February 23rd, 2016 – No time for introductions this week. There’s a wealth of news and information contained in the newsletter below.

Thank you all for the continued support and especially for the positive feedback to this newsletter.

Be Sure To Check Out The Latest Book-Of-The-Week

Plus News Headlines & Event Info below…

See you next week!

– SMiles Lewis / Founder

AnomalyArchives.org
SMilesLewis.com

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Book of the Week:
Hot Corn – Life Scenes in New York Illustrated
by Solon Robinson (1854)

This is one of the rare old books from our Robert C. Girard Collection. To my knowledge, it has nothing to do with anomalies research and is just an example of his rare book collecting. The book is one of the oldest in our collection and appears to be a first edition. While it may not contain any paranormal folk tales it seems that it was a notable literary contribution in its day, despite much criticism…

“The book is a collection of stories set in New York City’s impoverished Five Points neighborhood, and first appeared in the New York Tribune in 1853.

One of stories was that of Little Katy, a hot corn seller on the street, who is beaten to death by her alcoholic mother who needs Katy’s income to support her drinking, after Katy’s corn supply is stolen.

Though it garnered some positive press for promoting morality, especially in religious newspapers (for example, the Christian Secretary of Hartford, Connecticut said “The Hot Corn stories are eloquent appeals in favor of temperance and virtue”), the book (and stage adaptations) were also the subject of much scorn by critics. The New York Herald faulted the book for “giving minute descriptions of life in fashionable houses of ill-fame, and entering into the details of seduction, licentiousness and debauchery, with a gusto, ill concealed by the pretence of morality.” The Southern Literary Messenger excoriated the book, proclaiming that “to say that the man who deliberately writes and prints such perilous and damnable stuff deserves a place in the penitentiary, is feebly to express our notion of the enormity of his offence.”

Author Henry James wrote in his autobiography he was prevented from reading Hot Corn as a child; a copy was given to his father with the admonishment that it wasn’t proper for children to read. James wrote that “so great became from that moment the mystery of the tabooed book, of whatever identity; the question, in my breast, of why, if it was to be so right for others, it was only to be wrong for me….. Neither then nor afterwards was the secret of “Hot Corn” revealed to me …” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow took his sons to see one of the plays in April 1854 and called it “wretched stuff.”   – Wikipedia.org

Check out some more links about this book, or read digital copies of it at the links below:

• Gutenberg.org – (HTML)
• Google

[Illustration above is of a “Hot Corn girl” from the book Hot Corn

by John McLenan, engraved by Nathaniel Orr]

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In Memorium…
As we mentioned in last week’s newsletter, much of our efforts at preserving the legacies of various Anomalist / Fortean seekers is necessarily the result of their passage from the world of the living into the great beyond. Some contributors to the eternal search for knowledge and truth aren’t necessarily considered “researchers” per se, but they have made significant contributions through their writing nonetheless. Therefore, in honor of such visionaries and writers on the human condition and the philosophy of existence, we remember two recently departed souls for your consideration…

Umberto Eco – (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016)

“…was an Italian novelist, essayist, literary critic, philosopher and semiotician. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 historical mystery novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault’s Pendulum) and L’isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, was a best-seller.    – Wikipedia.org

