published a story on thedangers ofanti-bacterial soap and household cleaning supplies. But nowit turns out it may be good for us to take a dose ofbacteria daily. Anne Strieber says that sickness cansometimes be a gift. Read her newDiary and seeif you agree.

The May issue of Harvard Women’s Health Watch reports thatscientific evidence suggests that you can treat and preventsome intestinal illnesses with supplements containingcertain kinds of health-promoting bacteria.
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