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If you feel you have paranormal activity in your home or works and would like an investigation, then e-mail us on spooky@enigmaweb.org.uk
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We are a scientific paranormal investigation group based in South Wales (UK) The aim of our group is to investigate and research all paranormal incidents reported around the whole of the UK. All though our site is new and is being updated on a regular basis, we have worked with many different groups and organizations over the past 5 years, and have gained a vast knowledge of many aspects of the paranormal and unexplained. We also have a section based on possible scientific explanation's of the supernatural experiences of various times and cultures. ------------------------------- Global Consciousness Project ---------------------------------- Magnetism does not cause paranormal experiences
Previous research has shown that paranormal experiences can be achieved via electromagnetic stimulation of the temple lobe. Now scientists from Uppsala and Lund universities in Sweden are calling into question how the experiments were set up and therefore questioning the results. Their study involving identical magnetic field equipment produced no such relationship. Previous research has reported that as many as 8 out of 10 individuals have religious or paranormal experiences when their brain's temporal lobe has been exposed to ultra weak, complex magnetic fields. Study participants have experienced a sensed presence of a sentient being, although the participant has been sitting all by him- or herself. Many participants have made religious interpretations of the sensed presence. A conclusion that could be drawn from these findings is that religious experiences can be easily accomplished through electromagnetic stimulation of the temporal lobe. Accordingly, these sensational results have been given wide media attention. Such a magnetic field stimulator can also be purchased on the Internet. However, in the previous studies, it is unclear if participants and experimenters have known about research questions and experimental conditions, which is referred to as experimental "blindness". For an experiment to yield credible results, it should be "double-blind". In this context, this means that neither the participant, nor the experimenter that interacts with him or her, knows whether the participant belongs to the experimental condition (magnetic fields activated) or control condition (no magnetic fields activated). The reason for this methodological rule is that any differences between the groups may otherwise have been caused by some irrelevant factors. For instance, participants in the experimental condition may unconsciously have been treated in such a way that the experiences have been induced for other reasons than the magnetic field exposure. In a joint project, researchers from Uppsala and Lund University, Sweden, performed a double-blind experiment to test if results from previous studies could be reproduced. Approximately 90 undergraduate students in theology and psychology participated in the study. The magnetic field apparatus utilized was identical to that used in previous studies. Results showed that the magnetic fields did not cause religious or paranormal experiences. However, highly suggestible individuals had paranormal experiences to a larger extent, but this had nothing to do with the magnetic fields. Paranormal experiences were particularly pronounced among participants with personality traits indicating openness to shifts in consciousness and a new age lifestyle orientation. Hence, our results show that the sensational conclusions about the effects of magnetic field exposure that were drawn in previous studies should be questioned. --------------------------- Tsunami DID OIL PROSPECTING USING SOUND FREQUENCY AIMED AT THE SEA BED CAUSE THE TSUNAMI OF DECEMBER 26TH? Use of Sonics to test for oil - seems to have caused whales and dolphins to beach themselves. "Just a day after more than 100 whales and dolphins died in two incidents in Tasmania, a pod of 73 long-finned pilot whales was found on Opoutere Beach, on the Coromandel Peninsula southeast of Auckland." http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11550321%255E30417,00.html Some are wondering if it may have triggered the earthquake between Tasmania and Australia as the sonic tests were near that plate. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11775215%255E421,00.html The 'big one' which followed and caused so many tragic deaths, was at the " intersection of the Australian tectonic plate and the Indian tectonic plate." Did the disturbed Australian plate trigger the disruption of the Indian tectonic plate, resulting in the mas destruction of December 26th? http://www.asianewsnet.net/level3_template4.php?l3sec=12&news_id=34268 See the before and after images of the devastation caused http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/2.html
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