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Are We Headed for the Super?
By Kenny Paul Smith In a recent post, I told the story of “The Young Women Who Was Visited By Her Dead Husband,” and referenced it as an example of “The Super.” Several folks have written in, asking for some clarification: “how does this relate to other categories, such “the paranormal,” “the supernatural,” “the magical,”…
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The Wife Who Was Visited By Her Dead Husband
By Kenny Paul Smith In Beyond Knowing: Mysteries & Messages of Death & Life from a Forensic Pathologist (2006), Janis Amatuzio relates a remarkable and, yes, mysterious case she worked on in her decades-long career as a crime scene investigator. “As I started through the tunnel that connects the hospital and the professional building,” her…
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Are You Looking For a Sign?
by Tiffany Pham Whether to mess with my head or teach me a lesson, I believe there are universal forces spinning strings within my life. I often hear phrases like “everything happens for a reason” or “this is a sign,” but I never took them seriously until I started noticing coincidental events happening to me.…
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They Had To Be Blind, In Order To See?
By Michael Jarvis With this piece I intend to draw a thread between the ancient and yet still prevalent trope of blind oracles and seers with the real-world phenomena of advanced insights which come about in times of physical limitation. I believe there is compelling evidence to suggest that, in states of compromised sensory input,…
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I Had To Learn To Dream, Confidently!
by Kaitlyn Ferretti Astral projection, lucid dreaming, out-of-body-experiences (OBEs), the idea of setting my spirit free of my body, such things have always fascinated me. At first, I could hardly allow my mind to believe that my soul was capable of leaving my body behind to explore other realities and dimensions. This perspective, I learned,…
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The Holy (that is, Paranormal) Mysteries of Orthodoxy
By Caleb Kench In these times of ever-advancing sciences and thought, the paranormal and the religious are frequently portrayed as being in opposition to each other. Paranormal events are now often mutually disassociated with Christianity; meaning that the secular world views them as an entirely separate class of phenomena, while many Christian denominations either view…
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Are Vegan Athletes Tapping the Super-Natural?
By Kenny Paul Smith Being vegan, or better yet, eating a plant-based diet, is seriously hot right now, and has been for several years. As elegantly illustrated in the 2018 documentary, The Game Changers, it’s not only the ethical and environmentally responsible thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do for preserving, or even…
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American Magics And The Mirror Of Erised
By Kenny Paul Smith In Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, a very young Harry stumbles upon The Mirror of Erised. This highly enchanted looking glass shows those who peer into it precisely what they most desire, for as long as they are willing to look, though it is unable to give them what it shows…
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The Horrification of the Paranormal
Kenny Paul Smith Search “Paranormal” on Google Images. In a fraction of a second, tens of millions of images are returned, most of which implicitly define paranormal (i.e., that which is beyond the normal) in disturbing terms, to say the least: demonic possession, alien abduction, unseen forces slamming doors and hurling household objects left and…
Paranormal Culture: A Popular Journal in the Superhumanities! 