Volume 2, Number 1, Winter 2003

• Whither vamphyre? -- the cumulative effect of transient human emotion.
• Bleeding Stones, Spontaneous Stigmata, and Zoloft: A Pharmaceutical Analysis of the Effects of Certain Antidepressants on Saintlike Manifestations
• Remote Viewing: A Study
• Vortices and Power Spots, US
• The Tropes of Hinduist Reincarnation as Explicative Metaphor for the Development of the 20th and 21st Century Western Hemisphere Political Process

 

Whither vamphyre? -- the cumulative effect of transient human emotion.

Sammy Reiss, Katie Neuf, Alex Sweeten, and Charlotte Lamb

Extensive study of vampire mythos through history seems to point directly to an emotional focus between human needs and desires and the vampire's recognition and absorption of these emotions. The transitive effect of such emotional sponging is found not only in folk tales, movies, and contemporary role-playing, but also through eye-witness accounts and biological testing of alleged vampires and their human hosts. This apparent link between virus-level dominance and emotional bonding is revolutionary to Jungian practice and theory, allowing for a better understanding of the link between electrical impulse and human compulsion. Brief synopsis of neurological testing done on atypical co-dependent personalities and fringe culture teens is a sidebar to the main issues regarding contemporary human emotional life. Family trees, DNA tests, and bloodwork charts included.

Bleeding Stones, Spontaneous Stigmata, and Zoloft: A Pharmaceutical Analysis of the Effects of Certain Antidepressants on Saintlike Manifestations

Alyssa McDemeter

Psychotic episodes suffered by individuals who have been subjected to an intensive regime of mood-alteration via serotonin reuptake inhibitors have been extensively documented in the medical literature. What is less well-understood is the application of contemporary pharmacology to the documented "hysterical" Godlike possession-oriented behavior which has manifested itself in well-known archetypes and figures throughout history. As a starting point in filling this misunderstood hole in our shared sociology, the author attempts to reproduce verifiable fragments of the genome of Saint Jehanne d'Arc de Domremy, Alsace-Lorraine, France, in the laboratory, and splice said genome with the DNA of a willing volunteer test subject. Any and all visions, manifestations, or divine interventions experienced by said subject will be monitored in a strictly controlled environment over a period of time, including but not limited to any apparent episodes of otherwise unexplainable self-wounding. We then apply a common, commercially-available, SSRI solution to the subject via oral administration and measure what, if any, effects the antischizophrenic agent has on the subject's perceived relationship to one or more deities or control agents.

Remote Viewing: A Study

Randall James, Kiri Keller

We conducted a controlled study of remote viewing on three subjects reported to have this ability. To conduct the study, three individuals chosen at random were asked to enter a shopping mall and purchase any item they wished. They then placed the item in a box and sealed it with heavy tape without telling anyone else what the item was. These boxes were then held in a research office in New York while the three test subjects attempted to remotely identify their target object (one of three boxes) while physically seated in a research facility in Los Angeles. Results of the test are discussed in this article.

Vortices and Power Spots, US

Akira Ebisawa, Fukusaburu Fukuyama

This report maps the various known locales in the US known as vortices or "power spots." The authors traveled to all of the areas in question with equipment including thermal sensors, electromagnetic field detectors, radiometers and motion sensors and documented their findings. Their findings confirm that these areas, like their counterparts in other locations around the globe, exhibit significant variation in readings as compared to their surroundings. The authors have also found these areas seem to correlate with a worldwide grid of vortices throughout the world.

The Tropes of Hinduist Reincarnation as Explicative Metaphor for the Development of the 20th and 21st Century Western Hemisphere Political Process

Visyranam Subprachatham, Dennis J. Arvine

Savvy political commentators have noted that most legislators and bureaucrats in modern democracies seem to have, in the vernacular of the time, "more lives than a cat." This article attempts to seek the truth behind the truism, by analyzing the political careers of several prominent diplomats and heads of state with a specific eye toward the potential impact they had in prior lives and an attempt to prognosticate what corporeal form and/or species, if any, they will assume in subsequent consciousnesses on Earth, together with a brief indication of objective measurement of karma quotient maintained, if any. Case studies include, but are not limited to, U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy; District of Columbia Mayor Marion J. Barry; British Prime Minister Anthony Blair; French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac. A culturally-balanced, socioreligious analysis of the implications of reincarnation as any one of the following animals or vegetables is also briefly discussed: rat, carrot, boar, elephant, head of cabbage.