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Mediumship resources request


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    11 Replies

letseat, 2019-02-03, 07:12 AM

How the hell does one learn how to do it? What are the best resources? Who are the best in the field to learn from?


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The nature and origin of life


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    4 Replies

Kamarling, 2019-02-02, 05:54 AM

This article about the ideas of Paul Davies appeared in The Guardian: [url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/26/i-predict-great-revolution-physicists-define-life-paul-davies?fbclid=IwAR00h0YwksiuwRUSdnhUB7TxXJYv3IP_wo5wC2y_ypSB2_gceijXlmY-HiQ]'I predict a great revolution': inside the str

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Noam Chomsky video


General off-topic forum    3 Replies

Stan Woolley, 2019-02-01, 01:58 PM

This video is very interesting to me in that in the first few minutes Chomsky relates how often we had come very close to blowing ourselves out of existence, only to be saved at the last minute by what appears to be chance.

Do you think this luck was simply luck?

Interesting that he also makes

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The Play Deficit


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2019-01-31, 05:08 AM

The Play Deficit

Peter Gray

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For more than 50 years now, we in the United States have been gradually reducing children’s opportunities to play, and the same is true in many other countries. In his book [i]Children at Play:

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The Case for Gnosticism: The Ultimate Heresy


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    1 Replies

Sci, 2019-01-30, 06:21 PM

Series of articles by Scott Smith, and I know God Reconsidered has been mentioned before but don't think the articles have according to the link checker?

Starts here:

[url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-case-for-christian-gnosticism-the-ultimate-heresy_us_582b1597e4b0852d9ec21d10]The

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Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain.


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2019-01-30, 05:26 PM

Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying.

Carl Zimmer

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He and his colleagues gave antibiotics to mice prone to develop a version of Alzheimer’s d

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Reincarnation


Reincarnation forum    6 Replies

Vy Chấn Hải, 2019-01-30, 10:41 AM

As I may have some of the real regeneration evidence not to scam, but discarded because of some Misunde Where I live in Vietnam has a case of Reincarnation.
 A 3-year-old kid is confirmed to be a dead driver, the evidence is perfect nearly so. But there was a problem the reporter believed that the

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NDE Research - Changes You'd Want to See


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    60 Replies

Will, 2019-01-30, 12:32 AM

This has come up in other threads here and there, but I'd like to have it in one place and open to anyone: moving forward, what would you like to see researchers of NDEs do/change/explore/consider/modify/etc. to improve the body of knowledge?

My own thoughts (such as they are; not being any kind

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Leroy Little Bear: Blackfoot metaphysics 'waiting in the wings'


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

Sci, 2019-01-29, 09:44 PM



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All societies work to instill in younger generations a cultural metaphysic that includes key concepts, customs, practices and social values for the survival and continuation of the society. But is the dominant western aca

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Why the central problem in neuroscience is mirrored in physics


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    6 Replies

Sci, 2019-01-28, 10:47 PM

Is Matter Conscious: Why the central problem in neuroscience is mirrored in physics

Hedda Hassel Mørch

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But perhaps consciousness is not uniquely troublesome. Going back to Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant

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