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Possible abduction of military man


UFO/UAP forum    No Replies

Ninshub, 2018-06-03, 04:24 PM

Are abduction experiences still happening?

Here's a recent report (March) of a military man who had a UFO encounter and experienced mysterious "missing time".

US military man fears he was ‘abducted by aliens’ after UFO trailed him

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In a witness report to the National UFO Repo

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Parasychological paper makes mainstream psychology journal


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    27 Replies

Ninshub, 2018-06-02, 10:56 PM

Etzel Cardena has managed to get a parapsychology article published in the American Psychological Association's journal American Psychologist. You must pay to read the paper, but here's the abstract.

The experimental evidence for parapsychological phenomena: A review.
By Cardeña, E

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Cars In Black


General paranormal phenomena forum    No Replies

Ninshub, 2018-06-02, 10:52 PM

Supernatural Cars on the Highways

Nick Redfern May 31, 2018

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In 2012 I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe titled [url=http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/10/th

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Louis Vuitton hired a shaman to stop the rain for fashion show


General off-topic forum    9 Replies

Doug, 2018-06-02, 02:20 PM

Louis Vuitton hired a shaman to stop the rain for fashion show

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Luxury brand Louis Vuitton hired a shaman to prevent rain from marring the brand’s recent over-the-top show in the south of France.

Sources tell Page Six that while the guru had also been hired to

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Challenging self limiting habits


General off-topic forum    4 Replies

Brian, 2018-06-02, 01:18 PM

I found this Kindred Spirit article interesting: https://kindredspirit.co.uk/no-news-is-good-news/

[i]"News narratives are more intrusive than they have ever been.  Out of interest, before I offer a list of the kind of things I had to do

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Norman, the psychopathic AI


General off-topic forum    3 Replies

Typoz, 2018-06-02, 12:22 PM

Quote:Norman is an algorithm trained to understand pictures but, like its namesake Hitchcock's Norman Bates, it does not have an optimistic view of the world.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44040008

What does this image represent?
   


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Coming to Grips with the Implications of Quantum Mechanics


Consciousness science forum    2 Replies

Sci, 2018-06-01, 10:45 PM

Coming to Grips with the Implications of Quantum Mechanics



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Ian Steenhoff Parelius : Plotinus's influence on Augustine's notions of Time


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

Sci, 2018-06-01, 04:37 PM

What, then, is time?

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The following paper inquires into the nature of time according to St. Augustine and its implications for the human condition. It is fair to assume that most people know how

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Vital Materialism and Terence McKenna’s Archaic Revival


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2018-06-01, 03:27 PM

Vital Materialism and Terence McKenna’s Archaic Revival


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Vital materialism is a philosophic concept that challenges our basic notions of subject and object, the famili

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Why Physicalism Is Wrong


Philosophy of mind forum    13 Replies

Ninshub, 2018-06-01, 05:04 AM

Philosopher Grant Bartley makes the argument in Philosophy Now.

Grant Bartley argues that to say the mind is physical is an abuse of language.
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The most widely accepted attempt at describing the nature of embodied thought in this materialistic age is called physicali

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