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What is ARPAST?

ARPAST - The Arkansas Paranormal and Anomalous Studies Team is a science-based research group dedicated to furthering our measured understanding of anomalous and unexplained phenomena via the utilization of state-of-the-art equipment, methodologies, and techniques.

Our goal is not to "prove" or "disprove" the existence of "ghosts" or "spirits." To carry such an agenda would be to presume an understanding of that which is not currently understood within the context of currently known scientific fact.

Our mission is to document, collect, and analyze environmental and corroborated data surrounding paranormal events while ruling out or uncovering any possible explanatory causes for such phenomena.

Furthermore, we are NOT "ghost busters," nor do we do "interventions", "cleansings", or "exorcisms." BEWARE - those who claim to provide such "services" are irresponsibly propagating fraudulent claims. Since paranormal phenomena remains mostly unexplained, how could anyone effectively provide those services with any certainty of success?


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Featured Exclusive Article

2013: An Evolutionary Shift
By: Larry Flaxman
President, ARPAST

Excerpt taken from "2013: End of Days or A New Beginning," by Marie D. Jones.

According to traditional interpretations of the Mayan calendar, the world will end on December 21, 2012. Are we interpreting the “end” with literary creativity? Will there truly be an apocalyptic cataclysm of cosmic proportions, which will obliterate the human race? Will changes such as NASA’s prediction of the reversal of the suns magnetic poles cause substantive changes in our world perhaps causing environmental instability?

Rather than embracing the popular “doom and gloom” predictions, I believe that 2012 will bring about evolutionary changes…but not in the manner, which the classic tomes envisage. I believe that perhaps the “end” actually signifies a global transformative shift in mankind’s consciousness and awareness. Much like a blind man unexpectedly gaining the gift of sight – I imagine that our newfound perceptions will likewise be as momentous.

Consider both Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of “morphic resonance” and Dr. Carl Jung’s model of “collective unconscious”. Both posit strikingly similar concepts regarding a type of field, which links all beings together. With the forecasted changes, is it outside of the realm of possibility to suppose that 2012 will unlock certain repressed neural pathways in a way, which will allow universal access to this field?

For centuries we have been analyzing and considering the Mayan calendar ending as a possible link to our species mortality. Rather than a literal end, will humankind finally reach the level of ascendancy, which has been prophesized for thousands of year? Fortunately, we only have a few more years to find out.

"A human being is part of a whole called by us "Universe", a part limited in space and time. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison to us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

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