CONFRONTING THE OLD HAG

Ryan Hurd. Sleep Paralysis: A Guide to Hypnagogic Visions and Visitors of the Night. Hyena Press, 2011.

This short book is based on the author's own experiences of what used to be called 'aware sleep paralysis' and is now called 'isolated sleep paralysis'. It gives some of the basic background, tips on how to avoid it, and for the more adventurous, tips on how to induce and exploit it for psychological development.
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ELECTION NIGHT DRAMA

Well, the votes are in and the counts completed in the great Disclosure Polls, here and on Kevin Randle's blog. The first thing to note is how many more people responded to Kevin's poll than to mine, which is probably a fair reflection of our blogs' respective standing in the UFO 'community'
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HOPKINS: A CLASH OF SYMBOLS

The latest excerpt from Carol Rainey's in-progress documentary about Budd Hopkins and his abduction research methods, has now been posted online. In her introduction to the clip Rainey says:

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QUANTUM OF MADNESS

Lawrence M Krauss. Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science. W. W. Norton, 2011.

It is a conceit among paranormalists and forteans that mainstream scientists are rather dull, conventional and staid folks. These were hardly the epithets which could be applied to Richard Feynman (1918-1988), the subject of this biography. He was what was known as a 'colourful character' which meant that aspects of his life were closer to those of a Hollywood star than the conventional image of the scientist.
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WILD TALENTS

Pamela Rae Heath. Mind-Matter Interaction: Review of Historical Reports, Theory and Research. McFarland, 2011.

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David Gordon White. Sinister Yogis. University of Chicago Press, 2011

Many cultures have traditions of religious or occult virtuosi who possess extraordinary wild talents. These are to at least some degree the subjects of these two books. Pamela Ray Heath's book is a revised and expanded version of the author's book The PK Zone first published in 2002. In it she undertakes both literature searches on both accounts of spontaneous cases and research studies on various aspects of what she terms mind-matter interaction, along with her own interviews with various 'psychics'.
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CRACKPOTS, EGGHEADS AND BIGFOOT

Brian Regal. Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads and Cryptozoology. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Brian Regal, a professor of the history of science, here looks not so much as the anomalous maybe animals themselves, as with the people who studied them. At the centre of the book is an account of the life and career the controversial anthropologist Grover S Krantz (1931-2002). Around his life Regal weaves the tale of the rise of cryptozoology, the study of Bigfoot and the often larger than life characters in the field.
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PRIESTS OF HIGH STRANGENESS - PART 2

Carol Rainey has now put online the second excerpt from the rough cut of her documentary 'Priests of High Strangeness'. She writes:

The ongoing series of excerpts focuses on the controversial research techniques used by some well-known alien abduction investigators. Their subjects certainly are having inexplicable and baffling experiences and the researchers do offer the therapeutic, healing benefits that come from any empathetic listener.
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