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'For too long researchers have been taking a split approach to probing the paranormal. Finally there is a book that combines the sensitive understanding of the metaphysical world along with a scientific method of measurement and documentation. 

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Hi folks,

I have had countless requests for the recipe of the Irish stew so with no more hold up I have presented a list with cooking instructions below.  I hope you enjoy it.

Ok, first off you need the main ingredient.....Potatoes

I prefer to use Roosters but I don't know if they are available here in the USA, so pick the next best thing.

Get yourself a good sized pot and place in 20% of water in it and place in it your chopped and peeled potatoes and fill to halfway. These must be first with other ingredients going in next. (IN ORDER)

Secondly you will need carrots, dice them and add as much as you like, all ingredients are added to your pallet.

Add a segment of garlic chopped, or if you are inclined two.

Next you will need parsnips, but becareful with these, I prefer only to use one, anymore than that and your guests will get gas.........although that is often quite funny and makes for an interesting drive home.

Next a whole large onion, diced.

Next your greens, leeks and parsley, I like to load these up and then finally add the meat. Some people prefer to us lamb, but I find it too greasy. So I use fresh red meat, chopped and diced.

Add salt and pepper

Bring all to the boil for 15 minutes with a lid on the pot.

Return to simmer for approx 30 minutes and stir about every ten minutes. During this time add two/three cubes of OXO or beef stock. Break them up in your hand and apply and stir in and put the lid back on.

During cooking the potatoes will break down and thicken the stew, its best to leave it over night and reheat the next day, but if you cannot wait that should be ok, it just won't be as thick.

Before serving hot add a knob of REAL......I SAID REAL Irish butter, which you can get from any good grocery store.

Usually served with wheaten bread and red wine.

Enjoy.

When in Washington DC doing some research I stumbled across a book that mentioned the method of increasing psychic ability by altering brain chemistry. I have been in talks recently about the same topic and it was indeed very interesting and enlightening. However the book who's author and title escapes me at this time went on to state,

'We have a wonderful chemical system called the brain, the natural clairvoyant use it all the time. It starts with the secretion of serotonin in the pituitary body and begins to open the psychic centres.'

This Pituitary body is located he insisted in the same location as the third eye, I beg to differ but gave him the benefit of the doubt. So the next question was, in the mainstream thought what does Serotonin do that can cause the brain to operate in this way. I had a chat with my research buddy Mr E Modestino as the common thought was that there were many assumptions and one was that it made you sleepy. This was a key factor; however Mr M was open to more research which contradicted that it was serotonin, though the author of the book was on the right track. Particular foods that we daily consume had an effect on this process; we could encourage the psychic centres by eating particular foods and also by restricting them.

It was not Serotonin but another chemical that was responsible and one that was almost camouflaged behind the shadow of serotonin. It was this chemical that layed the foundation for the brain to calm down and make silent the conscious mind and allow the subconscious a doorway to the outside world.

Robert A Monroe spoke about this in his book 'Journey out of Body' and I also saw a cross reference of this in Dion Fortunes book, 'The Mystical Qabalah' in which she states,

'Higher forms of existence are obtained by a process other than thought, and this process only commences when thought is left behind. Consequently it is only in that region of consciousness that transcends thought that the highest form of transcendental ideas is known and understood.'

'The human mind can neither define nor grasp the absolute.'

I know that people maybe frustrated that I have not mentioned the particular chemical or food types which present this but further tests are required and we are working to try and establish a foundation for experiments in this field.

Ok folks, were always looking for a place that is haunted. We often hear tell of houses that are haunted and when we go looking for them they are either in bits or someone lives in them and more times than not they would rather shot our arse with salt pellets than let us over the door gaurd.

But have a look at this place, on the market in Ireland with approx 13/15 bedrooms, enough for a wonderfully haunted B&B and somewhere teh field could come to investigate with out being bothered about time.

I tried to add a picture of it, but you can find it on my pictures, life in Ireland, page 3.

 But boy what a place that would be.

Baz