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Dr Jack Hunter on mediumship, nature and non-human intelligence


Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    No Replies

Sci, 2025-07-23, 10:12 PM



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Dr. Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. He is a tutor with the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Sai

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Crop circles: general discussion and resources


General paranormal phenomena forum    3 Replies

Laird, 2025-07-23, 01:18 AM

This is a sort of placeholder post to start this thread for general discussion of crop circles, something I want to come back to when I have finished other tasks. It might be presumptuous to place it under the general paranormal phenomena forum given that there is strong debate as to whether crop ci

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Report from Canada's top scientist recommends a federal UFO body


UFO/UAP forum    No Replies

Laird, 2025-07-23, 01:12 AM

Canada’s top scientist releases new UFO report, here’s what you need to know

By Daniel Otis for CTV News on July 14, 2025.

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The report urges Canada to “establish

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Native American Insights on Healing By Vernon Foster


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    1 Replies

Sci, 2025-07-18, 09:38 PM



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Vernon Foster is a member of the Klamath tribes of Oregon, a teacher, spokesperson, and activist for the Native American community for over 40 years. As a counselor, he works with indigenous tribes and retreats, focusing

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The unplanned downtime today


Feedback and announcements    2 Replies

Laird, 2025-07-18, 02:19 PM

Our server was down (hung) for almost 14 hours today. I wasn't around to fix it during that time, but I've now rebooted it successfully. I'm not sure exactly what caused it to hang, but I have a rough idea, and I don't think that it will happen again due to that particular cause.


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Parapsychological Association Book Awards 2025


General parapsychology    No Replies

Laird, 2025-07-17, 08:29 PM

Not all of these books are psi-specific, but this forum seems most suitable for this thread.

Book Awards

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The Parapsychological Association(PA) Book Award recognizes books in the field of parapsychology that make significant

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She Wanted to Save the World From A.I. Then the Killings Started.


General off-topic forum    10 Replies

Laird, 2025-07-17, 08:08 PM

She Wanted to Save the World From A.I. Then the Killings Started. (paywalled but can be read for free at this [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250710163621/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/business/ziz-la

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God in the Dark: Rilke's Prayers of a Young Poet


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    1 Replies

Sci, 2025-07-17, 02:09 AM

God in the Dark: Rilke's Prayers of a Young Poet

Chris Yokel

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This sense of God as darkness and silence is also accompanied by a sense of yearning. From prayer #6:

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[i]You, neighbor God, when I sometim

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Analytic Idealism and the possibility of a meta-conscious cosmic mind


Philosophy of mind forum    7 Replies

Sci, 2025-07-16, 06:37 PM

Analytic Idealism and the possibility of a meta-conscious cosmic mind

Prof. Richard Grego, PhD

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Does Analytic Idealism limit the scope of its own conclusions and

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"Nothing in biology makes sense without teleology" by Michael Levin


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    12 Replies

Sci, 2025-07-13, 08:14 PM



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This is a deliberately provocative talk (~1 hour 20 minutes) I gave on teleology (a pretty taboo subject in a lot of the life sciences) delivered at Caltech. I try to go step by step and show the philosophical background

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