Here is a fellow who has researched both UFOs and reincarnation…I’d love to have coffee with this guy!

By RUFFIN PREVOST
Gazette Wyoming Bureau

CODY – While a robotic lander digs in the Martian soil in an effort to detect traces of ancient primitive life, a Wyoming psychologist will speak here Saturday about his belief that intelligent aliens have often visited Earth.

R. Leo Sprinkle, a counselor in private practice in Laramie, has spent 45 years researching sightings of unidentified flying objects and speaking with people who claim to have had encounters with extraterrestrials.

Sprinkle acknowledges that his research seems at odds with the mainstream scientific pursuit of life on other worlds – like NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander, a $450 million mission aimed at detecting water and organic matter on the red planet.

“I tried to get my colleagues involved, but that didn’t go over too well,” Sprinkle said of his years doing research as a professor of psychology at the University of Wyoming.

Sprinkle, who has a doctoral degree in psychology, arrived at UW in 1964 and did research into hypnosis and reincarnation as well as UFOs.

He left the university in 1989 after being pressured to do so by administrators, who feared that his work cast the school in a negative light, Sprinkle said.

His research since the early 1960s has consistently shown that people who report alien encounters or UFO sightings are generally psychologically well adjusted and have strong educational backgrounds, Sprinkle said.

Skeptics point out that no physical evidence exists to support claims of alien visitors or advanced spacecraft.

“There has been a long history of people in the know who say the government has known for 60 years that flying saucers are here and that we’ve had some crashed disks and bodies recovered, but the information has been hidden,” Sprinkle said.

Though he has been a frequent speaker in the past at UFO conferences around the world, Sprinkle, 78, said he now gives presentations only once or twice a year.

More than 40 people are expected to attend a dinner, slide show and discussion Saturday by Sprinkle scheduled at the Thomas the Apostle Center in Cody, said Connie Moody, a director of the retreat owned by the Wyoming Episcopal Diocese.

“We’ve had a tremendous response to this, so we’re really excited,” Moody said.

The center is open to all denominations and also hosts private events focused on a variety of topics not necessarily endorsed by the Episcopal Church, Moody said.

She said that Sprinkle’s talk is part of a planned “out of the box” series of lectures to be scheduled at the retreat.

Sprinkle said his presentation Saturday will “speculate on the possibility that ETs are here to help us raise our level of awareness,” and will explore connections between the concepts of reincarnation, immortality and souls.

“Technology and science are coming together with ancient religious stories,” he said, adding that the world of quantum physics may have connections to UFO sightings and related phenomena.

Sprinkle said he was invited to speak by the Rev. Warren Murphy, an associate clergyman at Cody’s Christ Episcopal Church, who had heard Sprinkle lecture on reincarnation…

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Commonwealth Paranormal, a new group of paranormal investigators, recently emerged in Eastern and Central Kentucky. And, they are already are getting requests from people all across the region allegedly experiencing paranormal activity in their homes and businesses. “The response has been overwhelming” says Co-Founder Joe Clark of Salyersville. “We have been an official group now for just a short time, and we have already received several cases, ranging from private residences to businesses.”

Although the group Commonwealth Paranormal is new, it’s members are no strangers to the paranormal field. Co-Founders Chris Dedman, Joe Clark, and Eric Willis, along with several other members of the group were previously members of an area TAPS family group. TAPS, short for The Atlantic Paranormal Society, is a paranormal group that is featured on the Sci-Fi Channel series “Ghost Hunters“. They have affiliate groups around the world. In fact, Dedman and Clark were in leadership positions with the affiliate group before resigning to pursue Commonwealth Paranormal.

“I’ve been involved in paranormal investigations for six years now, and I love it more today than ever”, says Clark. “There is no greater feeling in the world than the feeling you receive after you have helped a client through what is often times a frightening or terrifying experience.”

According to Co-Founder Chris Dedman of Louisville, eighty percent of all alleged paranormal activity can be attributed to natural causes. “We investigate using scientific methods, and most of the time, we are able to debunk the activity. However there are times you can’t. And it is then, when you rule out all the possibilities, that you can declare the activity as being “paranormal.”

Both Clark and Dedman have had their share of encounters with the paranormal...

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For more information on Commonwealth Paranormal, visit their website at www.CommonwealthParanormal.net

I take everything that relates to celebrities with a grain of salt, but here are some interesting words from a Dr. Walter Semkiw, a physician working at Kaiser-Permanente in San Francisco who is the author of two books: “Return of the Revolutionaries: The Case for Reincarnation” and “Soul Groups United and Born Again: Reincarnation Cases Involving International Celebrities.”

O my, Oprah was a man in a past lifetime? Who? You vote.

OUR HEALTH: Doctor who believes in reincarnation says gender, race, religion change over lifetimes.

You are not who you think you are.

You are really someone else. Someone who lived before your birth.

You are reincarnated.

This is the message of Dr. Walter Semkiw, a board-certified physician working at Kaiser-Permanente in San Francisco. Semkiw also is the author of two books: “Return of the Revolutionaries: The Case for Reincarnation” and “Soul Groups United and Born Again: Reincarnation Cases Involving International Celebrities.”

Semkiw insists research proves from lifetime to lifetime, facial features, personality traits, passions aptitudes and linguistic writing style remain consistent.

Q.You firmly believe we are all reincarnated?

A.Absolutely. The range of cases proves that.

Q.And you were?

A.John Adams. I was told I was John Adams in a session with a medium in 1948 but I didn’t believe it at all. I completed medical training, got married and moved to Southern California. Then in 1996 this voice – like a megaphone – told me to study the lifetime of Adams. It was powerful enough. I realized some of the photos look exactly like me and we have the same personality traits. That’s how I got into the reincarnation field.

Q.You have researched an impressive array of clients – particularly children who seem to remember details of past lives.

A. I believe the most impressive is Barbro Karlen, who has had memories since childhood of being Holocaust victim Anne Frank. Even the current president of the Anne Frank Foundation who knew Anne Frank when she was alive believes Barbro is the reincarnation.

Q.What’s so important about the Barbro-Anne Frank story?

A. It demonstrates that religion can change from lifetime to lifetime. Anne Frank was born a Jew and Barbro is a Christian. The observation that souls can change religion, race, ethnicity and gender has great societal implications.

There is a transformative effect that can happen in society. We can prevent future events like the Holocaust or 9/11 and that’s what makes me passionate about reincarnation research.

Q.What’s interesting to me is that people seem to have the same facial features from lifetime to lifetime.

A. Yes, although gender and race can change. Oprah Winfrey was a man.

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