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- POLICE STATE USA DEPARTMENT -

Homeland Security Came For the Children

They've vanished into the netherworld of a Homeland Security gulag and their story has already disappeared from the headlines, but the shocking case of two 16-year-old girls from New York City arrested a month ago ought to inspire outrage among every American worthy of the name. Since the government's reasons for the girls' imprisonment could apply to virtually any teenager, it should also spark fear.

Like many rebellious teens, I fought with my mother. Local police, called to my home during at least one particularly impressive clash of wills and voices, talked us back into the land of the calmly reasonable. Then they left.

Like many young people, I was fascinated by morbid, violent subjects. After I turned in an essay depicting a political assassination from the killer's viewpoint, my creative writing teacher sent me to talk to my guidance counselor. After I assured him that I had no desire to knock off any politicians, he returned me to class.

A quarter century later, my mom and I are best friends and I haven't done anything the Secret Service ought to worry about. Right now, however, two girls from New York City are rotting in a HomeSec prison in Pennsylvania for doing nothing more than I did - one for fighting with her parents and writing an essay, the other accused of being her friend.

In early March, the New York Times reported on April 7, one girl's parents "went to the local police station house" in the Queens Village neighborhood because "their daughter...had defied their authority." Things calmed down and the parents, believing their daughter had been scared straight, asked the NYPD to forget the whole thing.

It was too late for that.

Without a warrant, NYPD detectives and federal agents burst into the girl's home - no wonder they don't have time to look for Osama! - where they "searched her belongings and confiscated her computer and the essays that she had written as part of a home schooling program," say her family. "One essay concerned suicide...[that] asserted that suicide is against Islamic law." The family is Bangladeshi. They are Muslim. That, coupled with the mere mention of suicide bombing in her essay, was enough to put the fuzz on high alert.

Although she is conservative and devout, the girl and her parents vigorously deny that she is an Islamist extremist (not that such opinions are illegal), but this is post-9/11 America and post-9/11 America is out of its mind.

Based solely on an essay written by one of the two, the FBI says both girls are "an imminent threat to the security of the United States based upon evidence that they plan to become suicide bombers." But the feds admit that they have no evidence to back their suspicions. Nothing.

"There are doubts about these claims, and no evidence has been found that such a plot was in the works," one Bush Administration official admitted to the Times. "The arrests took place after authorities decided it would be better to lock up the girls than wait and see if they decided to become terrorists," another told the New York Post. The same logic could be used to justify locking up any Muslim, or anyone at all. Heck, maybe that's the idea.

The Bangladeshi girl, who was homeschooled and wears a veil, says she never even met her outgoing and more Americanized "co-conspirator" from Guinea before the cops accused them of plotting to do ... something. Maybe.

She says FBI agents threatened to deport her parents and place her American-born siblings, a 4-month-old baby and an 11-year-old, in foster care unless she confessed.

Even in PATRIOT Act-era America, alleged fantasies of martyrdom aren't a crime. So HomeSec's ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is holding both two girls as illegal immigrants - one for entering the U.S. without an inspection, the other for overstaying her visa. And even that charge rests on razor-thin ice: "This is a girl who's been in this country since she was 2 years old," the Guinean girl's teacher says. Ditto for the one from Bangladesh. Holding kids accountable for the actions of their parents is crazy, which is why immigration authorities don't usually do it. Two-year-old babies don't wade across the Rio Grande or overstay their visas. Deporting American teenagers - American in every way that matters - to countries they've never even visited is equally insane.

I would be the first to applaud the FBI if they had arrested two proven would-be suicide bombers before they had the chance to strike. If they have evidence to that effect, they should make it public and bring charges in open court. But that's clearly not the case here.

When this story first broke I didn't write about it because I assumed that a public outcry would soon lead to its reasonable resolution. Sadly, this has not happened.

Homes searched without a warrant, kids thrown in prison for thoughts real and imagined, people's lives destroyed by an out-of-control federal government - will Americans speak up for what's right? Please call and write your congressman and senator to demand the release of the two girls from Queens.

Ted Rall, a New York City resident, is a columnist and cartoonist who writes for a generation unjustly maligned as a group of lazy slackers. Contact him at 4520 Main St., Kansas City, MO 64111. His column appears every Tuesday in The Aspen Times.

Source: The Aspen Times
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20050503/COLUMN/105030020

- WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE DEPARTMENT -

The CIA Created The Drug Culture
My Weekend with Timothy Leary
By Henry Makow PhD

In the 1950's, the CIA experimented with LSD for use in interrogation and as a weapon.

