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Silicon Valley’s psychedelic wonder drug is almost here


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2019-12-11, 01:52 AM

Silicon Valley’s psychedelic wonder drug is almost here

Ruth Reader

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“This could save lives, cure depression, help alcoholism, get people off opioids—why wouldn’t I want to be investe

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Was Aquinas a property dualist?


Philosophy of mind forum    No Replies

Sci, 2019-12-11, 01:12 AM

Was Aquinas a property dualist?

E.Feser


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But what about human beings, you ask?  Doesn’t Aquinas think of them as material substances with immaterial properties?  I’m inclined to say that that is not

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Jurgen Ziewe Answers Afterlife Questions


General off-topic forum    10 Replies

Stan Woolley, 2019-12-08, 07:15 PM




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Charles Richet


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    6 Replies

Chris, 2019-12-08, 07:11 AM

Carlos S. Alvarado has just published a book on the parapsychological research of the French physiologist Charles Richet (d. 1935), entitled Charles Richet: A Nobel Prize Winning Scientist’s Exploration of Psychic Phenomena. (Richet's Nobel Prize was awarded in 1913 in the Physiology/Medicine

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A suggestion for Church reform


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    1 Replies

Sci, 2019-12-07, 11:07 PM

A suggestion for Church reform

B. Kastrup


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In times past, the Church has performed the function of social control through its moral dogmas. Priests used their Sunday sermons to keep people straight

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Scientists propose new theory of Parkinson's disease


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Sci, 2019-12-07, 09:44 PM

Scientists propose new theory of Parkinson's disease

Catherine Paddock


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As scientists delve deeper into the nature of Parkinson's, the more it appears that it is highly varied, suggesting numerous subtypes. A new revie

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Drugs that quell brain inflammation reverse dementia


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2019-12-07, 02:21 AM

Drugs that quell brain inflammation reverse dementia

Robert Sanders

[quote]In a publication appearing today in the journal Science Translational Medicine, University of California, Berkeley, a

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Andrew Paquette's Dreams


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    1 Replies

Chris, 2019-12-06, 07:30 AM

Andrew Paquette has recently started a couple of threads on Skeptiko related to his dreams.

One of the threads links to a recent Psychology Today blog post by Sharon Hewitt Rawlette entitled "Can Dreams Pre

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A doctoral thesis about apparitions


Ghost, poltergeist, and spirit forum    7 Replies

Raimo, 2019-12-01, 02:01 PM

Cultural anthropologist Satumaarit Myllyniemi is writing a doctoral thesis about supernatural experiences during the Russo-Finnish wars in the second world war. Based on her comments she seems to be a materialist, but the accounts themselves are interesting. Some of the cases are crisis apparitions

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The dark side of meditation


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    2 Replies

Ninshub, 2019-11-30, 04:47 PM

There’s a dark side to meditation that no one talks about
Quartz
By Lila MacLellan
May 29, 2017


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(...) What contemporary and ancient medita

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