Tag: Richard Shaver

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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The kidnappings of the Fairies and the mystery of the "Missing 411"

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Every year dozens of people suddenly disappear in US National Parks, in unexplained situations and without leaving any trace; Detective David Paulides, who for decades has been studying these mysterious cases he defined as "Missing 411", has identified some recurring patterns which, analyzed with an eye to ancient traditions (both European and Native American), bring us back to the folklore beliefs concerning the "water-babies" and other feral entities residing in the "invisible world", to which it is sometimes believed that the human being, willy-nilly, is able to access, sometimes never to return to our world.

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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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"Underground" civilizations in myth, occultism and "alternative reality"

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Simultaneously with the publication of our article on "Underworld Civilizations in Fantastic Literature" appeared in Cosmic Dimension, we have drawn up here a brief excursus on the same topos in the sacred traditions, in the esoteric sphere and in the "alternative reality" of the twentieth century

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