Team Pentacle

- Swapnil Desai “Witch” – The one word that is as fearful or dreaded as a Demon. Wicca – A religion shunned by the New World. Witchcraft – A subject more feared than accepted.   When I was asked to write on this subject, I willingly and promptly accepted, not because of any “folklorish” elements of this topic that I will be addressing, but its because Who I am and What I believe is hugely misunderstood.   As much as the origin of the word “witch” is still debated, One popular etymology for witch maintains that it is related to the English words wit , wise , wisdom [Germanic root * weit- , * wait-, * wit- ; Indo-European root * weid -.* woid- , * wid- ]. 1   Another theory claims that witch is derived from a root meaning “holy” or “sacred” and thus reflects the witch’s ancient religious role [Germanic root * weih- , * waih-, * wih- ; Indo-European root * weik -, * woik- , * wik- ]. This appears in the Modern German word for Christmas, Weihnacht, literally “holy...

-Shishir Kumar I don’t know where to start this narration from. I am even unsure whether to put this incident in my experiences with ghosts or not. To be clearer I put this very instance of my life in the category of “supernatural”. It was weird and is till date a puzzle about what actually had happened during that missing hour of my life. Year 2002 Date 16th January I clearly remember the date as that week of my life was different. Far away from books, no isomerism, no LHS=RHS, no reflection and rarefaction and no tension of calculating the per capita income – a perfect life as I imagined. I studied in the 11th standard then. Back in my school, my name meant trouble for the school administration. I was the ring master of all the students who were ‘grown ups’. Bashing of a Romeos, non-cooperation movement by students, seizer of heap of crackers before Dipawali, weird chemicals in chemistry labs to the sobbing smarty and raw agents – the administration exactly knew wh...

Why are the alien lives and alien worlds so unfathomable and incomprehensible? -Rohan Desai Cosmologists have made congruent efforts to determine what lies beyond earth. Are there rills and rivulets in the other universes? Are there innocuous bacteria or viruses? What exactly is it which grabs a high number of raised eyebrows? You are right to surmise that it’s the possibility of alien existence. Like aliens even the alien universes are difficult to comprehend. What exactly is it which imparts inscrutability to such quaint realm? It’s just not the limited intelligibility but also the inadequacies of the present equipments. Nevertheless, tons of cosmologists brought their efforts to the fore. They rendered best possible attempts to glean factual data about the alien worlds, alien entities and their other convolutions. One of the most discussable topics currently is the white dwarf. As each cosmological aspirant knows white dwarf is a defunct star which gradually cools down t...

All about "DJINN" Throughout history man has always had a deep attraction for the supernatural and the unseen. The existence of a world parallel to our own has always fascinated people. This world is commonly referred to as the spirit world, and almost every set of people have some concept of one. With some people, these spirits are no more than the souls of dead people- or ghosts. With others, spirits are either the forces of good or the forces of evil - both battling against one another to gain influence over humanity. However, both of these explanations are more in tune with folk tales and fantasy. The true explanation of such a world comes from Islam. Like every other way, Islam also claims to explain this realm of the unseen. It is from this realm that Islam explains to us about the world of the Djinn. The Islamic explanation of the Djinn provides us with so many answers to modem day mysteries. Without the knowledge of this world, the Muslims would become like th...

The most difficult task for any paranormal investigator on a research venture is to point out the exact type of haunting he is working on. Usually it is termed as an ACTIVE HAUNTING or RESIDUAL HAUNTING depending on matching the nature of reading which are received and what is documented in the past. Usually the haunting are classified under the RESIDUAL bracket. The terms used today in the paranormal research were penned down in somewhere early 1800 and since then there has been no updates to the dictum. The documentation was done as per the research and the psychic/medium call during that time, BUT  Have we not evolved scientifically as well as spiritually then we were in the 1800?  Why do we have to still map our reading with what was documented years before?  Could there not be a possibility that the nature of paranormal haunting have changed during the time of evolution ? These are the few questions every TRUE paranormal investigator should ask himself befor...

Planet Earth is one of the many plants of this universal system which is inhibited by intelligent species called as HUMANs. To explore the earth system we get visitors from across the universe and the milky way whom we call ALIENS. ALIEN is a word tagged to something which did not originate on this earth, sometimes also referred as extraterrestrial life being. The hypothetical form varies from a small bacterial like organism to some super complex human being. The testing and research on this hypothesis is clubbed under the branch of exobiology OR astrobiology(study of the earth viewed in its astronomical context).   Scientists consider the extra terrestrial life to be plausible and hence there is an ongoing research happening since the early 20th century with use of radio frequencies and telescopes and higher gadgets.    In 2013 astronomers reported based on kepler space mission data that there could be around 40 billion earth size planets orbiti...