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January 2008 Update
*** This morning (28th January 2008), I recorded a conveyed message from my father, Lyle, who transitioned to spirit on 5th August 2007 ***
Please visit the EVP MESSAGES page to access wav.file
Blessings rob
Local neurosurgeon shares a story of unimaginable survival on National Geographic show
 Local neurosurgeon shares a story of unimaginable survival on National Geographic show
By Cheryl Sherry
Post-Crescent staff writer The surgical procedure is called hypothermic arrest, though many use its nickname "standstill." Developed by cardiac surgeons in the 1960s, the surgery can be used to remove some previously inoperable brain aneurysms.
In "The Healing Blade," author Edward Sylvester describes it this way: "The patient would be put into a barbiturate coma, to radically cut his brain's use of oxygen. His blood then would be circulated through a bypass pump and his heart stopped. …Then the blood would be chilled, pumped back into the body to refrigerate the brain far below room temperature." In other words, the patient on the operating table physiologically is dead during surgery. Yet, in 1991 when Pam Reynolds had the procedure to remove a large brain aneurysm, she remembered many of the details.
The Atlanta woman shares her story in a six-part documentary series called "Accidental Survivor" now airing on the National Geographic Channel. Reynolds is featured in the installment "Back from the Dead," which airs Jan. 29. ABC's "20/20" will air a segment promoting the show at 9 p.m. Friday. Both shows will feature Reynolds; her neurosurgeon, Robert Spetzler, director of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix where the surgery was done; and neurosurgeon Karl Greene, chairman of the surgery department at Theda Clark Medical Center. Greene did part of his residency at the Arizona facility. Spetzler is a clinical pioneer in pushing research to use cardiac standstill surgery for brain aneurysms. "He wasn't the only person who did it, but I think he's been the biggest advocate of it," said Greene from his Town of Grand Chute office. Greene met Reynolds before her standstill to remove the larger of two aneurysms. Although he did not perform the surgery, he cared for her afterward. "This was a brand-new operation and had not been tried on very many people before," Reynolds said by telephone. "And from what I understand it was not very successful in the beginning." Enter Greene, who Reynolds said, had a very unusual presence. "He seems to immediately bond with his patients. And that happened right off the bat, immediately, and I trusted him immediately. And I don't trust anybody. Because of him I trusted Dr. Spetzler, and it's a real good thing I did because I'm here." Once Reynolds's aneurysm was cauterized and clipped, the bypass pump was restarted. When her body temperature was high enough, Spetzler had to shock Reynolds' heart twice before it began beating again on its own. Then the patient — in a drug-induced coma — woke up on the operating table. "I'll never forget it because they were playing the title cut from 'Hotel California' — 'You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave.' I told Dr. Greene I thought that was terribly insensitive. He looked like he swallowed a mouse and said, 'You need to sleep more, dear.'" Although Reynolds had undergone a craniotomy procedure for an aneurysm she didn't want any more morphine for pain. It was fogging her up, Greene said, and she wanted to work through what she had just experienced during her own surgery. "She talked about the drill we used to take the bone off (her skull)," Greene said. "She described it almost like a mechanical toothbrush, which is almost exactly what it looks like. She heard the drilling and apparently saw the monitors as well. She knew some of the conversations taking place in the operating room and knew her heart had to be stimulated twice to restart. She shouldn't have known that. … She was physiologically dead. No brain wave activity, no heartbeat, nothing. No blood inside her body of any consequence. She was dead." Greene, Reynolds said, was the only person in the system who held her hand and told her she was not crazy. "I am very clinical," she said. "I am not gullible. I did not believe in near-death experiences. I didn't have a thought process that said something weird is going to happen to me. So when something weird did happen to me, I