When two close encounter experiencers get married, do their experiences change? Does it affect how they view them? We’ll get into it with "John" speaking on behalf of his wife and himself. But first… John shares one of the most fascinating and bizarre encounters this side of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.read more
Many of us involved in the close encounter experience have discovered that, whether it is alien contact or not, it is also connected to encounters with our own dead, and with powerful energies that are mostly ignored and denied in the modern world, but were respected, understood and used in the past. Margot Adler, author of one of the seminal books on modern paganism, Drawing Down the Moon, here discusses the power of ritual and describes rituals she has developed herself.
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Over the past twenty-four hours, something beautiful has happened to myself and my wife. It must have started sometime after nine last night. We first noticed it at close to one this morning.
Anne had gone to bed around nine. I was sitting up as I usually do. When I last looked at the clock, it was around ten thirty. Suddenly Anne appeared in the doorway. She had a rather perplexed expression on her face. She said, “What’s going on? What’s all the noise?” I looked up at her confused. There wasn’t any noise. Nothing was going on. She said, “What’s that on TV? Is that the NFL?” The television was dark.
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Researchers at MIT have successfully implanted false memories in mice. Using a technique called optogenetics, researchers were able to isolate neurons controlling a single memory in the brain, tag them, then later stimulate them with light to induce the memory.
“If mice had Hollywood, this would be ‘Inception’ for them,” said Steve Ramirez, one of the lead researchers of the study, referring to the 2010 science-fiction film. The study was published online in the journal Science.
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