Fringe-ology (43 page)

D. Drabelle, “In Dreams Begin Discoveries,”
Pennsylvania Gazette
(January/February 2009), accessed November 1, 2010, http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0109/feature3_1.html

Author's note:
Artists and writers and filmmakers long inspired by their dreams include auteurs like David Lynch and more mainstream, popular figures like Stephanie Meyer, who divined the story for
Twilight
from a dream. Paul McCartney dreamt the music that became “Yesterday,” and Keith Richards woke up with “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction” in his head. Novels like
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
and
Frankenstein
also sprang directly from dreams.

CHAPTER 9: AFTER-DEATH COMMUNICATION?

William James,
The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
(Dover, 1956): 29–30.

Tom Lareau, Interview, January 2005.

Allan Botkin, Interviews, February 2005, August 2010.

“About Induced ADCs,” from Botkin's own web site, makes the claim of providing IADCs to thousands, http://induced-adc.com/

Allan Botkin, Interview with George Noory,
Coast to Coast
A.M.
,
October 27, 2004, http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2004/10/27. Accessed November 1, 2010.

F. Shapiro,
EMDR
(Basic Books, 1997): 8–10 (discovery), 26–28 (no understood mechanism), 5 (too good to be true), 91–92, 135–36 (information processing).

F. Shapiro, “Eye Movement Desensitization: A New Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder,”
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
20, no. 3 (1989): 211–17.

R. T. Carroll, “Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR),”
Skeptic's Dictionary,
accessed October 27, 2010, http://www.skepdic.com/emdr.html

F. Shapiro, “Efficacy of the Eye Movement Desensitization Procedure in the Treatment of Traumatic Memories,”
Journal of Traumatic Stress Studies
2 (1989): 199–223.

A. Ehlers et al., “Do All Psychological Treatments Really Work the Same in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder?”
Clinical Psychology Review
30, no. 2 (2010): 269–76.

Author's note:
Here is a by no means complete listing of studies attesting to EMDR's effectiveness.

B. van der Kolk, “The Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology of PTSD,”
Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental
16 (2001): 49–64.

G. H. Seidler, “Comparing the Efficacy of EMDR and Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment of PTSD: A Meta-Analytic Study,”
Psychological Medicine
36, no. 11 (2006): 1515–22.

R. Rodenburg, “Efficacy of EMDR in Children: A Meta-Analysis,”
Clinical Psychology Review
29, no. 7 (November 2009): 599–606.

M. L. Van Etten, “Comparative Efficacy of Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Meta-Analysis,”
Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
5 (1998): 126–44.

C. M. Chemtob et al., “Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing,”
Effective Treatments for PTSD: Practice Guidelines from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
(Guilford, 2009): 283–301.

“Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Treatment for Psychologically Traumatized Individuals,”
Effective Treatments for PTSD: Practice Guidelines from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
(Guilford, 2000): 333–35.

S. A. Wilson et al., “Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing,”
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
63 (1995): 928–37.

S. A. Wilson et al., “15-Month Follow-Up of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Treatment for Psychological Trauma,”
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
65, no. 6 (1997): 1047–56.

J. G. Carlson, “Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Treatment for Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder,”
Journal of Traumatic Stress
11, no. 1 (January 2008): 3–24.

Robbie Dunton, EMDR Institute, Interview, November 2010.

A fuller listing of EMDR's laurels can be obtained at the EMDR International Association web site: http://www.emdria.org/

Allan Botkin and R. Craig Hogan,
Induced After-Death Communication
(Hampton Roads, 2005): 10–15.

R. Stickgold, “EMDR: A Putative Neurobiological Mechanism of Action,”
Journal of Clinical Psychology
58, no. 1 (2002): 61–75.

C. T. Smith, “Posttraining Increases in REM Sleep Intensity Implicate REM Sleep in Memory Processing and Provide a Biological Marker of Learning Potential,”
Learning and Memory
6 (2004): 714–19.

