Comments on: Stuart Miller and UFO Blogging

By: Nick Redfern

Nick Redfern — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:39:24 +0000

Drew:

Interesting - thanks!

By: drew hempel

drew hempel — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:22:00 +0000

Nick — I read Shadow Worlds and what caught me is that the edition I had (not Anomalist) had Nandor Fodor’s name misspelled. To me Nandor Fodor is THE BEST parapsychologist so I didn’t take this as just a typo. It shouldn’t have happened! haha.

Then I searched Nandor Fodor and “right brain” and happened upon this from the “spiritworld” website:

According to Dr. Taraknath Das, quoted by G. K. Hack in Modern Psychic Mysteries at Millesimo Castle, the following curious history is handed down in India: “It is well known that the great Indian musician ‘ Tan Sen ‘ in the court of Emperor Akbar the Great, used to sing a special music, known as ‘ Dupak Rag’ which produced lightning effect. In performing for the Emperor the musician had to sit by a lake. The singer had to jump into this artificial lake to save himself from being burned and suffering from electric shock. The lightning effect was caused by the vibrations of the music.”

I’m not gonna go off on a UFO psychic music right-brain tangent….

By: Nick Redfern

Nick Redfern — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:20:04 +0000

Drew:

Interesting post! I suspect that when Stuart’s new magazine kicks off it will get a lot of interest and spark a big debate…

By: Nick Redfern

Nick Redfern — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:18:40 +0000

There’s a couple of good English food shops in Dallas that sell UK food, and a couple of good online sites too.

By: uv777bk

uv777bk — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:07:45 +0000

Speaking of tea, I wish it wasn’t so bloody difficult to find PG Tips over hear in the US!

I did, however, find some Tetley is Publix yesterday. So, all is not lost

By: drew hempel

drew hempel — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:58:23 +0000

I’m posting a reply since I’ve had two large cups of tea today and almost bought chocolate to go with my first cup of tea.

Oliver Sacks states in the Oct. WIRED that while writers do not change their brain structure musicians have a larger corpus callosum.

Amazingly that 2003 MRI “high hypnotizability” study I posted back on your Brad Steiger promo also stated that a larger corpus callosum was the key to such “imaginative” states which Stuart Miller finds so intriguing.

Of course I have my own blogbook giving my music model for reality and such — but then Edmund Gurney beat me to the punch didn’t he? haha.

Dogs can be trained to smell cancer quite effectively and cancer is caused by a fungus according to a fascinating Italian medical doctor. Fungus is considered to be it’s own kingdom of life by some biologists and it’s certainly a candidate for the real “blob” if anything.

I think Stuart’s dog knows more than we are apt to believe.