Excerpt below from Down the Rabbit Hole: Curiouser and Curiouser – EsoterX.com

“A passage from Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum succinctly captures the warp and the weave, the want and the wish, the way in which we work towards belief and understanding. The wise occultist Dr. Agliè, commenting on a fictional work called The Secret Language of the Pyramids, explains how the author measured the Great Pyramid of Cheops and determined that esoteric knowledge was encoded in its dimensions, proceeding to do the same with a newspaper kiosk in downtown Paris. Eco’s conspiracy enthusiasts are disconcerted, assuming that Agliè consequently rejects all numerologies out of hand. Agliè protests, “On the contrary, I believe firmly. I believe the universe is a great symphony of numerical correspondences, I believe that numbers and their symbolism provide a path to special knowledge. But if the world, below and above, is a system of correspondences where tout se tient, it’s natural for the kiosk and pyramid, both works of man, to reproduce in their structure, unconsciously, the harmonies of the cosmos. The so-called pyramidologists discover with their incredibly torturous methods a straightforward truth, a truth far more ancient, and one already known. It is the logic of research and discovery that is tortuous, because it is the logic of science. Whereas the logic of knowledge needs no discovery, because it knows already. Why must it demonstrate that which could not be otherwise? If there is a secret, it is much more profound. These authors of yours simply remain on the surface”.“

• Umberto Eco, 1932-2016, BoingBoing.net
• The Dan Brown phenomenon: Foucault’s Pendulum – PhilipCoppens.com
• Down the Rabbit Hole: Curiouser and Curiouser – EsoterX.com

Harper Lee – (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016)

“…was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). Capote was the basis for the character Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird.

The plot and characters of To Kill a Mockingbird are loosely based on Lee’s observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as depicted through the eyes of two children. The novel was inspired by racist attitudes in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.

Another novel, Go Set a Watchman, was written in the mid-1950s and controversially published in July 2015 as a “sequel”, though it was later confirmed to be To Kill a Mockingbird’s first draft.”   – Wikipedia.org

• Go Set a Watchman review – more complex than Harper Lee’s original classic, but less compelling – TheGuardian.com
• Harper Lee: the ‘great lie’ she didn’t write Mockingbird rears its head again – TheGuardian.com
• What if ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is fantasy and ‘Go Set a Watchman’ is reality? Mashable.com

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Headlines

Here are a some other headlines of note for this week:

• Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself – TheAtlantic.com
• Unidentified Scholarly Subject – Texas Monthly on Whitley Strieber
• S.A.’s Strieber explores unexplained occurences: Strieber makes case for study of ‘super natural’ by Ed Conroy, San Antonio Express-News. Ed Conroy (author of Report on Communion) will be interviewing Whitley Strieber live-on-stage at this year’s San Antonio Book Festival, April 2nd
• Vintage variety in space travelers, male and female! – YankeeSkeptic.com (Circa 2013)
• Flashback: Jasun Horsley’s series on Whitley Strieber: Prisoner of Infinity and more… AutiCulture.com – A Journal of Extra-Consensual Perceptions
• The Lost Cities of UFO Reports by Cheryl Costa, SyracuseNewTimes.com
• Underground city comes to surface – HurriyetDailyNews.com
• HoaxMap.org – This brilliant map is debunking myths about the refugee crisis – Independent.co.uk
• Study challenges widely accepted theory of Yellowstone formation – HeritageDaily.com
• Memory Hackers: Scientists are learning how we can edit memories—and delete our worst fears. (Aired February 10, 2016 on PBS)
• All in the mind? How research is proving the true healing power of the placebo – TheGuardian.com
• ‘Scientist of the Year’ Claims Proof for Sound Healing – HumansAreFree.com
• The F-117 Stealth Fighter Program Actually Had A ‘Klingon Cloaking Device’ – FoxTrotAlpha / Jalopnik.com

