Impossible Talk - Parapsychology Audio Special

Occasionally I hit intellectual internet paydirt.

It takes wading through piles of rubbish, and
potentially wasting time, but drawing conclusions
and moving on when the nonsense alarm goes off . . .

Rubies in the dust, and the hunting of the snark.

You might even catch a Haggis.

A man's a man for all that, eh?
[Happy Burns Night!]

I try to not waste your time, however, and this 

selection is truly worthy of your listenin' ears.

Just before that, though, I leave you with these giddy thoughts.

1. They say are a fixed number of 'personality types',
and a variety of methods to determine these. 
Yet one of these profiles is always missed out by the profilers.
That is the personality profile of people who
cannot help but profile the personalities of others.

2. There must be some way to get rid of these eugenesists,
perhaps we could try breeding them out?

Ahem . . . .

Here are two I listened to this weekend.
Go to the main site for the rest of the interviews . . .


There will also be a film forthcoming, entitled;
'Authors of the Impossible'

NB - To download, just click the links, 

and these will take you to Divshare free download service. 

Wait for the ticker to countdown, then click download.
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IMPOSSIBLE TALK 

Is a podcast series dedicated to sophisticated, open discussions of and lectures on the paranormal and anomalous dimensions of American culture, particularly as these have orbited around the Human Potential Movement and its simultaneous embrace of cutting-edge science and the further reaches of mystical experience. Hosted by historian of religions, Jeffrey J. Kripal and film director Scott Hulan Jones.


Episode 2: Dean Radin; 92 minutes -- Download MP3


Jeff and Scott talk with parapsychologist Dean Radin, Laboratory Director of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, about his work and what it reveals about the nature of consciousness. Radin is the author of Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality, and The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena.

Episode 3: Stephen E. Braude; 92 minutes -- Download MP3

Jeff and Scott talk with Stephen E. Braude, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, about his career as an analytic philosopher who writes about psychical and paranormal phenomena, including one particularly mind-boggling coffee table that "floats" through all of his books.  Prof. Braude is the author of five books, including his latest, The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations (Chicago, 2008).

The main website here

Jeff Kripal's site


Connected to all this is the forthcoming film; 'Supernature'