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SEO and site structure [split from: Is this forum dying?]


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Laird, 2025-05-27, 06:10 PM

[The first twelve posts in this thread were split out of the thread Is this forum dying?. It seems worth having a thread dedicated to SEO and how we can improve it for Psience Quest, especially so as to attract new members, and es

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Healing and open-eye visions


Members' general personal experiences    4 Replies

Valmar, 2025-05-26, 04:16 AM

This was a rather different sort of journey... a breakthrough in perhaps a few ways... thank you in advance for reading. Smile

I had the blessing of being able to acquire a microdose worth of dried Psilocybin mushrooms. My guides told that alone, the 0.5 grams wouldn't do much, so they thought a bit

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Biosemiotics: A new way to understand non-human consciousness


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Sci, 2025-05-24, 07:18 PM



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What if phenomenal consciousness, signs, communication, and interpretation are fundamental aspects of all living systems, whether or not we can detect brains? This is the departure point of biosemiotics, an interdisciplinary field that

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Does nature really obey laws? A dialogue with Rupert Sheldrake


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

Sci, 2025-05-21, 08:37 PM



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[color=#131313]The conviction that the natural world is obedient, adhering to laws, is a widespread assumption of modern science. But where did this idea originate and what beliefs does it imply?

In this episode of th

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The entangled brain


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2025-05-20, 08:24 PM

The entangled brain

Luiz Pessoa

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The core idea of emergence inspired me to develop the concept I call the entangled brain: the need to understand the brain as an interactionally complex system where fun

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Is this forum dying?


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David001, 2025-05-20, 05:45 PM

Sadly hardly anything seems to be going on here any more Sad I don't know why.

If this is indeed the fate of PSQ, I hope the founders can ensure that all the discussions we have enjoyed here are fully preserved. We surely want a better memorial than Skeptiko!

David


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Scientists in a race to discover why our Universe exists


Off-topic mainstream science forum    11 Replies

Typoz, 2025-05-20, 12:51 PM

I posted this here rather than in another section as it is just about mainstream science. And I admit I only read the article because of the use of the word 'why' in the headline (rather than 'how'). The idea of a race had me thinking that perhaps if they can't answer the question of why we are here

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Relational Quantum Dynamics and Indra’s Net


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

Sci, 2025-05-18, 06:08 PM

Relational Quantum Dynamics and Indra’s Net: A non-dual understanding of quantum reality

Prof. Arash E. Zaghi

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Professor Zaghi introduces Relati

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Out-of-body experiences: interpretations through the eyes of those who live them


Out-of-body experience (OBE), astral travel, and lucid dream forum    4 Replies

Raimo, 2025-05-16, 11:37 PM

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Introduction: Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are primarily characterized by the sensation of the self being located outside one's physical body. The complexity of this phenomenon has led researchers to propose various theories to explain it, including physiological, psychological, an

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S2 #70 / Scott Richardson-Read on Mill Dust And Dreaming Bread


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2025-05-15, 06:48 PM



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In this episode of Spirit Box, I had the pleasure of speaking with folklorist and writer Scott Richardson-Read the brilliant mind behind Cailleach’s Herbarium. The focus of today's chat is Scott’s new book 'Mill Dust And

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