thought it was a hallucination from the drugs or the brain surgery. I asked them to please take me off the drugs for fear something else weird would happen. … It took a lot of convincing on my part from my perspective for me to believe something odd had happened." Reynolds also had a small stroke after surgery. "Dr. Greene told me it was up to me now, that I had to go to work and try to develop your body," she said. "You tell it what to do. It's like your car and you are driving. I didn't know these things were next to impossible. So I did exactly what he instructed me to do. By the next morning I was waving with my left hand and within a week, up and walking around with a walker. And three weeks later I walked onto an airplane and flew home. And that, to this day, is miraculous to my physicians here." Last winter, Reynolds called Greene to tell him she would be featured on the National Geographic Channel on a series on accidental survival. The producers were interested in talking to Greene. Patient and doctor have remained close over the years. In May he flew to Phoenix for the interview. "They asked if Pam was a nut or if this was real. It was pretty real to me," Greene responded. "Not only that, but she was talking about things in detail she should not know." Greene said he doesn't believe this life is all there is. "My definition of life and death is different than others," he said. "Say it borders on the spiritual or say it borders on the interface between what we call reality and what may be a greater reality of consciousness, that's hard for me to say. I used to be a big believer you never see brain without mind and mind without brain. There's this duality between the spiritual world and the mental or physical world and consciousness itself. But you know, I'm not so sure of that any more." When Reynolds was interviewed by "20/20," she was asked if her eyes were taped shut during the standstill operation. She didn't know. "It confused me so I called my doctor back home and he said, 'Pam, your head was turned and it was draped. If you were in truth looking down there was no way you could see your eyes or your ears.' These are questions I'm just now getting answers for." For Greene, Reynolds' experience forever has shaken up his assumptions. "Is there life without a body? Is there consciousness without a body? I've always thought there was the potential, and maybe that's the way I was raised, believing there's a God and a greater world outside the material world. "But being involved in a situation like this where a person physiologically is not functioning and they should be for all intents and purposes dead, but there's a part of them that's conscious and may be even greater than what their body was, takes the lid off Pandora's Box, doesn't it?" Cheryl Sherry: 920-993-1000, ext. 249, or csherry@postcrescent.com
EVP PIONEER CROSSES OVER
 "Sarah Estep made her transition on Jan 3, 2008 at 1:11 p.m. The funeral service was held at Kalis Funeral Home, 2973 Solomons Island Road in Edgewater, Maryland.
Her daughter said that she had a smile on her face.
This great pioneer will be deeply missed but we know that she will be happy with her renewed body and mind.
We wish her an exciting new life.
If you personally knew Sarah or if she influenced you and you would like to say a few words about her and how she influenced you, please email aaevp@aol.com. We are going to put together comments in a memorial to her.
Lisa and Tom Butler Directors American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena"
VRN Corporation Launches Web site Honoring the Late Sarah EstepSarah Estep, American pioneer of the EVP research movement, and founder of the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena passed away on January 3rd 2008. In recognition for Estep's contributions to the field, HVRN Corporation has created a new Web site in her honor.
The Web site, www.sarah-estep.com, will feature some of her life's work in the research field in an effort to promote and further the study of EVP, or Electronic Voice Phenomena. Sarah is said to have a library of over 20,000 documented EVP samples and did not stop recording until her age and health prevented her from doing so.
This new Web site honors her legacy as well as the research itself.
All monies generated by the new site will go directly to the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena, or AAEVP, an organization first started by Sarah Estep in 1982.
