Paranormal is Normal

Paranormal is Normal No 29

About 72 strange beliefs and psychic abilities are considered paranormal and listed as concepts of parapsychology: Some are different names for the same thing, but most are genuinely different things that happen to people from time to time. The complication is endless; but the whole thing can be rationalised if you start off with the two concepts of trance and telepathy. An understanding, of HOW and WHY these two things are normal facts of life, allows a very different view of the concepts of parapsychology, in fact, the 72 concepts reduces to 2. The study of cellular growth, in fact the whole of life, has eluded science; but the science of telepathy tells a new and exciting story. 

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Telepathy between identical twins is known all over the world, but in London, scientifically conducted tests have shown that it is a fact of life. My guest Guy Lyon Playfair has been involved in collecting data and has published a book 'Twin Telepathy'. He has shown that half of identical twins are telepathic, which is twice as likely as non identical twins. He says the professional debunkers will have to give up as more and more tests show that there really is telepathy between twins and that it's not only just ideas and feelings that are shared, it is sometimes pain, or even blisters from a burn, or a black eye. Guy gives his theory as to why twins are more telepathic than most people, but of course anybody can be telepathic - it really is quite normal. 

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Apart from conventional medicine, there are countless different types of healing, but they all use the same fundamental principle, which has many different names, and all are regarded as the only way to do healing. Phil Young, my guest, has practiced hypnotherapy, Eastern traditional healing, distance healing, Hawaiian healing, and trance body healing. He says that they all rely on trance phenomena, an altered or shifting state of consciousness. 

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I hope my guest who is a scientist and financial director will forgive me for saying she is psychic – because she really is. She is Jude Currivan and has lived with experiences of telepathy, clairvoyance, OOBE and apparent precognition all her life, but learned at a very young age to keep quiet about it. Nevertheless, there is the possibility that it aided her in the business world by having what might be called live intuition, whereby she intuitively knew who she could trust and what the best answer to a problem might be. But her experiences made her wonder why and what, which led her to study cosmology and the spiritual beliefs of ancient races as well as to try to improve life today by giving advice about the right things for the environment and our fellow men. 

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Since his teens Lee has walked in his sleep and then started drawing on walls and furniture. Then he started drawing horses on paper he had left lying around. One night he drew Marilyn Monroe which was very artistic and a good likeness; with some more of Marilyn a week later. That was 20 years ago and since then Lee has occasionally drawn in his sleep often after too much to drink. He is no artist during the day, the fact is that his unconscious has learned to draw very well; when he is supposed to be asleep.  Sleepwalking tends to run in families and happens to about 10 per cent of the general population generally in children or adolescents. So it's not normal, but certainly not the paranormal. Most people only have a few occurrences but for a few like Lee it happens repeatedly, and they may eat in their sleep, even prepare food, compose music or draw; and with practice the sleepwalking mind learns to do these things easily and well. 

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My guest is the managing director of Meditations Ltd. who sells meditation aids which use light and sound, to bring about deep meditation much quicker and easier than do traditional meditation techniques. My guest Ivor Murray explains that everybody is a latent psychic, and can develop their psychic powers by learning the art of meditation, With slow and careful training there is a good chance that some measure of success can be achieved using modern technology, as well as the instructions from the psychic giving 12 lessons over the Internet.

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Chico Xavier was perhaps the greatest medium. His work was nearly all automatic writing, but he was able to contact the "spirit world" with the greatest of ease. He wrote hundreds of books which were amazingly accurate.  But he had very little education there being not even a library in his hometown which was in a remote part of Brazil. My guest is Guy Lyon Playfair who lived in Brazil for several years, meeting Chico on several occasions, then later writing a book "Chico Xavier-Medium of the Century" and another about Chico and psi research in Brazil called "The Flying Cow".  

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We know that healers can heal; but this healer learned how she could teach people to really heal themselves. Her name is Dr. Susan Allison, who lives in California. Susan studied many disciplines associated with healing from Process Therapy, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Shermanic trance, to Reiki and Spiritual Healing. She realized, that by combining all these techniques, a much more powerful new healing method was possible, even causing her husband's tumour to disappear. Details of this revolutionary method are all in her book "Empowered Healer" which she talks about in detail in this show. 

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There is strong evidence that healers can affect the growing of seeds and plants, as well as bone cultures in a dish. My guest, who has studied all aspects of healing, is Robert Charman, and who is Chairman of the Confederation of Healing Organisations here in the UK.  He talks firstly about the statistical analysis of healing powers which shows that there is scientific proof that healing works. He then details some tests that show this effect, after which we go on to discuss what actually happens. It has been shown that the EEG of a healer has a very distinct form; but furthermore, that this particular brainwave pattern is transferred to someone being healed, which is an important part of the healing process. 

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Meditation has been practiced for thousands of years and often achieves very little, because to clear the mind demands much willpower and practice, and it generally takes many years. But the modern flotation tank allows a person to easily reach deep trance and meditation as the tank completely removes input from all the senses. My guest is Tim Strudwick, the MD of Float Works .Floating in these tanks is a strange sensation, but it is used to reduce stress and to enhance the power of hypnotism. Standard hypnotic procedures may be much more powerful when given in a floatation tank – also some people report having had an extatic enlightenment experience, which can often change a person's view of the world – permanently.