From the escalating threat of terrorism to environmental change and dramatic shifts in climate, 2015 is likely to be a year of great drama. What’s the worst and best we can expect? John Hogue predicts. He gives us insight into his new book, 10 Predictions for 2015 and offers specific predictions regarding what will happen in the middle east this year.
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These words of wisdom may sound like they were taken straight from the pages of any of a number of New Age authors’ books on the Law of Attraction. However, they actually pre-date those texts by approximately 1500 years, give-or-take a decade or two. They come from the previously unknown, recently translated ‘Gospel of the Lots of Mary’ [mother of Jesus] written in Coptic, an ancient Egyptian language that uses the Greek alphabet
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Are concepts alive? Are they competing for our attention? Do ideas haunt us until we notice because, like the specter itself, we exist paradoxically in both being and nonbeing, as evidenced by our present only existing with respect to the past? We’ll learn all about the quirky philosophy of history called "hauntology" and whether it applies to the paranormal, from Colin, a listener tapped into cutting edge and fringe ideas. This one is both–but it might not be as out there as it sounds. In fact, it might be the case right here, right now. Hauntings and abductions may be a type of instinct rehearsal or some other form of our deep past calling to us.
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Not Target, not Walgreen, and not even GNC – according to the New York Attorney General’s office, which just issued a ‘cease and desist’ letter to all four major purveyors of nutritional supplements. According to a story in yesterday’s NY Times on-line health blog, tests showed that four out of five of the companies’ popular products did not contain the key ingredients listed on their labels. What they did contain was plenty of fillers – some of which were unlisted and could be harmful to consumers’ health.