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Would you Like to have an NDE?


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    13 Replies

Stan Woolley, 2017-08-28, 09:52 AM

Can having an NDE lead an individual to misguided thinking? 

What do you think about others who have had them?


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New ersby blog post: "Joe McMoneagle and the Abrams M1 tank"


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    1 Replies

Chris, 2017-08-28, 09:43 AM

A new post about remote viewing on ersby's blog, entitled "Joe McMoneagle and the Abrams M1 tank", appeared yesterday:
http://ersby.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/joe-...-tank.html


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A Logically and Mathematically Consistent Argument for Psi and The Afterlife?


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    5 Replies

malf, 2017-08-28, 02:50 AM

There has been a lot of interest in The Simulation Hypothesis as a potential model of our universe, and the 'reality' that we experience. The idea has gained support from such disparate thinkers as David Chalmers and Neil Degrasse Tyson, and there appears to be some mathematics to back it up. From W

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Is Evil One of God's Tools?


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    48 Replies

Stan Woolley, 2017-08-27, 03:50 PM

I notice that there seems to be a seething anger about the nasty things that happen in the Universe, among a significant number of people, which God often bears the brunt of. 

Is this justified?


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The Famous Dr Rudy


General off-topic forum    29 Replies

Stan Woolley, 2017-08-27, 03:40 PM




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Psi Encyclopedia


General parapsychology    96 Replies

Kamarling, 2017-08-27, 11:20 AM

I know there's a thread for text resources but I thought this deserves a thread to itself.

The Psi Encyclopedia is a resource which attempts to provide some balance to the negative bias towards psi that we are used to from Wikipedia, RationalWiki, CS

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The brain is not dead when the cortex is dead.


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    22 Replies

Max_B, 2017-08-27, 10:26 AM

I thought this was a topical letter from 2014 which provides some useful information that supports my view that the brain can continue to have some function (albeit not wakeful consciousness), well after 20 seconds of cardiac arrest, up to perhaps a few minutes, and that this period of continued fun

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Your sense of 'space'...


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    2 Replies

Max_B, 2017-08-27, 09:54 AM

Here’s a diagram (Fig. 1.) I produced during 2013, to aid me in thinking about the relationships between the sense of space I experience with different states/senses during wakefulness.

When I say, ‘sense of space’, what I’m really talking about is my perception of the location for each of these

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Greetings


Member introductions    7 Replies

chotki, 2017-08-27, 02:52 AM

So Alex has erased a post of mine and suspended my account on Skeptiko. I doubt there will be any sort of appeal, so I might as well move over here. 

Hello, everyone!


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Belief in Bigfoot?


General paranormal phenomena forum    3 Replies

berkelon, 2017-08-26, 12:48 AM

Looking to understand forum users' beliefs in bigfoot. The guy who was installing a door for me yesterday was talking about how bigfoots had been seen here in upstate new york. Curious if anybody here is onboard. I'm a very strong "lean no" for whatever it's worth. Thanks!


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