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Hallowe’en and Our Fascination With the Dead


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Sci, 2025-11-18, 06:22 AM

Hallowe’en and Our Fascination With the Dead

Lewis Coyne

[quote]...The interest Hallowe’en holds for us, in both its ancient and modern forms, is clearly driven by the deep-seated human fascination with – and revulsi

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What Really Happens in a Coma?


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Typoz, 2025-11-14, 07:33 PM

Most likely this should be posted in the Near-Death Experience section of the forum.
However, the focus is on coma accounts and I'm not sure whether it should or should not be grouped there.

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCi9CkxT3L0]What Really Happens in a Coma? Comparing Comas and NDEs

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Post-materialist cognitive science: Is it viable?


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Sci, 2025-11-08, 08:49 PM

Post-materialist cognitive science: Is it viable?

Matt Colborn, PhD

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Dr. Matt Colborn argues that, by denying the objective reality of what appears to us as the physical world out the

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The Scientist Who Saw the Other Side: Consciousness NDEs & Physics


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Sci, 2025-11-07, 08:10 AM



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[color=#131313]Alex is a neuroscientist and physicist whose work dances at the edge of science and spirit. He’s the director of the Pari Center where he explores the frontiers of consciousness, cognition, and life itself.

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That there is no experimental evidence for psi, especially from meta-analyses [split from Rune Soup: Travelling ...]


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sbu, 2025-11-07, 07:40 AM

(2025-11-06, 11:12 PM)David001 Wrote: I thought the whole idea of meta-analysis was to combine evidence for something from various sources!

David

I think you can use statistical tools to find evidence for everything. In this case the experimental tasks differ (guessin

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Can Neuroscience Settle a 100-Year-Old Quantum Debate?


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Sci, 2025-11-01, 03:14 PM



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[color=#131313]Dr. Kelvin McQueen, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Chapman University, examines the leading quantum-consciousness theories and the unresolved questions that still hinder them all: what exactly is coll

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In the news (UFO and UFO-related)


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Laird, 2025-11-01, 05:03 AM

I thought we could do with a thread for miscellaneous news reports on UFO-related phenomena aside from our dedicated Text Resources and [url=https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-ufos-and-related-multimedia-res

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Journal of Scientific Exploration Vol. 39 Issue 3 (Fall 2025)


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Laird, 2025-11-01, 04:42 AM

Journal of Scientific Exploration Vol. 39 Issue 3 (Fall 2025)

Published on 2025-10-15. (I'm a little late in getting on to sharing it via this thread).

You can discuss this issue of the journal in this thread.


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Dr. Raymond Moody on Proving Life After Death


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Typoz, 2025-10-31, 10:06 PM

What if our Minds Already Know About the Afterlife? Dr. Raymond Moody on Proving Life After Death

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In this episode, Dani Foffa sits down at the IANDS 2025 Conference to talk with psychiatrist and philosopher Dr. Raymond Moody. Raymond

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When doing Magick doesn't make a difference


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Sci, 2025-10-27, 03:41 PM

When doing Magick doesn't make a difference

Tommie Kelly

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While I was doing all the daily and ongoing magick there was a hope that somethi

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