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On the self-validating nature of idealism?


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Sci, 2021-09-06, 04:06 PM

On the self-validating nature of idealism

Aditya Prasad


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In this short and powerful piece, engineer Aditya Prasad attempts to provide an informal argument for why idealism deserves more c

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New Thinking Allowed: Associative Remote Viewing with Debra Lynne Katz


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Sci, 2021-09-06, 03:58 PM




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Here she shares her firsthand experience over the past decade of engaging in a wide variety of remote viewing projects and exercises designed to forecast future events. She portrays the many nuances, complexities, and d

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The hierarchical structure of the universal mind


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Sci, 2021-09-05, 09:41 PM

The hierarchical structure of the universal mind

Antonio Rial, MD, PhD | 2021-09-05

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Spanish science journalist and doctor Antonio Rial delights us with the perspectives acquired aft

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The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence


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Sci, 2021-09-05, 08:13 PM

The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence

Nicholas P Money


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When researchers followed the transfer of nutrients in the lab, further remarkable [url=https://www.nature.com/art

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Inducing the mental creation of experiential realities


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Sci, 2021-09-04, 07:11 PM

Inducing the mental creation of experiential realities

Prof. Victor F. Petrenko, PhD, PhD & Dr. Vladimir V. Kucherenko


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Can people—even those ostensibly not hypnotizable—be coaxe

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Music and Trauma with Constance Scharff


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Sci, 2021-09-04, 07:01 PM




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Constance Scharff, PhD, is the vice president for business development of Rock to Recovery – an organization, both for-profit and non-profit, that operates in over 100 treatment facilities. She is author of a book of po

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Uses and abuses of decoherence


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Sci, 2021-09-03, 08:09 PM

Uses and abuses of decoherence

Ulrich Mohrhoff


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If objective existence is attributed to the state vector of the universe, then the world experienced by us can only have a relative objective existence, an

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No personal free will according to an Indian philosophy?


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nbtruthman, 2021-09-03, 03:50 PM

Ulrich Mohrhoff just posted in his blog some interesting expositions about the beliefs of the Indian philosophy of Sri Aurobino regarding the free will controversy. Essentially, he says that per this body of spiritual teaching, the isol

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A preliminary survey of paranormal experiences with psychoactive drugs


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Sci, 2021-09-02, 07:25 PM

(usual warning applies)

[url=https://www.academia.edu/766401/A_preliminary_survey_of_paranormal_experiences_with_psychoactive_drugs?email_work_card=ti

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Your Brain Is Not a Computer. It Is a Transducer


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Sci, 2021-09-01, 05:07 PM

Your Brain Is Not a Computer. It Is a Transducer

Robert Epstein


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She also hears music continuously, and it’s not the kind of music that drives us nuts when we can’t get a tune out of our

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