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An exploration of the blending of the senses without the use of psychoactive hallucinogens.

May 2011

Review by Fate Staff

New Page Books • by Maureen Seaberg

Synesthesia is the unique ability to link colors, sounds and shapes into a surreal sensory experience. Basically, certain letters, sound and smells are experienced as swirling symphonies of color depending on the individual.

To be clear, synesthesia is not a handicap or a dysfunction, but the loss of inhibition in distinguishing between the senses. The condition is rare and most people can’t experience synesthesia without psychoactive hallucinogens. So for those of us left wanting, we have lifelong synesthete and New York Times journalist Maureen Seaberg to take us on a journey thru her eyes and ears.

Seaberg describes her own personal experiences of growing up trying to understand a visual sensation that few understood. And while her personal story is the   Read the rest of this entry »

First hand account of the mysterious Men in Black excerpted from Nick Redfern’s forthcoming book.

Raven Meindel, a cryptozoologist, writer, radio host, and Wiccan priestess who resides in Michigan and, in 2010, was featured on the History Channel’s Monster Quest series pursuing bloodthirsty werewolves, says, “I’ve been interested in paranormal things and UFOs for years, but when I got involved in doing it more seriously, with research and writing, and in a career-like manner, that’s when really strange things started to happen, including a Men in Black experience in April 2008.” Read the rest of this entry »

Biological Warfare and Animal Die Offs— Is There a Connection?

The recent wave of deaths of animals around the world – of fish, birds and hundreds of cattle – has generated a wealth of theories for the deaths that range from perfectly natural “die-offs” to a coming apocalypse of Biblical proportions, and just about anything and everything in between.

An issue that has not been addressed at length, however, is that relative to concerns that elements of the government may have with respect to these events. Is there official, behind-the-scenes worry about what is presently afoot? Very possibly.

And I say “very possibly” because Read the rest of this entry »

The power of the mind influences the way that we perceive reality and therefore remember it.

May 2011

by Robert A. Goerman

Eyewitness testimony is a common form of evidence in law and the legal system has mechanisms to test witness evidence for reliability or credibility. Examples of approaches to testing and assessment include the use of questioning, evidence of corroborating witnesses, documents, photographs or video and forensic evidence.

This testimonial evidence is sometimes also described as anecdotal evidence.

In science, anecdotal evidence is defined as casual and non-scientific observations which do not provide proof but may assist research efforts.

The formal study of eyewitness memory is usually undertaken within the broader category of cognitive processes. Cognitive processes refer to Read the rest of this entry »

Wednesday’s show is about past life regression with guest Julia Ingram.

May 2011

Join Bobby Sullivan and Julia Ingram Wednesday night for another intriguing indepth interview on FATE Radio.

Julia received her master’s degree in counseling psychology from Read the rest of this entry »

A satisfying journey that leaves the reader hungry for more.

May 2011

Review by Fate Staff

“The Poltergeist Phenomenon” by Michael Clarkson

New Page Books (NJ) 2011, softcover, 255 pages

The Poltergeist Phenomenon is not the usual fare: families terrorized by flying rocks, loud noises, crashing housewares, and other hallmarks of the poltergeist experience. Here you will find ley lines, zero point energy and epileptic teenagers at the center of these disturbances. Pulitzer Prize nominated author and Princeton alum Michael Clarkson, expertly deconstructs poltergeists and their origins. His time working on police investigations and being the author of several books on psychology prepared him for the in-depth analysis of this subject matter.

Clarkson presents the theory that psychokinesis, n Read the rest of this entry »

In this issue: Private Session with MAX the Crystal Skull, Field Testing of New Portals Equipment at Three Chimneys B&B in New Hampshire, New Mexico Research, and New Book on Haunted Salem.

May 2011

by Rosemary Ellen Guiley

My newsletter has a new name, Strange Dimensions, and soon will have a new look as part of my ongoing efforts to bring you news and information about my work in the paranormal.

I Finally Meet an Ancient Crystal Skull

Wow, was April a fantastic and busy month!  It’s often hard for me to pick a favorite from the variety of my activities, but this time I do have to vote for my experience with the famous crystal skull, Max.  My good friends, Jayne and Chuck Feldman, who live in Maryland, host Max and his guardian, JoAnn Parks of Houston, every year for a day of Read the rest of this entry »

My Proof of Survival about friendship beyond the grave.

