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Also covered are earlier pioneers into important life energies that play a big role in this research, including Wilhelm Reich, Rudolf Steiner, and Dr. Ruth B. Drown. This is an important book, recommended for those interested in the higher realms of our physical reality.

Wombaticus Rex » Mon May 27, 2013 12:33 pm wrote:I sorely miss my copy of Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, which will surely be expensive to recover.

Olof Jonsson may have lived a relatively ordinary life as a Chicago engineer had it not been for some unusual habits.

He could answer questions before they were asked, predict events for friends with unbelievable accuracy and even solve murder mysteries by re-creating the crime scene in his mind.

Mr. Jonsson's psychic abilities eventually made him an internationally known figure, the subject of a book and numerous magazine articles and scientific papers and a constant source of fascination.

Despite such fame, he remained in his job as an engineer with the Chicago architectural firm of Schmidt, Garden and Erikson for nearly two decades. He stayed in Chicago until 1980, when he moved to Las Vegas.

Mr. Jonsson died May 11 in Las Vegas at age 79.

One of Mr. Jonsson most famous extrasensory experiments occurred during NASA's Apollo 14 mission to the moon, when he collaborated with astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell. Mitchell arranged a set of ESP cards with different symbols on them from his space capsule, and Mr. Jonsson tried to picture the sequence of the cards from thousands of miles away. He named the cards in the correct order about half the time, a score far higher than pure chance would allow.

The experiment became a cover story in Life magazine, and Mr. Jonsson used it as proof that ESP works as well in space as it does on Earth.

While telepathic work like Mr. Jonsson's has had many skeptics over the years, some experts in the field said he was clearly an exceptional mind.

"I have never met anybody like this before," said Norman Don, director of research for the Chicago-based Kiros Foundation, which supports research in cognitive neuroscience and alternative healing. "Mr. Jonsson was able to do things that I thought were impossible. I thought he was really a very extraordinary individual."

Don conducted several computerized guessing games with Mr. Jonsson in his laboratory, in which Mr. Jonsson was asked to guess which images would surface next. He was able to outguess the computer 99 times out of 100, Don said.

Don said Mr. Jonsson took his talent seriously but always remained active in his career as an engineer.

"He did demonstrations for people, but he never made his living this way," he said. "He was not into psychic readings or anything like that. He considered it totally beneath him."

Yet Mr. Jonsson did establish an international reputation as a psychic as a young man growing up in his native Sweden. After a small town in Sweden had a series of bizarre murders in which 12 women were brutally slain, police authorities contacted Mr. Jonsson, who had a detailed vision of the crimes and the murderer. After Mr. Jonsson identified the suspect as a young policeman, the officer confessed the crimes in a suicide note.

Mr. Jonsson later told the Tribune that the situation disturbed and depressed him, and he swore to never again get involved in solving violent crimes.

Yet throughout his life, he continued to try helping people when he could, sometimes assisting in searches for missing children and occasionally acting as a healer for the chronically ill. Mr. Jonsson also worked to help create more acceptance of parapsychology in the scientific community, Don said.

"He was born with this talent," Don said. "From about four years of age on, he was aware he had this ability, and he thought it was his mission to bring it out into the open."

Mr. Jonsson is survived by a son, Michael; a sister, Karin Parson; and a grandson. Services were held in Las Vegas.

Most psychics create some sort of interesting background narrative to gloss over their often ordinary and banal descent. In Jönsson's case, the story is passed on by long time friend, Swedish literature professor Olle Holmberg (1968), and American writer Brad Steiger (1971), and it carries the standard elements of mindblowing miracles as everyday fun for the innocent psychic child. Jönsson, born in Malmoe 1918, claimed that he started to experience strange things at the age of seven. At his parental home, he one day discovered, allegedly, that he could make a bottle fall from the table to the floor just by concentrating on it. According to Jönsson, he realized that he could affect lots of objects just by looking at them. He also claimed to have started to dream of events that later occured and that he knew what people were thinking; he could answer questions before they were asked. In school, he didn't need to study because he dreamed up the answers the night before the tests. That no one heard of those miracles when they were performed is astonishing...

