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Paranormal Corner: Sometimes if you don't ask, you may receive | NJ.com

E. Waite) of the surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one hasa pardonable instinct for a man turning sixty. The dressing gown in the dream could have been a wizards robe, like the robe worn by the Magician in the Tarot, who, in the popular Rider-Waite deck of cards, has the mathematical symbol of infinity (a recumbent eight) hovering like a halo above his head. And yet, my own engagement with Tarotwhich I first encountered, at a hippie boarding school in Vermont circa 1969, among the varied phantasmagoria of the counter cultureis superficial at best. While my dream about Heaney and the Tarot did spur some haphazard research on the topic, including the nature of suits and trumps, Im neither a practitioner nor a true believer. Nonetheless, I do have a longstanding curiosity about how ideas of the occult, as explicated by Frances Yates and Gershom Scholem, have influenced literature, and how divination can enter into literary creation, as in James Merrills use of the Ouija Board or John Cages deployment of the coins of the I Ching.

After several minutes, Hogate and Abrahms got up to allow Best and owner of Toxic Network Mike Francolino - aka Skeptic Mike - have a try at the board. Francolino asked for his father to come through on the board, and still, the planchette remained still. PARANORMAL CORNER with Kelly Roncace Is there life after death? Join features writer Kelly Roncace as she journeys into the world of the unknown as an investigator with Jersey Unique Minds Paranormal Society based in Salem County. Email Kelly Roncace and follow her on Facebook "Well, you definitely know now we don't fake stuff," Hogate said. "This isn't over though. We're going to take it to different locations and continue the experiment." To hear the podcast of the experiment, go to www.paradelphia.com . While no activity came through via the Ouija board, sometimes in life you can have an unexplainable experience without even asking.

Is light in picture of Townsend cooperage's window a ghost? Photographer thinks so - Sentinel & Enterprise

shows a dramatic sky over the dam. The cooperage is mostly dark. In a set taken 10 minutes later, the first and third photos were unremarkable. The middle photo is quite different.