About HVRN Corporation HVRN Corporation is a 501(c)3 not for profit educational organization dedicated to the science and research of paranormal phenomena. In addition to hosting a 24/7 streaming Internet radio broadcast, the corporation maintains HauntedVoices.com, a site focusing on the study of EVP. Visit www.hauntedvoicesradio.com and www.hauntedvoices.com for more information. "There is no such thing as death - life is only separated by density!" Helen Greaves
On the day that Sarah Estep's spirit finally loosened itself from the confines of physical entrapment, I was home working at my PC - when suddenly - I heard one loud commotion outback in our 70% covered-in patio. Investigating further, I discovered a young wood pigeon repeatedly headbutting the vinyl blind - obviously panicking and trying to escape its confinement. I moved in closer to the furiously flapping creature and felt a strong inclination stretch out my hand toward it with index finger extended. To my amazement, the pigeon instantly stopped flapping - hopped onto my outstretched finger - and I was able to stand up and walk to an outdoor release area with this tranquil bird sitting on my finger. And as if by cue, it looked at me as if to say 'Thank You!" - then turned around - and gracefully flew away beyond the restrictive confines of its trauma towards the welcoming freedom of the open sky. Having helped in the release of this timid creature, I returned inside and noticed that an email had just arrived from the AAEVP informing me of Sarah's transition. Maybe - just maybe - synchronicity is alive and well! I could not help but equate the incident of that trapped, now released, bird - with the newfound freedom of Sarah's soul winging its way toward the Light of eternal reward. Maybe - just maybe - Sarah happened to drop by that day providing me with a symbolic message about her new-found freedom - and ours to come. Forever and Ever.
STEPHEN O'BRIEN
 Power Of Thought
"The Spirit World is ruled by the Power of Thought and Life on Earth is meant to prepare us for our existence in eternity.
When your turn comes to pass into the Spirit Realms, will you be equipped to live there successfully, or will you arrive mentally bankrupt?
Do not neglect the development and expansion of your mind: try always to learn, to reason, to think deeply about life's issues.
Question everything.
Test your beliefs at the bar of your intelligence.
Lazy minds belong to humanity's followers; intelligent minds belong to humanity's 'leaders' and 'thinkers'.
Accelerate your spiritual growth:
Do not be a follower - be a thinker." Belief And Action
When you reach the next world, what you have professed to believe will be of little account when it is measured against what you have actually done in your life.
What truly matters in the human spirit is the way in which you have thought and behaved towards yourself and others. Everything that you think, say and do is indelibly registered upon the fabric of your soul and this makes you the person that you truly are. Your actions now will determine your place in the eternal world after death because in the spirit world the 'good' and the 'cruel' cannot inhabit the same sphere of life. There is no cheating the Perfect Eternal Natural Laws, which are created by God. Religion
The word 'Religion' is derieved from the Latin phrase: "religare", meaning "to bind again".
(Religare is the latin word for "to reconnect, to bind together" which gave origin to the word religion. Attempts to define religion are manifold and various, but for the time being we will just say that religion is at the heart of an ancient human longing for meaning and oneness)
This refers to the ancient religious practice of joining together souls who are living in two seperate states of life, one in the physical Earth world and the other in the 'invisible' world of the spirit.
If your religion makes you a better person, then it is right for you. If it teaches you to love, then it is a good set of instructions.
But caution should be exercised in following any religion, for if you believe in something one hundred-percent this is unhealthy because your mind is then closed to new possibilities.
" A minute after you die you will be exactly the same" Helen Greaves
YOU'VE GOT TO SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT!
CAPTURING THE LIGHT by Frank Longo (ITC on an 8mm Camera)  Your non-belief in UFOs will be absolutely 'blown out of the water!'
Meet Dorothy Izatt. A mild-mannered, loving, mother and grandmother.
She raised a family who now has their own.
They are the picture of a perfect family.
But there is a secret they’ve had to live with their whole lives... that mom has an ongoing relationship with otherworldly beings for over 30 years.
And she can prove it.
There has never been a case study like this! Dorothy Izatt’s phenomenon surpasses the most notorious alien abduction cases aka contactees.
Unlike Whitley Strieber (Communion), Travis Walton (Fire in the Sky), and the Betty and Barney Hill case...
Dorothy has FILMED her experiences. Thirty years in the making (since 1974) and armed with over 30,000 feet of film, Dorothy is now ready to share her story of contact with the world.