• The “Recollections ” of Sonora Aero Club. The Intriguing collages of a retired butcher and a self taught artist from the 1920s – TheVintageNews.com
• Monkey of the Dead by Nick Redfern – Mysterious Universe
• Shape Shifting Black Cats by Nick Redfern – JimHarold.com
• Mystery ‘hobbits’ not humans like us: study – Phys.org
• Natural History Museums Are Teeming With Undiscovered Species – TheAtlantic.com
• New North Georgia museum explores legend of ‘Bigfoot’ – Fox5Atlant.com
• Saskatchewan named after sasquatch? Fox Sports announcer thinks so, Ken Gousseau, CTV Regina
• Saskatchewan not named after sasquatches, residents insist – CTVAnews.ca (Featuring Chris Rutkowski)
• With rumors flying, scientists are set to make a big announcement on gravitational waves – WashingtonPost.com
• To investigate or not to investigate? Researchers’ views on unexplored atmospheric light phenomena by Etienne Caron and Pouya Faridi, Frontiers in Earth Science / Atmospheric Science
• Timothy Green Beckley – Mr. UFO The King of All Unpaid Media Reveals the Truth about Paranormal Radio by Sean Casteel, Spectral Vision
• Samsung warns customers not to discuss personal information in front of smart TVs  – TheWeek.com
• Masonic and Odd Fellow Exhibition: Esoteric Secret Societies in America – BrutForce.com
• How the World’s Oldest Secret Society Is Becoming More Transparent – Vice.com
• Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About ‘Ghostwriter’ – AtlasObscura.com
• Welcome to the World of Library Bars – PastMagazine.com
• Lost Tapes Reveal Apollo Astronauts Heard Unexplained ‘Music’ On Far Side Of The Moon – HuffingtonPost.com
• UFOs, mutilated cows and Oregon: What’s the link? (photos) The Oregonian / OregonLive.com
• International UFO Congress is not just for believers (Video) AzFamily.com

Featured Audio / Video Podcasts –

Exploring The Bizarre: Gray Barker Memorial Special

• Gray Barker: The Man Who Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers featuring Allen Greenfield, Steve Ward and David Houchin (head of the Gray Barker Collection located in the Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library) YouTube
• Exploring-The-Bizarre: Whitley Strieber and Peter Robbins audio interview with special appearance by Lee Spiegel (MP3) – KCORradio.com
• G & Coletti Podcast Ep. 1: Graham Hancock – Collective-Evolution.com
• Conspirinormal Episode 106 with guest Walter Bosley (Origin of the Breakaway Civilization)
• Documentary looks at old and new models of human consciousness (Episode 305) – Skeptiko.com
• UFO contactee Howard Menger plays ‘Authentic Music from Another Planet’ – DangerousMinds.net

See also… other spotlighted news & event links below!

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Membership Drive 2016

Would you like to check-out books from the Anomaly Archives lending library?

Do you want to help preserve the history of UFO and related anomalies research?

Then Become An Official Member TODAY!

Your membership will help support these efforts.

The best way to show your support is to become a member and to sign-up for the auto-renewing annual membership subscription through PayPal.

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Monthly Public Meetings

Monthly discussion on the latest news and research into the fields of inquiry covered within our anomalous collections including: UFOs and Ufology, Consciousness, Parapsychology, Fortean and Paranormal Phenomena, Cryptozoology, Parapolitics and Conspiracy, Human Potential … and MORE!

The Anomaly Archives holds monthly meetings (usually) on the Fourth Saturday of each month. Contact SMiles Lewis or Mark Muecke via email for updates. The meetings are FREE (Donations Welcomed!) and held from 1-3pm at the INACS / Anomaly Archives headquarters located in North West Austin. (Map)

 

Source: Anomaly Archives eNews 2/23/2016

 

 

The Anomaly Archives Weekly Email Newsletter

Source: Anomaly Archives eNews 2/15/2016

February 15th, 2016 – Synchronicities abound and seem to play an important role in the study of anomalous phenomena. Or do they? The difference between coincidence and synchronicity is simply the presence of meaningfulness in the eye of the beholder. Even esteemed UFO researcher has talked about this as far back as in his 1979 book Messengers of Deception and more recently during his 2011 presentation at the Ted-X Talks in Brussels called “A Theory of Everything (Else)”. This lecture was about Vallee’s desire to work towards a “physics of information” that might explain the many synchronistic aspects of UFO encounters and related paranormal phenomena.

So do these data points below suggest a meaningful coincidence to you?

