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January 08, 2013

Hello Again

There's been a bit of a hiatus at Paranormalia while I attended to some professional and family issues, but hopefully these are sorted now, and with a bit of luck I should be back to posting regularly. Thanks to those who got in touch in the meantime - all correspondence welcome!

I've been stirred into action by Sam Harris's controversial views on gun ownership (below). I also look forward to reviewing Michael Tymn's excellent book on Leonora Piper, a striking new view of psi by psychologist James Carpenter, and other books that authors and publishers have kindly sent me. A happy new year to all my readers, and all the best for 2013!

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It's great to see you back, Robert! Greetings from Brazil.

Posted by: Hermanzaum | January 08, 2013 at 04:59 PM

Hey, obrigado! Gostava de estar ai.

Posted by: Robert McLuhan | January 08, 2013 at 05:38 PM

Likewise, I am happy to see new blog posts from you, Robert! A happy new year to you!

Posted by: Michelle | January 08, 2013 at 07:14 PM

Hi Robert. Nice to have you back!

Posted by: Danny Almeida | January 08, 2013 at 09:45 PM

Welcome back Robert! Now, don't do that again! :-)

Posted by: RabbitDawg | January 09, 2013 at 01:11 AM

Welcome back Rob!

Posted by: Steve Hume | January 09, 2013 at 11:51 AM

All the very best to you and yours too, our Robert! Good to hear from you again. 8)

Posted by: Julie Baxter | January 09, 2013 at 12:18 PM

Nice to see you posting again! I look forward to catching up on what you've got to say.

Posted by: Tony M | February 01, 2013 at 04:05 AM

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  • ‘These disturbing phenomena seem to deny all our usual scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming. It is very difficult to rearrange one’s ideas so as to fit these new facts in.’ Alan Turing, computer scientist.

  • ‘I have noticed that if a small group of intelligent people, not supposed to be impressed by psychic research, get together and such matters are mentioned, and all feel that they are in safe and sane company, usually from a third to a half of them begin to relate exceptions. That is to say, each opens a little residual closet and takes out some incident which happened to them or to some member of their family, or to some friend whom they trust and which they think odd and extremely puzzling.’ Walter Prince, psychic researcher.

  • When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Arthur C. Clarke

  • ‘Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.’ Thomas Henry Huxley

  • We can always immunize a theory against refutation. There are many such immunizing tactics; and if nothing better occurs to us, we can always deny the objectivity – or even the existence – of the refuting observation. Those intellectuals who are more interested in being right than in learning something interesting but unexpected are by no means rare exceptions. Karl Popper, on the defenders of materialism.

  • If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. Arthur C. Clarke.

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