Date: 2009-11-02
December 21, 2012 has been cited as being "the end of the world as we know it," based on the end of the Mayan long-count calendar. What inspires us to adhere to such annihilistic beliefs? J. Allan Danelek, author of 2012: Extinction or Utopia, explains.
Date: 2008-05-07
One of the most common questions I’m asked when doing interviews for my book, The Case for Ghosts, is what, exactly, a ghost is. While this would appear at first glance to be a fairly simple question—after all, everybody knows what a ghost is, right?—it actually turns out to be a very good—and important—one to ask.The fact is we often don’t know what is meant by the term “ghost.” There are many...
Date: 2006-10-30
Do you really know what a ghost is? What distinguishes a ghost from other entities in the paranormal realm? J. Allan Danelek discusses the differences between ghosts and other entities he calls "extra-celestials."
Date: 2005-05-01
It’s not unusual for a person to believe in reincarnation nowadays. In fact, it’s almost become commonplace, especially in the Shirley MacLaine/ Oprah Winfrey age we life in. What is unusual, however, is for an evangelical, fundamentalist ...
Setting out to write a book about ghosts is not so much a labor of love as it is a voyage of self discovery, for the subject can hardly be broached without asking some very difficult and important questions having to do with immortality, God and ...
