TIME AND SPACE:
Why do aliens play mind games?
Diane Tessman: Why do we need to explore the possibility that the aliens are playing mind games and presenting us with staged scenarios? I believe passionately that we as humans need to begin grasping alien intelligence at the aliens' level of perception...
(Also read: The Poltergeist Effect: Key to All Paranormal?)
German parliament must give access to secret UFO-report
The Administrative Court of Berlin has decided that the German parliament, the "Deutsche Bundestag", has to give access to a so far secret official report compiled by the "Scientific Research Service of the German parliament" on demand of delegates on the question on the government's knowledge and studies about UFOs and extraterrestrial life. However, the parliament has already appealed against the decision...
PROPHETS AND PROPHECIES:
A Maya doomsday prophecy?
It has long been debated whether a Maya glyph found in the Mexican state of Tabasco refers to an apocalypse that will arrive in 2012, and now the Mexican Institute of Archaeology has acknowledged that there may be a second reference to the date on a brick discovered years ago at the Comalcalco ruin, according to a MSNBC report...
EARTH MYSTERIES:
What is poleshift and how to live through it
When I talk about poleshift, I am defining it as the complete separation of earth's crust from the core, and reattachment an hour later. The poleshift in 1650 BC was 15 degrees and the poleshift coming up in about a year or less or slightly more, will be over 90 degrees and make the new north pole off the present eastern tip of Recife Brazil. As the earth is continually trying to rebalance any previous adjustments, there are always ongoing earth changes; but none so strong or massive as the flyby of Planet X...
(Also read: Pole Shift!)
MEDIA - BOOKS, MOVIES, TV:
Of aliens, mummies, and Bigfoot
Kelly Milner Halls' latest volume, In Search of Sasquatch, introduces kids to cryptozoology's gentle giant and those folks devoted to proving the legendary creature's existence. Stunning to look at and fascinating to read, the book touches on scientific methods and encourages kids' critical thinking as they ponder the world's mysteries. As Kirkus enthused, In Search of Sasquatch "should give young cryptid hunters a good hairy leg up on investigations of their own"...
Exhibition tells how Charles Dickens was spooked by ghost tale doppelganger
Bicentennial show at British Library says rival accused Dickens of plagiarism but author said he was amazed by story similarities...
