Be that as it may, it's clearly a different sense of "religious" to that which David is using. He's clearly talking about religiousness in the institutional sense, relating to those organised faith traditions which have a fixed set of beliefs and
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Max_B, 2025-08-02, 12:05 PM
I recently discovered that the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous - Bill Wilson - had a wakeful Spiritually Transformative Event at his lowest point, that marks the change of his direction in life...
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What happens when researchers from competing scientific worldviews sit down for an honest conversation? In this dialogue, three thinkers—exploring Neo-Darwinism, Third Way evolution, and Intelligent Design—discover unexpe
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Max_B, 2025-07-25, 12:21 PM
We should challenge the conventional view of science as uncovering an objective reality. Instead, scientific inquiry explores Shared Experience, shaped by the biological structure of the human organism. All human knowledge originates within Experience - sensory perceptions, thoughts, and emotions.
It's become more known recently that microbes, especially in the gut, affect our minds, and that they may even evolve in conjunction with us, as shared in our existing threads:
[url=https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-how-your-diet-affects-your-mental-health]How Your Diet Affects Your
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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
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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