Thomas Mellman, “REM Sleep and the Early Development of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder,”
American Journal of Psychiatry
159 (October 2002): 1696–1701.

K. Lansing, et. al, “High-Resolution Brain SPECT Imaging and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing in Police Officers With PTSD,”
Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences,
17, no. 4, (2005): 526–532.

P. Levin, P., et. al, “What psychological testing and neuroimaging tell us about the treatment of posttraumataic stress disorder by eye movement desensitization and reprocessing,”
Journal of Anxiety Disorders,
13, no. 1–2 (1999): 159–172

B. van der Kolk, “The psychobiology of traumatic memory: Clinical implications of neuroimaging studies,”
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,
821 (1997): 99–113.

I interviewed six soldiers in one group and had individual interviews with three more. One soldier declined to have his last name published. Thanks to Jimmy Rivers, Pete Reed, Wendell Marks, Ramone Calderon, George, Mike Sylvia, Mike Dick, Paul Thomas, and Tom Lareau.

Induced After-Death Communications, under “Trained Therapists Available Today” at http://induced-adc.com/

The IADC therapists I interviewed included Katelynn Daniles, Greg Rimoldi, and Hania Stromberg, Ph.D.

Bessel van der Kolk, Interview, March 2005.

As I was finishing this book, Botkin said he has found a researcher who is interested in conducting a study on the effectiveness of IADC therapy.

Chapter 11: OUR TIME IN HELL

William James, “The Energies of Men,” first published in
Science
, no. 635 (1907): 321–32, accessed October 27, 2010, http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/energies.htm

Lucid Dreaming Workshop, March 2010.

Stephen LaBerge,
Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
(Ballantine, 2004): 87.

Robert Waggoner,
Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self
(Moment Point Press, 2009): 51–75, 158–59 (Keelin story).

“Conversation Between Stephen LaBerge and Paul Tholey in July of 1989.”
Author's note:
This interview took place at the 1989 Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD) conference in London. This interview, available online, nicely illustrates LaBerge's position that the other dream figures are in fact our own mental constructs (or at least there is no proof of their independence). Accessed October 27, 2010, http://www.futurehi.net/docs/Laberge_Tholey.html

Sam Harris,
The End of Faith
(Norton, 2004): 40–41.

Aborigines, 212

academia, 23, 55

Afghanistan, 174, 235, 250

afterlife, 6, 13, 15, 32, 34, 35, 41, 78, 101, 107, 111, 249

induced after-death communication, 233–50

near-death experiences and, 32–51

agnosticism, 14

Aharonov, Yakir, 9

AIDS, 50

alchemy, 5–6

alcoholism, 238

aliens, 156, 159

abductions, 150

See also
unidentified flying objects (UFOs)

