Saturday, February 28, 2026

ARCHIVAL UPDATES: ESP AND PSYCHIC POWER



Steven Tyler's ESP and Psychic Power is now available to read and download at archive dot org! This marks this title's digital debut and places it alongside Tyler's UFO reader Are the Invaders Coming?






After the main event, Tower Books includes their usual great spread of ads for other intriguing reads across various genres:




Courtesy Tower Books, 1970.

COSMIC DEBRIS: The Dick Sutphen Seminar Tour!


Another blast from the past as Dick Sutphen launches a Western tour all the way from Texas to Portland, OR, followed by a Super Seminar in his hometown of Scottsdale, AZ! Sutphen also plugs his books, his tapes, and his self-help magazine. It will change your life ...

From Fate magazine, Volume Volume 32 - Number 2, February 1979. 

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

SPECIAL EVENT: Jeffrey Epstein, Parapsychology and the Telepathy Tapes


Friend of the blog Emily Louise has been kind enough to host me, Jerry Coe, on a special livestream exploring connections between the departed financier Jeffrey Epstein, the parapsychological field, and the scam podcast The Telepathy Tapes, for February 28th, 1PM PST. Fortean researcher Tanner F. Boyle will also be there!

Here is the link for the upcoming stream: Jeffrey Epstein, Parapsychology, and the Telepathy Tapes

It WILL be archived on Emily's channel, so no worries should you not be able to see it live. While you're waiting, why not check out her blockbuster documentary on the classic mockumentary (and tie-in paperback of the Gods!): Alternative 3: How a Hoax Documentary Created a Conspiracy Cult? She interviews author Leslie Watkins and tracks the influence of this April Fools jape into a new generation of "secret space program" fabulists - 20 and back, baby!

Friday, February 20, 2026

SCORING THE SEERS IN 1969 by Brad Steiger









It's easy for them to make the predictions, but how do our psychic stars actually score on their prognostication? Steiger grades a nice clutch of midcentury psychic stars here, most of whom would become regulars in his '70s book series coauthored with Warren Smith: What the Seers Predict - Smith would continue this series solo as the Predictions for 197X line before scuttling it after the final entry for 1977.

Supposed "hits" include Richard Burton and Liz Taylor going round and round, which tells you what to expect here. Conflict in the Middle East is another easy "prediction." Steiger rates predictress Irene Hughes especially high, with visions of de Gaulle's retirement and Ho Chi Minh's death among other hits. Steiger would cobble together a promotional volume for Hughes later this year with Know the Future Today!

Jeane Dixon's prediction of Governor Reagan having issues with rioting is part of a forgotten saga where Reagan proved his hippie-bashing bonafides via vehement rhetoric towards campus protests in California. See John Dolan's classic article "Reagan's Cheshire Snarl" for a window into this memory holed piece of the Gipper's career. Race baiting Dixon also predicts that Nixon will do more to advance the Negro's status than "any other man in the last 100 years" ... Steiger wisely considers this one too soon to call.

Frequent fliers like John Pendragon, Malva Dee, Paul Twitchell of the Eckankar cult, and the Countess Gypsy Markoff Amaya round out the proceedings. Amaya whiffs on a prediction of Castro's fall in 1970 ... woof! One of the most recent traces of her online is on the blog Eleanor Britton's People, where an anonymous commenter describes caring for Amaya's chihuahua and says the last they knew of her was in 1989. It's entirely possible Amaya suffered the same fate of so many predicting Castro's downfall, and ended up preceding him by quite some time.

Gypsy Markoff Amaya

The commenter ends by saying "we are trying to figure out what happened to her." How sad that so many of the psychics here have faded into history, with neither hide nor hair of their final fates before passing on to the great unknown. At least we know that John Pendragon passed in 1970, as sad as that knowledge is - he was relatively young at just 59 years old!
  
A rare pic of the addled John Pendragon!

This article is also available to read and download at archive dot org.

Courtesy Fate magazine, Volume 23 - Number 1, January 1970.

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

ARCHIVAL UPDATES: ARE THE INVADERS COMING?



Steven Tyler's hopeful-but-skeptical UFO text Are the Invaders Coming? is now available to read and download at archive dot org! Whither our man of mystery? He wrote one more book on the paranormal and then disappeared into the unknown ...




Courtesy Tower Books, 1968.

Saturday, January 31, 2026

COSMIC DEBRIS: Tapes to Explore the Unknown!


In sync with Brad Steiger's article on Dick and Trenna Sutphen, here's an ad in Fate magazine for some of the Sutphens' self-hypnosis tapes. The ad also features upcoming seminar dates, with Brad Steiger as a guest speaker at the Scottsdale, AZ conference, and an offer of a free subscription to Dick's Self Help Update magazine (just pay S+H)!

The Sutphen Family channel on youtube has archived many, many recordings and home movies of the Sutphens, including some vintage tapes. Check 'em out!

From Fate magazine, Volume 32 - Number 4, April 1979.

YOUR PAST LIFE CAN SET YOU FREE by Brad Steiger









Article in Fate magazine by Steiger on hypnotist and professional past life regressor Dick Sutphen, who aims to help people recover their past life memories. Steiger opens with the cheeky claim recycled from his volume Psychic Travel (written as Christopher Dane) that real life convict and prison reform crusader Edward H. Morrell was astrally projecting during the tortures he endured while incarcerated - of course, Steiger is taking the fictionalized aspects that Jack London added for his novel The Star Rover and pretending London got them straight from Morrell, who he interviewed as part of the background research on prisons for his story!

All this by Steiger is to claim that Sutphen may be a reincarnation of Morrell!

Steiger and his then-wife Francie were living the New Age crystal cowboy life down in Arizona at this time, and he describes attending a seminar by Sutphen and his wife Trenna in Scottsdale. Learning their past lives can, according to Sutphen, help people deal with problems in their current lives such as impotence and alcoholism. People also report Atlantean and extraterrestrial heritage through their regressions, which must have been of interest to Steiger per his Starseed theories, though he's careful to point out that Sutphen personally doesn't ascribe to any one interpretation.

This article is also available to read and download at archive dot org.

Courtesy Fate magazine, Volume 32 - Number 4, April 1979.