In the 1960's they used this weapon to divert idealistic Americans from the path of social action to one of introspection and self-gratification, i.e. "spiritual liberation."

They neutralized my generation by turning angry protesters into "flower children" preaching "peace and love."

The mantra of the age was "Tune in, Turn on and Drop Out". The prophet was psychologist, Dr. Timothy Leary (1920-1996).

Was Leary working for the CIA?

Mark Reibling put this question to the aged guru in 1994 after a speech in Gainesville Florida.

"They never gave me a dime," Leary said with a pained expression, and then avoided his questioner.

If not a CIA agent, Reibling makes a compelling case that Leary was their dupe.

The CIA promotes people who believe in a cause but are unaware they are advancing the New World Order.

Like most intelligence agencies, the CIA does not represent national interests. It was created by British intelligence and serves the London-based central bankers.

The CIA said they sponsored radicals, liberals and leftists as "an alternative to Communism." This is not true. They did it to introduce a different style of Communism.

Behind the rhetorical facade, Communism is monopoly capitalism, controlled by the bankers and administered by the state.

Funds and drugs for Leary's research came from the CIA. In his autobiography, "Flashbacks" (1983), Leary credits Cord Meyer, the CIA executive in charge of funding the lib-left and counterculture with "helping me to understand my political cultural role more clearly."

Elsewhere he says the "Liberal CIA" is the "best mafia you can deal with in the Twentieth Century." (These references are from Reibling's groundbreaking must-read article, "Was Leary a CIA agent?" http://www.markriebling.com/leary.html )

Leary clearly was working for the CIA but thought he was working for himself.

Like Leary we are all dupes.

When I was a child I used to lie in bed at night and read TIME and NEWSWEEK from cover to cover. At the age of 12, I helped organize marches for world hunger relief. At 14, the marches were for Negro Civil Rights.

In 1964, while still concerned with the American Negro, I noticed that I was dancing alone. The party had moved to another room. Vietnam was now the cause celebre. It was as if someone (i.e. the CIA-controlled media) had mysteriously blown a whistle.

I participated in a rising crescendo of anti-war activity until1968. After the gut-wrenching assassinations of King and Robert Kennedy, LBJ's decision not to seek re-election (his CFR handlers told him to go) and the clubbing of protesters at the Democratic Convention in Chicago deflated the anti-war movement.

Then, acting as one like a flock of geese, my generation gave up on social change, became "alienated" and "turned inward." Maybe we needed to change ourselves, we reasoned, before we can change the world. Thanks to the CIA, drugs were plentiful and Leary's mantra was echoed in the mass media.

Although it was another ten years before I tried marijuana, I had experienced the "Summer of Love" hitchhiking across Canada in 1967. Maybe it was time to "hang loose" and focus on personal things. The 1970's became the "Me Decade."

The protest years weren't a complete waste. Before climbing into bed, my first lover made me recount the history of the Vietnam War in detail. She wanted to make sure I "was serious."

My sister and brother-in-law turned me on to marijuana on my 26th birthday. I saw myself as a train ascending a steep grade billowing black smoke. My life was a strain. Marijuana was a revelation. It helped me get "out of myself" and see myself objectively. I took up yoga.

Although I have never experienced LSD, I embraced the utopian vision of Timothy Leary and Aldous Huxley. With considerable justification, they believed that "mind expanding" drugs could provide a genuine visionary experience and release mankind's spiritual potential. In experiments, theology students had life changing revelations; alcoholics were cured. Many cultures have used drugs to promote spirituality for millennia.

In Mexico, Leary took magic mushrooms. The experience convinced him the normal mind was "a static repetitive circuit."

"It was above all and without question the deepest religious experience of my life. I discovered that beauty, revelation, sensuality, the cellular history of the past, God, the devil, all lie inside my body, outside my mind."

This LSD-fuelled vision of utopia was put into practice at the highest levels of the US government. In 1963, Cord Meyer's estranged wife Mary Pinchot Meyers was having an affair with President John F. Kennedy who had embraced LSD. Mary approached Leary for supplies and advice. She and her friends were turning on "some of the most powerful men in Washington."

In Dec. 1963, Meyer called Leary and said they killed JFK because "they couldn't control him anymore. He was changing too fast. They've covered everything up. I'm afraid. Be careful." In Oct. 1964, she was murdered.

