| Getting psychic
Right in the heart of the Mission, near ATA and across from Herbivore, a sign that says Psychic Horizons stands over a doorway. You might not even notice it or you might just ignore it like you do the evangelical church down the street. But if you're curious, every Tuesday night at 7:30, Psychic Horizons is open for a free introduction. I went last Tuesday to check it out (Full disclosure: I've been dragged by various friends to see psychics and invariably I'll be told something intriguing or ominous about my future and I'll start obsessing about it just a little, even when it seems ludicrous. My friends are generally amused by this.) Anyway, I guess I was still curious enough to take a closer look. On some level, maybe I was thinking they'd teach us how to access our own psychic powers so we could read people's minds.
Intergalactic Skeptic Takes Radio Gig National
Falls Church's Rick Wood has tales of the most bizarre kind. He has met a man who believed he was flying in a UFO with a psychic Sasquatch, a woman who believed that she was intimate with a lizard and then time-traveled with him, and another man who sued former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore for failure to provide UFO protection. And the list goes on. For the past five years, Wood has hosted his own radio talk show dealing with paranormal activity from a skeptic's point of view. In other words, his role is to hear accounts of the paranormal and to use reason to discredit them. Sponsored by the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), Wood's local show, based out of Falls Church, became nationally syndicated on July 1 over Cable Radio Network.
Paranormal phenomena comes to Laughlin
A flight of stairs above the bustling casino nightlife, members of the United States Psychotronics Association acknowledged claims of the paranormal that they believe to be real and testable by modern science and technology. The 32nd annual USPA conference was held Thursday-Monday in the meeting rooms of the Flamingo hotel, 1900 S. Casino Drive. Keynote speaker Dr. Gary Schwartz addressed criticism to some of USPA's seemingly-outrageous claims and described his journey from skeptic to believer. As a lifelong agnostic, only within the last 10 years has his work led him to re-examine his belief system.“The work I have been doing has challenged me. It has forced me to look at the world in a new way," he said. .
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