Esoteric Other Worlds

Exploring Mysticism, and Parapsychology.This blog is also an attempt to promote awareness of a Modern Universal Paradigm known as Multi-Dimensional Science. It offers a "Scientific" testable Hypothesis for a more "objective" understanding of claimed Psychic and Spiritual Phenomena. A link to this subject should be found onsite or alternatively easily traceable via a word search. Please note that the Internet articles here may not reflect the views of the Blogger.

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Monday, 11 November 2013

A Listing of Parapsychology Links

Parapsychology

(In fact I'm unhappy with the term `parapsychology', as with many of the terms used in this area; it is, however, so well established that it would be confusing if I used my own terminology - even if I had any alternatives that I thought were satisfactory.)

[Societies, etc.] [Research centres] [Journals]
[Personal sites] [Miscellaneous]
See also my Philosophy of Parapsychology section.

American Society for Psychical Research: Details of the Society, membership, events, publications (including their journal), and various on-line materials.
Centre for Frontier Sciences: At Temple University. The site offers an introduction to the Centre, its journal, events, etc.
Exceptional Human Experience Network: Details of the organisation and its work, membership,and subscription details, etc.
Institute for Frontier Science: Details of the Institute -- membership, events, research, and publications (including its on-line journal.
International Association for Near-Death Studies: Usual info. about membership, events, publications, and their journal.
International Society of Life Information Science (ISLIS): "ISLIS was founded in Japan in 1995. It is a scientific professional society for anomalous phenomena research: for example, qigong, parapsychology, anomalous somatic science, anomalous human function, Oriental medicine, alternative medicine, etc.. It is a non-profit making society with world-wide membership."
The society also produces a bilingual, thrice-yearly journal.
International Survivalist Society: "founded by Thomas Jones of Wales and David Duffield of West Virginia on 11th April 2002, with the aim of publishing articles, books and photographs relating to survival after death and psychical research. It is an independent, non-profit organisation which regularly cooperates with many distinguished psychical researchers and parapsychologists across the globe."
Parapsychology Foundation: Details of the Foundation and its work, publications, grants, etc.
Society for Psychical Research: Founded in the 19th century, and apparently still going strong.

Research centres
Bio-Emission Laboratory: "The Bio-Emission Laboratory is a laboratory of the NIRS: National Institute of Radiological Sciences of the Japanese Government. Parapsychological phenomena have been studied [there in] recent years. N.B. This is a reduced version of their page - the full version is temporarily available only to those with user-names and passwords (contact kokubo@nirs.go.jp for access.
Consciousness Research Laboratory: The site is now frames crippled, but I've linked to the main section.
Koestler Parapsychology Unit: University of Edinburgh. Set up and funded using money left in their wills by Arthur Koestler and his wife.
Rhine Research Centre: Institute for Parapsychology, at Duke University.

Journals
Encounters: Journal of Parapsychology: Est. 1937, published quarterly. Subscription details, etc.
European Journal of Parapsychology: Produced annually, and based at Edinburgh's Koestler Parapsychology Unit (see above). This page contains subscription details, and the contents of the latest issue.
Frontier Science: On-line journal of the Institute for Frontier Science.
Human Nature: Survival of Death and Psychical Research. Subscriptions details, links to the people involved.
Intuition Magazine: Subscription details, etc., plus information about related events, publications, "tips & techniques", and so on. We're definitely at the non-academic end of the spectrum here, I think.
Journal of American Society for Psychical Research: Published quarterly. Subscription details, abstracts of recent articles.
Journal of the International Society of Life Information Sciences: English & Japanese versions. Subscription details and recent tables of contents.
Journal of Near-Death Studies: Index of back issues, subscription details, and instructions to authors.
Journal of Parapsychology: A quarterly journal, founded by McDougall and Rhine, and still based at Duke University. The page offers abstracts and subscription information.

