I have books, calendars, and multimedia items all ready for next Saturday’s book signing event. Come out to Gemini Moon in Mount Clemens from 4-6! ?#?AcrosstheGreatDivide? — feeling excited.
Science & Nature
NEW BOOK: Across the Great Divide
The latest book by R. Wolf Baldassarro is finally here! Across the Great Divide was a monthly column for Pagan Pages magazine that ran from 2009-2014 that explored the world of the paranormal research. This anthology collects all published articles in one volume with updated and new material. Published...
Banned Books Awareness: “Index Librorum Prohibitorum”
The Angelica Library, in Rome, is a public library located next to the church of Sant’Agostino. Among its numerous shelves of original and fragile manuscripts dating back centuries exists a very important collection that the Catholic Church hid from public view since 1559- the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, or List...
Across the Great Divide: “The Fine Line Between Believer and Skeptic”
“The Fine Line Between Believer and Skeptic” By R. Wolf Baldassarro I have been doing a careful dance as of late on a very thin tightrope. I have been skeptical, highly critical, and utterly blatant lately in calling out bullshit when it comes to ghost hunting and paranormal research...
Across the Great Divide: Parapsychology’s Database Debacle
“Parapsychology’s Database Debacle” by R. Wolf Baldassarro It’s well-known that paranormal research isn’t taken seriously by mainstream scientists- after all there is a big difference between measuring phenomenon like earthquakes and hurricanes, which affect and are witnessed by hundreds of thousands, as opposed to telekinesis and ghosts sightings, which...
Across the Great Divide: Paranormal Communication
Humans are quite egocentric when it comes to the physical world and their professed mastery of it. If they cannot hear it, see it, touch it, or understand it then it doesn’t exist or is laughed off as the illogical ramblings of the foolish. A common- and clichéd- axiom...
Across the Great Divide: “Where, Oh Where, Has the Science Gone?”
Due to some issues at the Pagan Pages headquarters, The December 2013 edition of the magazine was not published. Thankfully, those issues have been resolved and we start 2014 with a breath of fresh air. Many of us also began this year with a lot of snow and bitter...
Light, Darkness, and the Balance of Life
Banned Books Awareness: “Lord of the Flies”
William Golding’s debut novel follows a group of British schoolboys whose plane crashes on the shore of an uninhabited island. As well intentioned their attempt to cope with the situation and govern themselves may have been they instead regress to primal instincts and the mentality of humanity’s earliest hunter...
Across the Great Divide: “When Ghost Hunters Go Shopping”
There’s a famous quote saying that “a fool and his money are soon parted.” This month I tackle the pros and cons of the big cash machine that ghost hunting has become. Hold on to your wallets and walk with me Across the Great Divide as we explore “When...