Spirits and Psychics

Everyone's a critic and everyone wants proof of psychic phenomena under lab conditions. Morgan takes Norm into the origins of Remote Viewing protocols. They cover why it's helpful for your experiments to be designed by former stage magicians, how psychic abilities may be latent in all of us and just what happened with the CIA gets involved... Sources & Further Reading: Ronson, Jon. The Men Who...

Morgan and Norm keep on with HPB and Henry Steele Olcott but now that they are in India, things are different. They cover the chum's rocky start, bad people skills, how Olcott took a left turn to becoming a white savior in Sri Lanka and how HPB got cancelled by the Society for Psychical Research. They touch on her seminal work, the Secret Doctrine, have a cameo by Mahatma Gandhi, how Olcott got hi...

As Morgan takes Norm intro the next chapter of Madame Blavatsky's life, they encounter Henry Steel Olcott also known as the White Buddha. They explore his background, what primed a well respected lawyer to fall into her aura, as well as their business ventures, apartments, accusations of fraud and ultimately, setting their sights on India. Sources & Further Reading: Lachman, Gary. Madame Blava...

In this episode Morgan introduces Norm to the Mother of Modern Occultism: Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Gifted for sure, but gifted with what? Diving into the first part of her life, Morgan & Norm work through what is known about her Villain Origin Story and the context it lends to understanding the origins of the Theosophical Society. Sources & Further Reading for this series: Lachman...

Morgan takes Norm into Spiritualism, the movement that changed how the West understands death, the spirit world, and how you could talk to the other side. They also touch on the roots of stage magicians like Harry Houdini and the great legacy of debunking spiritual mediums by people who in their hearts (probably) want to believe. They also don't leave out the more compassionate cosmology spiritual...