Remote viewing which is a specified type of telepathy or clairvoyance is when a person can see through the eyes of someone else, and in the John Carpenter (1948-) penned thriller The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), this gift or curse is given a savage twist. The movie opens with the negative side of the…
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The 1970s Richard Burton (1925-1984 brain haemorrhage) movie The Medusa Touch (1978) is about telekinesis among other psychic abilities and it reminded me of an item on the news about a house fire somewhere in the suburbs which ended with the reporter saying: “and it is reported by police that the fire wasn’t started by…
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Oh my God, thought Nathan to himself: It’s gone! All that work and it’s gone.Yes, the manuscript which he had so tirelessly worked and slaved over all those years ago and had resurrected from the trash at his parent’s house was gone. Who were the suspects? Could it be King Goona, that charming schizophrenic who…
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“You might as well hang yourself because we will get you in the end,” was the mantra of King Goona and his cronies. Poor Nathan had discovered or suffered from one of the ways these people send you kaput. Kaput? What is kaput? Nathan didn’t want to know but kaput to him was either your…
There is some sort of parasite or invading insect which will enter a hive of bees for example and will infiltrate and will eventually destroy that hive. It isn’t necessarily anarchy at work since it is nature but the effect is just as devastating especially when it happens en masse. Nature is thrown out of…
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Nathan drew away from the sunset in the distance as he drove away from the voices of Red Planet which haunted him. They called him a ‘heretic’ among other things – and a Jew. His father said he was going back home to live in disgrace. Schizophrenic Nathan. Defeated Nathan and now suicidal Nathan. He…
