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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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Ontological Self-Grounding and Self-Consciousness: Fichte's Relevance...


Philosophy of mind forum    5 Replies

Sci, 2023-01-16, 03:27 AM

Ontological Self-Grounding and Self-Consciousness: Fichte's Relevance to Leibniz's Question

Peter Sas

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 Why is there something rather than nothing? Thi

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Animal Spirits and Ancestral Skills with Harmony Cronin


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2023-01-14, 06:17 PM



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This time we welcome to the show hunter, leather maker, tracker, artist and educator Harmony Cronin. Over the course of her career, Harmony has been a big game skinner, she has convened and continues to convene women’s hu

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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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