Paranormal is Normal

Paranormal is Normal No 40

Dogs often know when their owners are coming home and this week my guest Rupert Sheldrake gives us inside information on his scientific tests.. Is this a sixth sense or just telepathy I ask? Perhaps it is stretching the limits of telepathy as we know it but I offer an explanation. Rupert talks about the psychic ability of parrots, cats and horses, as well as dogs, offering much detailed information which is quite fascinating and very revealing. 

Paranormal is Normal No 39

Do we understand much about hypnosis? A talk with a hypnotist with comments as to how and why it works, shows that it uses a perfectly normal part of everyday life. It's just that a hypnotist is generally able to put us into a relaxed and sleepy state, that is, the dream state but without being asleep. It's our state of mind, just as we fall asleep, and it's perfectly normal. The reality of life disappears and we simulate an imaginary life which we call dreaming. It's the state of mind we call trance, which we slip into during the day, without even noticing while we are emotional, cry or laugh.  

Paranormal is Normal No 37

We all know dreams are normal but as they are not understood, they are considered paranormal. Our guest's book 'Origin of Dreams' explains how and why; so now dreaming is understandable. Our guest is a therapist dealing with all mental problems and he found that applying his understanding of dreaming to psychological problems enabled successful treatment by the use of hypnosis and allied techniques.  My own interest in this has led to a description of what trance really is, and why it evolved. Trance is the name we give to the way we we inhibit conscious thinking about instinctive actions; which evolved as a necessity 35,000 years ago when we began to think consciously. 

Paranormal is Normal No 36

While we know that the medium often fakes paranormal events in films and television, we don't realize to what extent the whole of the paranormal is phoney.  Despite all the fakery spiritual mediums do produce 'real evidence', people sometimes 'see' a UFO, parapsychology research has made many great discoveries and some people at stage shows become deeply hypnotised.  This week we discover why there is so much fakery, with many examples of the way money is the cause, and how people falsify the evidence to make a point, whether it be the evidence for survival or the evidence of parapsychology.

Paranormal is Normal No 35

Glenn has produced tapes and CDs which do the job of a top hypnotist but in the comfort of your home. He has sold 1.3 million cures for phobias and all the normal hypnotist's cures. As a successful 1:1 hypnotist he has treated over 1000 patients which gave him the experience to produce the CDs. Clearly hypnosis is perfectly easy, safe and normal but it used to be unreliable and frowned upon mainly because there was no understanding of how and why it works. 

Paranormal is Normal No 34

A study of NDE's has shown that music is often experienced by the dying person: but also by people nearby. I used the word experience because some do not hear it and others do not agree as to what they heard.  As well as music being felt by the sick person, music is sometimes heard by other people present. Some hear, some do not, so it is not audible music, but the music is felt and from an external source. It seems that the music is transferred as emotion from mind to mind in the same way that information flows by telepathy. What does all this mean? How may these paranormal experiences be interpreted? 

Paranormal is Normal No 33

My guest is one of the few people who receive messages from other people's minds. (CLAIRVOYANCE, The alleged power of seeing things other than by the senses) This is strange, sometimes very disturbing, sometimes funny, but something that just has to be accepted by the person concerned. Most people would not believe the story if it were told, therefore the details cannot be made public or the person would be considered either crazy, or a witch. Therefore my guest, who has had this happen hundreds of times, has had to keep it to herself, only confiding in a few friends or family who might understand. The whole thing is shrouded in mystery and disbelief. Listen to Lucy tell her story.

 

Paranormal is Normal No 32

My guest, Stephen Upton, is a Minister and Director of the largest spiritualist movement in the world; the Spiritualist National Union. http://www.snu.org.uk/ (http://www.snu.org.uk/)He lists the many forms of spirit phenomena, one of which gives evidence for survival of lost relatives. This is what we generally recognise as the main point of Spiritualism; the identification of proof for survival. While most of the paranormal phenomena discussed by our guest are not necessarily spiritual, and are identical to the evidence given in other areas such as healing, ESP or telepathy, I do believe that these phenomena have been shown to be normal. However, the evidence for survival at a sitting has to include three basic things, which I have always felt could be normal mind-to-mind - sitter to medium - without having to contact a spirit world which would be paranormal. 

Paranormal is Normal No 31

There is an enormous amount of evidence for UFO's - but what does it all mean? Consistent reports, hundreds of books, photos and videos, show that it cannot all be make believe, although fakes and make believe must form a part. This week's guest is Lional Beer who is the Honorary President and founder of BUFORA, the British UFO Research Association,  so is just as interested and confused as anyone else. Even if you think there is more to it than trance and telepathy don't miss this show. They don't come with more experience of UFO's than Lionel Beer.

Paranormal is Normal No 30

The human ability of healing has been discovered thousands of times when the need is there, but the modern system of Reiki allows a person to heal both body and mind. My guest, Arram Kong, originally from Singapore has lived in London most of his life. In Reiki the practitioner does not carry out direct healing but facilitates his subject to heal himself whatever the problem may be. An initial discussion identifies the problem and encourages an understanding and bond which is a vital part of the process. Then the practitioner multiplies that bond by gentle massage of the body on the acupuncture points and meridians in the area that needs treatment. But the fact is that most of us have a great deal to learn from Arram Kong about Healing or Reiki and how giving or receiving it is a perfectly normal human ability.