Psience Quest

Just awesome. 

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We're watching the barchester chronicles each evening - usually while sitting in bed eating biscuits and drinking tea and coffee.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barchester_Chronicles




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This "magico-religious" tarantella is said to be an ancient exorcism or a curative performance to treat the delirious victim of a spider bite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=038Y_3vnMEM

More on tarantella and tarantism.

Tarantism: A rhythm for your soul

While big questions are now my passion, I still love hearing men like Cobus talk about more down to earth things.   
Although flying these aeroplanes were never my destiny in this life, I love them deeply. I am also pleased that I wasn’t destined to be a military pilot, as I think I would have turned out quite differently - but perhaps not.

Watching Finding Altamira

A somewhat fictionalised account of true events in the late 1870s.

Cave art has always been a great interest of mine, right from early childhood.

This film echoes some of the topics on this forum: scepticism, ridicule, fraud, attempted debunking... Some visually powerful scenes, though the family arguments are not really why I watched it.

In the UK at least, streaming free on
https://rakuten.tv/uk/movies/finding-altamira

https://www.britannica.com/place/Altamira

I just noticed a drama series on BBC TV entitled "Life After Life". Based on a novel of that title by  Kate Atkinson.

At first I thought it was a story about reincarnation. Maybe it is - I haven't watched it yet. However I get the impression that it is more like "Groundhog Day" or possibly Andrew Peake's idea of living the same life over and over.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p...after-life
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bqjrnm

I did wonder whether this might represent a small shift in the BBC stance which sooner or later ought to catch up with the views of the (potential) audience. Anything which represents something more than the physical without presenting it as either religion or horror would be progress.

(2022-04-25, 10:20 AM)Typoz Wrote: [ -> ]I did wonder whether this might represent a small shift in the BBC stance which sooner or later ought to catch up with the views of the (potential) audience. Anything which represents something more than the physical without presenting it as either religion or horror would be progress.

The seventies were really good for that with series such as Children Of The Stones, Sapphire And Steel, The Changes etc.  People then were exploring all kinds of ideas but somehow people became more conservative again.  Maybe we just need a new angle on things.