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Ideas for the skeletal "OOBE Resources" page on our wiki


Out-of-body experience (OBE), astral travel, and lucid dream forum    11 Replies

Laird, 2019-12-30, 01:56 AM

[I've moved several posts starting with this one from Ian's Explorers of the "Afterlife" through OBE thread so as not to derail that thread:]

Ian, I can't help with your question, but a bit over a year ago I se

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Explorers of the "Afterlife" through OBE


Out-of-body experience (OBE), astral travel, and lucid dream forum    8 Replies

Ninshub, 2019-12-29, 07:41 PM

There are a lot of classic OBE/astral travel books out there. Some are more how-to books or guides, some share journeys and "mapping" the other dimensions. I'm trying to gather a list of those who provide the latter.

So far I have these names:
Robert Monroe
Jurgen Ziewe
William Bulhman
Kurt L

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The future of psychedelic science: What the next decade holds


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2019-12-28, 09:41 PM

Note: Usual caveat that street versions of any drug can be incredibly dangerous, for more on this see What's in My Baggie?. Dealers hate drug testers, to the point of trying to hunt them down. All to say trying to treat yourself without guidance

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Hearing voices


Consciousness science forum    7 Replies

Laird, 2019-12-27, 09:42 AM

There seem to be three basic categories of "voice hearers":

  1. On the positive side, mediums, who experience the voices of those who have passed on, and who (generally) connect those passed spirits with their living relatives.
  2. On the negative side, those who have been - or are liabl


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Banned from Skeptiko until 15 Feb


General off-topic forum    140 Replies

Laird, 2019-12-27, 06:25 AM

Hi all,

David has banned me from Skeptiko until the 15th of February "for posting ever more stridently and being very rude to Lone Shaman". He refers there to the exchange I had with LoneShaman in the thread "234. GLOBAL WARMING, CLIMATE CHANGE AND OUR ILLUSION OF CONTROL" from [url=http://www.sk

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Wigner’s Friend likes Digital Consciousness


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    2 Replies

Sci, 2019-12-26, 05:14 AM

Wigner’s Friend likes Digital Consciousness

Jim Elvidge

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Of course, I live for this stuff, because it simply adds one more piece of supporting evidence to [url=https://theuniversesolved

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Why One Neuroscientist Started Blasting His Core


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2019-12-25, 02:17 AM

Why One Neuroscientist Started Blasting His Core

James Hamblin


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Randy Bruno, an associate professor of neuroscience at Columbia University, further explained that “

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Surfing on quantum waves: Protein folding revisited


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

Sci, 2019-12-24, 06:15 AM

Surfing on quantum waves: Protein folding revisited

"by University of Luxembourg"


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Now writing in Science Advances, Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko and doctoral researcher Martin Stöhr from the Departme

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Psychedelic Experiences: Revelations or hallucinations?


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2019-12-23, 09:09 PM

Note: Usual caveat that street versions of any drug can be incredibly dangerous, for more on this see What's in My Baggie?. Dealers hate drug testers, to the point of trying to hunt them down. All to say trying to treat yourself without guidance

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Haunted by His Brother, [Wheeler] Revolutionized Physics


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    2 Replies

Sci, 2019-12-23, 06:25 AM

Haunted by His Brother, He Revolutionized Physics

Amanda Gefter


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Photons, of course, don’t know anything. But by choosing which property of a system to measure, we

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