Tag: Magonia

At the origins of Laรนro, the Salento nightmare sprite

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There are those who see in Laรนro Salentino, even starting from the etymology, the descendant of the ancient Lare, the Roman domestic spirit. But more generally the points of contact with other supernatural entities of the Mediterranean tradition stand out, from the Nightmare to the Munaciello, from the Genius Cucullato to the Telesforo.

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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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Shamans in the Amazon and "alien abduction": the strange case of Bernardo Peixoto

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With the consent of Venexia Editrice, we publish almost entirely chapter 8 of John Mack's book "Passport to the Cosmos" (Italian translation: "Passport to the Cosmos"), focusing on the bizarre experiences of some Brazilian Amazonian tribes in recent decades and their connection with ancient legends and folkloric traditions.

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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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Vampirism in the light of Jacques Vallรฉe's theories

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In this article we will try to give an explanation to a sensational and inexplicable case of vampirism that occurred in Transylvania in 1816 using some theories of the French-American ufologist Jacques Vallรฉe, namely the existence of the dimension of Magonia, the ability of the inhabitants of Magonia to manipulate humans and the theory of the "thermostat effect".

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Who is hiding behind the mask? Visits from Elsewhere and the paraphysical hypothesis

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The examination of the theories of John Keel and Jacques Vallรฉe based on the "paraphysical hypothesis", the "superspectrum" and the "thermostrate effect" allows us a reflection on the Other World and a parallelism with the cosmographic model and the "antichtลn ยปBy Filolaoย 

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