Introduction.   “Till the present, an enormous number of facts concerning the brain have been collected, while advancement of our understanding of the mechanisms of its activity remains insignificant.”   Uziel Sandler – “Neural Cell Behaviour and Fuzzy Logic” The first step in discovering something new in science is to establish clearly what is not known […]

    “Out of Body”  –  Part 2 Two Unappreciated Memory ‘Miracles’. I am sadly old enough to remember the prehistoric days before the invention of the laptop computer and Internet. What impressed me most as an early Internet user was the speed with which the Internet software and hardware could search for a single […]

Part 1:  “Near Death and Out of the Body Experiences” Introduction Today’s post, the first of a two-part article, moves on from exploring ideas on the meaning of the universe to asking another vital question in philosophy and religion – “can consciousness and memory exist independent of a living neuronal network in the brain?” The […]

“There is no planet B. There can be no Plan B because there is no planet B,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his Stanford University Address.   Introduction Since my early years as an amateur astronomer when Sir Patrick Moore, the famous British Television presenter, writer and astronomer, allowed me to use his telescopes, I […]

The Mother of All Questions:  The Meaning of the Universe. “The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42.” Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.   Part 1:   This blog explores further implications of my previous blog, “Science and Religion – Strange Bedfellows?” As always, I […]

 “Science and Religion – Strange Bedfellows?” “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”  The Tempest by William Shakespeare Over the last five centuries, science and religion have certainly been ‘strange bedfellows’ and caused supports on both sides of the argument considerable misery and uncertainty. 1.       The Great Debate It is a warm summer’s evening on […]

  “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”  The Tempest by William Shakespeare Over the last five centuries, science and religion have certainly been ‘strange bedfellows’ and caused supports on both sides of the argument considerable misery and uncertainty. 1.       The Great Debate It is a warm summer’s evening on the last day of June […]

Introduction: In this blog, I present further early experiences in my investigations of the paranormal that convinced me of the reality of paranormal apparitions such as ghosts and luminous orbs.  I have to confess although I have never seen such phenomena with my own eyes, I have been overwhelming convinced by the testimony of highly […]