He was the third President of the United States, the most intellectual figure in shaping America’s early history, and a voice of reason in his own time as well as today. The thought is enough to imagine him rolling in his grave, but, like fellow Founding Father, Thomas Paine,...
Religion & Spirituality
Banned Books Awareness: Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was many things: author, radical, inventor, intellectual, and revolutionary; but he was also considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His 1776 pamphlet, Common Sense, was considered so influential to the American revolutionary cause that it was reportedly said at the time that “without...
Banned Books Awareness: Harry Potter
With the final theatrical installment being released worldwide this week, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to discuss THE most banned book (collectively) of the 21st century according to the American Library Association– the Harry Potterseries; the first four books are, as a group, at #7 for the most...
Across the Great Divide: The Embodied Mind: Altered States of Consciousness and Ghost Hunting
The Embodied Mind: Altered States of Consciousness and Ghost Hunting By R. Wolf Baldassarro We live in a time when science has eroded traditional spiritual beliefs so thoroughly that they are mutually exclusive for most people. This modern paradigm of the mind, body, and spirit being completely separate...
Across the Great Divide: Spiritual Work and Paranormal Investigations (Part 2 of 3)
There is a lot of misunderstanding when it comes to particular parapsychological concepts such as soul rescues, possession, and exorcisms. Centuries of religious propaganda and dogma have colored our understanding and acceptance of the phenomena and Hollywood has not helped to shed light on the truth either. In fact,...