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Spot the psychopath


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2019-08-09, 01:41 PM

Spot the psychopath

Heidi Maibom


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According to the Hare Psychopathy Checklist – first devised in the 1970s by the Canadian criminal psychologist Robert Hare and since

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Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on NDEs


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    5 Replies

Chris, 2019-08-09, 07:57 AM

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - Sharon Hewitt Rawlette has a new blog post at Psychology Today entitled "Are Near-Death Experiences Just Comforting Illusions?" which draws on examples from "The Self Does Not Die":
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/...re-near-de

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How compassion can help you relieve stress.


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2019-08-07, 02:01 PM

How compassion can help you relieve stress.

Diane Dreher Ph.D.

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Emotionally, all this stress puts us in “survival mode,” destroying

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Millions Of Undiscovered Black Holes Are Hiding In The Milky Way?


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

Sci, 2019-08-06, 01:39 PM

Millions Of Undiscovered Black Holes Are Hiding In The Milky Way, Claim Researchers

Natasha Mathur


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Research [url=https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.00792.pdf]ti

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Psychology Today: Is Life a Dream?


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    3 Replies

Sci, 2019-08-06, 12:08 PM

Is Life a Dream?: This age-old philosophical puzzle is more than an idle question.

Sharon Hewitt Rawlette Ph.D.

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Just as we often wake from sleep to realize that what we were experiencing in

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Dream Hacking: How To Use Your Brain's Wildest And Weirdest State


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2019-08-06, 12:03 PM

Dream Hacking: How To Use Your Brain's Wildest And Weirdest State

Chris Taylor


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The good news for those who do not like to sup bitter tea, however, is that there is a compl

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The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2019-08-05, 12:35 PM

The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look

Neel Burton


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‘Hypersanity’ is not a common or accepted term. But neither did I make it up. I first came acr

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Do Lucid Dreams Promote Creativity?


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2019-08-05, 12:06 PM

Do Lucid Dreams Promote Creativity?

Patrick McNamara Ph.D.

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Dream recall frequency, narrative complexity, and certain dream content indicators have all been correlated with various cre

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Louie Savva's thesis


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    18 Replies

Chris, 2019-08-04, 08:27 PM

Following on from the posts on another thread, I thought Louie Savva's thesis deserved a thread of its own. It's available on the semantic scholar website:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/41be/a5588

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This Is Why It's Nearly Impossible to Study Pain


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2019-08-04, 01:23 PM

This Is Why It's Nearly Impossible to Study Pain

Jeremy Delahanty


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The authors discuss tests that look at reflexive responses to potentially harmful stimuli like too much pressure or excessive heat.

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