• The recent passing of space-exploring legend Edgar Mitchell and his outspoken claims regarding his growing up near Roswell, New Mexico, along the 33rd parallel.
• The recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 33 miles from Marfa, Texas, having spent the day quail hunting.
• Scalia’s death occurred nearly 10 years to the day that his fellow hunting partner, Dick Cheney, accidentally shot “well-connected Republican attorney” and downtown Austin property owner Harry M. Whittington in the face… while quail hunting.

Austin Attorney Harry Whittington
(With Frost Bank Owl over his shoulder)

• That same week in February 2006, one of Harry Whittington’s downtown Austin properties had been accidentally set on fire, for the second time that year. A property which just happened to house Austin’s most legit terrestrial alternative radio station, the then largely left / libertarian leaning KOOP Radio 91.7 FM station; the fire forcing it off air for 17 days. A third fire, two years later at its new location, was set by a former station volunteer who was convicted of arson and set free after being sentenced to ten years imprisonment but serving 120 days at the Texas State Prison in Huntsville.
• Two years earlier, in February 2004, Scalia and Cheney made headlines because of the Supreme Court Justice’s refusal to recuse himself in the case he was seeing dealing with Cheney’s company Haliburton. Instead, he went on a duck hunting trip with him.
• Since its publication in 1995, Trance Formation of America: The True Life Story of a CIA Mind Control Slave by Cathy O’Brien and Mark Phillips has repeated the tale of Dick Cheney being a “Most Dangerous Game” hunter of humans.
• Inevitable pop-culture sync references to the Cheney / Whittington / Scalia shooting include a May 2007 episode of Family Guy  (season 5, episode 18) called “Meet the Quagmires” in which a history altering time-travel plot reveals a timeline in which “the Dick Cheney hunting accident” involved “the ‘Chairman of Halliburton’ accidentally shot and killed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, political campaign advisor Karl Rove, and conservative media consultant Tucker Carlson.” (Video)
• Cheney’s memoir, In My Time, was released in 2011. In it he “revealed that one of his greatest regrets was not related to the war on terror – it was shooting a friend on a hunting trip”
• Meanwhile, Piers Morgan joked about the “Most Dangerous Game” theme with Scalia in a 2012 interview (Video) and cartoonist Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune drew a strip featuring rocket-launcher-toting hunting-buddies Dick & Antonin. Scalia says he is bringing the “beer” but Cheney hears “deer” and shoots.

So, is there any there there? Is there any information in that data? Or is this all just the bizarrely normal yet weird ebb and flow of space-time events in post-911 surreality? Is it meanginful, is it SynchroMystic, or is it just randomness? You decide!!

Be Sure To Check Out The Latest Book-Of-The-Week
Plus News Headlines & Event Info below…

See you next week!

– SMiles Lewis / Founder
AnomalyArchives.org
SMilesLewis.com

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Book of the Week: The Marfa Lights: Being a collection of first-hand accounts by people who have seen the lights close-up or in unusual circumstances, and related material  by Judith M Brueske (1989)

Judith Brueske says, “The ‘Marfa Lights of west Texas have been called many names over the years, such as ghost lights, weird lights, mystery lights, or Chinati lights. The favorite place from which to view the lights is a widened shoulder on Highway 90 about nine miles east of Marfa…at this ‘official Marfa Lights viewing site’. The lights are most often reported as rather distant bright lights distinguishable from ranch lights and automobile headlights on Highway 67 (between Marfa and Presidio, to the south) primarily by their aberrant movements.”
– Wikipedia

Marfa Film Festival | July 13-17, 2016

2015 Marfa Lights Festival (Sept. 4-6, 2015)

Organizers say this could be final year of Marfa Lights Festival (2014)

Check out some more links about this book.

