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Is all this stuff real? or not? The skeptic vs believer within ourselves


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    18 Replies

Bill37, 2023-02-06, 07:05 PM

There should be a forum for the reflective/emotional or psychological aspect of all this... so , without knowing exactly where to put this or if anyone cares to participate (please feel free to move this to a more ideal forum)..

Does it seem interesting to you that more people don't seem to be in

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Julie Beischel: Survival Psi and Somatic Psy


Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    No Replies

Ninshub, 2023-02-04, 10:44 PM

I seem to remember discussing not long ago wondering if Julie Beischel was still active in her research.

The issue of the Journal of Near-Death Studies before the one that just came out had this new paper of hers (with 3 colleagues), which can be read here:

[url=https://digital.library.unt.edu

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Soul Lessons From the Light: How STEs Changed My Life


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2023-02-03, 06:16 PM



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Many people have asked Dr. Yvonne Kason to share the detailed story of how her life has been dramatically impacted by five near-death experiences (NDEs) and multiple other spiritually transformative experiences (STEs), as

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Cartwright on theory and experiment in science


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

Sci, 2023-02-01, 07:54 PM

Cartwright on theory and experiment in science

E. Feser

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The supposition that science amounts to theory plus experiment is, Cartwright observes, widespread among laymen, scientists, and philo

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Physics is in crisis. Quantum cosmology can save it and point us...


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    15 Replies

Sci, 2023-01-31, 09:27 PM

Physics is in crisis. Quantum cosmology can save it and point us toward the theory of everything

Heinrich Päs 

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[*]Heinrich Päs is a German theoretical physicist and professor at TU Dortmund

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Roundo: our new mobile-friendly theme, proposed to be set as default


Feedback and announcements    130 Replies

Laird, 2023-01-27, 06:01 PM

Hi PQ crew,

This thread is to let you know about proposed theming changes, and to get your feedback on them.

Arguably, the main accessibility problem of our board has been the difficulty of browsing it on mobile devices with its default theme. We'd tried to offer solutions to ease this difficu

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What is Space?


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    22 Replies

Kamarling, 2023-01-24, 09:52 PM

Physics is not my strong suit but I love reading about science that challenges traditional mechanistic worldviews. So I am fascinated by Quantum Physics and Relativity but my fascination is limited to popular science books which outline the concepts but do not attempt to explain the mathematics behi

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Terminal Lucidity book: Threshold


Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    4 Replies

Typoz, 2023-01-24, 11:18 AM

Book scheduled for publication September 2023

Threshold
Terminal Lucidity and the Border of Life and Death


Author: Alexander Batthyany

from the author, via facebook,

[quote='Alexander Batthyány']
Hello everyone - I hope

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What Magic is This? : The Return of Jeffrey Kripal


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2023-01-20, 06:11 PM

The Return of Jeffrey Kripal

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My guest for this episode is the associate Dean of the school of Humanities and holds the J. Newton Rayzor chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at [url=https://

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Consciousness ahead of motor skills


Members' general personal experiences    No Replies

Will, 2023-01-16, 11:35 PM

I can't say this is a paranormal experience, but it is an experience of consciousness - the other day, I had to go in for a procedure that required anesthesia (propofol, to be specific). As always, it knocked me out within seconds. But when I came to, it was with a strong degree of conscious clarity

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