Oregon MUFON has filled out the schedule for the 2018 McMenamins/Oregon MUFON Paranormal Pub events. Be sure to explore the speakers' websites to find out more about what is ahead. Paranormal Pubs are presented on the last Sunday of each month and doors open at 6 PM. The programs start at 7 PM and go to 9 PM. Check out the McMenamins website for the Mission Theater Paranormal Pub events or search on Facebook for "McMenamins Paranormal Pub" in the upcoming months for more information.
January 28. Esteban DeCorazon and Tom Hatsis on entheogens history and experiences. Portland Psychedelic Society. Many people believe that mind-altering substances, when used responsibly in the right set and setting, can produce profound life changes by connecting us with the divine. Is this for you? Come find out.
February 25. Rocky Smith on Oregon ghost stories. Oregon Ghost Conference. Popular ghost hunter Rocky Smith makes a return visit to the Paranormal Pub to share more real ghost stories from Oregon. Rocky is well-known for hosting the annual Oregon Ghost Conference. Oregon MUFON goes every year these days. It is well worth it.
March 25. Loren Christensen on the police and their paranormal experiences. Loren's website. Loren is a retired Portland police officer and life-long professional in security services both in the military and in civilian life. It makes sense security people might experience paranormal activity since they are up when you are asleep and they are trained to observers. Things do go bump in the night!
April 29. Dave King and Stacy Calvert on electronic voice phenomena. Washington State Ghost Society. Dave and Stacy specialize in the ghost-related field of electronic voice phenomena (EVP). You've seen this on the cable channel ghost shows. Now come hear some locally investigated EVP.
May 27. Neil McNeill on evidence for soul survival. Paranormal Studies Institute. A past Paranormal Pub speaker, Neil brings a wealth of knowledge about the parapsychology field, especially the under-appreciated parapsychology studies of the past. I've asked him to give us a primer on the evidence for "soul" survival. Yes, it does appear to be a fact that at least some important aspects of our personalities do live on after the brain dies.
June 24. Rocky Smith has been rescheduled to deliver the same presentation as he did in February on Oregon City history as it relates to ghost hauntings. Rocky was so popular that we filled the Mission Theater to capacity and had to turn away many. We are sorry about that and hope that those who missed his first presentation will be able to attended his second appearance for us. And thanks, Rocky, for agreeing to do your presentation again!
July 29. Kimberly Clark Sharp on NDE research and experiences. About Kimberly. Kimberly is one of the leading lights in near death experience education and research. I am very pleased she has agreed to speak at a Paranormal Pub event.
August 26. Montana Jordan on women's spirituality. Montana is an ordained minister and pagan high priestess and will present a talk on the various forms and practices of historical and modern day Goddess and nature worship. http://occultofpersonality.net/katie-montana-jordan/
September 30. Dave Markowitz on dealing with your feelings and experiences if you are an empathic/intuitive (psychic) personality. Dave's website. Dave is an empath/intuitive himself and seeks to help other people adjust to and maximize this gift. It seems that especially young children with psychic abilities suffer when they have no one close who understands these gifts and can, therefore, offer genuine caring help.
October 28. Tarot and divination presented by Iris Meredith Bell and Terrance Gamble of The Raven's Wing Magical Co. Ever want to know what your future holds? Is that special person the one? Will you ever be rich? These questions and more are answered every day by Tarot readers and diviners. Come with questions, and be ready to access your own power of intuition.
November 25. Jeremy Corbell's documentary film Hunt for the Skinwalker. This film documents the truly strange paranormal events happening over a couple of decades on a ranch in Utah. Robert Bigelow's scientific investigative group National Institute for Discovery Science did years of work trying to scientifically monitor the phenomena with varying degrees of success. Afterward Chief scientist Colm Kelleher along with Las Vegas KLAS TV news journalist George Knapp wrote a book about the study (Hunt for the Skinwalker). Reportedly, a Pentagon connected group is continuing the research today.
December. No program.
Mark your calendars and come get a taste of what some of your fellow human beings are experiencing, thinking about, and studying. And enjoy a McMenamins beverage and pizza to boot. What could be better!?
Oregon MUFON strives to find knowledgeable speakers on topics that should be addressed and studied by our academic establishment but are too often not. We believe that it is vital that the academic establishment study long-term and systematically the entire range of paranormal topics, so that we can all begin to appreciate all of human experience. When important societal institutions choose to ignore important parts of the entire range of human experience and the world around us, we all suffer.
Today, the science of near death experience, for example, is beginning to change our ideas about what human beings, human consciousness, and the reality around us may actually consist of. UFOs also seem to change long held ideas about reality, too, when they are studied in depth and that is how Oregon MUFON came to sponsor McMenamins Paranormal Pubs.
Join us at a Paranormal Pub event coming your way soon!
McMenamins Paranormal Pubs are a collaboration between McMenamins and Oregon MUFON.