Allen, Joseph, 160

Allen, Steve, 115–19, 130, 132, 293

Allison, Paul D., 58

“Experimental Parapsychology as a Rejected Science,” 58

Amazing Meeting, 71

Amis, Martin, 1

amygdala, 9–11, 60, 192–93, 195–96

anesthesia, 85, 86–87, 89, 93

Angelou, Maya, 163

anoxia, 39

Apollo space program, 153–57, 158, 160–62

Aridaeus of Soli, 33

Aristotle, 211

Army, U.S., 56

IADC therapy for vets, 233–35, 238–43, 246, 247–50

remote viewing experiments, 56–59, 81

art, 103, 217

artificial intelligence (AI), 89, 90, 91

Association for Space Explorers, 161

Association for the Psychophysiological Study of Sleep (APSS), 214

Aston, Francis, 6

astrology, 67–68

astronauts, 153–75

atheism, 8, 14, 15, 16, 94, 107, 183, 186–88, 198, 263, 265

Atran, Scott, 187–88

Baltic Sea, 59

Barber, Theodore, 148

Barham, Jay and Martha, 47–50

Barrett, Deirdre, 220–21

BBC, 54, 126

Beaver, David, 171–72

behaviorism, 211, 238

belief, 14, 15, 234, 262, 263

skepticism vs., 53–81

Berger, Hans, 6

Berger, Rick E., 71

Beyond Belief Conference, 83–86, 100, 103, 108

Bigelow, Bob, 173

Bingham, Roger, 83–84

BioLogos Foundation, 200

biology, 102, 103, 127

Blackmore, Susan, 70–71

Dying to Live
, 39–40

“The Elusive Open Mind: Ten Years of Negative Research in Parapsychology,” 70

Blagrove, Mark, 220

BMC Genomics
, 199

Bohm, David, 9

Botkin, Allan, 234–50

Induced After-Death Communication
, 242

Bowie, David, 128

BP oil spill, 163

brain, 4, 6, 9–11, 16, 24, 39–40, 41, 60–61, 89, 90, 183, 246, 262

consciousness outside the, 83–112

dreaming and, 216–24

effects of meditation and prayer on, 177–204

near-death experience and, 39–40, 41–43

perceptual illusions created by, 190–92

See also
amygdala

Branson, Richard, 173, 174

British Humanist Association, 107

Britton, Willoughby, 41–43

Brown, Dan:

