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How do you define the ego?


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    22 Replies

Ninshub, 2017-08-19, 09:36 PM

People often bring up the ego in spiritual discussions (I saw a lot of it on the Skeptiko forum for one thing - Stan W., I think you use the word a lot Wink). But I'm starting this thread to hopefully hear people who buy into the concept, or use it, in one way or another, to attempt to define it. What

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Film podcasts


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Ninshub, 2017-08-19, 07:04 PM

This is a good film history one, that's gotten rave reviews and is frequently in the top 100 Podcasts in ITunes or something like that: [i]You Must Remember This[url=http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/]: The Secret and/or Forgotten

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2004 EEG study by Kittenis et al.


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Chris, 2017-08-19, 06:06 PM

I thought it might be interesting to discuss this paper from 2004, in which Kittenis, Caryl and Stevens exposed a "sender" to flashes of light while recording the EEG of a "receiver" in a different room:
https://koestlerunit.files.wordpress.com...l-2004.pdf

I saw this figure i

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Manamana


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Jim_Smith, 2017-08-19, 10:25 AM




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The evolution of creativity and the creativity of evolution


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    No Replies

Sci, 2017-08-19, 05:06 AM

The evolution of creativity and the creativity of evolution


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Much like creativity used to be the province of the lone genius, enlightenment was t

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HI


Member introductions    7 Replies

Monad, 2017-08-19, 12:14 AM

Hello All,

I am the Skeptiko poster formerly known as John Maguire. For a short time I was editing/producing some of Alex's shows, and helped administer the forums a bit too. I also contributed & co-edited 'Why Science Is Wrong'. It was a real honor for me to work with Alex personally, and suppor

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How I Freed My Mind From The Cult of Materialism


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    6 Replies

Sci, 2017-08-18, 11:17 PM

How I Freed My Mind From The Cult of Materialism

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[size=large][font="Merriweather"]It is a curious fact that we have successfully u

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The Zombie Enlightenment - How Materialism make a lie out of Humanist Achievement


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Sci, 2017-08-18, 10:52 PM

The Zombie Enlightenment | Three Pound Brain


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[font="Palatino,"]But if we set aside our traditional fetish for ‘reason’ and think of post-Medieval European society [i]as a kind of information processing system[

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True Crime Podcasts


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chuck, 2017-08-18, 10:16 PM

Anyone else addicted to the gruesome nature of the true crime podcast? There are so many!


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Alerts


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E. Flowers, 2017-08-18, 08:43 PM

I am only getting these when someone likes a comment... Is there some way to activate the feature so that it also works when someone responds to a thread in which I'm active? I know that Skeptiko automatically 'followed' a thread as soon as one posted, but that does not appear to be the case here.


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