General parapsychology    5 Replies

Recent article by Craig at ParanormalDailyNews.com, recounting...

Parapsychology’s Journey to the Mainstream.

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Here’s a little secret for you: Parapsychology, the scientific study of psychic ab

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Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    9 Replies

An Introduction to Fairies with Jo Hickey-Hall & Simon Young

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There’s not a single person listening to WMiT? who doesn’t know what a Fairy is. Or do they? When the word “Fairy

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Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    4 Replies

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Here is my conversation, recorded yesterday, with Dr. Wolfgang Smith. His new book PHYSICS: A Science in Quest of an Ontology is available from many online bookstores.

We discus

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Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    No Replies

Metaphysics without fantasy

Hilary Lawson

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What defined much of 20th-century philosophy was an attempt to overcome metaphysics and replace it with science. But those attempts fa

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

Quote:In this presentation, Nuriya Nurgalieva, M.Sc., discusses the ontological implications of thought experiments on a quantum computer.

Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    65 Replies

I'm listening to a lot of video talks by mediums right now, especially pet/animal mediums, and one consistent theme of information is that spirits are electromagnetic energy, like every living thing is. Does anybody have thoughts about this?

p.s. I posted this in this subforum just because I didn

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Philosophy of mind forum    8 Replies

How Idealism Simplifies Metaphysics

Scott Roberts

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There is conscious activity (thinking, feeling, sensing, hallucinating, dreaming, and so on). Idealism is the claim that there is o

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Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

What Life is Like When you Are not Alive

D. Bonnette

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While the preceding speculative musings may be of great interest to the philosopher or theologian, they do little to help us ordinary mortals to imagine

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Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    93 Replies

I’m currently reading Proof of Spiritual Phenomena by Mona Sobhani. I picked this book because the author holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience and supposedly have been through the journey from being firmly grounded in materialism to being open minded about spritual phenomena. A transformation I have been s

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Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    No Replies

Not sure where else to put this:

Why Scientists Have Stopped Taking Risks

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And yet, the underlying risk of failure in exploratory research has always been a feature of scientific investigation. So why is it

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