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Non-Spiritual NDE's?


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    9 Replies

quirkybrainmeat, 2023-01-10, 08:20 PM

Hi. This is my first post in this site, and sorry if this topic was already discussed before. I'm not necessarily one of those militant atheists, but one thing that made me think were the NDE's whose individuals that had it were certain of the "eternal oblivion" after death proposed by most material

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Sam Parnia Aware II Update


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    27 Replies

Roberta, 2023-01-10, 06:44 PM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XkgLBCATUg...e=youtu.be

Update on aware 2 from Sam - what's everyone's thoughts? 

Some evidence of brain activity (spikes rather then continued activity) in a small percentage of people for up to an hour plus. What do people think about this?


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Questions remain 75 years after mysterious Fort Knox UFO incident, downed pilot


UFO/UAP forum    No Replies

Sci, 2023-01-09, 08:07 PM

Questions remain 75 years after mysterious Fort Knox UFO incident, downed pilot

Eric Pilgrim 

[quote]
On Jan. 7, 1948, Mantell sat in the cockpit of his F-51D Mustang

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My Apparitional experience and phase...


Members' general personal experiences    4 Replies

Max_B, 2023-01-08, 11:43 PM

In 2007 I saw what appeared to be apparition, and wrote about it on my blog a few years later. One of the things that I recalled about the experience was the interesting effect when moving my eyes away from the apparition

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What is Matter (And Why Does it Matter?)


Philosophy of mind forum    2 Replies

Sci, 2023-01-08, 09:47 PM

What Is Matter (and Why Does It Matter)?

Edward Feser

[quote]Common sense also associates the natures of many things with distinctive purposes, which it regards as pervading at least the living world. By nature, birds [i]aim a

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Alec Guinness...


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    No Replies

Max_B, 2023-01-08, 08:35 PM

This has probably been mentioned before... but there is an interesting part @25:30 in this interview with Alec Guinness, where Alec talks about meeting James Dean for the first time in Hollywood...
(here's a direct link to @25:30 https://youtu.be/yGxH5jmLgEk?t=1534 )


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Michael Nahm?


Interview planning    10 Replies

Will, 2023-01-08, 05:30 PM

I've been thinking about Michael Nahm recently. He comes by psychical research from an unusual background (zoology, paleontology, and forestry), he's prepared to call out fraud and share skepticism, and he's done a fair amount of work on terminal lucidity. I th

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A personalised alternative to antidepressants is on the way


Consciousness science forum    2 Replies

Sci, 2023-01-06, 12:17 AM

A personalised alternative to antidepressants is on the way

Paul Fitzgerald

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Beyond recognising and addressing the importance of social interventions to ameliorate the external conditions tha

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Adrian Thompson - Evolved Hardware


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    7 Replies

Max_B, 2023-01-02, 04:57 PM

I've discovered this far more detailed article and interview from 1998, about Adrian Thompson's discovery of evolved hardware. It was a later paper by Prof Johnjoe McFadden on his CEMI theory that brought Adrian's work to my attention.

Adrian Thompson disappeared from public life around 20 years

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Quantum Imaging


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    1 Replies

Max_B, 2023-01-02, 01:48 PM

I've found this Zeilinger quantum imaging experiment from 2014 to be a more intuitive way for people to grasp some of the the significance of quantum mechanics.

This experiment uses the phenomena of quantum coherent interference to show that information can be obtained about an object (in this ca

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