Red Pill Junkie Insights

Over at the blog of Intrepid magazine, Red Pill Junkie has a new post that I urge one and all to read. It starts with the words below and takes us down some very winding and strange pathways - as it should!

"When you spend enough time in the Fortean realm, you start to amass a great deal of information allegedly transmitted by a varied cornucopia of other-worldly sources: channeled material, psychic dreams, close encounters of the 3rd or 4rd kind, medium séances, Ouija board sessions, and a long etcetera. Determining the validity of this information can be as taxing as finding reliable data on the Internet —in fact even more so.

"I don’t ascribe nor endorse the easy routes when it comes to these mysteries. Both the skeptical dismissal of ‘transmitted’ material as either hoaxes or mental delusions, as well as the uncritical acceptance of the cult-like groups that tend to gather around the ‘transmitters’ equally upset me."

Sex and Mysticism Pt. 2

Last week, I posted here a link to an insightful new article at Intrepid Magazine from good friend Red Pill Junkie on the sexual components of Fortean encounters. And as RPJ noted, there are far more than a few of them!

Well, now RPJ is back with Part 2 of his study, which you can find right here and which again demonstrates and reinforces the fact that even though it's an area that many researchers avoid, probably because of having prudish upbringings and repressed lives (that bit of bait should provoke a few comments, hopefully), there is an undeniable link between paranormal phenomena and sexual energy.

I will refrain from making any juvenile comments about the article being particularly titillating...

Sex and Mysticism

Red Pill Junkie regularly posts comments here and he also writes for Intrepid mag. His latest post for them - Eros & Ufos: The Repressed Sexual Aspect of Mystical Experiences (Part 1) - kicks off as follows:

"UFO polls have been all the rage lately, and not just in the US. Last month a local Panamanian newspaper published the results of a survey conducted among 1200 people between June 7th & 20th, and some of the results they obtained were far more interesting –and provocative!– than the ones reported by Nat Geo.

"Of the 6% who claimed to have witnessed a unidentified flying object, 37% also reported an increase in their sexual appetite immediately after the sighting. There were other results obtained by the poll, but as you can probably imagine it was this particular figure the thing caught the attention of the Latin American media, which proceeded to treat it with the customary level of seriousness they felt the topic deserved –EXTRA! UFOS ARE THE BEST APHRODISIAC.

"Those of us who have dared to study the UFO field however, are able to go beyond the giggle factor. For we know that as much as some try to repress it, the truth is there’s an undeniable relationship between the human libido and the Fortean world."

And here's the full article, which I definitely recommend, as it's an aspect of Forteana that far too many steer away from.

My Cover Gets Blown

Well, over at the Intrepid Magazine blog, Red Pill Junkie finally blows my cover, and the secret is out! But which theory is the truth...?