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Headlines

Here are a some other headlines of note for this week:

• UFOs & Radar: A Classic Case – Nick Redfern
• Flashback 1999: Engineering in the CIA: ELINT, Stealth, and Beginnings of Information Warfare by S. Eugene Poteat, South Carolina Gamma ’57 (PDF) – THE BENT of Tau Beta Pi, Fall 1999

Alternate PDF at FOIA.CIA.GOV

Alternate PDF at GWU.EDU NSA Archive

• Flashback 2008: UFOs and Radar Spoofing – The Daily Grail
• Flashback 2008: Radar expert laments media apathy “Bound for Crawford … FAA radar hits profile the flight path of a mysterious object for more than an hour as it cruised toward President Bush’s home in Texas” by Billy Cox
• Flashback 2010: PsiOp Radio podcast 136 with guest Mark Pilkington on UFO Disinfo “Mirage Men” – (MP3)
• Flashback 2011: Project Palladium: Testing Soviet Radars
• Flashback 2011: Project PALLADIUM Had Cuban Pilots Chasing UFOs
• Flashback 2014: Area 51, the CIA and Cold War UFOs: TD Barnes TD Barnes on Area 51, the CIA and Cold War UFOs – Curt Collins interviews T.D. Barnes about Project Palladium

• The Petit-Rechain Photo, Leslie Kean, Debunkers, and Why Photo Evidence Will Always Be “The Straw-Man” – TerraObscura.net
• Govt `confirms’ meteorite blast in Vellore killed man – DailyReadList.com
• Scientists question Tamil Nadu government’s claim that meteorite blast killed bus driver in Vellore – IndiaTimes.com
• Panthers Still Seize N.C Imagination – Coastal Review Online
• BFRO Report 9552: Moose hunter shoots “bigfoot” to death – BFRO.net
• Minerva monkey mystery persists … – ThisWeekNews.com
• The Truth Behind Serbia’s Notorious Witchcraft Subculture – Vice.com (Video)
• Scientists Claim That They Have Discovered How to “Delete” Unwanted Memories – Futurism.com

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Membership Drive 2016

Would you like to check-out books from the Anomaly Archives lending library?

Do you want to help preserve the history of UFO and related anomalies research?

Then Become An Official Member TODAY!

Your membership will help support these efforts.

The best way to show your support is to become a member and to sign-up for the auto-renewing annual membership subscription through PayPal.

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Monthly Public Meetings

Monthly discussion on the latest news and research into the fields of inquiry covered within our anomalous collections including: UFOs and Ufology, Consciousness, Parapsychology, Fortean and Paranormal Phenomena, Cryptozoology, Parapolitics and Conspiracy, Human Potential … and MORE!

The Anomaly Archives holds monthly meetings (usually) on the Fourth Saturday of each month. Contact SMiles Lewis or Mark Muecke via email for updates. The meetings are FREE (Donations Welcomed!) and held from 1-3pm at the INACS / Anomaly Archives headquarters located in North West Austin. (Map)

 

Source: Anomaly Archives eNews 2/15/2016

The Anomaly Archives Weekly Email Newsletter

Source: Anomaly Archives eNews 2/8/2016

February 8th, 2016 – Sadly, most archival work comes about as the result of the passing of other fellow seekers. This weekly newsletter will necessarily be regularly filled by news of the passing of various people of note in the wide variety of anomalous fields of inquiry covered by the Anomaly Archives. In our first weekly issue we noted the passing of Starman David Bowie. This week we pay homage to former astronaut, and founder of IONS (the Institute Of Noetic Science), Edgar Mitchell. The local Austin chapter of IONS is where many of our organization’s board members originally met and the larger organization has been a point of inspiration for us over the years. After some recent changes to the local group, a new meetup has formed called ACE – Austin Consciousness Explorers.

www.Noetic.org

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New Age Paranormal UFO Conspiracy Cruise Industry Further Tarnished After EnvironMental Polluters Arrested…

• Hermosa Beach couple charged with trying to defraud U.S. government by Larry Altman, Daily Breeze, 2/01/16
• Watch a Cruise Ship Pollute as Much as 13 Million Cars—in One Day, Apr 23, 2015
• Sean David Morton, A classic UFO Watchdog article by Royce Myers, III (circa pre-2010)
• ConspiraSeaCruise.com – promoted by Nick Begich & others?
• MufonCruises.com – sponsored by the Mutual UFO Network?
• ConsciousnessCruises.com – promoted by IONS?