The Da Vinci Code
, 156

The Lost Symbol
, 156

Buddhism, 105, 107, 166, 179, 197, 199, 200, 209, 211–12, 262

Bush, George W., 44

Campbell, Thomas,
My Big TOE
, 106

cancer, 167–68, 236, 244

carbon dioxide, 44

cardiac arrest, 33

cardiac massage theory, 38, 39

Carnegie Mellon University, 159

Carter, Chris,
Parapsychology and the Skeptics,
66

Catholicism, 182, 210–11, 257

Cave, Nick, “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!” 21

Center for Sleep Research, UCLA, 218

Cernan, Eugene, 160

Chalmers, David, 109–110

change blindness, 190

chemistry, 5, 99

Chen, Norbu, 166–67

Chicago, 27, 238, 244

VA Hospital, 238–40

childhood memories, 139–46

China, 127

Christianity, 29, 34, 167, 194, 195, 198, 199, 200, 210–11

prayer, 195–96

Churchill, Winston, 3

Churchland, Patricia, 83, 102

clairvoyance, 57

climate change, 163, 173

CNN, 114

Coldea, Radu, 103

Cold War, 161

Collins, Francis, 200–201

The Language of God
, 200

Collins, Michael, 160

Colvin, Barrie, 152

Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), 72

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), 66–69, 72

compassion, 198

computers, 92, 99

consciousness, 13, 36, 83–112, 156, 167–68, 183, 211, 234

outside the brain, 83–112

Penrose-Hameroff model of, 83–112

quantum theory of, 83–112

research, 88–112

Copeland, Matt, 129

Copenhagen argument, 97–98

Copernican perspective, 162

Corcoran, Diane, 35

CPR, 32–33, 38

Crick, Francis, 217

Current Research in Social Psychology
, 74

Daily Mail
, 55

Dalai Lama, 17, 105, 200, 201

Dalton, Jeff, 227

Danley, July, 136

d'Aquili, Eugene, 183–84

dark matter, 8

Dateline
(TV program), 157

Dawkins, Richard, 1, 14, 15, 16, 17, 83, 85, 151, 178, 183, 187, 201, 212, 265

“Time to Stand Up,” 1

death, 15, 218–19, 234

Buddhist views on, 209

fear of, 34, 38, 112

induced after-death communication, 233–50

Kübler-Ross on, 22–23, 26–32, 36–37, 45

near-death experiences and, 21–51

de Bono, Edward, 125–26, 219

Delorme, Arnaud, 110

Dement, William, 211, 212–13

Dennett, Daniel, 15, 110–11, 178, 187, 201

Consciousness Explained
, 110

Darwin's Dangerous Idea
, 183

Deutsch, David, 54

Discover
, 42

Discovery channel, 157

Disneyland, 141–42

District Nine
(film), 128

DNA, 200, 217

dreaming, 6, 205–231

lucid, 205–231, 255–66

dream yoga, 209

drugs, 26, 38, 40, 167–68, 247

D'Souza, Dinesh, 187

DuBois, Allison, 76

Dunning, Brian, 13, 123–24

“dyadic” model of the universe, 169

Dylan, Bob, “Ballad of a Thin Man,” 53

Eagleman, David, 14, 17

Easterbrook, Gregg, “Why We Shouldn't Go to Mars,” 153

Edwards, Tim, 122–23

Einstein, Albert, 9, 95, 99, 100

electricity, 6

electro encephalogram (EEG), 6

electronic voice phenomenon, 2–3

electrooculogram (EOG), 213, 214

EMF waves, 148

Empire-Tribune
, 114, 118, 129, 133

endorphins, 39

Enlightenment, 7

entanglement, 95, 101

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 161, 163

epilepsy, 41, 42

epistemology, 14

Everett, Hugh, 98

evolution, 200

evolutionary neuroscience, 83

extrasensory perception (ESP), 57

eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), 236–50

Falwell, Jerry, 198

Family Ghost, 139–46, 251–54, 266

fantasy-prone personality (FPP), 148–50

Fanthorpe, Lionel, 3

Fate
magazine, 67

fear, 196, 197

Feynman, Richard, 98, 99

The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
, 99

Fields, W. C., 251

fight-or-flight response, 192–93, 246

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 15

Franciscan nuns, 195, 196

French, Chris, 55, 61, 73, 151

Freud, Sigmund, 217

“fringe” journals, 66

Gaitan, Lee Roy, 113–14, 117, 133, 135

Galileo, 64

Ganzfeld tests, 60, 75

Garn, Jake, 161

Gauquelin, Michel and Francoise, 67–68

Gebser, Jean, 17, 201

Geller, Uri, 69–70, 164–66, 170

Gell-Man, Murray, 98

genetics, 198–99, 200

Gentile, Lou, 1–3, 17, 18, 152

ghosts, 3, 4, 6, 7–8, 18, 51, 139–52, 251–54, 266

childhood memories of, 139–46

skeptics, 143–44, 146–52

“giggle factor,” 173

global warming, 163

glossolalia, 184–85

Goddard, Robert, 158–59

Gödel, Kurt, 92

gold, 5

golden ratio, 103

Great Britain, 53–55, 93, 123–24, 148, 188

Greeks, ancient, 54

Green, Al, 185

Greene, Brian,
The Fabric of the Cosmos
, 102

Grush, Rick, 102

Guardian
, 200

Haiti earthquake, 182

Halloween, 7

Hameroff, Stuart, 83–112

theory of consciousness, 83–112

Ultimate Computing: Biomolecular Consciousness and Nanotechnology
, 89–90, 91

in
What the Bleep Do We Know?
, 100–101, 102, 108

Hamilton, William, 126

Harper's
, 49

Harribance, Sean, 61

Harribance Effect, 61

Harris, Sam, 15, 16, 83, 178, 187, 200, 265

End of Faith
, 61

Haunt Project, 148

Hawaii, 205, 208, 218, 221, 225, 226, 231, 255, 259, 265–66

Hawking, Stephen, 98

HBO, 50

Hebard, Arthur, 70

hell, 257–58, 263–64

Hemingway, Ernest, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” 21

Henry, Joe, “Flag,” 177

Herodotus, 54

Hessler, Peter,
Oracle Bones
, 127

Hilprecht, Hermann, 221

Hinduism, 212

Hitchens, Christopher, 15, 178, 182, 183, 187, 201

God Is Not Great
, 182

Horgan, John,
The End of Science
, 8

hospice movement, 23

Howe, Elias, 220

Humanist, The
, 67

Hume, David, 63

Hyman, Ray, 64

“Evaluation of a Program on Anomalous Mental Phenomena,” 60

hypnagogic hallucinations, 149

hypnotism, 5, 148

hysterectomy, 261–62

imaginary playmates, 148

Imara, Reverend Mwalimu, 27–32, 46, 48–49, 50, 51

Inception
(film), 206

induced after-death communication (IADC), 233–50

for retired soldiers, 233–35, 238–43, 246, 247–50

infrasound, 147–48

Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), 156–57, 164, 168, 169, 175

