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    Thread: Killer Mike: The moment I realized God is real
Post: Killer Mike: The moment I realized God is real

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUSe8mPBPN0 Quote: -- An emotional Killer Mike reflects on the enormous impact both his mother and grandmother had on his life. The rapper, who was alone with his...
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    Thread: NDE Multimedia Resource Thread
Post: RE: NDE Multimedia Resource Thread

This is an excellent interview with Dr Michael Sabom, who collected some of the most striking data ever, in his (the first ever 1976—1981) prospective study of near death experience.  The interviewer ...
Posted by tim in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2024-01-16, 05:00 PM
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    Thread: A plausible reason for the dearth of non-Western NDEs?
Post: RE: A plausible reason for the dearth of non-Weste...

nbtruthman Wrote: (2023-12-30, 05:37 PM) -- I might point out that as time has gone on into the 21st century, atheistic materialism as the de facto pseudo religion of scientism has become more and mo...
Posted by tim in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2023-12-30, 05:56 PM
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    Thread: A plausible reason for the dearth of non-Western NDEs?
Post: RE: A plausible reason for the dearth of non-Weste...

I was *hoping that the phenomenon of NDE's might bring about a much needed alteration in the preconceptions and beliefs of all religions and some more than others.  Islam in particular is wholly resis...
Posted by tim in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2023-12-30, 07:59 AM
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    Thread: A plausible reason for the dearth of non-Western NDEs?
Post: RE: A plausible reason for the dearth of non-Weste...

I'm not saying it isn't worth discussion, of course it is, but I can't honestly see on what basis (after more than forty years of NDE research), a theoretical case could even be made to suggest that M...
Posted by tim in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2023-12-29, 10:55 PM
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    Thread: Banned from skeptiko.
Post: RE: Banned from skeptiko.

Michael Larkin Wrote: (2023-12-01, 07:34 PM) -- but when I first joined I got a negative reaction -- Yes you did, Michael, from me as I remember ! I was annoyed with you for a post you made on Skept...
Posted by tim in Other Topics , 2023-12-02, 02:23 PM
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    Thread: Banned from skeptiko.
Post: RE: Banned from skeptiko.

Ninshub Wrote: (2023-07-20, 02:31 PM) -- I've been having a look and I think it's the former, given my reading of what I surmise is his last post there and Alex's response to him: https://www.skeptik...
Posted by Michael Larkin in Other Topics , 2023-12-01, 07:34 PM
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    Thread: NDE Multimedia Resource Thread
Post: RE: NDE Multimedia Resource Thread

This is yet another case of a medic having an NDE (just an OBE in this case). Obviously authentic, the Spanish doctor was doing his hospital shift when he suddenly felt dizzy and fainted. His colleagu...
Posted by tim in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2023-11-21, 03:23 PM
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    Thread: Parnia to the "dark side"?
Post: RE: Parnia to the "dark side"?

In a very recent (Sept. 29) interview (at https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkamgm/people-experience-new-dimensions-of-reality-when-dying-groundbreaking-study-reports ), Dr. Parnia has made some extende...
Posted by nbtruthman in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2023-10-03, 07:52 PM
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    Thread: Perhaps animals have NDEs - new data
Post: RE: Perhaps animals have NDEs - new data

Some more excerpts from the paper: Premonitions of death: Quote: -- "In  the summer of 1997, my daughter was working on a grant under Dr. […] at a university in California. Part of her duties was ...
Posted by nbtruthman in General Consciousness Science , 2023-05-10, 08:53 PM
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    Thread: Perhaps animals have NDEs - new data
Post: Perhaps animals have NDEs - new data

A very interesting paper in the latest Journal of the Society for Scientific Exploration (JSSE), entitled "Experiences of Dying Animals: Parallels With End-Of-Life Experiences in Humans", by Rupert Sh...
Posted by nbtruthman in General Consciousness Science , 2023-05-08, 08:51 PM
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    Thread: Different versions of immortality or of an “afterlife”
Post: RE: Different versions of immortality or of an “af...

Oh dear. Anything involving Ray Kurzweil immediately and automatically triggers the "Oh no, not again" response and I close the page. Just another version of the perennial "Singularity is almost here"...
Posted by Kamarling in General Consciousness Science , 2023-04-10, 04:05 AM
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    Thread: A scary chat with ChatGPT about latest NDE account in NDE thread
Post: RE: A scary chat with ChatGPT about latest NDE acc...

quirkybrainmeat Wrote: (2023-03-25, 01:30 PM) -- I will agree with sbu for a moment and say that non-reductionism (or the inability to measure  subjetive experiences) doesn't exactly defeat materiali...
Posted by tim in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2023-03-26, 09:24 PM
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    Thread: A scary chat with ChatGPT about latest NDE account in NDE thread
Post: RE: A scary chat with ChatGPT about latest NDE acc...

sbu Wrote: (2023-03-24, 08:16 AM) -- I don't see how this can be interpreted one way or the other. -- What's your interpretation of Greyson's case then ? sbu Wrote: (2023-03-24, 08:16 AM) -- In...
Posted by tim in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2023-03-24, 08:54 AM
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    Thread: NDE's
Post: RE: NDE's

Parnia's new documentary is being released tomorrow (apparently), "Rethinking Death". A British poet named  Rachel Finch is featured in it (I think) who had an NDE after childbirth and massive blood l...
Posted by tim in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2023-03-15, 03:57 PM
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    Thread: NDE Multimedia Resource Thread
Post: RE: NDE Multimedia Resource Thread

This is the report of a very senior surgeon from Spain, Dr Manuel Sans Segarra, who was on duty at the Bellvitge hospital in Barcelona, when one of the actual hospital staff (coincidentally) was broug...
Posted by tim in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2023-03-09, 05:58 PM
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    Thread: Aware II results
Post: RE: Aware II results

quirkybrainmeat Wrote: (2023-02-03, 05:13 PM) -- https://medium.com/@rorycockshaw/heres-why-no-near-death-experience-can-ever-convince-a-skeptic-75a7f89901ef Thoughts?  I personally found this diss...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2023-02-03, 06:12 PM
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    Thread: Aware II results
Post: RE: Aware II results

sbu Wrote: (2023-01-24, 08:18 AM) -- What are your sources? -- Sorry for responding late, but Pam Reynolds, the shoe OBE and Van Lommel's teeth study are some.
Posted by quirkybrainmeat in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2023-02-01, 08:46 PM
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    Thread: Sam Parnia Aware II Update
Post: RE: Sam Parnia Aware II Update

quirkybrainmeat Wrote: (2023-01-16, 03:04 PM) -- The physicalist paradigm going as far as creating new theories based on outdated research shows how the world is not even close to cracking the myster...
Posted by tim in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2023-01-16, 03:46 PM
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    Thread: Sam Parnia Aware II Update
Post: RE: Sam Parnia Aware II Update

Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-01-14, 06:23 PM) -- I do wonder if part of the issue is trying to capture a phenomena in a way that is almost certain to fail. NDEs are possibly just very rare, and then ...
Posted by tim in Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) , 2023-01-14, 07:23 PM
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