MY WEEKEND WITH TIMOTHY LEARY

I suffered from a serious case of hero worship when I visited Timothy Leary around 1990. I had contacted him through his publisher and he phoned me. I wanted to meet the guru and see if his utopian vision was still alive.

I was disillusioned.

By this time Leary was fixated on the benefits of the "information superhighway." His pantry table was crammed with alcohol. He told me his vision of God was depicted in the last scene in William Gibson's book "Neuromancer."

"At the end of the world, all the information stored in all the computers would rise up into Cyberspace and mingle together." he said. "That's God."

Wonderful, I thought, all those airline reservations mingling together.

At lunch, I tried to remind him of his original vision: using drugs to awaken our spiritual potential and become more God-like in behavior.

"What do you think God is?" he scoffed. "An old man with a beard?"

Prophets sometimes lose their vision. I think this is what happened with Leary.

But he was very generous with his time and hospitality. He was an idealistic dupe like so many of us.

I ferried him around Los Angeles in my rented car. He was appearing in a music video made by an obscure band. He was to earn $300. He lived in a nice house but he was not rich. I took him to see his daughter by his first marriage. She lived in public housing in the valley.

The effects of marijuana and LSD vary wildly. Depending on the individual, the setting and quality, people can have positive or negative experiences.

Similarly the drug culture has been a mixed bag. It has given millions the opportunity to escape the suffocating box of modern materialism and taste their spiritual birthright. It has been a gateway to religion. In my case, it confirmed Christ's message that God is Love.

But too many have given up on protest and social change. They feel that "fighting the darkness" just "brings me down." For me, detachment from the world was a limbo in which I drifted for years. I now believe in the Path of Service. We gain meaning by doing our Creator's work. We become human beings by becoming God's agents large and small.

Our world-view and concerns are totally manipulated by the London-based Masonic bankers through the CIA, mass media and public education. For example, the Iraq War hasn't aroused a protest similar to Vietnam. Why? The answer lies in the treatment by the mass media. The bankers want Iraq to succeed; they wanted Vietnam to fail.

We are marionettes. The environment, femanism, diversity, tolerance, you name it. The bankers are pulling our strings. In the case of the drug culture, they made us self absorbed and quiescent. They didn't expect many of us to find God.

It's time to uphold the Divine Order, against the satanic New World Order.

Note: For more information, read "Acid Dreams: The Social History of LSD. CIA, the 60's and Beyond" by Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain.

Also: "Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream" by Jay Stevens.

Henry Makow Ph.D. is the inventor of Scruples and the author of "A Long Way to go for a Date." His articles exposing fem-manism and the New World Order are archived on his site http://www.savethemales.ca/

He welcomes your comments and may post some on his site using first names only. hmakow@gmail.com

Source: Rense.com
http://www.rense.com/general64/theCIAcreatedthedrug.htm

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- GHOSTS OF THE ATMOSPHERE DEPARTMENT -

Researchers Study Origin Of Brown Mountain Lights

MORGANTON, N.C. -- Stories about mysterious lights that dance around a nearby mountain ridge have been told for centuries.

Cherokee Indians believed the glowing balls of light that rose from Brown Mountain into the night sky were the spirits of fallen warriors. Early Scotch settlers in what later became Burke and Caldwell counties thought the lights were the ghosts of lost hunters. Civil War soldiers told tales of fallen comrades or runaway slaves trying to find their way.

The Morganton Public Library contains files with reams of letters and newspaper clippings about brilliant lights and red flashes. No one knew what the lights were, only that they existed.

Joey Wakefield first saw the so-called Brown Mountain Lights as a teen with his grandfather, and he still can't figure them out. There was no sound, no sign of anyone on the mountain, he said.

"It was such a huge, spectacular sight that it captured my imagination," Wakefield said.

In the daylight, Brown Mountain is pretty unassuming. At 2,600 feet, it lies in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Scientists say the granite, quartz and magnetite ridge is 10 million years old.

But at night, the mountain assumes a different personality. Wakefield, who works at an area campground, often finds himself trying to explain the unexplainable to campers who ask about the lights.

"It's spooky. When you sit there, you laugh about it until they come out, and I actually locked the door that night I saw them," he said. "It's a white glow, and it comes up and it dances. It will start in the valley and come up, and it seems like you can reach out and touch it."

More down-to-earth types claim the Brown Mountain Lights are only reflected lights from nearby towns. Three government studies have been inconclusive, attributing the lights to marsh gases or passing trains.

Now, a team of paranormal researchers from Asheville has come up with a new theory -- Brown Mountain is a basically giant static electricity generator.

