Blubbery aliens, two by two,
they’ve got their big bug eyes on you;
Their silvery saucer is coming near,
shining a light that will make you peer;
Through your window, as they glide,
through the air to be by your side;
Paralysed with fear, and absolute dread,
a beam of light takes you from your bed;
In their starship, you lie awake,
as experiments on you, they do make;

Telepathy is thought to involve mind to mind contact, best evidenced by a person’s name coming into the mind, and moments later they phone you or you bump into them. Most tests for telepathy show a slight statistical bias above chance for the ability, but sceptics constantly question the methodology involved. But could something else be involved?

Fiction: I knew something had gone wrong when the pianist slumped forward. At first, no one realised what had happened. It was an enjoyable party with plenty of noise, plenty of drinking, and most of my attention was on Sue, dancing and drinking straight out of the bottle. Which man would she have her eye on tonight, I wondered.

Life is absurd, Sartre did say,
All down to choice, no more to waylay,
Nothing but nothingness other than that,
Nothing of value but what’s under your hat;
Yet what about love – the arrow falls,
Or things that inspire – having a ball?
So much influence out there on tap,
So absurd – existentialist crap

Fiction: He didn’t believe in such tales. Oh sure, he’d heard all about the barn – how people fear to go inside at night – how you could disappear for ever in there. But he was a big fellow, rational, and he wasn’t about to be put off by ridiculous folk stories. As he approached, a lantern light from deeper in the barn shone on a man and woman in the door.

There are two interesting things about the Loch Ness Monster and Abominable Snowman. First, while they are definitely seen, there is little evidence of them being physical. And second, they have cousins in most wildernesses worldwide. This suggests they could be a universally produced form of hallucination. But why?

Shoot. Smoke. Snort. There are many way to do it – get high. The trip has been described as similar to a mystical experience; indeed, it is well accepted that the ancients used narcotics to help induce such experiences. Experimental mystics have used drugs and testify to the similarity. This was once used as an attempt to glorify their use, which is, of course, a load of rubbish.

I’ve been thinking lately about totalitarianism – you know,
when a few take over the many and there’s nothing you
can do about it. There’s a feeling nowadays that the west
is heading in this direction. Is it true?