Personal sites
John Beloff: Some papers on dualism from a parapsychological perspective.
Michael Grosso: Offers on line some of his writings on consciousness and survival.
Peter Mulacz: Parapsychology in Austria. In German and English.
Scott Roberts: Near-Death Experiences - a vast list of links.
Andreas Sommer: Mainly information about the journal Human Nature.
Fiona Steinkamp: "Parapsychology Sources on the Internet". Very full, very useful, with links to relevant sites and to on-line or down-loadable literature.
Charles Tart: On-line papers, links, etc.

Miscellaneous
Science Frontiers: Digest of Scientific Anomalies: "Over 1800 reports of the Unusual & Unexplained, Strange Science, Bizarre Biophysics, Anomalous astronomy. From the pages of the world's Scientific Journals." Some relevant material.

Monday, 28 October 2013

Fractals on Kheper...

The following is from the excellent Kheper website

(Blogger Reference Link http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Multi-Dimensional_Science)

The Fractal nature of Reality

The universe around us is not linear but fractal in nature. That is, we see the same pattern appearing time and again, no matter what the scale it is examined on. Look at a river with its tributories. Each tributory is itself a river, with smaller tributories, which in turn are themselves rivers with smaller tributories, and so on down to creeks. Or a fern frond; the main frond of which consists of a two rows of sub-fronds, each of which consists of two rows of smaller fronds or leaves. Or the pattern of a coastline: bays and peninsulas contain smaller bays and peninsulars, right down to grains of sand.
Fractals were discovered and described by a mathematician by the name of

Benoit Mandelbrot.

Some famous fractals

simple fractals The Koch Snowflake
A good example of a simple fractal. Take an equilateral triangle. Add a smaller but identical triangle in the middle of each of the three sides. Repeat ad infinitum.
The Sierpinski Triangle
The Mandelbrot Set

The classic fractal; a mathematical equation named after its discover, Benoit Mandelbrot. What makes this equation interesting is that it is recursive; that is, it continually refers back to itself, so that each successive step employs as one of its parameters the outcome of the preceding step. When the Mandelbrot equation is fed into a computer, and the computer is instructed to paint the various points that arise on a screen or a print-out, the most astonishing patterns emerge.

Explore the Mandelbrot Set Mandelbrot Explorer - an interactive site that lets you explore the Mandelbrot set. You can also download images from the gallery (no thumbnails here unfortunately).

Fractals in African Art and Mathematics

It seems that Africans were the ones who first incorporated fractals into their art, culture, and philosophy. This has only become evident recently, through the work of

Ron Eglash, a mathematician who visited Africa to study the fractal patterns in villages and African society (

Ron Eglash - African Fractals in Buildings and Braids - Gallery Ezakwantu)
Since the 1980s, Eglash

has been studying the complex fractal systems found in Sub-Sahrana African braiding, architecture, textiles, sculpture, painting, carving, metalwork, religion, games, craft, technologies, and philosophy. (

Blog post - African Fractals (The Liberator Magazine)).
The following books explore the indigenous insights and contributions of Africans to the mathematics of fractals, and computer simulations, as well as fractals in African culture.

African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design - Ron Eglash, Rutgers University Press (1999)

Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Cultures - Claudia Zaslavsky, Lawrence Hill Books; 3rd edition (1999)

Fractal Cosmologies

Fractal patterns often appear in occult representations of reality. Tibetan Buddhist mandalas for example will sometimes show a central Buddha-figure, surrounded by smaller secondary Buddhas, each of which are in turn surrounded by even smaller Buddhas.
One occult system that is especially fractal in its approach is Kabbalah. According to the Jewish occult system of Kabbalah, everything in existence can be classified in terms of, and reduced to, ten fundamental archetypal principles or essences, called Sefirot. Originally, the Sefirot were conceived of as the ten fundamental qualities of the manifest and knowable Godhead, as opposed to the unmanifest, unknowable En Sof or "infinite". But later they were applied to classifying everything in existence, whether divine or mundane. This is especially so in the case of non-Jewish or Magical, Hermetic Kabbalah (usually spelt "Qabalah").
But what makes Kabbalah a fractal theory of reality is its oft-stated assertion that each of the ten Sefirot that together make up creation is composed of ten Sefirot, each of which is in turn composed of ten, and so on ad infinitum.