Tag Archives: imagination

A Short Break to Announce OUAC issue 19

Issue 19 of Once Upon A Crocodile e-zine, (the weird, humourous thing I edit and illustrate online) was released yesterday. There are a couple of extremely dark humour / funny-horror tales lurking within it this time. Here is a peek at the contents…

ESP, Psychokinesis, and Morphic Resonance

ESP consists of precognition (or retrocausality, where future events affect the present), clairvoyance, and telepathy, though some psychical researchers claim that psychokinesis (the ability to move objects using only the thoughts) is also a form of ESP. Others believe that ESP and PK are just related to one another, with PK being separate from ESP.

Maxwell Cade and the Signals of the Mind and Body

From meditation and martial arts to inventing methods of scanning the body for inflammation, studying electrical skin resistance, and hypnosis to teaching people to train their brainwaves, (all while dealing with two broken necks, diabetes, and a stroke) Maxwell Cade was quite the character.

Art & The Sleep Demon

Last week we delved into the causes of sleep paralysis, what it is, its influence on literature and folklore, and how it was viewed in history. But how has it been portrayed visually?

The Crow King and the Tengu

Whilst I was halfway through writing a book of short stories (still a work in progress) about a particular character, “The Crow King” – a sort of minor bird-god – that I found out about the Tengu, and noticed a bizarre and uncanny resemblance. I thought I’d share my findings and how this serendipity occurred here.

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Why do we tell stories and how are archetypes used in literature and marketing?

Ghosts and Carl Jung’s Collective Unconscious

Whilst I was ferreting about in a graveyard testing Ghost-hunting apps on my phone last week, one of the apps mentioned that ghosts may be part of Carl Jung’s “Collective Unconscious”. So… who was Carl Jung, and what had he got to say about ghosts? Read on to find out. Carl Jung This fellow wasContinue reading “Ghosts and Carl Jung’s Collective Unconscious”