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A scary chat with ChatGPT about latest NDE account in NDE thread


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sbu, 2023-03-12, 04:57 PM

I'm currently investigating the capabilities of ChatGPT - an AI causing a lot of fuzz about at the moment. I assume everybody have heard about it already. I decided to subject it to the last NDE report in the NDE thread [url=https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-nde-s?pid=51068#pid51068]NDE's (166)

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Case Report: Out-of-Body Experience in Dissociative Disorder


Out-of-body experience (OBE), astral travel, and lucid dream forum    5 Replies

Max_B, 2023-03-12, 03:31 PM

Interesting case report from 2021, about a 15-year-old male patient who described a wakeful experience where he found himself to be floating outside his own body while he visualized his own body from a third-person perspective.

My sister told me that she had an OBE whilst being interviewed for a

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3 minutes a day with SIP of the divine


Members' general personal experiences    12 Replies

Ninshub, 2023-03-11, 02:10 AM

Anyone interested in trying this with me?

Suzanne Gliesemann is a respected medium that's been involved pretty significantly with IANDS. She has an impressive bio (including being an aide to the U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff!), that you can read here* (scroll down):
https://isgo.ian

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NDE of a man clinically dead for 45 minutes


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    24 Replies

Ninshub, 2023-03-09, 03:44 PM

I'm just beginning to watch this.

This man drank something toxic in Thailand, just made it to a bathroom in a Dairy Queen, fell unconscious and died through suffocating with his own vomit. He was in the locked bathroom for at least 45 minutes when the ambulance arrived. During all this time, he c

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When a medium has an NDE


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    2 Replies

Ninshub, 2023-03-09, 03:14 AM

I've been reading medium James Van Praagh's Talking to Heaven, which I think is his first book, from the 90s.

I subscribed to his youtube channel and learned he had an NDE about 15 years ago.




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Fitting theism in the natural frame


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    No Replies

Sci, 2023-03-05, 11:18 PM

Fitting theism in the natural frame-

Joshua Farris

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The theological turn in science is characterized by this move to reconsider not only the “intentional stance” often characterized by consciousn

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Dish Brain - Synthetic Biological Intelligence


Consciousness science forum    8 Replies

Max_B, 2023-03-05, 09:09 PM

Dec 2022 - Harnessing the computational power of living neurons to create synthetic biological intelligence (SBI), previously confined to the realm of science fiction, may now be within reach of human innovation.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...7322008066

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Integrati

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Time is fundamental, space and causality are not?


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    3 Replies

nbtruthman, 2023-03-04, 03:11 AM

A very interesting new cosmological theory of the fundamental nature and origin of space-time has been developed by Lee Cronin, and is described in a new article at https://iai.tv/articles/time-existed-bef...-auid-2402 . This idea that only time is absolutely fundamental of c

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Why German Idealism Matters


Philosophy of mind forum    No Replies

Sci, 2023-03-01, 06:21 PM

Why German Idealism Matters

Matthew Segall

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... Rather than beginning with the fact of consciousness’s representation of an object to a subject, as Kant tended to, Fichte’s original insight was to ground phil

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Ancient Wisdom, Modern Practices: 30 yrs with the Plants & People of Belize


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2023-02-27, 06:38 PM



Quote:On June 19, 2015 Drs. Michael J. Balick and Rosita Arvigo hosted a lecture at The New York Botanical Garden, where they discussed and reflected about their time and work in the country of Belize.



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