1 DAY AGO - One of the advantages of being a librarian with access to the worlds largest UFO, Fortean and paranormal phenomena archive, AFU, is now an then discovering documents giving new data and unique insights into some aspect of the UFO contactee enigma. Presently I am making a study of the the late George Adamski co-worker H.C. Petersen´s archive, part of which was donated to AFU in 2013. Recently I found a very intriguing article, Chemical Analysis, written by George Adamski in 1961. An article implying a possible connection to or involvement in the once secret CIA MK-Ultra mind control program. Experiments conducted during the 1950 and 60s. Here is a relevant quote from this article:H C Petersen”In the past several years the space people have tested our various chemicals that are supposed to be for health and the betterment of human beings. As a result 62 out of 80 space people, who took these drugs, had to be taken back to their home planet in order to get them back to normal, while 6 Collapse

2 DAYS AGO - Nadine Lambert was born. A renowned researcher within educational settings, Lambert was the founder of the University of California, Berkeley's doctoral program in school psychology and served as director of this innovative program from 1965 until 2004. The recipient of many honors in the course of an esteemed career, Lambert received the Distinguished Professional Contributions Award from the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1986 in recognition that her 'research on the social and the psychological antecedents of various childhood and adolescent mental health problems, as well as her work with hyperactive children, has contributed significantly to the improved treatment and understanding of many childhood and adolescent behavioral problems.' In 1998 the National Association of School Psychologists named Nadine Lambert a 'Living Legend,' and in 2005, she was awarded the APA Division 16 Senior Scientist Award for long-standing and exceptional contributions to the science Collapse

4 DAYS AGO - Lois Stolz was born. A pioneer in the field of childhood education and development, Stolz served as the first president of the National Association of Nursery Education in 1929 and as the first woman to chair the Committee for the National Society for the Study of Education oversaw a landmark publication on Preschool and Parental Education; which proved instrumental in stimulating interest and groundbreaking research within child development. In the course of a long and distinguished academic career, Stolz worked as a research associate at the Institute of Child Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley before joining the faculty of psychology at Stanford University in 1944 where she remained until her retirement in 1957. A highly respected author, 'Your Child’s Development and Guidance' published in 1940 is widely cited as Lois Meek Stolz's most important publication. See following link for quality child psychology information and resources. Child Psychology Collapse

6 DAYS AGO - Robert Sessions Woodworth was born. A prominent academic psychologist in the first half of the twentieth century, Woodworth studied psychology under William James at Harvard University and earned a Ph.D. in psychology at Columbia University under the supervision of James McKeen Cattell. Renowned for his work on a range of topics within the field of educational and physiological psychology, in particular the transfer of training and neural organization in emotion, Woodworth is also widely acclaimed for the influential and very popular textbooks his wrote; most notably 'Experimental Psychology,' the first edition of which was published in 1938. Among his many professional accomplishments Robert Woodworth served as president of the American Psychological Association in 1914, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1921 and in 1956 was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Psychological Foundation for 'distinguished and continuous service to scholarship and research in Collapse

7 DAYS AGO - ”…the history of ufology should be placed within an esoteric context. Throughout history there has been a tradition of higher knowledge, and the claim that it was accessible to us, if only we agreed to be tested, to work through certain spiritual problems… That´s the meaning of the hermetic schools. The UFO problem, the question of parapsychology, are central to this business. Looking for the solution isn´t just a scientific project; it´s a quest, an initiation, an enigma like that of the Sphinx…”. (Jacques Vallee, Forbidden Science II, p. 211).I am often reminded of this thoughtful quote from Jacques Vallee when looking back at the many years of UFO research and the spiritual quest of my own life. Several colleagues and friends in the UFO research community have recognized this profound idea and besides being committed to the scientific, empirical method in research have also, sometimes in secret, being sincere students of the Forbidden Science – The Esoteric Tradition. This quest Collapse

10/14/2019 - Joseph Plateau was born. An important contributor in the field of psychophysics, Plateau's research examined the perceptual processes underlying color vision and movement. Plateau is widely credited as being the first person to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image which he achieved by creating a device known as a 'phenakistoscope.' Essentially a 'spindle viewer' a phenakistoscope consists of two discs seated on the same axis, one with slots around its edge and the other containing a sequence of drawings, which the human eye perceives as continually moving when the discs are spinning in the same direction. See following link to learn all about the fascinating history of psychology. History of Psychology Collapse

10/12/2019 - Robert Rosenthal's classic book 'Experimenter Effects in Behavioral Research' was published. The book grew out of a reanalysis of the statistical data within Rosenthal's own doctoral dissertation which he stated 'suggested strongly that my hypothesis or expectation about how the subjects should respond had somehow been communicated to the subjects so that my hypothesis might have become a self-fulfilling prophecy.' Such was the impact of the Robert Rosenthal's book that by 1979, The Science Citation Index (SCI) and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCITM) reported that it had been cited over 740 times. See following link for psychology research methods information and resources. Psychology Research Methods Collapse

10/10/2019 - Eminent psychologist Clark Leonard Hull made the first of many date recorded notes in what collectively became known as his 'idea books,' where he wrote down potential research questions, observations of interest and theoretical ideas throughout the course of his long and distinguished professional career. Spanning 50 years, Hull's remarkable intellectual diary consisted of 73 books of handwritten notes, the last of which is dated 21st April 1952, recorded 19 days before his death. Collapse

10/8/2019 - The first volume of Ernest Jones's 'The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud' was published. Subtitled 'The Formative Years and the Great Discoveries, 1856-1900,' part 1 of this classic three volume biography drew upon over 2000 letters, many of which Freud wrote to his future wife Martha Bernays during their 4 year engagement. Jones's notes in the preface that 'The task of compiling a biography of Freud's life is a dauntingly stupendous one.... The reasons why I nevertheless yielded to the suggestion that I should undertake it were the considerations pressed on me that I was the only survivor of a small circle of co-workers (the 'Committee') in constant intimate contact with Freud, that I had been a close friend for 40 years and also during that period had played a central part in what has been called the "psychoanalytical movement.' See following links for Sigmund Freud information and resources. Sigmund Freud Collapse