The always thoughtful Michael Prescott wonders how mediums are able to produce “strongly evidential information under conditions designed to prevent cheating.” The likeliest of three scenarios, he concludes “is one in which a nonphysical matrix of information, constructed over the course of a lifetime of experience, persists after physical death.” But throwing a monkey wrench […]
How ready are you for what’s coming after this pandemic? While Michael Prescott’s essay is a challenging read for avoidant citizens of the 21st century, Mike makes a point to ditch the personal delusions of immortality and embrace the fact one will die someday. Maybe not tomorrow. Maybe not in July. Maybe not on April […]
Anthropologists have laid the foundation for some broad assumptions about the role of religion, and death, in humanity’s ascendancy. Take the afterlife as a final reward, and how the “reward” bit is a recent development while original western doctrines were more about imposing order upon civilization. Or maybe those ancient clerics hoped to turn a […]
We have a few more glimpses into Michael Prescott’s upcoming book on NDEs, all of them intriguing. Prescott has largely utilized older reports of the phenomenon in an effort to avoid the influence and resultant hoaxing on the internet and mass media. Even so, the similarities between reports are remarkable, as demonstrated by a case […]
Just last Sunday we covered Mike Prescott’s synopsis of Helen Duncan’s ridiculous attempts to fake séances, and Mike finally got his mitts on his copy of Leaves From A Psychist’s Case-Book. Diving in, he evaluates the provenance of these photos and wondering why anyone would’ve been fooled. Elsewhere on the web, Fortean Ireland declares, “I […]
Two accounts of the September 18, 1976, Royal Iranian Air Force F4 Phantom UFO events are tested by Michael Prescott. It’s an interesting and illuminating comparison, even to the level of Things Not Said in the different versions. A lesser-known encounter just eight years prior has for the last four been the center of a […]
“Maybe a high degree of strangeness is exactly what we ought to expect.” So says “thriller writer” Michael Prescott, who’s been moved to muse by Jacques Vallee’s “landmark (and controversial) phenomenological analysis of human-alien encounters,” as Dennis Stacy once described Passport to Magonia. Prescott goes beyond the folkloric similarities to those parallels UFO reports have […]
Are humans wired to be skeptical? Is there some cabal pulling the strings of government and society to ensure being a grayface is the norm? Or might there be something else, a fundamental force, which ensures paradigmatical continuity? Good ol’ Mike Prescott’s been pondering this, and he has more than a few unexpected theories. Slightly […]
Guest contributor Greg L. makes a return to Prescott’s blog, sharing his personal experience of grief following the death of his mother. Greg is a gifted writer, leaving us with lumps in our throats and knots in our stomachs as he navigates the minefield of Hope vs Doubt. Like a true Fortean, he never tells […]
Ardent followers of Michael Prescott’s Blog will recall previous essays concerning the subject of possession, and the phenomenon’s intersection of criminal personalities. Taking a more positive perspective, Mike assesses the claims of the Seth Material. The first half consists of cosmic consciousness, thought forms, vardegars, and the interconnectedness of everything. In Part Two, the Seth […]