Watch unreleased UFO footage that defies logic and science
Learn about why they are here and what their intentions are Discover how you can experience what Dorothy does Witness never before seen UFO footage and anomalies captured DURING the making of the documentary. Never has a documentary examined the life of a contactee and its affects on an otherwise normal family... until now. Whether you follow the world of the paranormal or not, Capturing the Light will have you questioning your own beliefs.
Be the first to witness and experience the Dorothy Izatt phenomenon.
Kennebunkport, Maine – Journalists, producers and media personnel interested in a story or segment on psychic mediums and spirit communication now have a credible resource for finding “genuine” psychic mediums (spirit messengers).
Even better, this Web resource is provided to the media and public for FREE by a magazine editor and published author (Bob Olson) who, once a skeptic himself, understands the difficulty of weeding out the charlatans from the truly gifted.
Are there really people who can talk to dead people?
Three years ago, Bob Olson would have told you “No Way!”
Today, after researching psychic mediums since 1999, Olson has discovered several people who actually have the gift of mediumship (spirit communication). In fact, Bob Olson is the only known expert in the field who actually tests mediums as they give him readings and then shares his top discoveries publicly.
Bob Olson used to be a cynical skeptic when it came to psychic mediums like the famed John Edward of TV’s hit show Crossing Over With John Edward. Then Olson met his first legitimate psychic medium in January of 1999. The medium instantly proved to Olson the error of his skepticism by providing indisputable evidence that his father was alive in spirit. His reading was filled with such accurate and detailed messages about his life--names, dates and information this stranger (the medium) could never have known--that Olson immediately began researching psychic mediums as the subject for his next book.
Olson’s new website (http://www.BestPsychicMediums.com) is free to the public and media.
He decided to create this as a media resource after getting a flood of calls from TV and radio producers, magazine and newspaper writers, as well as publishers, authors and even documentary filmmakers in response to his related articles on OfSpirit.com Magazine.
BestPsychicMediums.com is specially designed as a fast and easy resource for the media. Special profiles, interviews and media experience pages are included to help the media choose the most appropriate medium for their individual needs.
It also lists what types of media interviews each medium is interested in doing.
Website:
BestPsychicMediums.com
OfSpirit.com Magazine Bob Olson, editor P.O. Box 2752 Kennebunkport, Maine 04046 *** IMPORTANT TO CHECK OUT ***
 About the Author
Tom Campbell began researching altered states of consciousness with Bob Monroe (Journeys Out Of The Body, Far Journeys, and The Ultimate Journey) at Monroe Laboratories in the early 1970s where he and a few others were instrumental in getting Monroe's laboratory for the study of consciousness up and running. These early drug-free consciousness pioneers helped design experiments, developed the technology for creating specific altered states, and were the main subjects of study (guinea pigs) all at the same time. Campbell has been experimenting with, and exploring the subjective and objective mind ever since. For the past thirty years, Campbell has been focused on scientifically exploring the properties, boundaries, and abilities of consciousness.
During that same time period, he has excelled as a working scientist, a professional physicist dedicated to pushing back the frontiers of cutting edge technology, large-system simulation, technology development and integration, and complex system vulnerability and risk analysis. Presently, and for the past 20 years, he has been at the heart of developing US missile defense systems. Tom is the "TC (physicist)" described in Bob Monroe's second book Far Journeys and has been a serious explorer of the frontiers of reality, mind, consciousness, and psychic phenomena since the early 1970s. My Big TOE is a model of existence and reality that is based directly on Campbell's scientific research and first hand experience. It represents the results and conclusions of thirty years of careful scientific exploration of the boundaries and contents of reality from both the physical and metaphysical viewpoints. The author has made every effort to approach his explorations without bias or preconceived notions. There is no belief system, dogma, creed, or unusual assumptions at the root of My Big TOE. By demanding high quality repeatable, empirical, evidential data to separate what's real (exists independently and externally) from what's imaginary or illusory; Campbell has scientifically derived this general model of reality. If you have questions or comments for the author, you may reach him at: author@my-big-toe.com John Leslie, a Canadian who ranks as one of the world’s leading philosophers of cosmology, draws on quantum physics in his painstakingly argued new book, “Immortality Defended.”
