Member introductions    No Replies

I think the time has come for me to step back a bit until I feel I have something useful to contribute.  It all feels like the same old stuff over and over again and I don't have anything new to discuss.  I  don't know how long I'll be gone but I'm sure I'll be back when I am more inspired.  God wil

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Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

There Is Much More to Mindfulness Than the Popular Media Hype

Pierce Salguero


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Mindfulness originated in the Buddhist practice of “anapana-sati,” a San

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Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    1 Replies

On tardigrades, superdeterminism, and the struggle for sanity

Scott Aaronson

(you have to skip down, he says something about politics at the beginning - sorry!)

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So in desperation, let me now try another tack: going meta. It strikes me that no

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Consciousness science forum    46 Replies

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Closing the first day of the 2021 ‘The Science of Consciousness’ conference, dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Prof. dr. Heleen

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Philosophy of mind forum    No Replies

The philosopher’s zombie

Dan Falk

Quote:The infamous thought experiment, flawed as it is, does demonstrate one thing: physics alone can’t explain consciousness.

Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    No Replies

Mind-bending new quantum experiments are blurring past, present and future


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Since Albert Einstein, scientists have understood that, while our experience of time can feel like an u

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Ghost, poltergeist, and spirit forum    1 Replies

I was attacked by a real-life poltergeist during a trip to the Highlands – it has haunted me for 50 years

Matt Bendoris
The Scottish Sun
February 1, 2022

18-year-old Phil and a friend to

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Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    No Replies

Junk DNA Deforms Salamander Bodies - Yet the unfit creatures survive, challenging our long-held view of evolution

Douglas Fox


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...DNA is often called the blueprint of life. It contains the prec

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UFO/UAP forum    No Replies

From The Guardian.

Adam Gabbatt, Feb 5, 2022
‘Something’s coming’: is America finally ready to take UFOs seriously?

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“I’m confident that 2022 is going to be a seismic year for

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UFO/UAP forum    No Replies

Christopher Mellon at The Debrief has an article questioning why almost all of the UAP (UFO) reports in the Direction of National Intelligence's public report in June 2021 are from the U.S. Navy rather than the Air Force.

[url=https://thedebrief.org/why-is-the-air-force-awol-on-the-uap-iss

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