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October 2005

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Italicized comments are written by the editor: Hal Siemer.

Digging for the truth, The History Channel's Josh Bernstein.

By Tonya Parker Morrison

Opinion in Brief - Who's afraid of Halloween?

By Hal Siemer

Sex and the supernatural.

Definitely two of my favorite subjects.

-HS

Halloween carnivals thwart hierarchies.

"Equality is key to the carnivalesque; hierarchies are meaningless."

Except for the man who hates Halloween and many other so called "Satanic institutions," Pat Robertson. He's still a subhuman.

-HS

The Netherlands gives a tax break for witchcraft classes.

Obviously, Dutch government officials take advantage of the liberal laws for drug use there.

-HS

Even our gizmos get dressed for Halloween.

'Ghostbuster' to investigate the Hotel San Carlos in Phoenix.

Halloween word origins.

Here one can learn that a 'jack-o'-lantern' is not an item named for Michael Jackson.

-HS

George Washington University and its Freemason connection.

An interview, a vampire and a living legend.

The Lord of Miracles festival.

Fatima now tourist magnet too.

The real life of Dracula.

A modern shaman talks about his life and what ancient wisdom can offer our 21st century world.

No, it's not Indiana Jones, though it's not all that far from it.

Japanese Explorer Finds Evidence of "Robinson Crusoe's" Island Home.

A blast from the past: the Jerome, Arizona 2005 ghost walk.

Temples, Tombs & Pyramids: Peruvian Archaeology At Its Best

Book Review - Dating Aphrodite: Modern Adventures in the Ancient World

NEW BOOK UNCOVERS FORGOTTEN PERIOD OF MASONIC HISTORY

Here is a letter to the editor that should be read by the politically correct dilettantes on school boards across the country.

-HS

School should allow costume day to celebrate Halloween

It has been 70 years since Lawrence of Arabia was killed.

Book Reviews - Helen of Troy by Bettany Hughes; Hercules by Alastair Blanshard

Vatican Publishing House has compiled a book of sayings of Charles de Foucauld, the adventurer-turned-monk.

Talk of ghosts and the supernatural comes to Penn State.

Former Canadian cabinet minister takes up cause of UFO believers.

Man Collects Peyote Buttons From Cactus for American Indian Rites.

Debate rages as medium finds body in lake.

Decoding secret world of Opus Dei.

Catholic Church recruits more student exorcists.

Is financial aid available?

-HS

A History of Gardens, Part 1.

Scarabs, aka dung beetles, exalted in ancient Egypt.

Chimayo, New Mexico, offers true believers an energy that can cure.

Book Review - Secrets of the Widow's Son

"The philosophical foundations of the American Revolution—and in fact, the high ideals of rationalism, science, separation of church and state, the wonders of nature—were reflections of the foundations of Freemasonry."

Dubai plans "wonders of the world" replicas.

Don Ecker, author of the vampire novel 'Past Sins,' returns to broadcasting with his radio show 'Dark Matters.' Here follows a link to an audio archive of a show done by Don and his co-host Dwight Schultz of Star Trek and A-Team fame, where they interviewed Milo Speriglio about the life and times of Marilyn Monroe and John and Robert Kennedy.

Not everyone fears the reaper: devotees of St. Death.

Quiet as a tomb no more: Vatican hopes crowds visit sarcophagi museum.

Statues of Ancient Goddesses Discovered.

UK team says it may have found island of Odysseus

Texas is weird and wild

'Exorcism' stars found a few scares offscreen

Exorcists need conventions too

Madonna's hubby turns his back on Kabbalah

The Da Vinci Code has moved from the top of the bestseller charts into the lecture hall

Archaeological dig throws new light on Stonehenge mystery

Bruce Feiler, a real-life Indiana Jones, has made a career out of turning his modern-day treks through Bible lands into best sellers

First cocktail made 5000 years ago

Professor to lecture on the disinterment of corpses of Medici popes and cardinals

Book Reviews

- God's Secret Agents & A Fifth of November

- Moondust

Because it's on HBO and can show sex, violence and assorted cruelties, the new pay-cable series "Rome" wastes no time doing all three

Beat the Devil: Exorcism and Hollywood

Exposing some of the untruths told about Freemasonry

- Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Philosophical library hosts world religions discussion group in Escondido, California

This is something that other bookstores or libraries ought to incorporate into their operation.

-HS

Melbourne embraces religion

We can learn something from the Aussies here.

-HS

Firearm wielding Catholic saint offers New Orleans example on dealing with Hurricane Katrina crime, says gun law expert

Stories of hauntings in New Orleans

Secrets of the Pharaohs' Physicians Revealed

Landlord sues restaurateurs over ghosts

Sedona works its magic

More college students are choosing religion--as a major, report says

Inside The Freemasons?

THE BURNING MAN AT 20

In case of war: nominations sought for list of Britain's cultural treasures to be saved at all costs

For 500 years, the black-cowled Augustinian canons of Soutra Hospital served the diseased and the battle-ravaged

Buddhist monks get MBAs to manage temple

Whittington's tenuous link to legend of the Holy Grail

The original Obi Wan Kenobi robe turns up in dress shop

New Drama 'Supernatural' Gets Online Jump Via Yahoo!

Kabbalah scholar Daniel Matt takes the mysticism back to the Aramaic

Book Review - Past Sins: A novel of supernatural horror

Italian center discusses art, science and sacred

Spiritual transformation and religious belief

Holy Smoke

Science and the seance

Putting the psi into science

Report: Government Secrecy Grows, Costs More

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