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| | Editorial |
| Bernhard HAISCH | More is More! | 1 |
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| | SSE News Items |
| | 1993 Annual SSE Meeting | 3-4 |
| | SSE President Sturrock Named Honorary Fellow | 4 |
| Edwin C. MAY | In Memory of Charles Honorton | 4-5 |
| Suitbert ERTEL | In Memory of Michel Gauquelin | 5-7 |
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| Topher COOPER | Anomalous Propagation | 9-13 |
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| Michael EPSTEIN | The Skeptical Perspective | 15-18 |
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| Tom VAN FLANDEM | Guest Column: Major Meeting on New Cosmologies | 19-22 |
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| Paul DEVEREUX | Acculturated Topographical Effects of Shamanic Trance Consciousness in Archaic and Medieval Sacred Landscapes | 23-37 |
| | Abstract: Various linear enigmas exist in ancient sacred landscapes worldwide. These include examples of Native American landscape lines, such as
the Chacoan "roads", New Mexico, and the Nazca "lines", Peru; Neolithic
linear earthworks, called "cursuses", in Britain; stone rows in Europe,
Malaysia and elsewhere; temple alignments in Indonesia. There is also the archaeologically heretical idea of "leys" (alignments of ancient sites), put forward by Englishman Alfred Watkins in 1921. Although the ley theory has
long been derided by mainstream scholarship, new German and Dutch findings show that there was a medieval tradition of straight "Doodwegen" (death
roads) or "Geisterwege" (ghost paths). It seems Watkins may have unwittingly uncovered vestiges of these features. Certainly Watkins had no concept of
current "New Age" notions of "energy leylines", which are modem fantasies.
It is argued that such medieval features arise out of a deep-seated, universal
conceptual complex associating "spirit ways" with straight lines: straight
cords and threads in ancient traditional healing practices as well as straight
tracks and other ceremonial landscape markings. It is suggested that these
ideas have their roots in archaic shamanism, which, throughout Eurasia, influenced later, ceremonial aspects of monarchy. A proto-Indo-European language vestige is cited.
Preliminary evidence is presented indicating that the spirit - line association derived from the ecstatic "journey" experienced during the shamanic
trance. This gave rise to images of "flying shamans" in tribal societies
throughout the world, and, ultimately, to the "magical flight of the
sovereign" in proto-state and state societies. It is this "flight of the soul" that
seems to have been translated onto ancient sacred landscapes as straight
lines, which later became variously acculturated as sacred ways, spirit
and fairy paths, roads of the dead or of ghosts, or Royal Routes. The neurological aspects of the so-called out-of-body state, and its possible association with modem psychological epidemics such as "UFO abductions", is alluded to |
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| Gerard L. EBERLEIN | Mainstream Sciences vs. Parasciences: Toward an Old Dualism? | 39-48 |
| | Abstract: The Observatory for New Spiritual Movements has been operating at the Technical University of Munich since 1980. It is concerned with the
study of cults, New Age ideologies and with the parasciences from anthroposophy to cryptozoology. The parasciences are being analyzed by the science of sciences, i.e., by the philosophy of science, psychology and sociology
of science, as well as by the history of science.
The following ten hypotheses, characteristics and questions are discussed:
(1) Mainstream sciences may make neither monopolistic nor absolutistic
claims.
(2) The six main criteria of the academic sciences are compared to the
six main criteria of the parasciences.
(3) The two types of science also differ in their value orientations.
(4) Social processes and structures are characteristics of both.
(5) What are the characteristic motivations of parascientists?
(6) What is the historical background of the mainstream sciences?
(7) What are the difference between the metaparadigms of mainstream
science and those of the parasciences?
(8) What are the social functions of mainstream sciences and parasciences?
(9) Do the functions of the parasciences transcend those of mainstream
science?
(10) What are the characteristic differences between practitioners of
mainstream science and the parasciences? |
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| Shigeru MORIYAMA | Existence of Life and Homeostasis in an Attnospheric Environment | 49-63 |
| | Abstract: -A geophysiological model is used to show how a regulation of the
atmospheric C02 level could counteract the effect of a gradual increase in
solar luminosity. In our model, the biosphere and the atmosphere-ocean system exchange carbon through a biological process which includes the internal
and mutual antagonism. It is suggested that as soon as the biologically regulated system had appeared on the early earth, the regulatory aspect of the
ecosystem would have been fully operational, and thus, that the earth's environment has been maintained in homeostasis for a long time. One model for
the temporal variation of the carbon distribution on the earth, which is in
agreement with observed carbon isotopic data, is also suggested. An important result is that our ecosystem left a completely biologically controllable
state some six hundred million years ago, and that the current trend is toward
destruction of the ecosystem on the earth |
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| Michael D. SWORDS | A Guide to UFO Research | 65-87 |
| | Related:
Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 7 Number 3 /1993 - Comments on Guide to UFO Research
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| | Abstract: -The very natural query of the interested intellectual: what should
1 read to understand the status of the UFO Phenomenon?, has no simple answer. This review article briefly examines the characteristics of the "UFO
Problem" and relates those characteristics to the problem of ignorance in the
academic community. An "inside look" at the appropriate library for the
"working UFOlogist" is then explored. |
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| | Letters to the Editor |
| | Comments on Better Blood Through Chemistry | 89-94 |
| | Related:
Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 6 Number 3 Autumn/1992 - Better Blood Through Chemistry: A Laboratory Replication of a Miracle [Epstein, Michael & Garlaschelli, Luigi]
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| | Super-psi or Reincarnation? | 94-95 |
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| | Book Reviews |
| Ian STEVENSON | The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory | 97-99 |
| Bradley C CANON | Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception? | 99-104 |
| | Review: Jacques VALLÉE,REVELATIONS - 1991 | |
| | Related:
Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 7 Number 2 Summer/1993 - Vallee Comments on Book Review "Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception"
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