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The Fatima Incident of 1917 was a critical event in the history of the paranormal. Believers and skeptics have long pondered the identity of Our Lady of Fatima, the brilliant entity who appeared above Fatima. Was she the Virgin Mary, sharing divine secrets with believers? Was she an angel, bringing a message of peace to a world at war? Or was she an alien being, inspiring humanity to look up and contemplate the mystery of the Cosmos? Now, in Fatima Revisited, an international panel of top scholars subjects the legendary apparitions of Fatima - widely regarded as a sacred religious event - to the scrutiny of modern scientific analysis; explores the connections between encounters with apparitions, angels, and aliens; and proposes a new paradigm for such unexplained phenomena. This third volume in the acclaimed trilogy, which includes the definitive histories of the Fatima case entitled Heavenly Lights and Celestial Secrets, is the result of a transdisciplinary study by the Multicultural Apparitions Research International Academic Network (Project MARIAN) at the University Fernando Pessoa in Porto, Portugal.

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To anyone interested in anomalous events that bridge the objective and subjective worlds..[this book is]...essential reading....Fatima Revisited is a multidisciplinary collaboration [that shows] that quality studies of paranormal phenomena are being published. - Bob Rickard, Fortean Times ...a number of researchers and authorities... present their takes on Fatima. With the exception of Michael Persinger's masterly exposition of the geomagnetic forces that might have been involved, few of them set out to throw any light on the nitty-gritty of the encounter happenings. Rather, they seek to set those events in a wider context, and we are treated to a variety of perspective, ranging across religion (though not much of that), folklore, anthropology and more. Authors include David Jacobs, Stanley Krippner and Jacques Vallee, together with authorities- mainly academics-from many different disciplines. Their subjects range widely, from angels and alien abductors to altered states of consciousness, dream states and mind control, neuro-theology and the physics of 'high strangeness.' Some keep within the bounds of existing knowledge, other head out into the wide blue yonder with speculations as to what really happened to those three little children on that day in May which started out like any other, yet ended so fatefully. - Hilary Evans, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research

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Fernando Fernandes is a professor at the Superior Institute of Engineering in Porto. He has a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering and Computing from the University of Porto. He was a co-founder of the Portuguese Society of Scientific Exploration (SPEC), is an associate investigator at CTEC at the University Fernando Pessoa, and is a member of the collective CDU of the Anomaly Foundation in Spain. Prominent among his areas of interest are parapsychology, paranormal experiences and beliefs, and altered states of human consciousness. Joaquim Fernandes is a professor of History at the University Fernando Pessoa in Porto, Portugal, where he is a member of the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies on Consciousness (CTEC). He holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary History. His doctoral thesis explored ""The Imagined Extraterrestrial in Portugal from the Middle of the 19th Century to the Modern Era."" He is the co-editor of CTEC's journal Cons-sciences. His interests are the history of science and the comparative anthropology of secular and religious visionary experiences, emphasizing the Fátima apparitions of 1917, about which he has co-authored three works with Fina d'Armada. Raul Berenguel, M.S. is a research associate of the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies on Consciousness (CTEC) at the University Fernando Pessoa, where he began his investigations in 1971. He has been affiliated with the Center of Astronomical Studies and Unusual Phenomena (CEAFI) and the National Commission of Investigation of UFO Phenomena (CNIFO). He was the founder of the Portuguese Society of Scientific Exploration and is the author of several publications covering diverse borderland science issues.

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