Borley Experts To Present Reappraisal In SPR Lecture

Authors Paul Adams, Eddie Brazil and Peter Underwood will be presenting the results of their reappraisal of the material relating to the famous Borley Rectory case in a lecture to be held at the Society for Psychical Research next month.

The lecture, entitled The Borley Rectory Companion, will commence at 6.35pm and end at approximately 9.00pm on December 11th.

Much of the material they will be discussing will be presented in their forthcoming book The Borley Rectory Companion - The Complete Guide to the ‘Most Haunted House in England.’

It will be published by Sutton Publishing in April 2009.

Venue:

Lecture Hall of the Kensington Central Library, Campden Hill Road, London, W8 7RX, United Kingdom
Time: 6.35pm
Cost: Members and Associates: Free / Non-Members: £5 / Students, Over 60s or Unwaged: £2.
Tea, coffee and biscuits will be available at £1 per person.

For all fans of Borley, here’s a couple of interesting videos:

Peter Underwood Talks About Borley…

Harry Price Interview…

Cardiologist Pens Book About Near Death Experiences

Critically acclaimed author Dr  M.S. Rawlings, author of Beyond Death’s Door and To Hell and Back, has just released his latest publication, Where Are You Going? (paperback, 978-1-60477-853-3) through Christian self-publisher Xulon Press.

Rawlings, a leading Chattanooga-based cardiologist who himself was resuscitated following a heart attack, had originally been an agnostic and a cynic. But something happened to him that changed his life. While applying CPR on a patient who was screaming that he was in hell, the author watched as the “transforming power of Jesus Christ came upon the man.”

The experience forever changed Rawlings, who soon after began a long-term study of near-death experiences. Not long after, Rawlings became a Christian.

Throughout his studies, Rawlings has sought to answer the question of what happens to us when we die. In this, his latest publication, he recounts more of his experiences resuscitating patients, teaching resuscitation in both foreign and domestic medical schools, and the destinations resuscitated patients found themselves in after they were considered clinically dead. These fascinating, thought-provoking stories will offer revelations to those who are wondering what awaits us beyond death, and subsequently, their lives will be changed.

While I found much of Rawling’s work interesting, his claims about hell are a little too “fire and damnation” sounding for me. Anyhow, see what you think…

DNA Found to Have “Impossible” Telepathic Properties

Scientists are reporting evidence that contrary to our current beliefs about what is possible, intact double-stranded DNA has the “amazing” ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a distance. Somehow they are able to identify one another, and the tiny bits of genetic material tend to congregate with similar DNA.

The recognition of similar sequences in DNA’s chemical subunits, occurs in a way unrecognized by science. There is no known reason why the DNA is able to combine the way it does, and from a current theoretical standpoint this feat should be chemically impossible.

Even so, the research published in ACS’ Journal of Physical Chemistry B, shows very clearly that homology recognition between sequences of several hundred nucleotides occurs without physical contact or presence of proteins. Double helixes of DNA can recognize matching molecules from a distance and then gather together, all seemingly without help from any other molecules or chemical signals.

In the study, scientists observed the behavior of fluorescently tagged DNA strands placed in water that contained no proteins or other material that could interfere with the experiment. Strands with identical nucleotide sequences were about twice as likely to gather together as DNA strands with different sequences. No one knows how individual DNA strands could possibly be communicating in this way, yet somehow they do. The “telepathic” effect is a source of wonder and amazement for scientists.

“Amazingly, the forces responsible for the sequence recognition can reach across more than one nanometer of water separating the surfaces of the nearest neighbor DNA,” said the authors Geoff S. Baldwin, Sergey Leikin, John M. Seddon, and Alexei A. Kornyshev and colleagues.

This recognition effect may help increase the accuracy and efficiency of the homologous recombination of genes, which is a process responsible for DNA repair, evolution, and genetic diversity. The new findings may also shed light on ways to avoid recombination errors, which are factors in cancer, aging, and other health issues.

Source: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/02/dna-found-to-ha.html