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Do proponents have a harder time with horror entertainment?


Members' general personal experiences    38 Replies

Sci, 2025-10-07, 01:32 PM

Was curious about this, as sometimes it seems horror fans who like very disturbing stuff involving the spiritual world don't actually believe such things exist?

For myself, given my own "Deep Weird" potentially paranormal experiences as a child...I've always been wary of horror movies. As an adul

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Journal of the Society for Psychical Research Vol. 89 No. 4 (2025)


General parapsychology    No Replies

Laird, 2025-10-03, 02:48 AM

Vol. 89 No. 4 (2025): Journal of the Society for Psychical Research

Published on 2025-09-24.

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

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Empirical Research Articles

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Informational Environment [split Veridical NDEs are a myth]


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    35 Replies

stephenw, 2025-10-02, 05:41 PM

@ sbu asks about an information dimension

Dimensions are a physical concept that enable a model for measurement in spaces.  An environment is a larger idea.  I would simply cite that there are three dimensions to an informational environment.  Interior information to an agent, exterior informatio

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Rune Soup: Travelling Ghosts Bent Spoons and the Science of Magic | Dean Radin


General parapsychology    11 Replies

Sci, 2025-10-02, 02:25 PM

Travelling Ghosts Bent Spoons and the Science of Magic | Dean Radin

Gordon White

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In this episode, Dr Radin returns to the show to talk to us about his amazing new book, The Science of Magic.

We look

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"Kindred sites"; inbound links (you can help)


Feedback and announcements    14 Replies

Laird, 2025-10-02, 09:51 AM

Hi all,

Despite that I've actioned everything canvassed in the SEO and site structure thread, our rankings on various relevant search phrases unfortunately haven't improved all that much in my

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A Basic Model for Mind in a Physical Universe


Philosophy of mind forum    No Replies

stephenw, 2025-09-26, 03:33 PM

This thread starts not with my own ideas, but with new theoretical ideas that can kick-start a change in the paradigm - the inclusion of information science as an equal to physics .  However, it is inspiring and posits ideas that are supportive of an Informational Environment.  If the computational

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Towards A New Physics Of Living Systems and Consciousness


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

Sci, 2025-09-22, 11:04 PM



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[color=#131313]Physicist and physician Dr. Anita Goel has designed the equivalent of the double slit experiment in a living system, to test if the nanomachines that read and write DNA could operate quantum mechanically. I

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The cell membrane as the ‘missing link’ for the evolution of consciousness


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

Sci, 2025-09-19, 12:46 AM

The cell membrane as the ‘missing link’ for the evolution of consciousness

Prof. John Torday, MSC, PhD 

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While Prof. Torday agrees with Federico Faggin that q

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deep brain activity during NDE's?


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    3 Replies

Hopeful_Load_8643, 2025-09-18, 02:58 PM

Just bringing this up for discussion  Big Grin . I haven't really seen this type of argument anywhere on the site , so here it is:

[b]"I'm already there. I've been there for a long time. Long enough to review it all dozens of times, and I always arrive at the same conclusion. Although we don't know every

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Tony Cornell: The original ghostbuster (Book Review)


General paranormal phenomena forum    No Replies

Sci, 2025-09-14, 09:10 PM

Book review: The original ghostbuster

review by Dorian Lynskey, book by Ben Machell

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...Machell’s elegantly thrilling yarn encompasses the broad history of paranormal research in the UK. In the middle of th

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