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End of Life Experiences. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake


Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    1 Replies

Sci, 2024-12-19, 12:47 AM



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Terminal lucidity is the phenomenon of individuals who are dying receiving a surge of life, perhaps to say goodbye, as their death approaches. So what is the nature and meaning of such well-attested experiences? In this e

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What Does An Electron ACTUALLY Look Like?


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

Sci, 2024-12-18, 12:54 AM



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What does an electron really look like? I mean, if we zoom in all the way. Is it a sizeless speck of charge? Is it a multidimensional vortex of quantum strangeness? Is it the boundary of a tiny universe with universe-elec

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Weird Studies - The Player: On the Magician Card in the Tarot


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

Sci, 2024-12-17, 09:18 PM

The Player: On the Magician Card in the Tarot 


Phil Ford & JF Martel

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The Magician card likely graces more front covers of books on the tarot than any of the other major arcana. In many ways, it symbolizes the tarot itself, or the individua

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What bacteria taught me about metaphysics


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Sci, 2024-12-16, 09:58 PM

What bacteria taught me about metaphysics

Hans Busstra, MA

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Though we tend to forget it, science and metaphysics go hand in hand. What I find an intriguing fact is that, more or less at the

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Expert: After 50 years we have not learned anything yet about the truth of UFOs


UFO/UAP forum    2 Replies

nbtruthman, 2024-12-16, 06:57 PM

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"Perhaps the most famous of all researchers of the phenomenon, Jacques Vallee, says that the current situation – with UFO sightings regularly in the news and a high profile government investigation – very much reminds him of a similar scenario five decades ago. 

In discussing his seminal

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Miracle cure of John Traynor a century ago


General paranormal phenomena forum    No Replies

Typoz, 2024-12-16, 06:49 PM

The BBC getting into the Christmas spirit perhaps.

The 'miracle' that enthralled a city 100 years ago

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When the train carrying John Traynor pulled into Liverpool Lime Street Station one summer's day in 1923, his wife fought th

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Drones or UFOs?


UFO/UAP forum    12 Replies

David001, 2024-12-15, 12:32 PM

We are told that there are many drones in operation round significant buildings and airbases in the US, and also to some extent here in the UK. There are also pictures of multiples of these things flying in the sky.

The videos look remarkably similar to UFOs, as does the fact that nobody seems to

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A Journey Beyond the Material: Exploring Federico Faggin’s “Irreducible”


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    20 Replies

Sci, 2024-12-15, 12:42 AM

A Journey Beyond the Material: Exploring Federico Faggin’s “Irreducible”

Srinivas Hebbar

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 ...Faggin goes beyond Shannon’s classical information theory, which f

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Becoming insecure over NDE Research


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    18 Replies

Bill37, 2024-12-13, 04:06 AM

There have been various posts from a few different people ; mentioning something to the effect of NDE’s being way lower in frequency than it may seem. 

Combine that with Sam Parnia’s recent video that focuses on Jeff Longs 43 cherry picked NDE’s…

With the fact Parnia or related studies have no

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Greyson NDE Scale & the Future of Recalled Experience of Death Research


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    2 Replies

Sci, 2024-12-13, 03:31 AM



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Over 40 years ago, Dr. Bruce Greyson, a pioneer in the study of death experiences, created the first ever scale used to standardize identification of near death experiences. In this presentation, researchers Annalise Dick

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