One of his school teachers is said to have lulled Jönsson into Rosicrucianism. Later, when he was beginning his psychic career, Jönsson used to start his sessions with a lecture on the fundamentals of this branch of mysticism, but he soon gave that up since his audience had more taste for miracles than for ludicrous "wisdom".

Jönsson studied engineering and after a couple of odd jobs following his exam in 1941, he was employed as a draftsman at the Monark bicycle manufacturing company in Varberg 1946. By then, he had also dabbled a bit in healing together with a sidekick whose stutter Jönsson claimed to have cured. But it was during his time in Varberg that Jönsson's reputation as a miracle man started to spread. He soon became the pet psychic of a number of influential names in Swedish psychic research.

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But the downfall of Jönsson in Sweden was his own doing. In the small village of Tjornarp in the south of Sweden, a murder occupied the police and the national press in November 1951. Mill owner Allan Nilsson was found dead in his bed after a fire had almost burned his house down. During the following investigation, the police soon suspected arson and in the autopsy, the cause of death was found to be severe battery. But the police had no leads and in desperation, one of the many psychics that had announced their interest in the matter was called in - Olof Jönsson.

Jönsson was confident and stated that he at anytime would be able to disclose who committed the crime, even if the murderer had made his way half around the world. With the help of objects belonging to the victim, Jönsson spent a day trying to "sense" the killer. He was assisted by local police officer Tore Hedin - seen here together with Jönsson who is "feeling" a rifle. The picture was published nationwide and confirmed Jönsson's reputation as a miracle man. But Jönsson was unable to come up with the name of the murderer and the crime remained unsolved for almost a year.

On the night of Friday 22 August 1952, local police officer Tore Hedin slew his sleeping parents with an axe in the village of Saxtorp. After having set the house on fire, he proceeded to Hurva village, and a home for old people where his former fiancée was working, and living. He crushed the back of her skull with the axe, in her sleep. The next victim was the manager, who received three blows to the head and died. Hedin dropped the axe, got two cans of gasoline from his car and set the house on fire. Four more people died in the flames.

Hedin wrote a suicide note and had some sausages in his car. Then he took a rowing-boat, went out on lake Bosarp, tied some weights to his body, jumped in the water, and drowned himself. He was found on Saturday. In his note, he admitted to having killed mill owner Allan Nilsson the year before. In the following investigation, it was discovered that Hedin had saved a clip with the picture of him and Jönsson during the arson investigation in 1951. The national headlines that followed cunningly mocked the psychic for apparently being too close to the perpetrator (Nilsson, 2008). Jönsson's reputation was wrecked and only the Swedish parapsychologists still had faith in him. With their help, he left for the United States in 1953(Steiger, 1971).

Hey, our intelligence service's emblem just happens to be a rose cross in front of a checkered shield. Nothing strange there.

Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 19, No. 5 September-October 1973
(Reproduced by kind permission of the Editor, Flying Saucer Review)

http://www.lochnessinvestigation.com/FSR.html#FSR19-5

EXORCISM AND UFO LANDING AT LOCH NESS

F W Holiday
W HOSE idea it was to exorcise Loch Ness I am not sure. Initially I read Dr. Omand's book and noted that he rejected the Loch Ness monster as an animal. After some correspondence on the subject I went to stay a few days with him in Devon. It turned out that he had already consulted various ecclesiastical authorities such as the Bishop of Crediton, and was of the opinion that an exorcism was desirable. We arranged to rendezvous up at Loch Ness later in the year.

