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realm like a curtain. My research into this area led me to the work of Dr. William Baldwin, Dr. Edith Fiore, Dr. Carl Wickland, and others who had worked directly with possession and exorcism and related therapeutic techniques. Since studying these matters had long been on my agenda of “things to do”, it seems that it manifested in my life at precisely the right moment. There are many half-baked hypnotherapists who write lengthy books describing the afterlife as a place of great beauty and spiritual delight. The “journeys” and “destinies” of souls are explicated by recounting the most blatantly leading hypnotic sessions I have ever read. I would be ashamed to present material that exposed me as such a mind manipulator! Nevertheless, such books become wildly popular because Aside from leading questions and mind manipulation by the hypnotist, it most certainly seems that there are a lot of “dead dudes” - or personality fragments - who will come forward in various ways, including using the vocal instruments of a medium, who make such pronouncements, and who describe things in glowing and ephemeral terms. Upon deeper inspection, it seems that there is a very great deal more to the matter than that. The numbers of texts that have been written on the subject of the problems with the positivist channeled messages are considerable, most of them produced by research and not “channeled” information itself, nor philosophical conjecture. Many of the researchers in the field have been psychologists, psychiatrists, medical doctors, or priests with medical and/or psychological training. I began my own experimental work in this area with a major attitude of skepticism. That was good because, as it turned out, having started as a Skeptic, I was quite taken aback to discover the reality that the so- called astral planes are a veritable jungle. Even though I conducted my sessions with extreme care to avoid any possibility of contaminating my subjects, over and over again, I discovered that all was not well in the “higher” realms. It seems that there are “powers” in these realms that are most definitely not beneficial to humanity and do not have our That led, of course, to the question as to why so much nonsense is propagated by so-called channeled sources that are, clearly, in many instances, lying? In other cases, they are, at the very least, guilty of a serious lack of attention to crucial details. In my opinion, at this point in time, the lack of knowledge about this single issue is one of the chief 49 High Strangeness — Part One they cater to the human need for existential comfort. best interests at heart. reasons that it continues to build and perpetuate, increasing and