 Each of us, Leslie submits, is immortal because our life patterns are but an aspect of an “existentially unified” cosmos that will persist after our death.
Leslie is an heir to the view of William James.
The mind or “soul,” as they see it, consists of information, not matter.
And one of the deepest principles of quantum theory, called “unitarity,” forbids the disappearance of information. (Stephen Hawking used to think you could destroy your information by heaving yourself into a black hole, but a few years ago he changed his mind.)
If death is not extinction, what might it be like?
That’s a question the Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick, who died five years ago, enjoyed pondering. One of the more rococo possibilities he considered was that the dying person’s organized energy might bubble into a new universe created in that person’s image. Although his reflections were inconclusive, Nozick hit on a seductive maxim: first, imagine what form of immortality would be best; then live your life right now as though it were true.
And, who knows, it may be true.
“Life is a great surprise,” Vladimir Nabokov once observed. “I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
Issue Date: December 28, 2007
 This eerie photo was taken by the webmaster at Ghosts of Tombstone.
Here's his story:
"I personally shot this photograph of my friend in Boothill Graveyard... We had it developed at Thrifty Drug Store and I know
no one tampered with it! The picture was shot in black & white, because my friend wanted old west looking pictures of himself
dressed up in my 1880 period clothes. I know there was no other person in this photograph when I shot it, especially some guy
holding a knife! That's right folks, if you look carefully the person in the background appears to be holding a knife! Look just to
the right of my friend and you'll see a person which appears to have no legs or is coming out of a grave!"
Watch the Video
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.clantongang.com/oldwest/ghost.htm
'Spirit release'
is a different kind of therapy and secular healers report promising results by
STAFFORD BETTY
A new breed of therapist is healing the mentally ill not with talk and drug therapy but by releasing troublesome or malevolent spirits who have attached themselves to their victims. I am not talking about religious healers like Francis McNutt, but secular healers, some of them licensed psychiatrists or psychologists, who have discovered, often by accident, that this new therapy works better than what they learned in medical or graduate school. They tell us that too often drug therapy only masks symptoms, and talk therapy reaches only as deep as the patient’s conscious mind can go. But “spirit release” usually heals, often permanently. Not only does it heal the client; it heals the attached (or “possessing”) spirit.
William Baldwin’s Spirit Releasement Therapy: A Technique Manual, published in 1995, was a watershed event for this movement.
Dr. Baldwin left a dentistry practice to pursue his passion. His ensuing doctoral dissertation in psychology was the first ever to take seriously spirit release as a legitimate therapy.
The disciples of Dr. Baldwin, who died in 2004, deal with spirits, or “entities,” as they are often called, in a manner very different from most church-based exorcists and deliverance ministers. Missing is the adversarial command to “come out in the name of Jesus!” These alternative therapists treat the spirits with respect and compassion. To threaten anyone, living or dead, they say, only provokes an angry reaction, but a gentler, more rational approach is usually enough to coax the spirit out of its host and into the light of the afterworld, where it should have been all along.
Spirits come in several varieties, we are told. Most often they are EBs, or “earthbound.”
These are more attached to the loved ones they’ve left behind than to the light they’ve turned their back on; others are addicted to earth’s vices, such as alcohol or narcotics; still others are simply confused, not even sure they’ve died. But DFEs, or “dark force entities,” are another matter. Intent on evildoing, they attach themselves to unsuspecting mortals to inflict maximum damage to self-esteem, family relations and every expression of love. Speaking through their victims, they swear profusely. They are belligerent, disruptive, threatening and thoroughly unpleasant. They claim they belong to a satanic intelligence that rules them and punishes them when they fail at their tasks. Yet their loyalty to this negative force can be dislodged; with skillful handling they, too, can be released into the light.
One of the most extraordinary claims made by this new kind of healer is that nearly all of us, at one time or another, have had entities attached to us.