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Check out our latest Book-Of-The-Week below…

• In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space by photographer Douglas Curran

… or watch the documentary adaptation of the book.
See you next week!
– SMiles Lewis / Founder
AnomalyArchives.org   SMilesLewis.com

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Book of the Week: In Advance of the Landing Folk Concepts of Outer Space by Douglas Curran

“Douglas Curran has rediscovered the New World – with its own religion and a tribe of credulous believers no less brave than the Cree or the Wampanoag. A not-ready-for-prime-time cult that makes up in fervor what it lacks in style. One that seems to worship equally Ray Walston and Stephen Hawking.”
Chris Carter, creator of “The X-Files” www.DougCurranPhotos.com
Check out some more links about this book, including the documentary adaptation.

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Headlines

Here are a some other headlines of note for this week:

• Researchers have found an ‘octopus village’ off Australia that reveals the creatures’ social side – Business Insider
• Ravens might possess a Theory of Mind, say scientists – CSMonitor.com
• Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field – Frontiers In Zoology
• Fleeting Wonders: America’s Only Jaguar Makes An Appearance in Arizona (Video)
• Feral: The children raised by wolves by Fiona Macdonald, October 2015
• Imagine A World Where Humans Evolved From These 15 Different Animals by 1600s French painter and art theorist, Charles Le Brun
• Dean Radin on the Human Experience Podcast (Audio)
• Earth is made up of two planets fused together, new research suggests – ScienceAlert.com
• How I got duped by crop circle science. Nancy Talbott vs. Matt Williams by Alex Tsakiris of Skeptiko
• CIA highlights old UFO files prior to new X-Files episodes – OpenMindsTV
• Mulder, Scully, Fact & Fiction, Parts One / Two / Three by Nick Redfern
• The X Files’ Mitch Pileggi at Zach Theatre. What conspiracy brought the actor back to Austin, Zach, and FBI assistant director Walter Skinner all at the same time? By Robert Faires, Feb. 5, 2016
• See MORE X-Files links and these other Tracy Twyman articles at our online archives and below…
• The Invisible Mountain and the Flat Earth
• R.E.M., the Fake Moon, and the Flat Earth

See also… other spotlighted news links below!

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Last week’s episode of the X-Files was about Nicholas de Vere

Tracy Twyman “…was once associated publicly with a now-deceased writer named Nicholas de Vere (the full-length name he gave himself was “Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg”). He claimed to be the head of a secret society with an ancient lineage called “the Dragon Court,” and said that he himself was the foremost scion of a royal bloodline going back to praeterhuman creatures that pre-dated the Garden of Eden. He had a lengthy genealogy for himself drawn up that connected his lineage to virtually every important person in history, including biblical and mythological figures as well. De Vere seriously purported that his lineage made him super-human, a member of the “Dragon race,” and he would accept applications to his order from other people with lineage stemming from royal bloodlines that he claimed were part of the Dragon family. I was actually asked to join and even, for a time, lead the “Dragon Court,” and helped Nicholas de Vere to publish his first book explaining his claims: The Dragon Legacy. He had many fanatical followers who believed his claims, and I admit, I helped to promote them.”

‘X-Files’ tips a (straw) hat to iconic ’70s TV character by Eric Hegedus, February 1, 2016 – NYPost.com

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Membership Drive 2016

Would you like to check-out books from the Anomaly Archives lending library?

Do you want to help preserve the history of UFO and related anomalies research?

Then Become An Official Member TODAY!

Your membership will help support these efforts.

The best way to show your support is to become a member and to sign-up for the auto-renewing annual membership subscription through PayPal.

