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Friends,
I’m so excited to share this episode with Terje G. Simonsen, paranormal/occult scholar and author of the multiple award-winning book A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal: Our Secret Powers Telepathy, Clairvoyance & Precognition.
ON THIS EPISODE
- “All models are wrong, but some are useful” – George P. Box
- What is the akashic field and what are our limits in describing it?
- What does it take to be able to walk through walls?
- Materiality as an agreement
- The uses (and misuses) of clairvoyance
- The military’s limits on understanding psi
- Revelation after revelation after revelation
- Using parapsychology to create a better world
- Anthroposophy in Norway
- Christian esotericism at odds with magic?
- That time I did remote viewing
- The paranormal as a proximity to death
SHOW NOTES
• For more on Terje, here’s his excellent appearance on Skeptiko (PS remember when Skeptiko host Alex Tsakiris was on my show? Waaaay back on AEWCH). Here’s Terje summing the book up well in a short video. And here’s an interview with Terje where he discusses David Bohm and the nature of reality.
• My friend who had brain damage is Mira Bartok, author of the bestselling memoir The Memory Palace in which she details the damage a bit.
• If you’d like to learn more about G.I. Gurdjieff, this is a good place to start. And here’s a site on Padre Pio.
• I talk a lot about Daskalos on AEWCH 67 with one of his students, Daniel Joseph. And AEWCH 116 with occultist acupuncturist/veterinarian Are Thoresen remains one of the best episodes of the show.
• I didn’t know much about the healer Matthew Manning before, but I’ll be definitely be investigating!
• Want to learn more about the Servants of the Light and one of their central teachers, Dolores Ashcoft-Nowicki?
• The psychologist who posited the “trance of the everyday” was Erik Erikson.
• Here’s a little on Ulla von Bernus, but you’ll have to translate the page if you don’t speak German. And here’s an article on Milarepa, who, like von Bernus, had a change of heart about practicing black magic.
• The image below is taken from (AEWCH 128 guest) Dan Gretton’s excellent book, I You We Them, Volume 1: Walking Into the World of the Desk Killer, in the show notes of that episode, I refer to these points as “a list of factors is an inverse of spiritual development, a sort of path of black magic.”
• Norwegian psychic and healer, Marcello Haugen has a site (which you’ll have to translate if you don’t read Norwegian) and I’m now looking into his work. I love Terje’s lovely story about him and the hare.
• “Fairy bush survives the motorway planners.” I love Ireland.
• Here’s a brief correspondence between Rudolf Steiner and the anarchist writer John Henry Mackay.
Until next time, friends,
C
Conner Habib 