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An incredible, prolonged lucid dream


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Brian, 2019-01-28, 11:16 AM

Last night I had the most amazing dream ever.  I was at my childhood home looking out of the window when the house turned around and started moving.  It soon became a boat and the road became a river.  I immediately became lucid and realized this was a dream.  The boat turned along another river lea

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a pill for loneliness?


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Ninshub, 2019-01-27, 10:46 PM

Scientists are working on a pill for loneliness


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Why we fear?


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Vy Chấn Hải, 2019-01-27, 11:08 AM

Fear it is a natural mechanism of the body to protect itself. But I am not told that mechanism that why fears that seem to be able to feel from within consciousness. Or not only the fear but also the emotions, whether the body evolved to represent the basic information of the sense or simplicity of

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The replication crisis is killing theory of how the body influences the mind


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Sci, 2019-01-27, 04:46 AM

The replication crisis is killing psychologists’ theory of how the body influences the mind

Olivia Goldhill

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While psychologists still disagree over a precise definition, the replic

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The Paranormal: Can New Science Explain Old Phenomena?


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Sci, 2019-01-27, 03:40 AM

The Paranormal: Can New Science Explain Old Phenomena?

(posted in the Psi Text Resources Thread, but figured it might be worth having a discussion thread for it)

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Meditation-Induced NDEs


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    7 Replies

Will, 2019-01-26, 11:49 PM

A 3-Year Longitudinal Study

I don't know what the odds are that they'll get a follow-up study on this, and I'm not at all familiar with these states of meditation and how they compare to "true" NDEs. But this:


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Furthermore, t

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The Back of Beyond: The Red Books of C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2019-01-26, 05:51 AM



Becca Tarnas

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Beginning in the years leading up to the Great War, both C. G. Jung and J. R. R. Tolkien independently began to undergo profound imaginal experiences. They had each stepped across a thresh

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Schopenhauer: A philosophy for life that prizes beauty and compassion


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Sci, 2019-01-25, 08:23 PM

Schopenhauer: A philosophy for life that prizes beauty and compassion

Steven Gambardella

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Schopenhauer’s ideas offer no consolation in themselves, there is no redemption in his world view,

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How a Periodic Table of Brains Could Revolutionize Neuroscience


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Sci, 2019-01-25, 07:58 PM

How a Periodic Table of Brains Could Revolutionize Neuroscience

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

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Dölen compared present-day neuroscience to “somewhere between the ancient Greek’s recognition of four el

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Morphic Fields and the Implicate Order (Sheldrake & Bohm)


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Sci, 2019-01-25, 06:34 AM

Sheldrake: Morphic Fields and the Implicate Order - A dialogue with David Bohm

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David Bohm was an eminent quantum physicist. As a young man he worked closely with Albert Einstein at Princeton University. With

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