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Expand Your Mind Through Dreaming: How To Work With Liminal Dream States, Part One

This is Part 1 of a 6-part live interactive webinar that is being produced and broadcast by Evolver Learning Lab.
Wednesday, February 10th, 6:30 to 9:00 PM
INACS @ 12593 Research Blvd Ste 302, Austin, TX (MAP)
Please RSVP via Meetup.com

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PHENOMENA Magazine (Free Digital Issues)
PhenomenaMagazine.co.uk January 2016 – Issue 81

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Monthly Public Meetings

Monthly discussion on the latest news and research into the fields of inquiry covered within our anomalous collections including: UFOs and Ufology, Consciousness, Parapsychology, Fortean and Paranormal Phenomena, Cryptozoology, Parapolitics and Conspiracy, Human Potential … and MORE!

The Anomaly Archives holds monthly meetings (usually) on the Fourth Saturday of each month. Contact SMiles Lewis or Mark Muecke via email for updates. The meetings are FREE (Donations Welcomed!) and held from 1-3pm at the INACS / Anomaly Archives headquarters located in North West Austin. (Map)

 

Source: Anomaly Archives eNews 2/8/2016

 

The Anomaly Archives Weekly Email Newsletter

February 2nd, 2016 – Welcome back to our new weekly email newsletter from the Anomaly Archives / Scientific Anomaly Institute in Austin, Texas. We’re highlighting recent anomalous news, upcoming events, as well as books, magazines, and researchers of note.

Book of the Week: The Manna-Machine

This book from 1978 is one of many in our collection of Ancient Astronaut Theory books. The whimsical cover features an artist’s recreation of the alleged “device” given to the Israelites (by God?) and which allegedly sustained them during their forty year journey in the Sinai Desert.

“Featured in Season One of Ancient Aliens … Sassoon and Dale’s theory posits that a machine drew in moisture from the air and through some technological means was powered by a nuclear reactor (aka the Ark of the Covenant, a topic for another day). The machine then allegedly created some sort of algae-based food.” – AncientAliensDebunked.com

Check out some more links about this book.

Headlines
For this week, here are a few of the headlines that caught our attention:

• NASA’s New VASIMR Plasma Engine Could Reach Mars in 39 days
• On the Borderlands between Philosophy and Esotericism: An Interview with Gary Lachman by Aaron Cheak
• Scientists open the ‘black box’ of schizophrenia with dramatic genetic discovery
• Millennium by Paul Smith
• The Pentagon’s secret pre-crime program to know your thoughts, predict your future by Nafeez Ahmed
• Cults, Conspiracies, and the Twisted History of Sleepytime Tea
• Bigfoot in Texas – 3 Supposed Sightings Already in 2016
• Flashback 2008: David Paulides Saves the Ray Crowe Bigfoot Collection by Loren Coleman
• Flashback 1997: X-Philes on Fox 7 News (Video)
• Podcast UFO 187 with guest Paul Dean of Melbourne, Australia (Audio Interview)
• Australian UFO Researcher Paul Dean Interview, 01-27-2016 (YouTube version)
• Babylonians used geometry to track Jupiter 1400 years before Europeans

See also… other spotlighted news links below!

Scientists discover that our brain waves can be sent by electrical fields

 “…it appears the brain may be using the fields to communicate without synaptic transmissions, gap junctions or diffusion.” …According to the researchers, this is evidence that the propagation mechanism for the activity is consistent with the electrical field.

“The results indicate that electric fields (ephaptic effects) are capable of mediating propagation of self-regenerating neural waves,” they write. …

If their findings, which are reported in The Journal of Neuroscience, can be expounded in further studies, it could help us to better understand how brain waves are associated with things like memory, epilepsy, and healthy physiology.

READ MORE…

Thanks for your support! See you next week!

– SMiles Lewis / Founder
AnomalyArchives.org   SMilesLewis.com

Source: Anomaly Archives eNews 2/2/2016