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    Thread: Julie Beischel in Gwyneth Paltrow’s New Netflix Show
Post: RE: Julie Beischel in Gwyneth Paltrow’s New Netfli...

Oh god, why did she had to associate with Paltrow? That woman credibility is such a disaster. Hope at least she is making good money for future projects. I really like her work and I don't want to see...
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    Thread: African grey parrots are smart enough to help a bird in need
Post: RE: African grey parrots are smart enough to help ...

Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2020-01-12, 10:30 PM) -- There's also recently reports of wombats helping other animals fleeing the fires in Australia, looking for some confirmation as apparently it was unex...
Posted by Raf999 in General Consciousness Science , 2020-01-14, 04:21 PM
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    Thread: Consciousness during CPR
Post: RE: Consciousness during CPR

tim Wrote: (2019-12-22, 10:23 PM) -- Raf, you sound like someone who's complaining about being sold a 'dodgy car' by the members of this forum, (or maybe just me alone), I don't know. I've never trie...
Posted by Raf999 in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2019-12-22, 11:31 PM
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    Thread: Consciousness during CPR
Post: RE: Consciousness during CPR

Excuse me, but are we taking Bellig's case as 100% confirmed? I haven't heard third party accounts of the event, or an interview with the patient. I don't have anything to really validate that NDE ot...
Posted by Raf999 in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2019-12-22, 04:47 PM
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    Thread: Consciousness during CPR
Post: RE: Consciousness during CPR

tim Wrote: (2019-12-20, 07:10 PM) -- Pam Reynolds heard a conversation when her brainwaves were flat. People in cardiac arrest with no intervention have flat brainwaves=zero brainwaves. In the second...
Posted by Raf999 in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2019-12-21, 03:19 PM
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    Thread: Consciousness during CPR
Post: RE: Consciousness during CPR

letseat Wrote: (2019-12-20, 10:00 AM) -- I agree, but it wasn't presented as a grey area by Jeffrey Long or Parnia, unless I'm mistaken. The claim being that the brain remained flatlined throughout t...
Posted by Raf999 in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2019-12-20, 12:22 PM
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    Thread: Latest from Dr Sam Parnia
Post: RE: Latest from Dr Sam Parnia

I suppose there will be no hits. The implications would be too big, and it would change our world forever, possibly collapsing our entire society. If there really is some higher power, I doubt it w...
Posted by Raf999 in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2019-10-26, 10:35 PM
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    Thread: Dallas Officer Describes Spiritual Brush With Afterlife
Post: RE: Dallas Officer Describes Spiritual Brush With ...

Typoz Wrote: (2019-08-22, 08:43 AM) -- I'd say we need to look at all the NDEs - the spiritually transformative ones as well as the veridical-content ones together as a whole. While there are some ND...
Posted by Raf999 in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2019-08-22, 09:43 AM
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    Thread: Cryptographic proof of survival
Post: RE: Cryptographic proof of survival

Typoz Wrote: (2019-08-21, 08:00 AM) -- "The same could be said with NDEs they also never bring any information back they couldn’t know beforehand (from the departed)." I'm pretty sure this asserti...
Posted by Raf999 in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2019-08-21, 08:21 AM
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    Thread: Latest from Dr Sam Parnia
Post: RE: Latest from Dr Sam Parnia

Twitter update from Dr. Parnia, it seems they are launching a massive conference. https://www.nyas.org/events/2019/what-happens-when-we-die-insights-from-resuscitation-science/ (https://www.nyas.or...
Posted by Raf999 in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2019-08-10, 03:20 PM
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    Thread: Brain Damage Saved His Music
Post: RE: Brain Damage Saved His Music

sbu Wrote: (2019-08-03, 03:26 PM) -- It’s an interesting report. It’s stuff like this that ultimately may reveal new learnings that might change existing paradigms. Yet reading the full report it’s r...
Posted by Raf999 in General Consciousness Science , 2019-08-03, 03:30 PM
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    Thread: NDE Text Resources Thread
Post: RE: NDE Text Resources Thread

Chris Wrote: (2019-08-02, 07:30 AM) -- Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's a new review article on NDEs: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11910-019-0983-2 Semiology and Mechanisms...
Posted by Raf999 in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2019-08-02, 11:32 AM
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    Thread: Mirror-touch synaesthesia
Post: RE: Mirror-touch synaesthesia

What I find interesting is that this blog seems to have good references. A good science teacher, respected too, and a competent neuroscientist. it's not some people claiming superpowers in their homes...
Posted by Raf999 in Other Phenomena , 2019-07-27, 10:11 AM
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    Thread: How to Survive a Lightning Strike
Post: RE: How to Survive a Lightning Strike

Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2019-07-24, 02:05 PM) -- How to Survive a Lightning Strike (https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-survive-a-lightning-strike?utm_source=pocket-newtab) Ferris Jabr -- pr...
Posted by Raf999 in General Consciousness Science , 2019-07-25, 09:00 AM
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    Thread: Susan Blackmore's Psychology Today blog posts
Post: RE: Susan Blackmore's Psychology Today blog posts

Chris Wrote: (2019-07-21, 10:59 AM) -- Evidently this is to promote the North-American edition of her book, "Seeing Myself: The new science of out-of-body experiences," which was published in the UK ...
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    Thread: Is there any value in rationality?
Post: RE: Is there any value in rationality?

Rationality is what got the human race so far into discovery of the world. Science is rational. Even parapsychology is based on rationality, just researching fringe topics.
Posted by Raf999 in Philosophical Discussions , 2019-07-24, 10:57 AM
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    Thread: Pam Reynolds' NDE--the "clicks": Continuous or discontinuous?
Post: RE: Pam Reynolds' NDE--the "clicks": Continuous or...

tim Wrote: (2019-07-22, 04:17 PM) -- She was monitored all the way through the operation. No anaesthesia awareness was detected, Raf, the surgeons who conducted the operation have told us this. B...
Posted by Raf999 in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2019-07-22, 05:05 PM
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    Thread: Pam Reynolds' NDE--the "clicks": Continuous or discontinuous?
Post: RE: Pam Reynolds' NDE--the "clicks": Continuous or...

As far as I know, the monitoring was constant as they have to be sure the patient is under burst suppression all the time.  She never heard the clicks during her NDE, in neither of the two parts comp...
Posted by Raf999 in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2019-07-22, 03:24 PM
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    Thread: NDE study by Kondziella and Olsen
Post: RE: NDE study by Kondziella and Olsen

letseat Wrote: (2019-07-13, 08:34 AM) -- People can actually dream without REM sleep. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160809121817.htm We've known people can dream under anesthesia ...
Posted by Raf999 in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2019-07-13, 08:53 AM
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    Thread: Reber and Alcock respond to Cardeña's paper in the American Psychologist
Post: RE: Reber and Alcock respond to Cardeña's paper in...

Wow, the basis for this paper are really horrid and unscientifical. Now, you know that normally I'm higly skeptical about psi phenomena outside NDEs, but saying that "we didn't look at the data becaus...
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