February 2000

by Don M. Johnson

Dr. Lora G. Anderson was my best friend and metaphysical cohort. For nearly twenty years, I stepped outside of my profession of architecture and managed our mutual business in Lewiston, Idaho. In the early 1980s we moved to Southern California and affiliated with a metaphysical church in Woodland Hills—The Sanctuary of Revelations, Inc. Dr. Barry Lane, founder and current minister of the Sanctuary, is an enlightened teacher, as well as a psychic and trance medium. Read the rest of this entry »

A recent release from Galde Press, Penny’s Tale is a novel about how adoption personally affects children in the system.

April 2011

by Mary Jo Mosher

Penny’s Tale is a story about a child’s psychological suffering at the hands of negligent adults, her subsequent adoption at age ten, her ongoing search for her birth parents, and her tenacious push for release of her birth records. The story is told from Penny’s point of view.

The fortunate children born of dysfunctional relationships are given up as babies and placed in loving, secure homes. The unfortunate children are the older ones who end up in orphanages or foster homes and never experience permanency in their lives. Some become delinquents; others become psychologically damaged and can’t function well in society. Adoptive homes are scarce for the older child. Read the rest of this entry »

A collection of reports regarding ghosts, phantoms and Bigfoot wearing distinctly patterned clothing.

April 2011

by Robert A. Goerman

For me, the very essence of the strange and unknown boils down to encounters between man and mystery, without the baggage of belief. Some of us have seen the windmill blink. We will never be the same. As if ghosts, bedroom phantoms, enigmatic visitors, and Bigfoot were not weird enough on their own, what are we to make of encounters where these same anomalies dress in plaid or checkered fabrics? We define plaid or checkered here as any fabric with stripes or bars of various colors and widths that cross at right angles. A true plaid has the same pattern when you rotate it ninety degrees. Try plugging the word “ghost” along with “plaid shirt” or Read the rest of this entry »

One of the wold’s oldest religions is now one of the fastest growing movements in America. Why are the Wiccans finally coming out of the broom closet?

August 1999

by Janet Brennan

Andrea Biro, 19, is a Queens-based actress and model as well as a seond-degree Alexandiran Wiccan.

The name of the coven is the Iseum of Hidden Mysteries, but nothing looks mysterious about the antique red farmhouse that is its headquarters.

As I enter through the back door, I’m warmly greeted by coven leaders Julie and Lawrence, an ordinary-looking married couple. I instantly feel at ease as their gentle hound strolls over for a pat and a black-velvet kitten scampers after a shoelace. But this Sunday afternoon promises to be far from ordinary for me, for I am attending my first pagan ritual, performed by a coven of witches.

The word pagan means “country-dweller” — an appropriate description for Julie and Lawrence, who live in the thick pine woods 30 miles from the coast of Maine. They are members of The Fellowship of Isis, a pagan church with about 14,000 members worldwide who focus their worship on Egyptian deities. But while Julie feels an affinity for Egypt, she actually considers herself Read the rest of this entry »

The Supernatural Investigative Group of Minnesota and Bobby Sullivan will be attending to educate the public on ghosts.

April 2011

Craguns Resort has been home to many encounters with Ghosts and Spirits by both staff and it’s guests.

There are upcoming lectures in the next few weeks with Michael Cremo, the author of Forbidden Archeology: the Hidden History of the Human Race.

Saturday April 30, 2011 1:00 pm Truth Event Powerpoint Lecture on Forbidden Archeology Read the rest of this entry »

“Thank you for the PDFs of FATE! They’re perfect for reading on my ipad.” – Sheri S, Suffolk, VA

Technology progresses and transforms and, as it does, FATE magazine adjusts to keep up with the times. Did you know that FATE and certain Galde Press books are not only available in hard copy but as E-issues as well? These easy to read PDFs can be printed out, read on your computer or even downloaded to the iPad and Kindle! Read the rest of this entry »

FATE gets the scoop from Zecharia Sitchin modern day linguist and biblical scholar.

January/February 2010

by Phyllis Galde

Zecharia Sitchin and Phyllis Galde.

