STEVE MCLAUGHLIN. My best friend, who is an airline pilot, had an overnight layover in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the United States of America. His airline puts their crew personnel in the Sheraton Read House Hotel in downtown Chattanooga, which is a pre-civil war era hotel that was used as a hospital and mortuary during the civil war. He was assigned a room on the third floor, across the hall from an infamous haunted room that he was told about by the shuttle driver who transported him and his crew from the airport. After listening to the shuttle driver’s story of a hotel ghost, when my friend pulled up to the hotel in the shuttle, he saw something white appear from the sky and fly into the hotel -- it was just a blur, but it was very noticeable. Read the rest of this entry »

MORGAUSE FONTELEVE. People fear and become belligerent towards what they do not know or understand. There are many ways to walk through Life. Some follow paths and doctrines that others have created before them, whilst others cut through the chthonic undergrowth of mind as well as conditioning and discover the way themselves. We live in what has been termed ‘the age of information’. The objective of this article is to inform and educate. Many will refute the words and concepts therein and it is their right to do so. Others, I hope, will read and understand a little bit more regarding Left Hand Paths and see how close at times, as individuals, we swing between here and nowhere in the throes of superstition and ignorance. Read the rest of this entry »

BRONWYN KATZKE. With an estimated one million practitioners worldwide, Reiki is becoming a leading holistic therapy. Originally founded by Mikao Usui in the early 20th century in Japan, it has grown into numerous traditions under the Reiki umbrella. And from its roots as a system for spiritual development, it has blossomed into a method for healing a variety of ailments with energy. But could Reiki be used for more than healing? Read the rest of this entry »

OCTARINE VALUR. Irritation – the feeling brought about when discussing supernatural events with small-minded people who cannot think past mental blocks rolled in the way by their inaccurate religious belief that people who perceive paranormal phenomena are “satanists” – or that possessing such skills is a manifestation of “evil”. Most ironic of all, who do they turn to when things go bump in the night and the good reverend hitches up his skirts and runs away hell for leather? The witches of course. Read the rest of this entry »

LARISA HUNTER. Call for Submissions: 'Wraeththu Mythos' - Para Imminence: Future Histories of Wraeththu & 'Long Strange Trip' – The Return, Further Stories and Articles from Azeroth. Read the rest of this entry »

AMBERSTORM. Today, after yet another Rest stop, I go home severely sunburned and a bit disgruntled. Do people actually know, understand or care what we are trying to do on our roads to keep them safe, especially during the festive season?! Read the rest of this entry »

CHRISTINA ENGELA. Just about a week ago, a pastor with a regular slot on the Afrikaans radio station RSG - Radio Sonder Grense (Radio Without Borders) - publicly belittled gay people and made them out to be "evil". Faced with numerous complaints from listeners, "RSG station manager Magdaleen Kruger said that although she received a number of complaints via e-mail, it was no more than the amount the station normally receives." I'm not sure what is more concerning, the fact that the radio station apparently doesn't give a toss and hasn't fired his ass yet, or the fact that the radio station is used to receiving that many complaints. Read the rest of this entry »

NATHALIE BEULAH. On the 25th of December I performed my first very long distance Reiki session. As I lay in South Africa, working with healing energies, the recipient of the therapy lay in the South of France feeling the effects of the energy just as strongly, if not more so, than if she were to have been in the same room, on the same continent at the same time as I was. Read the rest of this entry »

HELEN RIDING. The first Occupy event in South Africa, organized by Operation Ubuntu, took place on Saturday 15 October 2011 in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Grahamstown and East London (SA joins as 'Indignant' protests go global). The most recent one took place on Monday 16 January 2012, a US national day of action on Martin Luther King Day "to focus attention on the gross injustice visited upon the 99% by the financial elite". Read the rest of this entry »