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The Healing Power of Nature


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    2 Replies

Sci, 2019-01-18, 09:56 PM

The Healing Power of Nature

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‘The longer the trip, the more healing occurs,’ says the geologist Peter Winn, who has been leading expeditions down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon since the 1960s. ‘Healing happ

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Peter Sjöstedt-H introduces Whitehead’s organic awareness of reality.


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    4 Replies

Sci, 2019-01-18, 07:08 PM

Peter Sjöstedt-H introduces Whitehead’s organic awareness of reality.

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For Whitehead the bifurcation of the world into organic and inorganic is also false. Consider descending a line of complexity from Homo sapiens

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Want to 'Train Your Brain'? Forget Apps, Learn a Musical Instrument


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2019-01-18, 06:41 PM

Want to 'Train Your Brain'? Forget Apps, Learn a Musical Instrument

Mo Costandi



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Early brain scanning studies revealed significant differences in brain structure between mu

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'Oumuamua


UFO/UAP forum    7 Replies

Ninshub, 2019-01-18, 01:40 PM

Have Aliens Found Us? A Harvard Astronomer on the Mysterious Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua

The New Yorker
By [url=https://www.newyorker.com/

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Raymond Ruyer and the metaphysics of absolute forms.


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

Sci, 2019-01-18, 07:45 AM

Raymond Ruyer and the metaphysics of absolute forms. 

Daniel W. Smith
 
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Absolute forms include molecules, viruses, embryos, organisms, consciousness, and culture (externalized technics and symbolization). Mola

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How a Stroke Turned a 63-Year-Old Into a Rap Legend


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2019-01-17, 02:00 AM

How a Stroke Turned a 63-Year-Old Into a Rap Legend

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During the Q&A, Hershfield grabbed the mic and started to tell his story.

He explained that he was getting his language back together after a stroke by

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New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove


General parapsychology    88 Replies

Chris, 2019-01-16, 10:03 AM

I thought it might be helpful to post links here to new interviews in this series.

Here are the latest two interviews.

The Global Consciousness Project with Roger D. Nelson

Roger D. Nelson, PhD, is the director of the Global Consciousness Project, an international, multi-laboratory c

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Why Don't We Have Intellectual Seizures?


Consciousness science forum    9 Replies

Will, 2019-01-16, 05:24 AM

Wilder Penfield


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Penfield noted that intellectual function — abstract thought — could only be switched off[color=#464646][size=mediu

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Neuroscience and free will


Consciousness science forum    733 Replies

nbtruthman, 2019-01-16, 04:16 AM

Is free will a myth, as claimed by many materialists? 

Philosophers have argued this for many centuries. Experiments in quantum physics have something to say, but are extremely esoteric. What does the actual neuroscientific evidence say? One expert review of this is in an [url=https://mindmatters.a

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Godel's 14 points


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    2 Replies

Sci, 2019-01-16, 12:42 AM

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My Philosophical Viewpoint' (c.1960):

1. The world is rational.

2. Human reason can, in principle, be developed more highly (through certain techniques).

3. There are systematic methods for the solution of all problems (also art, etc.).

4. There are other worlds and rational be

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