Zecharia Sitchin, an eminent Orientalist and biblical scholar, was born in 1922 in Baku, Azerbaijan, then a part of the USSR, and was raised in Palestine. There, he acquired a profound knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archaeology of the Near East. A graduate of the University of London with a degree in economic history, he worked as a journalist and editor in Israel for many years prior to undertaking his life’s work: The Earth Chronicles.

One of the few scholars able to read the clay tablets and interpret ancient Sumerian and Akkadian, Sitchin based the ten volumes of The Earth Chronicles series, beginning with Read the rest of this entry »

FATE Magazine picks the brain of a Midwest grown ghost hunting group.

April 2011

by Christine Goodrich

Name of Group: Supernatural Investigators of Minnesota (SIM)
Date Formed: 03/13/2010, Founded by Jerry Ayres
Names of Members Jerry Ayres, Mae Kelley, Stephanie Ayres, Katie Sonmor, Kacie Ayres, George Donaldson,  Andrew Jaffe
Contact Information: 612.703.9399 – siminnesota@gmail.com

Describe the members of your team. What are their areas of expertise?

Our team is made up of seven members, and all have full-time careers outside of ghost hunting. The SIM Crew is made up of a variety of people from all walks of life. We have several who are sensitive to paranormal activity, a couple who are skeptics and we also have a psychic on board.

What makes your group different from other groups?

Supernatural Investigators of Minnesota strives to acquire Read the rest of this entry »

Book Review

December 2010

by FATE Staff

Celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, the folks behind The Witches Almanac are proud to produce their landmark 30th installment.

Founded by Elizabeth Pepper back in 1971, The Witches Almanac has been prognosticating long term weather forecasts, horoscopes and their annual moon calendar non-stop. This year’s addition is specifically dedicated to the stones and the powers of the Earth by its witchy authors. Every page is full of magical drawings that evoke a sense of literature from days gone by.

While the almanac is an indispensible tool for any Wiccan needing to fill important dates from Samhain Read the rest of this entry »

An excerpt from the forthcoming novel Atomic Sunrise.

by Raymond Buckland

Prologue
August, 1945

The heavily-laden, four-engine bomber droned on through the late afternoon sky, its four-bladed propellers cutting a path high above the Pacific Ocean toward its destination. On board, the emotionless navigator checked and re-checked his calculations, assuring himself that he had the craft on course. In the tail and in the upper and lower turrets, three pairs of eyes scanned the skies for any signs of enemy interceptors. All was clear.

The pilot and co-pilot perused their instruments, conscious of the fact that they were now less than an hour away from the all-important target. The flight engineer checked the engines and gear, making sure that the flying battleship would be a solid, smooth platform for the launching of the bomb. At a speed of four-and-a-half miles a minute, the bomb had to drop from a height of more than five miles and come within Read the rest of this entry »

My Proof of Survival: The Bloody Hand Print and South Minneapolis

June 2002

by Warren Brewer

My mother died in 1965 of lung cancer. About a year later, my father died of a heart attack. A month or so after my father’s death, a neighbor came through the back door for a visit. She asked me who the man in the bedroom was. But there was no one in the bedroom.

Several times while leaving or arriving at the house, a large man’s figure was seen moving in front of the window. Searches of the house were relentless, but there was no man in the house.

Then one night, I was going up the front steps of the house with my fiancée when a loud slapping sound was heard. My fiancée screamed Read the rest of this entry »

An excerpt from Paranormal Mysteries of Eurasia.

Chapter 10: Russia’s Time Machine

by Paul Stonehill

Russian scientists have been experimenting with a machine that can physically alter time. Vadim Alexandrovich Chernobrov sent me the materials I used for writing this article. He and his colleagues have created a time machine that, although still limited, has enormous potential—and enormous dangers.
Chernobrov graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, where he studied at the Department of Astronautics and Automatic Flying Craft. His degree work and research thesis involved a project dealing with a promising space transport system (containing an unusual electromagnetic engine)—which can be transformed into a time machine. Besides his main work at the Moscow Aviation Institute, Chernobrov is also a science editor and a columnist for several Russian newspapers, including the prominent Rossiyskiye Novosti. He is also an engineer responsible for Read the rest of this entry »

March 2011

Saucer Smear, the official publication of the Saucer & Unexplained Celestial Events Research Society, dedicated to the highest principles of ufological journalism, edited by Supreme Commander James W. Moseley, is now available as e-issues from the FATE online store–$20 for a year’s subscription or $3 per issue. Legendary Jim Moseley, the voice of reason in the sea of chaos that is ufology, brings his much needed incisive wisdom and biting wit to a field too often dominated by bitter controversy, thoughtless nonsense, and downright fraud. All proceeds will go to Moseley in recognition of his outstanding, long-standing contribution to finding sanity in the search for a solution to the UFO enigma.

