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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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unividualism vs. non-dualism


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    10 Replies

Ninshub, 2022-09-03, 10:38 PM

Has anyone here explored Tim Freke's unividualism?

It's expressed partially in this discussion that addresses the extremely serious pitfalls of contemporary non-dual teachings.



I'm watching this after listening to the e

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Prison Planet Prison Body


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    No Replies

Durward, 2022-09-03, 09:36 PM

An approach to the prison planet idea incorporating the prison body, reincarnation, karma, UFO's or aliens, genetic manipulation.

Combining Anunnaki info with other data:
Where man was created from a lesser mammal on planet Earth to help these aliens mine gold and other necessary items, using a

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Dual Versions of Phenomena


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    No Replies

Durward, 2022-09-03, 06:44 PM

I was contemplating how similar, but different, the initiation of a natural OOBE can be compared to OOBE's produced using a brain probe.

Then I was contemplating why drug-induced altered states are in no way similar to altered states produced naturally.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2

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Is the human self nonexistent?


Philosophy of mind forum    237 Replies

nbtruthman, 2022-09-02, 04:38 PM

In this sub-forum we've been in part and inherently discussing the nature of the human self. In this the general common-sense assumption has been that it truly exists. Here, a post-modern academic "answer" to the question of what is the self reveals just how irrelevant this source has become. It app

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Interesting Chirp Waves


General off-topic forum    No Replies

Durward, 2022-09-01, 02:50 PM

Something older that keeps appearing in my research, the chirp wave...

Initially it was in the research in and around Qi / Chi / Ki study, where certain practices or "forms" of tai chi and martial arts created more interesting fluctuations.
In the advanced Sun 73 and sword classes, we observed s

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Bufotenine frog venom produced by humans


General off-topic forum    2 Replies

Durward, 2022-09-01, 01:18 AM

I did a search and didn't see this mentioned, and I'm not sure if this is the correct place to start this thread.

So, humans are producing bufotenine and N-Methylserotonin, as seen in urine samples.
"Bufotenine was detected in urine from all autistic patients with mental retardation and epilepsy

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