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Live video: โ€œRemembering Lemuria. Life, Visions & Obsessions of Richard S. Shaver โ€, with Francesco Cerofolini

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Wednesday night at 21:00 will air on the our YouTube channel the seventh appointment of our summer series of conferences. This time Francesco Cerofolini, a scholar of "alternative reality" and the greatest Italian expert on the so-called, will be with us "Mystery Shaver", which he has already talked about on our pages.

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โ€œPassport to Magoniaโ€: from folklore to alien myth

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Finally, more than half a century after its release, thanks to Venexia Editrice it has been translated into Italian "Passport to Magonia: from Folklore to Flying Saucers โ€by French researcher Jacques Vallรฉe, theโ€œ Book of the Damned โ€of the so-calledโ€œ paraphysical hypothesis โ€.

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Some reflections on John Keel's "superspectrum" theory

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In this article we will consider the superspectrum theory of John Keel, the founder together with Jacques Vallรฉe of the โ€œnew ufologyโ€. We will be concerned essentially with four questions: we will try to highlight the importance and significance of John Keel's personality and work in American ufology; we will present and comment on John Keel's theory of the superspectrum; we will highlight the similarities and differences between Keel's and Vallรฉe's theories; finally we will consider some of the possible applications of the superspectrum theory to phenomena belonging to the mystery dimension.

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"The return of the Star Peoples". The X-Files of the Indian Reserves

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Usually, when we talk about UFOs and "alien abductions", we tend to mistakenly consider the phenomenon as exclusively Western, mostly limited to American citizens of European descent. However, on the same US soil, the native Amerindians also live within the reserves have a lot to tell about it, and after decades of silence they opened up with author Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, who has collected their testimonies in some books, including "The return of the Star Peoples", recently translated into Italian by Venexia Editrice.

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โ€œI remember Lemuria!โ€: The Shaver Mystery, a myth for the atomic age

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Brought to the fore by the pulp magazine "Amazing Stories", directed by Ray Palmer, in the 40s of the last century, the "Mystery Shaver" is still remembered today as one of the most controversial and influential chapters of the vein - halfway between occultism and science fiction - of the so-called โ€œAlternative Realityโ€.

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