"What seems to be happening is, when there is a rainy spell, water runs through mountain -- we found big holes where you can look in and see water rushing through," said Joshua Warren, of LEMUR Paranormal Investigations. "As the water runs through the mountain, it builds up a charge on these layers of quartz and magnetite."

When the mountain cools at night and the minerals get closer together, the charge sparks.

LEMUR, which stands for the League of Energy Materialization and Unexplained phenomena Research, ( http://www.brownmountainlights.com/ ) has examined UFOs, psychic phenomena and other assorted weirdness for 20 years. The group studied Brown Mountain for months before recreating the conditions in a basement laboratory.

"Because we found that process gives us the same readings we got at Brown Mountain, we think that, at this point, it's the most reliable and the best evidence for what causes the majority of the lights," Warren said.

North Carolina's state geologists called the theory interesting, but they remain unconvinced.

"The long history we have there certainly would cause one to research, and I commend the people willing to go out and spend their money looking at these things, but we need to look at them in a more realistic manner," said Timothy Clark, of the North Carolina Geological Survey.

The LEMUR team is standing behind its conclusions while still appreciating the mystery that has surrounded the lights for centuries.

"I think the fact these lights are a mystery is a testament to the fact something extraordinary is happening here," Warren said.

Source: NBC 17
http://www.nbc17.com/news/4439728/detail.html

Be sure to listen to the Speaking of Strange radio show on AM 570 WWNC, Asheville, NC, Saturday Nights from 7-9pm EST - with host Joshua P. Warren.
http://www.speakingofstrange.com/ (Live Streaming for Internet listeners)

- FOURTH PLANET FROM THE SUN DEPARTMENT -

Scientists: Life on Mars Likely

Not so long ago it was unthinkable for respectable scientists to talk about life on Mars. Such talk was best left to X-Files fans. But no longer.

Evidence is building to suggest biological processes might be operating on the red planet, and life on Mars, many scientists believe, is now more a likelihood than merely a possibility.

Tantalizing evidence is accumulating that suggests the red planet is alive, but incontrovertible proof is still lacking. And while the European Space Agency is keen to send a lander to find it, a history of failed life-finding missions at NASA makes Americans more cautious.

"The life on Mars issue has recently undergone a paradigm shift," said Ian Wright, an astrobiologist at the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at the Open University in Britain, "to the extent now that one can talk about the possibility of present life on Mars without risking scientific suicide."

Much of the excitement is due to the work of Vittorio Formisano, head of research at Italy's Institute of Physics and Interplanetary Space.

In February, Formisano presented data at the Mars Express Science Conference at Noordwijk in the Netherlands. If scientists had been quietly excited before seeing Formisano's data, they were frenetic afterward.

Formisano showed evidence of the presence of formaldehyde in the atmosphere. Formaldehyde is a breakdown product of methane, which was already known to be present in the Martian atmosphere, so in itself its presence is not so surprising. But Formisano measured formaldehyde at 130 parts per billion.

To astrobiologists it was an incredible claim. It means huge amounts of methane must be produced on Mars. (While methane lasts for hundreds of years in the atmosphere, formaldehyde lasts for only 7.5 hours.) "It requires that 2.5 million tons of methane are produced a year," said Formisano.

"There are three possible scenarios to explain the quantities: chemistry at the surface, caused by solar radiation; chemistry deep in the planet, caused by geothermal or hydrothermal activity; or life," he added.

And, with no known geological source of formaldehyde on Mars, it's clear where Formisano's suspicions lie.

"I believe there is extremely high probability that microbial subsurface life exists on Mars," he said, while acknowledging that although he believes in Martian life, he can't yet prove it.

"What will certainly be needed in the future is a drill on a lander and direct evidence of the existence of Archaea bacteria," Formisano said, adding that he intends to publish his data in a forthcoming issue of planetary science journal Icarus.

The European Space Agency certainly wants to send a rover to Mars, and was urged to do so at an international space workshop at Aston University in Birmingham, England, earlier this month. To get a lander on Mars will almost certainly require the involvement, at some level, of NASA.

But NASA has its own surface mission planned. Scheduled to arrive in late 2010, the Mars Science Laboratory rover will use an array of instruments to look for evidence of life.

"Europe and the U.S. are in a friendly competition to find life first," said Yuk Yung, professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology, "which is healthy for science -- and funding."

