<div> </div> <div>Hey, but remember Bridey Murphy? Sort of ties in with the God/faith question and the unscientific mentality which allows for WMD to exist because of assertion by the God fearing authority.</div> <div> </div> <div>Regards,</div> <div>Mike B)</div> <div>************************************************************************</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><FONT face=Arial>Bridey Murphy was a 19th century woman from Cork, Ireland, who began speaking through Virginia Tighe in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1952 when Morey Bernstein, a local businessman and amateur hypnotist, hypnotized her. Bernstein encouraged <A href="http://skepdic.com/pastlife.html">past life regression </A>of his subject and she cooperated by speaking in an Irish brogue and claiming to be a 19th century woman in Ireland. Bernstein hypnotized Tighe many times after that. While under <A href="http://skepdic.com/hypnosis.html">hypnosis</A>, she sang Irish songs
and told Irish stories, always as Bridey Murphy. Bernstein's book, <I>The Search for Bridey Murphy</I>, became a best-seller. (Tighe is called Ruth Simmons in the book.) Recordings of the hypnotic sessions were made and translated into more than a dozen languages. The recordings sold well, too. The <A href="http://skepdic.com/reincarn.html">reincarnation</A> boom in American publishing had begun. </FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial>Newspapers sent reporters to Ireland to investigate. Was there a red-headed Bridey Murphy who lived in Ireland in the nineteenth century? Who knows, but one paper--the <I>Chicago American</I>--found one in Wisconsin in the 20th century. Bridie Murphey Corkell lived in the house across the street from where Virginia Tighe grew up. What Virginia ...</FONT></div> <div>full: <A href="http://skepdic.com/bridey.html">http://skepdic.com/bridey.html</A></div><BR><BR>Watch the communist manifestoon!<br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1oGIffyVVk<p> 
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