James E Mcdonald And The Paranormal

Hi allINTRODUCTION:Undeniable readers of this blog impulse be on the alert that I exert had a desire term ancestry in the paranormal and allied areas (snap here.) I exert desire advocated for the inspection of paranormal phenomenon, e.g. poltergeists, precognition, which crop up in connection afterward many UFO encounters, especially abductions (snap here.) Introduce are immeasurable examples of someplace this happens (snap here), and my own research frequently turns up such data. At a standstill, I was incredulous to see acclaim of James E McDonald and the paranormal, on every occasion re-reading Ann Druffel's "Fire", her book about McDonald. Due to the fact that I exert never be delivered spanning any other reference to this material ahead, I skepticism very few readers impulse be on the alert of it, so I make it below:WASHINGTON:McDonald's first public talk on the UFO phenomenon took butter in Washington, DC, on every occasion he beam to the limited to a small area period of the American Meteorological Civilization. In looking for explanations put pole to illustration for the UFO phenomenon "He offered eight wide categories which many groups - ranging all the way from arch-skeptics to "kooks" - were using to show how something works the reports. 1. Hoaxes, fabrications and frauds;2. Hallucinations, quantity frenzy and rumours;3. Misrepresentations of known actual phenomena (meteorological, great, optical etc.);4. Higher Alight technologies (test vehicles, satellites, re-entry effects);5. Miserably assumed, underdone atmospheric and electrical phenomena;6. Telepathist phenomena - psychic projections, prototypical images, (parapsychological phenomena);7. Space probes;8. "Messengers of use and occult truth." (p.157.)DIFFICULTY:McDonald himself whispered "Categories 5 and 6, to the limit that they elect explanations in vocabulary of the still-unknown, were essentially torrential to stand facing in disciplined hew...I would emphasise that I now endure genre 6 as the deserted critical exceptional to genre 7." (Quantity cited by Druffel as: McDonald, James E. "The Incommode of the Without a number Flying Fill," scrape of a talk resolved October 19, 1966 to the Commune of Columbia period of the American Meteorological Civilization, Washington, DC, pp1-2.)As Druffel guide, "This was a most nonstandard aim,...He was illustration that if fathom unknowns (UFOs) are not from an extraterrestrial correctly, the parapsychological/psychic idea was the along with disciplined choice!" (p.158.)Druffel continues "Supreme knowledgeable UFO researchers living today don't unadulterated revive that he unadulterated referred to the psychic/parapsychological idea." (p.158.)"One of the very few colleagues in the UFO research sphere who revive that McDonald first of all downstairs the psychic/parapsychological idea is Dr Berthold Eric Schwarz, a decline and knowledgeable parapsychologist. He feels that McDonald depth exert been criticised just beginning on by conclusive colleagues for his violation aim of genre 6." (p.159.) Clap here for information on Schwarz. MEANING:"It has never been clear distinctly what McDonald was portentous in his own "genre 6." No instruct keep a note of the AMS talk exists. We exert deserted his premium scrape to guide us...McDonald dropped genre 6 from his list honest after the AMS talk and never referred straight to it again." (p.160.)"McDonald was unfaltering in his search for accepting, and was privately prying in many aspects of parapsychology...He interpret far on the instruct...He never discussed parapsychology afterward his colleagues in atmospheric physics...At a standstill, a few balanced researchers in the UFO sphere, plus numerous scientists, company this ancestry and, afterward them, he discussed the instruct from nature...Panache stresses, up till now that their thought about parapsychology were never simply germane to UFOs, but were treated as marked instruct." (p.160.)COMMENTS: Ten existence after Druffel wrote "Fire," a build of the October 19 1966 McDonald paper is now available on the internet (snap here.) On page three of the paper, one can see that offer are yes indeed eight categories of hypotheses pass. At a standstill, here in the total paper, genre 6 is helpfully downstairs as "Miserably assumed psychological phenomena" and not Druffel's "6. Telepathist phenomena - psychic projections, prototypical images, (parapsychological phenomena);" Why this inequality exists is not crystal-clear to me. Can any readers throw any light on this?