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Whitehead’s Organismic Conception Of God And Its Religious Availability


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

Sci, 2018-11-03, 08:44 PM

[url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242174114_Whitehead%27s_organismic_conception_of_God_and_its_religious_availability/fulltext/0285ea430cf2effb422c4c42/242174114_Whitehead%27s_organismic_conception_of_God_and_its_religious_availability.pdf?origin=publication_detail]Whitehead’s Organismic

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The Galileo Commission


General parapsychology    11 Replies

Chris, 2018-11-01, 02:37 PM

The Galileo Commission is something that was set up by the Scientific and Medical Network. Its remit is "to open public discourse and to find ways to expand science, so that it is no longer limited by an outmoded view of matter and physical reality, and so t

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Sometimes I'm a sceptic


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    32 Replies

Kamarling, 2018-10-31, 08:16 PM

A friend of mine (and a member here, although he hasn't been active here for some time) has made a point of being exposed to both sides of the debate so, while he has been a long-time member of the group I used to attend (back in the UK) discussing psi, the spiritual and the paranormal, he also join

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Are we wrong to assume fish can't feel pain?


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Sci, 2018-10-31, 01:51 AM

Are we wrong to assume fish can't feel pain

by Carl Safina

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The impression that fish are insensate, short of memory and, therefore, can be caught, killed and eaten without guilt, is being

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Anne Lamott on Love, Despair, and Our Capacity for Change


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Sci, 2018-10-30, 07:28 PM

Anne Lamott on Love, Despair, and Our Capacity for Change

by Maria Papova

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“We can change. People say we can’t, but we do when the stakes or the pain is high enough. And when we do, life can change. It o

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Michael Grosso: Mark Twain And The World of Dreams


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Sci, 2018-10-30, 01:45 AM

Mark Twain And The World of Dreams 

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The dream is the greatest of all psychic phenomena, for like a god the dreamer is a creator of worlds.  But what are dreams?  Shadows of our waking life, a

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McCorristine, "Spectral Arctic: A History of Ghosts and Dreams in Polar Exploration"


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Chris, 2018-10-29, 08:28 AM

I followed a link from the Daily Grail to a short article on attempts by clairvoyants to locate Franklin's Arctic expedition in the 1840s, which refers to a book published this year by Shane McCorristine, entitled "The Spectral Arctic: A History of Ghosts and Dreams in Polar Exploration". Following

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If Elephants Aren't Persons, Could They be One Day?


Consciousness science forum    14 Replies

Sci, 2018-10-27, 02:14 AM

Elephants might have the necessary capacities for personhood – we just need to help them acquire the cognitive scaffolding

by Don Ross

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Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that elephants currently ex

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Even a 10-Minute Walk May Be Good for the Brain


Consciousness science forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2018-10-27, 01:34 AM

Even a 10-Minute Walk May Be Good for the Brain

by Gretchen Reynolds

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Ten minutes of mild exercise can immediately alter how certain parts of the brain communicate and coordinate with o

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Killing necessary? Bhagavad Gita


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

Brian, 2018-10-26, 10:54 AM

I put this in the philosophy thread rather than the spiritual because I wanted to discuss the killing aspect rather than the religious.




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