The race to find proof of life started in earnest in 1996, after NASA scientists published a paper claiming that the Martian meteorite ALH84001 contained evidence of past biological activity. While that claim remains controversial, it kick-started a change in mood about the possibility of present life on Mars. Excitement grew in 2003 when Michael Mumma, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, reported he had detected methane in the Martian atmosphere.

Then last year Vladimir Krasnopolsky, of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., made a similar claim about methane. Both researchers had measured methane using ground-based telescopes.

But while the issue of life on Mars may have undergone a paradigm shift, it is really only in Europe that scientists are openly excited. In the United States, NASA is cagey.

According to Wright at the Open University, NASA is gun-shy about sending up another life-finding Martian probe.

"NASA staff probably still remember Viking, which was a mission designed specifically to look for life on Mars, but which found none -- and which subsequently killed off Martian exploration for a couple of decades," he said. "ESA people don't have such baggage."

Source: Wired
http://www.wired.com/news/space/0,2697,67315,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5

BEIJING - Meng Zhaoguo, a rural worker from northeast China's Wuchang city, says he was 29 years old when he broke his marital vows for the first and only time -- with a female extraterrestrial of unusually robust build.

"She was three meters (10 feet) tall and had six fingers, but otherwise she looked completely like a human," he says of his close encounter with an alien species. "I told my wife all about it afterwards. She wasn't too angry."

While few Chinese claim to have managed to get quite as intimate with an extraterrestrial as Meng, a growing number of people in the world's most populous nation believe in unidentified flying objects, or UFOs.

Officially registered UFO associations in China have about 50,000 members, but some estimate the actual number of Chinese interested in the subject is probably in the tens of millions.

Sun Shili is one of the most serious enthusiasts, and he knows exactly where he will be the day the extraterrestrials finally make contact with mankind. The 67-year-old retired Beijing professor will be in the 21-member delegation picked by international UFO associations to represent Earth as the first negotiations get underway.

Once a Spanish translator for Mao Zedong during high-level state visits, Sun says language will not be a problem. "We expect to communicate using telepathy," he says.

In a country that has lost its spiritual bearings as Marxism has given way to materialism, the idea of strange worlds light years away offers a last great hope for many.

Richard McNally, a Harvard psychologist, says he recognizes the pattern from research into Westerners who claim to have been abducted by aliens and who characterized the experience as "spiritually deepening."

"Our abductees typically describe themselves as 'spiritual' individuals for whom organized religion provides scant spiritual nourishment, and the Chinese UFO spotters may very well be like our subjects," McNally says.

As Sun, the Spanish translator, sits one sunny spring morning in the Chinese capital, he points at the streets outside and explains how many of the people walking by are probably extraterrestrials in human guise.

They are here to help mankind move human civilization on little by little, he explains.

"It's estimated that 80 percent of new inventions come to people in their dreams," says Sun. "Maybe this is how the extraterrestrials pass on their knowledge to us."

Extraterrestrials are moving mankind on the path towards perfection, but they can only do so in a very gradual fashion, Sun says.

"They give us wisdom and skills that are just a little bit more advanced than what we have at any given moment," he says.

"If they gave us their full range of knowledge all at once, we wouldn't be able to handle it."

As in most other areas of human endeavor, China is also an emerging force to be reckoned with in UFO research.

In September, the International Chinese UFO Association will hold an international meeting on UFO research in the northern port city of Dalian.

"The fact that this meeting can be held shows that China is gradually becoming a great power in UFO research," says Zhang Jingping, a leading member of the association.

A dedicated group of enthusiasts forming the core membership of the Beijing UFO Research Association are on constant alert, ready to move out and investigate observations of mysterious phenomena in the night sky.

They take photos, record videos and interview witnesses, all in the interest of addressing the issue from a scientific point of view, according to Zhou Xiaoqiang, the chairman of the association.

"The result is that 95 to 99 percent of the sightings can be explained naturally, like airplanes or satellites," he says. "But a tiny minority may be real UFOs, and we should take them seriously."

Zhou, a 57-year-old executive at a transportation company, spends most of his waking hours studying UFOs, but he remembers a time when it was not allowed.

After the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966, his fresh university degree earned him a one-way ticket to the deep countryside, a victim of Mao's scheme to instil proletarian values in the intellectuals.

The dreary life almost made him forget there might be something beyond the narrow confines of the rural community where he spent the next decade.

But then when the Cultural Revolution finally ended, and China slowly emerged from decades of self-imposed isolation, Zhou remembers watching Steven Spielberg's film classic "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."

It was a revelation. It was not just a new world that opened up to him, but a whole new universe, where everything seemed possible -- even extraterrestrials.