Near-death Experiences

April 2005

by Ava Belle Chucta

I was born in January 1920, and I have had three near-death experiences. The first happened when I had measles at age seven. We had gone on a trip to Leadville, Colorado, a town above the timberline in the mountains southwest of Denver. My father worked in road construction all over the state of Colorado and he was going up there to check out a job.

We traveled in a Model-T dump truck. It was early fall, and it was getting cold. Three of us kids were on a feather bed covered with quilts in the back of the truck. My baby sister was wrapped in blankets on my mother’s lap on the front seat. There was not a cab on that truck.

We stayed in a hotel overnight in Leadville, and it was so cold in that room. It had linoleum on the floor that felt like ice when you walked barefoot on it. Read the rest of this entry »

Discover what life is like after disclosing information concerning UFO phenomena, answers concerning UFOs and related events, and what the next phase in contact has in store for us.

March 2011

by Rosemary Ellen Guiley

FATE Consulting Editor

We didn’t want it to end!  The 20^th annual International UFO Congress and Film Festival (IUFOC) moved to Phoenix this year (February 23-27) under the new direction of Open Minds Production, LLC, and it was a spectacular event, attended by more than 1500 persons and media from all over the world.  Phyllis Galde and I were on hand to represent FATE and give media interviews. The presentations were excellent, the networking was fabulous, and the setting – the Radisson resort and casino in Fountain Hills just outside of town – was elegant.  In all, this year’s IUFOC was one of the most outstanding conferences we’ve attended in years.

We were especially appreciative of Alejandro Rojas, the co-coordinator of the conference, as well as the editor of Open Minds magazine and the host of their television show.  Rojas served as emcee for the event and all-around point person for every imaginable inquiry.  “It was the largest and one of the best conferences ever for the Congress,” Rojas told us after the closing of events.  “It was a challenge to Read the rest of this entry »

A new book from Jacquelin Smith where she talks with animals on a soul to soul level.

October 2010

by Jacquelin Smith

An internationally known animal communicator, Jacquelin Smith is a leader in the field of telepathic communication.  Her book shares telepathic conversations with dogs, cats, dolphins, gorillas, and other animals. They discuss stars and planets as their origins, why they’re on Earth, their missions, what they mirror to humans, and what they want humans to know. Jacquelin offers guidelines in her book on how to discover an animal friend’s star origin.

The following is a chapter from Star Origins and Wisdom of Animals.  To purchase a copy visit www.jacquelinsmith.com

Groundhog

You were my first direct alien (human) encounter here on Earth.

This message is from the soul of a young groundhog whom I spotted on a path while walking in the woods.  I stopped and stood still when Read the rest of this entry »

Lighting struck the tree under which the woman and the cow took refuge- and left an exact image of the cow impressed upon her body.

January 1955

by Henry Winfred Splitter

January 1955- Vol. 8, No. 1

The Indians of the Purgatoire River in southeastern Colorado were well acquainted with the mysterious picture long before any white man entered the country.

There it was, the detailed portrait of the huge animal, on the face of the cliff, overhung by a wall of rock 100 feet high—the short tail extended, ears visible, claws standing out in bold relief, the heavy-lipped mouth open showing rows of ferocious teeth, teeth that easily could crunch bones together with flesh. The picture was not an accidental semblance, but actually more perfect and lifelike than any human art could produce—it was the life-sized representation of a grizzly bear, brute king of the Rockies. At least nine feet in length, this picture showed the terrible yet majestic creature in full stature and strength.

The Indians considered the picture sacred; groups of braves and the medicine men of their tribes often came there to make protective medicine. Not that they were interested in luring the original of the picture into a trap, or even that they desired to have their weapons strengthened for the hunt. Not even the gods of the Indian could protect him against the ruthless beast whose portrait was there on the sandstone cliff. In general, Western Indians never hunted this animal; to them he was a kind of symbol, almost godlike in the terror he inspired.

