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Recent poltergeist-like experience


Ghost, poltergeist, and spirit forum    12 Replies

nbtruthman, 2025-03-22, 09:43 AM

I want to report the personal experience of poltergeist-like paranormal manifestations in my home. They lasted for three days. 

There were seven types of phenomena:  

1. Moving lights at the ceiling of our family room, erratically appearing and disappearing.
2. Droning or booming sounds that would

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Cognitive Reserve


General off-topic forum    No Replies

Jim_Smith, 2025-03-22, 08:32 AM

Cognitive reserve is the idea that if you spend much of your time learning new things then you will have more synapses in your brain and that can make you resistant to mental decline that comes with aging.

But one of the things that I think is interesting about this is that you can have a lot of co

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The Telepathy Tapes


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    42 Replies

Laird, 2025-03-21, 08:09 PM

The Telepathy Tapes A Podcast Beyond Words

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In a world that often dismisses the extraordinary as mere fantasy, The Telepathy Tapes dares to explore the profound abilities of non-speakers with autism—individuals who have long been misunderstood

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Fascinating open-ended interview with Ed Kelly


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

David001, 2025-03-20, 06:10 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjYWFERPqSQ

This is an extraordinarily interesting interview of Ed Kelly by Jeffrey Mishlove. Ed is 83, but the scope of his awareness of parapsychology, the autistic savant phenomenon, NDEs etc left me gasping. My appreciation of JM has also gone up substantially

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Why physicalism is FALSE


Philosophy of mind forum    43 Replies

Sci, 2025-03-19, 02:23 PM



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Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy & Literature with Dr. Owen Ware


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

Sci, 2025-03-18, 02:56 PM



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The Following video is a special presentation of my series on Classical German Philosophy and Post-Kantian Thought. The title of today's episode is: Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy & Literature with D

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Behind the Cosmic Curtain: On Stanislaw Lem's 'The New Cosmogony'...


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Sci, 2025-03-16, 03:57 PM

Behind the Cosmic Curtain: On Stanislaw Lem's 'The New Cosmogony,' with Meredith Michael

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Over the last several centuries, there has been one thing on which science and religion have generally agreed, and that is the fixity of the laws under wh

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Analysis & Assessment of Gateway Process


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    1 Replies

Sci, 2025-03-14, 02:51 PM



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Those who do not ‘see’ their own consciousness: can argument help?


Consciousness science forum    26 Replies

Sci, 2025-03-13, 09:28 PM

Those who do not ‘see’ their own consciousness: can argument help?

Arthur Haswell, BA

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...In his latest book, the neuroscientist Christof Koch relates Cotard’s syndrom

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Yang-Mills and the Mass Gap Explained in everyday language


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Sci, 2025-03-13, 04:16 PM




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