Remission Project, 168

Internet, 80, 131, 165

iPod, 99, 203

Iraq War, 174, 235, 250

Islam, 187, 212

isotope, 6

James, William:

“The Energies of Men,” 255

The Will to Believe
, 233

James Randi Educational Foundation ( JREF), 72–73

Jansen, Karl, 38

Japan, 114

Jesus Christ, 29

Jewel, 121

“Stephenville, TX,” 113

Johnson, Samuel, 139

Joiner, Angelia, 114, 118–20, 129, 130, 134, 135

Jones, David, 126

Josephson, Brian, 53–55, 73

Josephson Junctions, 54

Joshi, Shaun, 6

Journal of Abnormal Psychology
, 185

Journal of Chemical Education
, 126

Journal of Projective Techniques
, 167

Kammann, Richard, 69

Kanakaredes, Melina, 50

Kekulé, Friedrich, 220

ketamine, 38

King, Rodney, 1

Kinsel, Pam, 130

Klass, Philip, 69, 124–25

knowledge, 14

Korean War, 154

Krauss, Lawrence, 85

Krebiozen, 167–68

Krippner, Stanley, 73

Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, 21–51, 149, 165

childhood of, 25

on death, 22–23, 26–32, 36–37, 45

fall from grace, 23–25, 45, 49–51

near-death experiences and, 23–25, 29–32, 34, 35, 40, 44–51

On Death and Dying
, 22–23, 31, 36, 37, 45

Wheel of Life
, 45

Kucinich, Dennis, 130–31

Kuhn, Thomas,
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
, 12

Kurtz, Paul, 67, 68

LaBerge, Stephen, 205–231, 255–66

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming,
206, 224

lucid dreaming and, 205–231, 255–66

Lareau, Tom, 233–34

Larry King Live
(TV program), 114, 125

Lawrence, T. E., 205

Lewis, Karl, 120

Life
magazine, 31, 70

life review, 34

Lincoln, Abraham, 6

Loewi, Otto, 220

logic, 126–27, 219–20

Long, Jeffrey, 33, 34, 38, 39

Lorenz, Konrad,
On Aggression
, 153

Los Angeles Times
, 49, 132

love, 198

lucid dreaming, 205–231, 255–66

meditation and, 206, 207, 211–12, 226

Lucidity Institute, 215

Maccabee, Bruce, 123

MacLaine, Shirley, 130

Sageing While Aging
, 131

Magical Ideation Scale, 150

many-worlds theory, 98–99

Margolis, Jonathan, 70

“Mars effect,” 67–68

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 159–60

materialism, 17, 34, 43, 94, 107, 174, 265

mathematics, 92

Mayer, Elizabeth,
Extraordinary Knowing
, 65

McDougall, Christopher,
Born to Run
, 197

McGaha, James, 69, 125, 132

McKenna, Terence, 41

McKinnon, Gary, 3

McMoneagle, Joe, 59

media, 8, 14, 23, 24, 34, 43, 44, 50, 152, 262–63

on lucid dreaming, 206, 210

on UFOs, 114, 117, 118–20, 128–35

See also
radio;
specific publications
; television

meditation, 156, 177–204, 206, 261

lucid dreaming and, 206, 207, 211–12, 226

neurological effects of, 177–204

Tibetan, 179, 180, 184, 195–96, 199