“Ask Dr Neuman” Advice Column
More psychic adventures in my family. In this week’s Skeptical Inquirer (Vol.37 No.3) there is a report of an archeologist suing the makers of the Indiana Jones movies for a piece of their profits because their movie, the plaintiffs claimed, is based on a...
Down the street from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where Albert Einstein had been living recently and working, there was a pleasant clapboard house which I visited one Christmas vacation along with my roommate and his girlfriend, who lived there....
My brother used to be a customs officer.Aaron, my, brother, filmed various psychic phenomena around the world: psychic surgery in South America and the Philippines, ancient artifacts that were dug up in Mexico, like the crystal skull that had predictive powers, people...
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...
Judging from my brother Aaron, and some of his acquaintances, Hollywood was a hot-bed of people with psychic powers. Some of these people were physicians, or semi-physicians, who specialized in “alternative medicine.” I have always been put off a little by some of...
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...