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Memory transplant claimed in snails


Consciousness science forum    49 Replies

Chris, 2018-05-17, 07:55 AM

David Glanzman and colleagues at UCLA claim to have transferred memories between giant hermaphrodite snails by means of an RNA transplant. Snails were sensitised by mild electric shocks to produce a certain reflex reaction. Their RNA was then injected into other snails, and the recipients demonstrat

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Jeffrey Mishlove = Professor X?


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    1 Replies

Chris, 2018-05-16, 09:07 PM

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's a short video in which Jeffrey Mishlove reveals that he is pondering setting up an online community for mentoring and coaching psi ability, modelled on Professor Xavier's Institute for Higher Learning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTFrL31QhAk

Sorry, b

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Paracast - Idiots or Progressives?


UFO/UAP forum    No Replies

Pssst, 2018-05-16, 05:40 PM

Christopher O'Brien, Gene [url=This is the most important project in the history of ufology, in my opinion: it’s the first serious and transparent effort to collect modern precision scientific data of this phenomenon in real time for subsequent analysis by scientists and technicians in the public se

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Long-Term Study of Heart Rate Variability Responses to Solar and Geomagnetic activity


Consciousness science forum    4 Replies

Max_B, 2018-05-16, 05:22 PM

Long-Term Study of Heart Rate Variability Responses to Changes in the Solar and Geomagnetic Environment

Abstract
This long-term study examined relationships between solar and magnetic factors and the time course and lags of autonomic nervous system (ANS) responses to changes in solar and

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Dynamic Changes In EEG Coherence During Cardiac Arrest And Resuscitation In A Rodent


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    No Replies

Max_B, 2018-05-16, 04:47 PM

Another rodent cardiac arrest study similar in design to Borjigin's 2013 study, showing increased coherence, but this time they used CPR, and resuscitated the rodent, rather than a

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Table Tipping and The Etheric


Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    No Replies

Pssst, 2018-05-16, 04:36 PM

Local physical mediumship group, specializes in table-tipping. Something like this but much, much more dramatic.



Afterward, which is typical, there was a sitting seance, no table, letting any beings that desire to come through.

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Could octopuses be extraterrestrials?


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    2 Replies

Chris, 2018-05-16, 10:46 AM

Here's a Daily Grail article discussing a paper by Chandra Wickramasinghe and others, which considers evidence for the old proposal of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe that evolution on earth has been influenced by extraterrestrial organisms - not only viruses and bacteria, but also "more complex eukaryotic

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Origins of Consciousness


Consciousness science forum    4 Replies

Kamarling, 2018-05-16, 01:12 AM

A link to this site appeared in my Facebook feed today. It's new to me so I thought I'd pass it on in case anyone is interested in taking a look. There's a podcast discussing the book with upcoming interviews with Dean Radin.

http://www.originsofconsciousness.com/

One small point that occurs t

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Contentious posts involving Pssst and a few others


General off-topic forum    24 Replies

Brian, 2018-05-15, 08:59 PM

This was continued from another thread to avoid anymore hijacking

Pssst said
Most schooling sucks...never met a Swedish teacher that new wth they were teaching about.

Funny, I learned to

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John Martin Fischer NDE talk


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    1 Replies

tim, 2018-05-15, 05:12 PM

Can veridical near death experiences be explained ?

I'm posting this because for the first time (at least as far as I know) California University Philosophy professor, John Martin Fisher, admits here (@1.09.14)  that some of them don't have an explanation.  

Quote: "He (Parnia) doesn

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