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Guardian article on the "precog economy"


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    4 Replies

Chris, 2019-09-29, 09:10 PM

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - here's an article in the Guardian by Amelia Tait, about precognition and the businesses offering it as a professional service. Featuring Julia Mossbridge and Caroline Watt on the "pro" side and Chris French on the "anti":
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/s

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Animal Magnetism


General paranormal phenomena forum    No Replies

Chris, 2019-09-29, 07:08 AM

Carlos S. Alvarado has written a new blog post containing summaries of ten papers about Animal Magnetism from the last few years:
https://carlossalvarado.wordpress.com/20...2015-2019/


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A Post-Galilean Paradigm


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    13 Replies

Sci, 2019-09-27, 10:34 PM

A Post-Galilean Paradigm: A Conversation with Philip Goff


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Effectively, by excluding qualities from the domain of science, Galileo excluded consciousness from the domain of science. To be fair to Galileo,

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A truly African Philosophy


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    No Replies

Sci, 2019-09-27, 07:50 PM

A truly African philosophy

Ada Agada


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One evening, sitting on the veranda of my family home with the African sun setting in the western sky and my eyes on the pages of Plato’s [i]Republic[/i

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Potential Role of Psi in an Expanded Science of the Physical, Experiential, Spiritual


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Sci, 2019-09-25, 10:35 PM

On the Potential Role of Psi in an Expanded Science of the Physical, Experiential, and Spiritual

Charles Tart


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[size=small][font="sans-serif"]This paper is an experiment for me, so there may be rough spots. Its

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Poetic Imagination in the Speculative Philosophies of Plato, Schelling, and Whitehead


Philosophy of mind forum    No Replies

Sci, 2019-09-25, 08:57 PM

Poetic Imagination in the Speculative Philosophies of Plato, Schelling, and Whitehead



M. Segall

 

[url=https://matthewsegall.files.wordpress

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Tetralemmic Polarity


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    1 Replies

Sci, 2019-09-25, 05:33 AM

Tetralemmic Polarity

Scott Roberts


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I have found that, once one gets past belief in independent material existence, many of the remaining metaphysical questions can be dealt with through what Coleridge call

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Is scientific "consensus" worthless: Jeffery Epstein as a Darwinist patron


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    9 Replies

nbtruthman, 2019-09-24, 04:54 PM

A little unpleasant, but an interesting comment on the state of science culture today:

From https://evolutionnews.org/2019/09/jeffre...cientists/:

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"The scientific scandal involving pedophile Jeffery Epstein is horrifying, but it’s vital that we understa

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Ghost lights


General paranormal phenomena forum    No Replies

Chris, 2019-09-24, 11:13 AM

Magonia has a positive review by John Rimmer of a recent book by C. F. Gritzner entitled "South Carolina Ghost Lights and Legends":
http://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2019/08/l...kness.html

[i]"This is an interesting and enjoyable account of a search that did not end in any simple explanati

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A New Finding Raises an Old Question: Where and When Did Life Begin?


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Sci, 2019-09-24, 12:10 AM

A New Finding Raises an Old Question: Where and When Did Life Begin?

Kat McGowan


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Even without consensus on how and where life got going, everyone

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