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 weather, so what better way to pass these cold winter nights than to do a lot of reading- beginning with the latest and greatest edition of my paranormal column, Across the Great Divide.

January 2014- “Where, Oh Where, Has the Science Gone?”

There was a time, about 40 years ago, when paranormal research was fueled more by a passion for science and understanding than for fame and glory. It was a time when some of the world’s most prestigious universities were home to large parapsychology departments conducting cutting-edge research and publishing their theories and findings in the world’s top academic journals where they were discussed and graded on their methodology and scholastic merit. It was a great time for the field- before Hollywood and groups using poor techniques and duct-taped equipment stumbled around with night vision cameras looking for ratings rather than answers.

Somewhere, lost in the shadows of the scripted “results”, camera magic, and glitz of reality television’s idea of what paranormal research is, the honest, academic exploration of parapsychology has all but disappeared from the public eye, vanishing into the mists like a Gray Lady on a windy autumn night. Or has it?

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