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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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Will Wrote: (2024-04-12, 07:40 PM) -- I was most struck by this Parnia quote from the article; I've never heard him make such a bold prediction before. -- It's an interesting prediction for sure. ...
Posted by Typoz in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-14, 02:38 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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I was most struck by this Parnia quote from the article; I've never heard him make such a bold prediction before. Quote: -- Parnia, the resuscitation specialist, who studies the physical proce...
Posted by Will in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-12, 07:40 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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Laird Wrote: (2024-04-02, 04:31 PM) -- It's the Guardian, so you can guess how it goes. I won't bother to quote from it. The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that make...
Posted by nbtruthman in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-02, 10:35 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences

It's the Guardian, so you can guess how it goes. I won't bother to quote from it. The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’ (https://www.theguardian.c...
Posted by Laird in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-02, 04:31 PM
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    Thread: The Respected Oxford Professors Who Say They Time Traveled
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See also this thread: Ghosts or time travel? - "the Ghosts of Petit Trianon" (https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-ghosts-or-time-travel-the-ghosts-of-petit-trianon)
Posted by Typoz in Other Phenomena , 2024-03-24, 05:57 PM
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    Thread: The Respected Oxford Professors Who Say They Time Traveled
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The Respected Oxford Professors Who Say They Time Traveled (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/time-travel-oxford-versailles) by Chris Wheatley  Quote: -- On a hot August afternoon in Fran...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Other Phenomena , 2024-03-21, 05:57 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-07, 10:19 PM) -- What I mean is religions often will say that some action is actually bad, whereas in some mysticism - especially the more modern stuff where you choos...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-10, 11:15 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-07, 07:00 PM) -- It strikes me that many of your recent descriptive explanations in our discourse regarding the soul and the soul/human relationship (derived from your intu...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-10, 11:05 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-07, 01:37 AM) -- I think the challenge is religions do try to offer some avenue to make sense of Evil, if only in recognizing Evil *as* Evil. Mysticism can make Evi...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-07, 07:36 AM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-06, 11:43 PM) -- For myself I don't think I can take the diverse, even contradictory accounts of how souls supposedly choose to suffer and whatever supposed plan "God"...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-07, 12:02 AM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-05, 10:53 PM) -- I think this is the most difficult to overcome argument, a forced confrontation with the stubborn real existence of the worst sort of experiences that huma...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-06, 11:30 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-03-04, 05:30 PM) -- Yes, I recall an US Air Force veteran once saying that the idea people have soulmates is ridiculous because it implies some poor child ending up disab...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-06, 11:20 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-03, 05:56 PM) -- Thanks again for the thoughtful response. I guess I have just one remaining arrow in my "quiver", the last-ditch option of bringing up an extreme but reas...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-03-06, 11:08 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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David001 Wrote: (2024-03-06, 10:43 AM) -- Maybe the problem is that the only way in which such extremely negative lives could be avoided, would be if something intervened in a rather visible way - fo...
Posted by stephenw in Spirituality , 2024-03-06, 03:42 PM
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    Thread: Why Corroborated NDEs Can’t Just Be Explained Away
Post: Why Corroborated NDEs Can’t Just Be Explained Away

Why Corroborated NDEs Can’t Just Be Explained Away (https://mindmatters.ai/2024/02/near-death-why-corroborated-ndes-cant-just-be-explained-away/) Quote: -- In some cases, Gary Habermas recounts,...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2024-03-01, 06:44 PM
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    Thread: The Mindlessness of Computationalism
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-02-25, 08:18 PM) -- The Mindlessness of Computationalism: The Neglected Aspects of Cognition (https://www.academia.edu/347108/The_Mindlessness_of_Computationalism_The_Neg...
Posted by nbtruthman in Philosophical Discussions , 2024-02-25, 10:53 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-02-24, 11:02 PM) -- I just ran across what appears to be an amazingly similar explication to yours of the nature of the soul and the reincarnation process, in a book by Dr. Ol...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-02-25, 03:38 AM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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Valmar Wrote: (2024-02-20, 07:08 AM) -- Half of it is my intuition providing the drive, I think. At some points, I'm half-aware of it, just letting it happen. It's hard to describe, because I'm not a...
Posted by nbtruthman in Spirituality , 2024-02-24, 11:02 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
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David001 Wrote: (2024-02-19, 10:36 PM) -- The problem is that there is quite a lot of information about people who remember previous lives. These ideas come from that source. In the absence of any ot...
Posted by Valmar in Spirituality , 2024-02-20, 11:49 AM
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    Thread: Ayahuasca experience ~ shadow work, past-life experiences, and meeting the teachers
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When I focus, I'm able to see insights from my other self, Gooseberry. Apparently, he's been receiving insights from observing flashes of my life as I have from his. I'm aware of him sitting on a per...
Posted by Valmar in Personal Experiences , 2024-02-20, 07:42 AM
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