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Is it the brain that produces dreams?


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Brian, 2017-09-22, 09:58 AM

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“If sweetness can win”: The religious discourse of Adventure Time


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Sci, 2017-09-22, 05:40 AM

“If sweetness can win”: The religious discourse of Adventure Time

[i][font="Times New Roman, serif"]This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withh

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Ecosia search engine


General off-topic forum    8 Replies

Brian, 2017-09-21, 12:42 PM

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Dreams -- Underlying Meta Structure


General paranormal phenomena forum    47 Replies

chuck, 2017-09-21, 10:48 AM

I've had some brief thoughts on dreaming lately that I wanted to spit out and see if anyone else has any thoughts.

1. There appears to be a kind of shorthand in the relationship between dreaming and the mind. I don't think that the mind needs to fully present the dream imagery in full 3D surround

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More Vallee ...


UFO/UAP forum    4 Replies

Kamarling, 2017-09-21, 09:05 AM

Rendezvous with Vallee: From UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) to UAMs (Unidentified Alchemical Manifestations)


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On Scientific American: Consciousness Goes Deeper Than You Think


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    26 Replies

Sci, 2017-09-20, 06:03 PM

On Scientific American: Consciousness Goes Deeper Than You Think

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Log Out button


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Arouet, 2017-09-20, 05:10 PM

Not sure if anyone else is finding this an issue but the Log Out button appears for me right over the View Unread Posts button, which for me is my number one way of navigating the forum. The upshot being that I'm regularly signing myself out when my fingers miss the right spot. 

Anyway to move th

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Eclipse and a Metaphor for Seeing the Real


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

Sci, 2017-09-20, 05:01 PM

Eclipse and a Metaphor for Seeing the Real

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Plato, Phaedo:


[color=#444444][size=large][font="Lora, serif"]“So it seemed to me, he said, that after these travails, since I had come away with

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The Commercialization of Research and the Quest for the Objectivity of Science


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Brian, 2017-09-20, 08:23 AM

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Do cultural representations of anomalous phenomena obstruct serious study?


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Brian, 2017-09-20, 07:10 AM

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