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A major but biased new paper on consciousness


Consciousness science forum    123 Replies

nbtruthman, 2022-09-08, 05:58 PM

A major new paper on science and consciousness, with one of the major contributors being Dean Radin (in Frontiers in Psychology, at https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....55594/full ):

"What if consciousness is not an emergent property of the brain? Observational and empirical cha

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Brain Disease / Damage and Self


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    7 Replies

Durward, 2022-09-07, 10:28 PM

We have been discussing the "self" in the many different possible iterations of soul, ego, personality, and more.
We have often been using quite a bit of fringe ideas and fuzzy logic items to try and determine if something survives, what it is, how much of us it is, how many of "us" might exist, et

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The symbiotic ecology of the psychedelic realm


General paranormal phenomena forum    3 Replies

Sci, 2022-09-07, 06:11 PM

The symbiotic ecology of the psychedelic realm

Asher Walden, PhD


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The many seemingly autonomous entities encountered in the psychedelic realm suggest that human consciousness is the

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Defining a Ghost


Ghost, poltergeist, and spirit forum    1 Replies

Durward, 2022-09-07, 05:57 PM

Years ago I started pecking away at the many different accounts of ghosts and separated them into my study categories.

Do any of you see other categories that wouldn't fit below these top-level zones for cataloging ghost phenomena?

  • The actual deceased
  • Entities / Other Life For


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Disturbance in the force


General off-topic forum    2 Replies

Durward, 2022-09-07, 04:49 PM

Just wondering if anyone else is feeling this incredible disturbance.
It appears to be bleeding down into some kind of irritation and spreading into thoughts and feelings.
Please excuse any recent related mental and emotional outbursts, as I will do my best to do the same.
It just doesn't feel ri

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Update to "Alerts" semantics


Feedback and announcements    1 Replies

Laird, 2022-09-06, 06:33 PM

New member @"Durward"#545 prompted me on an issue I'd long been aware of but never gotten around to fixing. It's interesting in this sense what new minds can bring to bear.

In any case, the issue (as Durward and I see it) was:

The semantics of the modal pop-up (accessed by clicking "Alerts" in the

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Study: Losing the Self in NDEs


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    12 Replies

Ninshub, 2022-09-06, 01:21 AM

Losing the Self in Near-Death Experiences: The Experience of Ego-Dissolution

Charlotte Martial, Géraldine Fontaine,Olivia Gosseries,Robin Carhart-Harris,3 Christopher Timmermann, Steven Laureys, and Héléna Cassol

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Interesting Brain Results


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    No Replies

Durward, 2022-09-05, 09:30 PM

In another interesting study, psychic-sensitive people were more likely to be single or divorced people, and people who had at sometime consulted a psychiatrist. They had experienced more head injuries and serious illnesses than the controls. Sixty-six percent showed evidence of right hemisphere and

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Lucid Dreaming Chemistry


Out-of-body experience (OBE), astral travel, and lucid dream forum    No Replies

Durward, 2022-09-05, 01:07 PM

It appeared this zone hasn't had much new activity, so maybe this will stimulate some new posts?

Previous studies have shown an increase in Acetylcholine (ACh) in neocortex and hippocampus during different activities of wakefulness and REM sleep. 
Where if you want to have less, you would increa

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Some speculation


Reincarnation forum    22 Replies

letseat, 2022-09-04, 08:44 AM

If reincarnation is happening, this may give us some insights into the afterlife state and may also come with some testable predictions.

Firstly, if people are coming in and truly are retaining some level of education then we should expect some children to have either extremely early development o

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