"Chinese people are interested in UFOs now because their lives have improved," says Zhou.

"They no longer have to worry about getting enough to eat, but can start caring about issues like this."

Huang Yanqiu, a 49-year-old farmer from Beigao village in north China's Hebei province, recalls his one and only encounter with extraterrestrials in 1977.

He woke up in the middle of the night and found himself in front of two men who looked and spoke like ordinary humans.

But they had special powers, taking him on a nightly flight on their backs to all corners of China, from Heilongjiang province in the north to Fujian province in the southeast. Eventually, they carried him to Tiananmen Square.

For a young man who had never been more than a few kilometers (miles) away from home, but had a secret wish to see the world, it was the experience of a lifetime.

"We couldn't go anywhere at the time. There were no cars, just bicycles," he says. "Maybe it was all just a dream."

Mediums and psychics like my good friend Colin Fry are doing an amazing job of comforting the bereaved. Astoundingly, these days, more people are likely to look to a medium than a counsellor for comfort after the loss of a loved one. But our loved ones are ready, willing and able to make that contact all by themselves it seems. English writer and researcher Jacky Newcomb explains how.

I'm not sure if our loved ones have always tried to communicate with us from the after-life or whether this is a new phenomenon. There are many ancient recorded incidences of spontaneous contact from the other-side. Jesus himself was one of these figures for example. Not so many people would have been brave enough to have admitted that this contact was real though. How many people would believe that a dead person had made contact?

I originally started collecting 'angel stories' for a book around 7 years ago. After setting up a website, I was amazed to received hundreds of accounts from all over the world of something which appeared to be communication from peoples loved ones - after they had died. These stories were different from 'angel stories' because they involved visits from people already known to the receiver. Friends and family from the 'after-life' were appearing in dreams and visions in a way that left people in no doubt that these experiences were real. The 'dream' phenomenon is particularly vivid. People tell me, '...it seemed so real, as if it was really happening...' or '...even though it happened when I was asleep, part of me was awake and I knew that he was really dead.'

The after death communication (ADC) is far more common that you would think. Patricia Kelley ('Companion to Grief.' Piatkus), suggests that the number of spouses who see or hear a loved one after they have died could be as high as 50%. This phenomenon is by no means restricted to our partners. Our after-life visitors can be a variety of family and friends and occasionally someone we may not have known well in life. Often the visit comes as a result of a life promise. '...if there is life after death I will come back and say goodbye...', or in other cases there seems a strong reason to come back and comfort the grieving, allowing them to move forward in their life. One incident explained this very well:

"A few months ago I was sat up in bed looking out of the window thinking about my granddad, (he died about 11 years ago), and as I usually do I started to cry. Suddenly I felt this hand grab my shoulder. I could feel the grip and the warmth from it and then I heard a voice say 'sshh,' in a comforting way. I turned around to see if it was my partner, but it wasn't him, and there was no one else in the room. I just knew straight away that it was my granddad telling me to stop crying, and that everything was ok."

Sometimes, the visitation is very subtle, accompanied by a 'knowing'. Other times the contact is more substantial. Sheena had a telephone call from her father in the after-life. Seems unbelievable? It's not the first story I've heard of this type and it probably won't be the last. Judge for yourself...

"A few days after my father died I was sitting chatting with my mother and a few relatives. We were chatting casually, when the telephone rang. I answered it and a voice that seemed so very familiar was telling me how sorry he was to have had to go, but not to worry everything would be fine. He said that he loved me and I must take care of Pearl (my mum) and to tell her that he loves her so very much. He then said he had to go, told me he loved me once again and then said 'goodbye darling.'

During the conversation on the phone I was reasoning with myself that it could not be my Dad, but all the time I knew it was his voice. My mouth had literally dropped and by now my relatives were asking what was wrong. Then I told them that my Dad had just called on the telephone, and I passed on his message to them.

Since then I have had quite a few experiences, and I know my father is behind them. It is just his way to let me know that he is not far away, and watching over me. He had always said to me that if there was a way to contact me from the other side then he would if he could."

Is there life on the other side? The evidence is certainly stacking up!

Jacky Newcomb is a respected paranormal researcher, writer and columnist who specialises in After Life Communication, Angels and Spiritual Guides. She is the author of the best selling 'An Angel Treasury' (Published by Element). Jacky welcomes your paranormal experiences stories.

For more articles and information about afterlife communication visit Jacky??�s website: www.JackyNewcomb.co.uk