An excerpt from Visionary Articles from Rosemary Ellen Guiley

We already have evidence of spontaneous occurrences of tunneling. Besides teleportation, tunneling may explain some (but not necessarily all) mysterious disappearances, invisibility, UFO abductions, Men in Black, fairy abductions, Bermuda Triangle disappearances, mediumistic apports (objects materialized by mediums), Bigfoot, Mothman, and a wide range of Fortean phenomena such as sudden appearances of strange creatures, rainfalls of frogs and other oddities.

In the November 2001 issue of FATE, author Scott Corrales writes about “Nonpeople From Nowhere,” in which odd people claiming to be from unknown places suddenly appeared somewhere, and just as mysteriously disappeared. And, entire lands, like the Hesperides Islands, have seemed to exist and not exist.

These cases have been documented throughout history and around the world. I think spontaneous tunneling may be the cause.

Tunneling may also account for some ghost experiences. Some ghosts may be remnants or recordings impressed in psychic space, but others may involve living people. Perhaps someone in another place in time doesn’t come through entirely, and so we see an apparition instead of something solid.

This article doesn’t talk about the traditional sci-fi method of time travel, but time travel through our higher consciousness. Fascinating stuff.

A book published five years ago has been flying off the shelves at Amazon UK after a well-known TV presenter claimed it had changed his life. The Cosmic Ordering Service by Barbel Mohr describes how anyone can obtain their greatest desire by submitting a wish-list to the cosmos.

Noel Edmonds believes that four of his six wishes have so far come true, including a major comeback on television after years without work. Last week Edmonds, 57, was given the first Bafta award of his career. “It’s fantastic,” he said, “but you’ll think I’ve gone away with the fairies.”

Online bookstore Amazon reported that sales had increased 1000 percent in 24 hours. Brian McBride, the website’s UK manager said: “Everyone’s always looking for the key to success, so when someone who’s got there tells how they did it, people jump at the chance.”

The idea behind this book is very similar to Deepak Chopra’s SynchroDestiny, which deals with how you can use “coincidence” to change your life.

Jonathan Cainer, the UK astrologer, writes on his website today: “I continually stress that. regardless of what’s going on in the sky, when you ask the universe, clearly, positively yet humbly for anything… the universe will always do what it can to supply this.”

Buy the book in North America. Buy in the UK.

You may have heard about Syntagma Media’s short story collection, Naked Tales: Stories by Writers Who Blog, which is being put together by our Writers Blog Alliance. It will be published by Humdrumming early in 2007.

Another title from the Humdrumming list that caught my eye to share with you is a fantasy novel, More Than This by Senior Editor, Guy Adams. And, boy, does the synopsis make you want to read more. Judge for yourself:

More Than This, a novel by Guy Adams

Kiss me quick and squeeze me slow, there’s something amiss in the crumbling seaside resort of Gravestown: Children are vanishing and nobody can understand how.

Gregory Ashe watches them go, sees them hanging from their tatty ‘wanted’ pictures and the wilting bouquets of flowers left by well wishers. Like most thirteen year olds he feels it’s nothing to do with him, he’s far too busy with his face in a book and a head full of dreams.

Then, amongst the seaweed and shingle, a solitary foot is washed up and the violence begins.

Gravestown is infected. People are beginning to lose their minds, changing, becoming other. Blood is spilt, over and over and over…

Through it all the waves roll and, in the dark building on the cliff tops, the lunatics howl by the light of their moon.

Slowly the safe walls of reality are crumbling and it seems nobody can stop it.

Nobody that is except The Magician, a man who takes young Gregory under his wing and shows him how hollow those dreams of his really are, a man with more than just spare decks of cards hidden up his sleeve.

Gregory’s never been in so much danger …

A dark fantasy laced with humour and terror. More Than This is a fast paced journey from innocence to maturity, fear to hope, heaven to hell. Exciting, horrifying and filled with the sort of imagination, escapism and, above all, magic you remember from books you read as a child — magic you thought lost.

Buy it from here.

For anyone who likes their supernatural sprinkled with classical spirituality, there’s a treat over at Spiritual Nirvana.

It’s Ramana Maharshi week. To read the first three articles, click here:

* Ramana the Nirvanean
* Ramana and Arunachala Hill
* Ramana Maharshi on Mind

Also worth checking out:

* Was Socrates a Nirvanean?