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The
Anomalist
5
Summer 1997
160 pages, illustrated, $9.95
Cover art by John Griffin
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Too Many Anomalies, Not Enough Time
A Commentary by T. Peter Park
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Deep Secrets:
Is the Navy Telling Idaho Residents a Whopper of a
Fish Story?
By Patrick Huyghe
Lake Pend Oreille in northern Idaho, the world's
26th largest
freshwater lake, is twice as deep as Scotland's
fabled Loch Ness. As it
turns out, it's almost as deep in monster lore, too,
with its own
reports of what is now known as the Pend Oreille
"Paddler." Throw in
WWII Nazis, rumors of nuclear subs and secret
missile firings, and the
Paddler's tale takes on some tortuous twists and
turns. Patrick Huyghe
tries to straighten it out...8
Mindsight:
How the Blind Can "See" During Near-Death
Experiences
By Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper
The Near-Death Experience is interesting enough in
its own right. Now
it's even more interesting. Turns out even people
blind from birth
report "seeing" during the experience! "In our
study," Ring and Cooper
write, "such reports, replete with visual imagery,
were the rule, not
the exception, among our blind respondennts.
Altogether, 80 percent of
our entire sample claimed some visual perception
during their
near-death or out-of-body encounters"...28
The Channeled Myths of James Merrill:
New Tales of Atlantis and Akhnaton
By John Chambers
Here's a trivia question to stump your literary
friends. What recently
deceased poet won a Pulitzer Prize for an epic poem
he claimed was
channeled through a Ouija board? The answer is James
Merrill, author of The Changing Light at
Sandover. You'll never look at
his work quite the same way again...41
Jules Verne:
Science Fiction Writer, Psychic, or Remote Viewer?
By Joseph W. McMoneagle
Our second literary sampling this issue examines the
remarkably
successful career of Jules Verne. How did he manage
to get the future
right so much of the time? Was it writing talent
alone, or was
something else involved?...59
UFOs:
For RAND Use Only
By Karl T. Pflock
For years rumors have run rampant concerning the
significance of "UFOs:
What to Do?"--an internal report written by RAND
Corporation astronomer
and staffer George Kocher and first published in
November of 1968. What
emerges in this revealing essay is not only a case
study of how UFO
reports should be investigated, but a classical UFO
report largely
ignored in the flying saucer literature. This one
even had writing on
the side...72
Cosmic Dancers on History's Stage?
The Permanent Revolution in the Earth Sciences
By Mike Davis
We devoted almost a third of the issue to this truly
earthshaking
examination of the history of the solar system,
based on Herbert Shaw's
monumental and pioneering--but also largely
overlooked--Craters,
Cosmos, and Chronicles. Why bad things happen
to good planets, and
why a planetary disaster might not be such a bad
thing after all...87
Backscatter...143
Contributors...155
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