What a Strange & Magickal World we inhabit

The other day at MPH Bookstore I came upon Strange Phenomena that led to a search for more info about Joey Nuzum, seen levitating in a photo. Along the way I found news about what certified clinical hypnotherapist Donna Higbee called Human Spontaneous Involuntary Invisibiliy.

Here's a longish essay she wrote after researching the subject.

Apparently the ability - if you can call it that - is attainable by men and wome through certain "spiritual" practices. And she suggests that scientists may have an explanation with their theory of "a cloud of free electrons".

My first encounter with this curiosity goes back to 2003 when I sat right at the back of a Catholic church on a Friday afternoon. A scheduled service was going on at the time when a woman parishioner sitting on the first pew suddenly winked out of existence and back again in about five seconds! She did not bend down nor move away from her seat; and when she disappeared I could see the back of the book rack normally found right in front.

Saying that I was not feverish, inebriated nor on medication, I mentioned this to a few friends who politely listened but who made no comments I could remember.

Writing this reminds me of an engineer friend who once locked a monocular - you might consider it a small telescope - in a glass case together with other optical instruments. One day the monocular disappeared, and only he had the key to the case. My friend was obviously quite perplexed since he had not used the tool, and presumably no one else saw it as well.

Six months later, the missing item turned up where he had left it, as if it had always been there all the while. 

I also recall a woman friend of mine who reported that her companion - another woman - seemed to vanish in front of her eyes: both were at a meditation session at the time.

For what it's worth, here is a crop of a photo I snapped of myself with my Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH20 digital camera. I posted it on local blog PhotoMalaysia.com, hoping to find answers to what may be a hardware bug. (You are required to register and log-in if you want to see the pic I attached)

As I remarked in that post, you're welcome to contact me if you want to examine the original SD memory card and camera.

Is it not a Strange & Magickal World we inhabit?

PS: Read my cat story that turned up unexpectedly a few weeks after that vanishing in the church hall

http://interiorly.blogspot.com/2011/04/mind-games-week-1-influencing-reptile_29.html