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Survey: Religion decline, afterlife belief up


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Kamarling, 2018-10-25, 10:51 PM

Nice article on a blog I found this morning. It addresses the findings and interpretations of a survey taken in the USA on

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Another resource


General survival research    No Replies

Kamarling, 2018-10-25, 08:45 PM

Apologies if this has been linked before but I happened across this blog this morning which looks, at first sight, like a pretty good resource. Maybe worth a browse - I certainly can't claim to have already seen all it has to offer.

https://thesearchforlifeafterdeath.com/about/


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Doesn't this piss you off?


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    41 Replies

Kamarling, 2018-10-24, 11:26 PM

Here is an article about the work of Sam Parnia.

After death, you’re aware that you’ve died, say scientists

Fine. We've all seen similar articles saying much the same. I've read other artic

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Japanese Aesthestics: Wabi-Sabi


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

Sci, 2018-10-24, 11:00 PM

Japan's Unusual Way to View the World

by Lily Crossley-Baxter



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Wabi-sabi offers a refuge from the modern world's obsession with perfection, and accepts imperfections as all the more meaningful

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Daniel Dennett vs Keith Ward • Are we more than matter? Mind, consciousness and free


Philosophy of mind forum    2 Replies

Sci, 2018-10-24, 08:42 PM

Tried to search for Keith Ward but oddly doesn't come up...I could've sworn someone posted a video w/ him discussion Idealism?


Anyway hope this isn't a duplication:





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Panpsychism, Aggregation and Combinatorial Infusion


Philosophy of mind forum    No Replies

Sci, 2018-10-24, 08:11 PM

Panpsychism, Aggregation and Combinatorial Infusion

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Deferential Monadic Panpsychism (DMP) is a view that accepts that physical science is capable of discovering the basic structure of reality. However, it denies that reality is f

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How the Universe Ends


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

Ninshub, 2018-10-24, 02:42 AM

How the Universe Ends

Ryan F. Mandelbaum, Gizmodo
October 22, 2018

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Somewhere between a second and a millennium from now, you will die. Your body and all of its parts will cease functioning and rejoin the Earth as

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Remote viewers and synesthesia


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    1 Replies

Ninshub, 2018-10-24, 02:33 AM

Nice to see an article about remote viewing in Psychology Today:

Spycraft and Synesthesia
The top remote viewers in our nation are synesthetes.

Maureen Seaberg, October 15, 2018


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Common sense argument - the mind and materialism


Consciousness science forum    43 Replies

nbtruthman, 2018-10-23, 06:47 AM

From “A Short Argument Against the Materialist Account of the Mind” by Jay Richards:


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Imagine a scenario where I ask you to think about eating a chocolate ice cream sundae, while a

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Metaphysical Faeries...


Folklore forum    2 Replies

neilrushton, 2018-10-22, 06:33 PM

[size=x-small][font="Helvetica"]Here’s a new article over at deadbutdreaming, which discusses the metaphysical ontology of the faeries…. https://deadbutdreaming.wordpress.com/20...taphysics/ [/font

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