No one knew in 1871, when the story first was related in a Pueblo newspaper, no one knows Read the rest of this entry »

True Mystic Experiences

March 2001

by  J. Grimes

Gather around, gentle readers. Open your eyes and your mind, and get ready to be entertained with the true story of the house that never was. I grew up in a small city in southern Ohio called Zanesville. During my early childhood I was raised on a farm my father owned. When I was about eight years old we sold it and moved to the city. This opened up a whole new world for me, especially after I was given a bike. As passenger and freight trains were still common at that time, a bunch of us kids would ride to the train station and pass our after-school hours watching the coming and going of the trains. Nothing unusual about that, except at certain times when weather conditions were right, such as stormy overcast nights, sometimes we could see the outline of an old house off in the distance. Read the rest of this entry »

A Night Dream Visit

by Eric Stirnemann

Almost all night or early morning dreams we experience are merely mixed-up and meddlesome thoughts increased in power to dream strength, which we experience out of our memory. We always have an enormous number of memories piled up.

These dreams might be mixed-up or crazy thoughts just naturally becoming active. Most are worthless effusions. I believe a good and healthy dream is very much better. Higher visions may be supernatural inspirations whose origins are hard to define. In the numerous varieties and complications possible, we are confronted with multiple problems.

One night initiated a number of situations whose origin few people ever experience or suspect. They were very orderly situations. But real astral traveling is not like the type of dream described above; it is of more direct action. This type of dream, described as follows, happened only once in my life.

My dream was clear and very beautiful. I was driving my green Mercedes diesel car along a mountain road high up near a ridge after a rain. The road had a few wet potholes but was easily passable. I observed a faraway mountain ridge across the valley. All areas were deeply forested. It reminded me of the Feather River Canyon in California, but the dream did not show the enormous and very involved Read the rest of this entry »

Personal Journeys

by Debra J. Taubenslag, D.C.H.

There comes a time when you just have to practice what you preach. Here I was conducting countless healing sessions for other people, and ignoring my own inner cries. I know what my clients call the safety zone…it’s much more comfortable being unaware than growing in spiritual development. It was time for me to concentrate on me. I knew I had work to do, because I was feeling those unexplainable blues. Of course, we always blame it on our moods or hormones, but I knew better. These feelings were something more that my higher self wanted me to look at, so I did. I met with a fellow hypnotist who believes that there is also a spiritual side to life. My first session produced an array of unexpected characters, and a series of past lives. I saw myself as a pitiful spoiled Southern grandmother who was rejected by her son and daughter-in-law, a frustrated Native American medicine man who procrastinated the feat of constructing a totem pole to initiate war with a neighboring tribe, and a jealous ancient Chinese male who murdered his brother for spite. My ugly past history took me by surprise, but I understood that everyone has a light and dark side.
This initial session gave me the chance to experience what my clients had been experiencing. My primary mode of receiving information was kinesthetic. I would feel things so intensely; I would have a sense of just knowing. Sometimes flashes of visual pictures would come to mind, and sometimes the words would just pour out of my mouth. There was never any kind of conscious thought to what I would say; it would just happen. Many of my clients would tell me that they saw whole scenes quite vividly, or that they clearly heard their own Read the rest of this entry »

True Mystic Experience

April 2005

by Lillian Burton

As a little girl I always asked God in my night prayers to send guardian angels to care for me. In my later years I still asked for protection with the angels. Somehow it seemed to give me the strength I needed in so many things. In all my 91 years I still said this prayer and believed.

On December 1, 2003, I felt a twinge and fluttering in my heart. Feeling rather weak and unsteady I took to bed. For a week I lay there, feeling these were to be my last days on earth. I didn’t even bother to eat. As I lay in bed I prayed that God would take me quietly with no pain or discomfort— Read the rest of this entry »

True Mystical Experience

by Dianne Lawson

Who’s here? I thought to myself.

It was November 1980, and I was unpacking dishes in the kitchen of our new house when I thought I heard adult voices in the living room. Knowing my three children and I were alone in the house, I wondered who the kids had let in. I went into the living room and found the room empty.

All three of my kids were in their respective rooms, with no adults in sight. I must have heard noises of adults talking Read the rest of this entry »