How do they know? The same way they know everything else they tell us: Under hypnosis, their clients, and the spirits speaking through them, tell them. Dr. Baldwin said he did not invent EBs and DFEs; they emerged, unsought, out of therapy sessions. Over and over and over. Other healers -- from psychiatrist Shakuntala Modi, who practices in West Virginia, to the less credentialed but gifted husband-and-wife team of Melanie and Patrick Rodriguez, who practice in Montreal -- describe a spiritual world and a method of dealing with it that is the same. One might suspect a conspiracy except for the fact that the movement is so widespread, with practitioners ranging from Hindu babas living in Pune, India, to a Polish healer who describes herself as a “therapist for ghosts as well as people, both needing the same love and care.”
Most of us have a child or relative or friend whose life is shattered by depression, sexual dysphoria, obsessive compulsive disorder, eating disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism or a host of other ailments.
What if you were told that there was a healer who could get to the bottom of the problem and heal it, but that the source of the problem was probably an attached spirit? Would you go for it? Could you open your mind to the possibility that your sister’s untreatable 30-year-long bulimia could be stopped dead in its tracks by identifying the spirit behind the disease, releasing it into the light, and then teaching her how to protect against a future attachment?
All in this movement hope that you would. They see the procedure not as a throwback to medieval times when demoniacs were put to death, but as an advance. William Woolger, an internationally renowned transpersonal psychologist, sees it as “the next and essential stage in the development of psychology, a kind of return to the source.”
In the meantime, Dr. Modi, the West Virginia psychiatrist, recommends a “protection prayer” for her patients, to be repeated every night. It begins, “I pray to God to please cleanse, heal, shield, illuminate and protect me, all my family, friends ...” Dr. Modi is not even certain that spirits are real -- perhaps they are fantastic inventions made up out of her patients’ subconscious minds. Nevertheless, they might be exactly what they seem to be, and claim to be. And she, and almost all of her colleagues, strongly suspect they are. In any case, all agree that treating spirits as if they were real is often the key to a startlingly quick recovery. And if the client makes himself permanently uncomfortable company for the pestering spirit through prayer and other spiritual disciplines -- reenter religion -- a permanent recovery.
Many years ago I watched a psychically gifted mother-and-daughter team rid a house of bothersome and sometimes terrifying poltergeist phenomena. Skeptical from the start, I studied the sensitive child’s eyes as they followed “three spirits” around the house during the procedure. (We called it an exorcism back then.) Like the therapists we’ve looked at here, the mother used persuasion, not threat, when dealing with the spirits, and there was never an appeal to religion. It took over an hour of patient, compassionate urging, and it worked. The daughter watched the spirits finally exit the home.
The phenomena ceased from that day forward. And the victim, who had put her beloved home on the market, took it off a few days later.
Since then I have paid attention to the claims of these “gentle exorcists” -- whether their target was spirits attached to homes or persons.
It is impossible not to be impressed.
Stafford Betty is professor of religious studies at California State University, Bakersfield.
National Catholic Reporter, December 28, 2007
A Psychiatric Reclassification of UFO Extraterrestrial Experiences
Exoconsciousness and Psychopathology
Edited by David Stein
Phoenix, ARIZONA - Rebecca Hardcastle is presenting a paper on Exoconsciousness and Psychopathology at the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Karl Jaspers Society of North America, on Saturday, December 29, 2007, at the Marriott Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland. In the legacy of John Mack, Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School, Hardcastle advocates for a reclassification of the UFO extraterrestrial experience from pathological to normal.
She bases this reclassification on 1.) the experience of quantum consciousness and 2.) the culture of contact evident in mainstream media coverage of UFOs such as Presidential Candidate, Dennis Kucinich’s, sighting and former Governor of Arizona, Fife Symington’s, press conference calling for full disclosure of UFO related military and government information.
