The ParaNexus Monthly Newsletter 2011 ParaNexus.org.

Editor: Jessica Holloway

Media Gallery with Free Training Tutorials, Conference Videos, and More

A Media Gallery is available for mem-bers to view, upload, and share photos, videos, and audio files. Videos from many sites such as YouTube can even be embedded easily. A tutorial sec-tion is available to members only with several video tutorials and conference videos. The Media Gallery is a powerful resource and benefit of your ParaNexus membership!

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Wednesday, May 4 8:00-9:00pmConduCting HistoriCal researCH

with Elizabeth Eagan-CoxJoin us as we discuss how to do historical research includ-ing how to use free Web Sites to locate when and where a person died and where they are buried, finding the real cause of death, finding the deceaseds occupation, and more. This will make it easier for anomalous researchers to conduct better historical research.

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Printable CalendarPage 6 of our newsletter this month features a printable cal-endar for the month of May! Details about upcoming radio shows can now be posted right on your wall at home or in the office. Feel free to print copies off for friends and dont forget to cut off the right side of the calendar - there you will find a lovely ParaNexus bookmark that can be used over and over again.

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May 11CroP CirCles witH Patty greerCrop Circles have been appearing all over the world for hundreds of years, becoming more and more elaborate recently. Theyve been photographed and documented in over 60 countries, yet over 90% of the most prolific Crop Circles have occurred within a 20 mile radius of the ancient Avebury Stone

Circle in Wiltshire England. Join us as we talk with award-winning documentary filmmaker, Patty Greer, about crop circles and her experiences with them.

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april 13tHe Mayan book of tHe PeoPle and tHe native aMeriCan-ParanorMal ConneCtion witH ron slusHerCliCk Here to listen

april 20sHould we worry about 2012? witH JoHn ventre.CliCk Here to listen

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april 27sCienCe was wrong witH stanton friedManCliCk Here to listen

welCoMe to our newest MeMbers!

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Miss a sHow? CHeCk out tHe arCHives!Here are a few you May Have Missed:

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MeMber download seCtionWe have added a new and greatly expanded member download section that features over 40 useful software programs and eBooks free for members only. Mem-bers are also welcome to upload useful items that are in the public domain.

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Anomalous NewsGet the latest on Anomalous News right on the ParaNexus home page! The simple set-up allows you to browse headlines without even moving a finger.

Click on titles that interest you and add articles that you have written or find interesting.

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Swiss Company Claims They Can Make It Rain Whenever They Want

MUFON Investigator Sees Alien Being

Haunted Church Ravaged by Ghost Hunters

Bigfoot On Camera?and much more!

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wHat is Paranexus radio?

ParaNexus Radio is talk radio for serious research-ers, investigators and en-thusiasts of paranormal and anomalous phenom-ena ParaNexus Universe dis-cusses all things anoma-lous with a focus on tips, tools, and techniques for researchers and investiga-tors. The show is primar-ily hosted by Doug Kelley and Grant Rubendunst, but other ParaNexus Board Members frequently host or guest host the show. Please see below for more info on guests, previous show ar-chives, or for how to be-come a guest. Doug, Grant, and other ParaNexus Staff members are also available as guests for your show.

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Paranexus wisH listParaNexus has a list of physical items we can use either in the course of our research or that we can potentially convert to operating funds.

soMe iteMs tHat we Currently Have a need for are: Travel Trailer Thermal Imaging Camera Digital Video Equipment of any kind Infrared Cameras/Surveillance Cameras Camera traps with IR capability Computer equipment such as laptops and wide screen monitors Other miscellaneous equipment such as frequency scanners, EMF meters, audio recorders with USB capabilities etc.

If you would like to donate any of these items or have other items that you think ParaNexus may benefit from, please contact Doug Kelley, Executive Director at 941-740-2900. To see more items on our wish list, visit www.paranexus.org/index.php?page=17

ParaPedia featured artiCle: table tiPPing Table tipping or sometimes called table tilting, is a Spiritualist technique during a sance to communicate with spirits. Sitters are evenly placed around a table, sitting with their fingertips lightly resting on the top edge. One of the sitters acts as the spokesperson, asking a spirit to make contact. The table may start tilting, shaking, and even rising. One of the main attractions of this method today, is that a medium is not required. Like the Ouija board, however, this crude method is subject to criticism as nothing more than sub-conscious influence.

History

Table tipping became very popular in the mid-1800s with the rise of spiritualism in America. The Fox sisters, having their table not only move, but also provided rapping noises as answers to their questions, perfected this technique. [1] Spreading to England in 1853, it was taken seriously by the British, when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were convinced that their table tipping experience was real. [2]

Another famous national medium of the 1850s was Daniel Dunglas Home, who was classified as either a gifted psychic or a fantastic magician. He was claimed to move 100-pound tables into the air,

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Many mediums used this technique during the Spiritualist movement, however, were proven to be fraudulent, such as using their foot as in this picture.

performing for such notorieties as Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Napoleon III, and Czar Alexander II. Professor David Wells of Harvard, tried to disprove his talents, however, didnt witness any fraud-ulent activity while he and two colleagues, in a well-lit room, sat on top of a table during Homes sance, as it tilted and levitated. [3]

In the early 1900s, medium Eusapia Paladino was proven to be a fraud in her table tilting techniques. When her legs were not tied to her chair, it was witnessed that she would lift the table with her knees. [4] With more in-depth investigations, many mediums were found to be fraudulent in their tech-niques, and table tipping became more of an entertaining home-circle parlor game.

Scientific Theories

Michael Faradays investigations led to the decline of table tippings popularity.

Michael Faraday was one of the most brilliant of the 19th Century scientists. He took an interest in the fad of table tipping after some other scientists proposed that the reason it worked was because of a mysterious magnetic or electrical force. Faraday disagreed and instead theorized that the force at work in table tilting was an involuntary and unconscious muscle contraction experienced by sance sitters. This, he believed, was what caused the tables to rock and tilt. [5]

Scientists called this unconscious muscular activity of the people with their fingertips on the table, ectenic force. [6] Modern parapsychologists state that such table tipping phenomena isnt caused by spirits, but produced by telekinesis of one or more of the sitters. [7]

Kenneth Batcheldor, a British psychologist involved in the study of psychokinesis (PK), has investi-gated the phenomenon under experimental control. He has shown that PK can be started deliberately, yet secretly, by shoving the table manually. The table moved on its own afterwards, started by what he called artifact induction. He believes it works because of its impact on the belief-system of the sitters. Having been fooled by the fake movement, the sitters overcome their skepticism and are free to produce their own genuine effects. [8]

referenCes 1. Spirit Summonings, VA: Time Life Books, 1989 2. Roland, Paul. The Complete Book Of Ghosts. NY: Chartwell Books, 2010 3. Spirit Summonings 4. Stemman, Roy. Spirits and Spirit Worlds. London: Danbury Press, 1975 5. Taylor, Troy. Table Tipping, Popular Pastime of the Home Spirit Circles, 2006-2008, http://www.prairieghosts.com/table.html 6. Cheung, Theresa. The Element Encyclopedia of Ghosts & Hauntings. NY: Harper Element, 2006 7. Stemman 8. Rogo, Scott D. On the Track of the Poltergeist. NJ: Prentice Hall, 1986.

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