The Fátima Incident of 1917 was a
critical event in
the history of the paranormal. Believers and skeptics have long
pondered the identity of Our Lady of Fátima, the brilliant entity who
appeared above Fátima. Was she the Virgin Mary, sharing divine secrets
with believers? Was she an angel, bringing a message of peace to a
world at war? Or was she an alien being, inspiring humanity to look up
and contemplate the mystery of the Cosmos? Now, in Fátima Revisited,
an international panel of top scholars subjects the legendary
apparitions of Fátima - widely regarded as a sacred religious event -
to the scrutiny of modern scientific analysis; explores the connections
between encounters with apparitions, angels, and aliens; and proposes a
new paradigm for such unexplained phenomena. This third volume in the
acclaimed trilogy, which includes the definitive histories of the
Fátima case entitled Heavenly
Lights and Celestial Secrets,
is the result of a transdisciplinary study by the Multicultural
Apparitions Research International Academic Network (Project MARIAN) at
the University Fernando Pessoa in Porto, Portugal.
CONTENTS
FOREWORD xv
William J. Birnes, J.D., Ph.D., Host, UFO Hunters, The
History Channel, USA
INTRODUCTION xviii
Ralph Steiner, Investigative Journalist, Berkeley, California, USA
THE FÁTIMA PHENOMENA 1
Michael Persinger, Ph.D., Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario,
Canada
PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE “MARIAN APPARITION”
EXPERIENCES IN FÁTIMA, 1917 – PRELIMINARY
SYSTEMATIZATION AND MODELING 9
Joaquim Fernandes, Ph.D., University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal
POSSIBLE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL FACTORS
RELATED TO MARIAN VISIONS 18
Dr. Frank McGillion, London, United Kingdom
APPARITIONS AND MIRACLES OF THE SUN 32
Auguste Meessen, Ph.D., Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium
MIND CONTROL AND MARIAN VISIONS – A
THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH 55
Raul Berenguel, CTEC, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal
GEOMAGNETISM AND VISIONARY MANIFESTATIONS 69
Fernando Fernandes, Ph.D., Porto University, Porto, Portugal
EVIDENCE FOR ENHANCED CONGRUENCE BETWEEN
DREAMS AND DISTANT TARGET MATERIAL DURING
PERIODS OF DECREASED GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 79
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Saybrook Institute, San Francisco, California,
USA
Michael Persinger, Ph.D., Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario,
Canada
ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN FÁTIMA 87
Vitor Rodrigues, Ph.D., Superior School of Nursing, Évora, Portugal
TRANCE(S) IN FÁTIMA 91
Mario Simões, Ph.D., University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
FÁTIMA – A MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE 99
Gilda Moura, Center for the Study of Altered States of Consciousness,
Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
NATURAL ORIGINS OF THE SUPERNATURAL 118
Scott Atran, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
THE ALIEN ABDUCTION PHENOMENON AND RELIGIOUS
EXPERIENCES 129
Ryan J. Cook, Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
RELIGIOUS APPARITIONS AND ALIEN ENCOUNTERS
– COMMON THEMES 138
Irene Blinston, Ph.D., Palo Alto, California, USA
MARIAN APPARITIONS AND ALIEN ABDUCTION
PHENOMENA – SOME COMPARISONS 152
David M. Jacobs, Ph.D., Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
USA
ANGELS AND ALIENS – ENCOUNTERS WITH BOTH
NEAR-DEATH AND UFOs 172
Janet Elizabeth Colli, Ph.D., Good Shepherd Center, Seattle,
Washington, USA
INCOMMENSURABILITY, ORTHODOXY, AND THE
PHYSICS OF HIGH STRANGENESS – A 6-LAYER MODEL
FOR ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA 186
Jacques F. Vallée, Ph.D. and Eric W. Davis, Ph.D., National Institute
for Discovery
Science, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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Contributors include:
Anthropologist SCOTT ATRAN
Researcher RAUL BERENGUEL
Psychologist IRENE BLINSTON
Psychotherapist JANET ELIZABETH COLLI Anthropologist RYAN J. COOK
Physicist ERIC DAVIS
Engineer FERNANDO FERNANDES
Historian JOAQUIM FERNANDES
Historian DAVID M. JACOBS
Psychologist STANLEY KRIPPNER
Neurophysiologist FRANK
McGILLION
Physicist AUGUSTE MEESSEN
Psychotherapist GILDA MOURA
Neuroscientist MICHAEL A.
PERSINGER
Psychologist VITOR RODRIGUES
Psychiatrist MARIO SIMÕES
Astrophysicist JACQUES F. VALLÉE
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For more information on
about the three volumes that make up this series, visit
Fátima
Trilogy.
“To anyone interested in anomalous events that bridge the objective and subjective worlds..[this book is]...essential reading….Fatima Revisited
is a multidisciplinary collaboration [that shows] that quality studies
of paranormal phenomena are being published.” – Bob Rickard, Fortean Times
"...a
number of researchers and authorities... present their takes on
Fatima. With the exception of Michael Persinger's masterly exposition
of the geomagnetic forces that might have been involved, few of them
set out to throw any light on the nitty-gritty of the encounter
happenings. Rather, they seek to set those events in a wider context,
and we are treated to a variety of perspective, ranging across religion
(though not much of that), folklore, anthropology and more. Authors
include David Jacobs, Stanley Krippner and Jacques Vallee, together
with authorities– mainly academics–from many different disciplines.
Their subjects range widely, from angels and alien abductors to altered
states of consciousness, dream states and mind control, neuro-theology
and the physics of 'high strangeness.' Some keep within the bounds of
existing knowledge, other head out into the wide blue yonder with
speculations as to what really happened to those three little children
on that day in May which started out like any other, yet ended so
fatefully."
– Hilary Evans, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
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