Hardcastle created the concept of Exoconsciousness to describe the extraterrestrial origins, dimensions, and abilities of human consciousness.
She maintains, “Consciousness is our most precious natural resource.”
According to Hardcastle,
"mental illnesses are a by-product of the individual’s ability to function in culture and community. As culture transforms with information, such as disclosure of extraterrestrial visitation, new communities and belief systems form. These changes in culture generate possibilities for redefining experiences, such as UFO extraterrestrial contact, as normal."
Backgrounder Rebecca Hardcastle, Ph.D. is a pioneer in paranormal experience and research. She specializes in Exoconsciousness, a concept she created to describe the extraterrestrial origins, dimensions, and abilities of human consciousness. In 2005, she taught Extraterrestrial Reality at Scottsdale Community College, one of the first ufology courses in the nation.
Featured in the award-winning documentary, The Phoenix Lights, she collaborates with Dr. Lynne Kitei, key witness to the Phoenix Lights, and Terri Mansfield, co-founder of Arizona Department of Peace. Together, they are coordinating a growing civilian contact and peaceful disclosure program with liaisons in Mexico City, Toronto, Paris, South Africa, and Washington, DC.
Internationally she serves on the Exopolitics Institute Board of Advisors, which is a non-profit organization committed to the study and dissemination of information on disclosure that extraterrestrial civilizations may be visiting, monitoring, and even residing on earth.
Academically, Ms. Hardcastle holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Parapsychic Sciences and a Master of Divinity in Philosophical Theology. She has professional certifications and maintains a private practice in hypnotherapy and life coaching.
Her professional background includes the directorship of an ecumenical chaplain program at Wright State University in Ohio. As an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church, she served on national boards and agencies for the denomination. She is dedicated to peacefully bridging mainstream religion, science, government, and education with ufology and exoconsciousness.
John Lennon's ghost pays son a visitStuff.co.nz | Wednesday, 17 October 2007
Reuters
SPOOKY APPEARANCE: Julian Lennon claims the ghost of his late father John has visited him from beyond the grave.  John Lennon's son Julian claims his father's ghost has visited him from beyond the grave.Julian was left shocked by the haunting moment which occurred more than 25 years after the Beatles legend's death while he was shooting a new film in Australia. Julian, who agreed to take part in an ancient ceremony with an Aboriginal tribe, was left speechless when he was handed a white feather by a tribe elder, a symbol of great significance to him. A source told Britain's Daily Express newspaper: "It may sound strange but that was a very weird and emotional moment for Julian. He was left speechless. Not long before he died, John had told him, 'If anything ever happens to me, look for a white feather and you will know I am there for you, always looking out for you'." Julian, 44, was in Australia to produce the film Whaledreamers to raise awareness about the plight of whales and the Earth's oceans. He isn't the only person to have been visited by John since his death. Fellow Beatle Sir Paul McCartney believes John appeared to the band in the form of a white peacock during the recording of the 1995 Beatles single Free as a Bird. As Paul, Ringo Starr and the now deceased George Harrison posed for a photograph outside the recording studio, the bird wandered into the shot. Paul said: "That was John. Spooky, eh? It was like John was hanging around. "We felt that all through the recording. We put one of those spoof backwards recordings on the end of the single for a laugh, to give all those Beatles nuts something to do. "Then we were listening to the finished single in the studio one night, and it gets to the end, and it goes, 'zzzwrk nggggwaaahhh jooohn lennnnnon qwwwrk.' I swear to God. We were like, 'It's John. He likes it!" Oasis singer Liam Gallagher also claims he was left in awe when John's spirit visited him in the middle of the night. The rocker - a self-confessed Beatles fanatic - said: "I was in Manchester at a friend's house having a sleep. I remember getting up and feeling really weird. I turned round and there I was, lying on the bed, and I sort of fell back into my body. There was a presence there and it was him, John Lennon." John was shot dead aged 40 in 1980 by deranged fan Mark Chapman as he entered the Dakota building in New York.
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