The Stress of an
Alien Abductee

Kenneth
Humphreys

Ophelia Lazaraki

Minas Papageorgiou

The purpose of this essay is to lay down the implications of an alien abduction. We will not examine whether these stories are in fact true or the product of some very imaginative people; it is taken for granted that the accounts reported by alien abduction survivors are factual and beyond any doubt. We will especially focus on the shock, terror and stress the abductees experience, as well as our society’s effort in trying to mock and devaluate those experiences.

I think Christianism will fall apart in the future but endless factionalism is the essence of religiosity because it is a man-made construct. But the parasite is also endlessly adaptable. Religion draws into itself the lost, the lonely, the unfulfilled. For that reason it will always be with us. I think we will see a new Gnosticism emerge from “enlightened” Christianity (which has no need of a historical Jesus) and a militant Fundamentalism, hell-bent on realizing the apocalypse and its own “rapture”. But I remain optimistic. Let’s hope we can keep most people on the side of rationalism and science.

Meta
Network:
community expands!

The Greek Silent Hill

Young People
and the
Paranormal

Gateway Team

Nikolaos Koumartzis

T. J. Gaynard

After a careful preliminary work that lasted for several months, the Hellenic Community of Metaphysics managed to design, organise and eventually complete an innovative internet project whose sole aim is to offer more things to the field of metaphysical research in Greece. And the name of the project is… meta-network!

What happens when a place is sacrificed for the benefit of a whole country? When some men are forced to leave their homeland for the others to have what they need? In these cases ghost towns are created, men are left without a home in their own country and a tragic story that no one wants to tell appears… a “forbidden” story.

Since the pioneering 'Census of Hallucinations' many investigators have conducted surveys designed to assess the degree of belief in, and experience of, paranormal phenomena. Although such studies employ only two basic techniques (direct interviewing or use of written questionnaires) they vary widely as regards the type of population sampled and the range of phenomena investigated. Thus, there have been national and even international surveys to obtain data on a wide spectrum of paranormal events.