“Ask Dr Neuman” Advice Column
My brother Aaron made a series of television programs about psychic phenomena. He reported his adventures to me with a calm aplomb. Knowing I was a skeptic, he challenged me to explain them. Could I explain, for instance, how our dead mother communicated to him...
For some reason my brother Aaron decided that it was worth figuring out how to leave his body.Everyone knows stories about people who have had “out of body” experiences, usually when that person is dying, or almost dying. The spirit—or whatever—slips out of the body...
Psychic Phenomena in My Family #4Arguing with a dead cat.Paranoid schizophrenics have difficulty distinguishing what is relevant in the world around them. They often feel that external events are directed at them. For example, if someone sees three black cars in a...
Some years ago I woke up in the middle of the night hearing my brother call my name. I lived in New York and he lived, at the time, in Los Angeles. I heard his voice clearly. But as soon as I awoke, I knew that was not possible. He was in California. But the...
“Psychic” phenomena in my family. (1)The power of belief.My mother used to put money in a number of different “poor boxes” when something important was coming up in the family. I knew this money was going to different charities. If I had an important examination to...
For a number of years, I have run a clinic for people who worry too much about their health. They are an interesting group. Some are classical hypochondriacs, that is, given a certain set of symptoms, they tend to imagine the worst possible illness. Others are...
A number of species of animals are supposed to be monogamous, sometimes over the course of a lifetime. When the offspring of these various species are analyzed by examining their DNA, it turns out a small , but significant, number are fathered by someone other than...
Bernie, the caveman, was a worrier. He worried about big things and little things; but some people only worry about the big things. I know a joke about this: One guy is talking to another at a bar. (Imagine some sort of ethnic accent) “I worry about the big...