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Mirror-touch synaesthesia


General paranormal phenomena forum    4 Replies

Chris, 2019-07-21, 11:38 AM

Courtesy of the Anomalist -

Mirror-touch synaesthesia is a condition in which when someone sees someone else being touched, they themselves feel as though they are being touched. (The name apparently comes from experiments in which amputees are shown a mirror-image of their remaining limb being t

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Susan Blackmore's Psychology Today blog posts


Out-of-body experience (OBE), astral travel, and lucid dream forum    14 Replies

Chris, 2019-07-21, 08:06 AM

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook site, here's a series of sceptical blog posts about Out-of-Body Experiences by Susan Blackmore, from the blog section of Psychology Today:
(1) Leaving the Body? How an out-of-body experience changed my life.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/ten-zen-questi

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Beauregard, Trent and Schwartz, "Toward a postmaterialist psychology"


General parapsychology    No Replies

Chris, 2019-07-21, 07:38 AM

Carlos S. Alvarado has a blog post about a recent paper by Mario Beauregard, Natalie L. Trent and Gary Schwartz, entitled "Toward a Postmaterialist Psychology: Theory, Research, and Applications," which has appeared in the journal New Ideas in Psychology (volume 50, pages 21-33, 2018):
https

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The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain—And Almost Lost His Mind


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2019-07-20, 11:29 PM

The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain—And Almost Lost His Mind

Dan Winters


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Meanwhile, the surgeon’s mind kept circling back to the same uneasy thought: “I shouldn’t have done this.”

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Nutrition Science Is Broken. This New Egg Study Shows Why.


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

Sci, 2019-07-20, 06:58 PM

Nutrition Science Is Broken. This New Egg Study Shows Why.

Timothy F. Kirn


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The experiment revealed the now-well-known fact that when an individual loses weight, their metabolism slows. That’s what mak

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Gerard Croiset


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    4 Replies

Chris, 2019-07-20, 05:41 PM

The Psi Encyclopedia has just published an article on Gerard Croiset (1909-1980), who is claimed to have used psi to locate many missing persons:
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...rd-croiset

The article notes that "His reputation was later damaged by posthumous revelations that [Pr

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Your Brain Is On the Brink of Chaos


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2019-07-19, 07:16 PM

Your Brain Is On the Brink of Chaos

Nancy Kelly


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At the same time, chaos has its advantages. On a behavioral level, the arms race between predator and prey has wired erratic str

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I Found Bigfoot...Maybe


General paranormal phenomena forum    No Replies

Sci, 2019-07-19, 01:06 PM

I Found Bigfoot...Maybe

Matt Blitz

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Of course, there are skeptics, and they include some pretty big names, like the [url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-so-many

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The Simplest, Best Tool for Personal Wellness: Breathing


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2019-07-19, 12:54 PM

The Simplest, Best Tool for Personal Wellness: Breathing

Carlett Spike

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But when we allow ourselves to step back from these traumas, to focus on positively moving

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Remote Viewing training systems


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    1 Replies

Chris, 2019-07-19, 08:42 AM

In a review of "The Premonition Code" by Theresa Cheung and Julia Mossbridge, Debra Lynne Katz complains that the authors' "Positive Precog Training Programme" is really a "rebranding" of an abridged version of Prudence Calabrese's Trans-Dimensional System, which itself was adapted from Ingo Swann's

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