While this was occurring John A. Keel drew my attention to the claim of a Swedish UFO-researcher who reported a landed UFO and occupants at Loch Ness. I noticed at once that this alleged landing had occurred three days after my friend Graharn Snape and other witnesses had watched a low-flying lumin-ous object travelling down the loch. Correspondence with the Swedish witness followed. Correspondence also took place with a graduate student at Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, studying for a doctorate in marine biology, who had been diving in Loch Ness and had made a curious discovery. My book The Dragon And The Disc had just been published calling attention to the unexplained paral!els between Bronze Age art-efacts and UFO reports.
I will now try to explain how these apparently quite unrelated items came together in the field and how we reacted.

semper occultus » 17 Jun 2013 11:46 wrote:I guess judging by the relative dearth of useful google hits then Fred Holiday counts as relatively neglected :

...sort of a Keelite mash-up of cryptozoology / ancient mysteries shit & maybe a sort of precursor to Paul Devereux "Earthlights" stuff.....

Priory of Sion Bibliography
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Secret Occult Knowledge and Flying Saucers
The Bibliography of Fantastic Beliefs

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The easily debunkable fake Rennes-le-Château “mystery” and the Priory of Sion hoax are by no means not the only examples of notorious scams attracting unwary sections of the general public – there are literally dozens of other pseudo-historical and pseudo-archeaological subject matters in existence that have produced many best selling books throughout the decades.

The Bibliography of Fantastic Beliefs has been produced as a supplement to the Priory of Sion Bibliography to demonstrate that widespread interest in questionable subject matters continue to persist – such as Ancient Astronauts, the Bermuda Triangle, the Face on Mars, Astrology, Flying Saucers and so on – these subject matters are of course also embraced by the believers in the ‘mystery’ of Rennes-le-Château and the ‘reality’ of the Priory of Sion (either literal or symbolic), since there is much overlap here.

Much more alarming is how psychologists holding Masters Degrees hold serious beliefs in the paranormal – called Parapsychology – producing books about Telepathy, Extra Sensory Perception, Precognition, Psychokinesis, Remote Viewing, Psychic Archaeology and Life after Death (similar subject matters were previously termed “second sight”). Centuries of research and hundreds of published books has not produced the slightest particle of evidence supporting the existence of any of these “disciplines” – and it may be concluded that human society has not progressed at all in some respects since medieval times when people believed in the existence of magic and witchcraft. Earlier psychologists could have been forgiven for holding such beliefs when it was a new science and everything was in a state of experimentation – but there can be no excuse for holding such beliefs – devoid of any demonstrable evidence – in the 21st century.

The belief in the existence of secret and hidden mystical knowledge that is attainable only to the initiated (magick, occultism and esotericism) is as infinitely popular as Flying Saucers – the most popular exponents being Aleister Crowley and Manly P. Hall – although the most respected exponent amongst the educated classes in society is Rudolf Steiner.

Bizarre and illogical forms of belief have always existed throughout the history of known civilization. Quoting from Charles Mackay's book entitled ExtraordinaryPopular Delusions and the Madness of Crowdsthat was published in 1841: Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder’s welcome.

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semper occultus » 17 Jun 2013 12:46 wrote:...^ ah thanks, that's the fella...actually is he the same one as I recall Nick Redfern mentioning in a podcast that saw a MIB on a road near Loch Ness & then died of a heart attack on the same spot a year later...may have been someone else & a totally apocryphal story anyway !?

cptmarginal » 17 Jun 2013 06:39 wrote:I'm certainly no expert on the history of UFO/ESP research, so the name Brad Steiger is new to me - as it probably is to most people.

Daniel W. Fry is one of the lesser known contactees among others like George Adamski, Howard Menger, Buck Nelson and George Van Tassel. He was born in America in 1908 on the banks of the Mississippi and was shortly an orphan thereafter. He wrote numerous books about his alien contact experience, the first and most famous of which was published in 1954 called "The White Sands Incident". During his life he held many jobs, from explosive expert to a rocket instrument technician at the White Sands Proving Ground. He was also vice president of Crescent Engineering and owner of a land development company in Merlin, Oregon.

After his experience, which forever changed his life, he published numerous books, gave thousands of talks and started an organization called Understanding, which he ran until shortly before his death. He had three children with his first wife and eventually married a total of three times. He died in 1992 in Alamogordo, New Mexico.