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April 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 22/04/2010 11:26 PM Page 18 18 Weird or What William Shatner To Show to three out of all those patients had the near these happenings in a different light. I believe we all have a curiosity when it Us If It's Weird Or What death experience. I got stories from other people comes to the unexplained or supernatural. It is who had gone through it too. And most of their By Jason J. Hughes descriptions matched,” says Shrikhande. in our nature to want to learn about things we do Most, she says, experienced floating above their not understand fully. Today, we understand own body, hovering near the ceiling and seeing much of what the humans of the past did not their bodies lying below. They would see all the because of the technology available to us. efforts the doctors were making to revive them To me, the supernatural is the “holy before they decided to go back into their bodies. grail” of things we do not understand, because “Many also spoke about the feeling of travelling all of these things have to do with us as human through a tunnel towards light and meeting their beings directly. There will be more questions dead relatives who told them it was not yet time from the answers we get, but great strides of for them to cross over or that they had progress are being made. unfinished business left,” she adds. There are scientists and researchers who spend their lives dedicated to studying these Hauntings phenomena, and who have done us all a great service for sharing this information. “If you are not naturally psychic, Unfortunately, they do not always get the experiencing hauntings can be difficult,” says academic credit they deserve, because their Discovery Channel in the US has greenlit a new Shrikhande. She remembers though that a peers in the scientific community sometimes series that will take another look at some of the grandmother of hers moved into a house which consider them “crackpots” for studying things weirdest unsolved mysteries around the world, was known in the neighbourhood for being they themselves have dismissed as not being as reported by Entertainment Weekly. Weird or haunted. “But as things turned out, it was a good worthy of scientific investigation. What doesn't sound like its necessarily treading Think of your own reaction to these fresh ground, but with modern technology it spirit. It even saved the husband from an types of things, and see if you have dismissed accident, as the spirit would communicate with could unearth new clues or possibly even solve the wife. Thus, we need to understand that there UFOs, crop circles, ghosts, demonic possession, some of these unsolvable cases. More are good spirits and bad spirits,” she says. stigmata, psychic ability, and a host of other importantly, it should be entertaining to watch if Shrikhande also went to various haunted places unexplained phenomena as hoaxes, trickery, for no other reason than William Shatner is attached to host. with her guides. “Honestly, I never saw hallucination, or old men with boards crushing plants into shapes in the middle of the night. anything. But I did feel the energies or the It's not clear if Shatner will host from a presence of someone in some places,” she Would you respect someone who studio filled with TV monitors where he'll just admits. researched something you have dismissed like introduce video segments, or if he'll get hands that? on with the cases, going into the field and It is because of these scientists and helping the teams explore the mysteries, but Out-of-body experience researchers though, that we can now begin to either way it should be a lot of fun. After all, It is said that one’s spirit can leave the learn about what is going on with ghost activity Shatner made spoken word poetry cool again. body and travel. Theories say the dreams you and other supernatural happenings. Perhaps Hopefully this won't interfere with his attachment to the pilot based on the Twitter see are through travelling to various planes. after reading this article, you may be a little account Shit My Dad Says, because I “Once my doctor friends had an experience of more open to the concept that these phenomena travelling to other rooms when asleep. There are are worth looking into and deserve a little of desperately want to see Shatner in a flat-out experiences of astral projection. But these are your attention. comedy again. But until then, I'm sure he'll add psychic powers one has to tap into if not The only way you can ever know a great sense of humor to Weird or What, as he naturally gifted,” she says. whether you should believe or not is to go look explores paranormal activities, acts of god and medical mysteries. Automated writings into the research and science that has gone into these fields. As a skeptical person, I take some No word on when Weird or What will of the information with a grain of salt, but if you premiere, but when it does US fans can look for Shrikhande has also done regression look, there is solid evidence for all of these it on the Discovery Channel, while our therapy to understand her life and spiritual self things I have mentioned. Canadian neighbors will find it on the History Channel.[] better. She also took training for automated We may never know all of the answers writing. “This is the one thing you should take to the questions we ask ourselves about things Comprehending proper training for. It could be dangerous if a that go bump in the night, or those strange lights negative spirit comes. I did a lot of meditation in the sky that break the sound barrier without paranormal experiences and had professionals to guide me. Slowly, I making a sound, but these scientists and started putting pen to paper,” she says. researchers are at least helping us understand Suparna Thombare / DNA these things, rather than fear them. Above the Law: Mumbai: An ophthalmologist by profession, Dr Mehra Shrikhande’s experiences Paranormal scientists starting from her childhood days pulled her deserve open minds towards the paranormal world. In her recent book, Paranormal Experiences — Beyond the By Josh Law Realms of Reason, she shares the journey of how she started as a lay person and ended up When anyone mentions something exploring the world outside the range of normal supernatural, most people automatically think experiences. they have lost their minds. Try it. Go up to someone and start talking to him or her about Near death experiences aliens or spontaneous human combustion, and see what kind of reaction you get. AVAILABLE SOON AT Shrikhande was very keen on The fact of the matter is there are www.pArAgATOrS.Org understanding what exactly happens when your phenomena happening all over the world, all of spirit leaves the body and moves towards the the time, that people tend to dismiss for one other side of life. So she spent many days in the reason or another. Only recently, with the hospital, sitting next to seriously ill patients, upsurge of programs like “Ghost Hunters” and asking them how they were feeling. “Only two shows like it, have people begun to see some of