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Planning posts split from Psience Quest Interview No. 1: Titus Rivas


Interview planning    10 Replies

Vortex, 2017-08-17, 03:16 PM

Titus Rivas has agreed to the written interview.

It will take a form of a repeated e-mail exchange - first we formulate a set of questions, which I will send to Titus to answer. Then he provides the answers and they are published, we can formulate the reply and let Titus respond.

If such forma

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Hello, Great Work & a big Thank You!!


Member introductions    2 Replies

manjit, 2017-08-17, 11:24 AM

Hello everybody,

Wow - excellent, really pleased to see this place up and running.  Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin

Thank you so, so much to Ian, Typoz, Steve and others for taking the time and effort for directing me to this new forum - old link on phone and other devices has been deleted and replaced with

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MYSTICAL MEANING of the HEBREW ALPHABET


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

hypermagda, 2017-08-17, 09:48 AM

For those interested in Jewish mysticism.
Very pedagogical and accessible. Part 1 of 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBy71RLx8xQ


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Hi, another lurker from the Skeptiko Forum


Member introductions    1 Replies

MCat, 2017-08-17, 08:06 AM

Hi, 

I just wanted to wish the new forum all the best. I've been following the Skeptiko forums for some time and was a bit shocked to see the proposed closure of most of the forum there as I've always enjoyed reading the discussions. I'm not so confident about expressing my personal perspectives

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Is the polls feature working?


Feedback and announcements    1 Replies

Jim_Smith, 2017-08-17, 06:13 AM

Is the polls feature working? I checked the box to create a poll in a new thread but I didn't see any way to input the questions. What is supposed to happen? I use an old browser so it could be a problem with that.


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After a half-century of attempts, psilocybin has finally been synthesized in the lab


General off-topic forum    2 Replies

Jim_Smith, 2017-08-17, 06:11 AM

After a half-century of attempts, psilocybin has finally been synthesized in the lab
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-08-h...n-lab.html


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Hi


Member introductions    1 Replies

remiel6, 2017-08-17, 01:50 AM

Same username, don't remember if I ever explained it before. Strange thing I use virtually the same username on all forums if available. So if you see it used somewhere else, its probably me. 

I'm the dream guy, I can reexplain if I have to. 

thanks for the invite.


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Reincarnation Cases


Reincarnation forum    149 Replies

Dante, 2017-08-17, 01:44 AM

Hey everyone. So, this is a post I made on Skeptiko a couple months back for Paul. I was waiting for him to respond to me in order to assess/analyze the case, and tell me what he thought, but he never got back to me.

Here's the case:

[quote]
[size=small]Here is one I've typed out, from Dr. Tucker'

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Robert Anton Wilson


Consciousness science forum    8 Replies

Brian, 2017-08-16, 08:32 PM

Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson is for those interested in doing some personal consciousness experiments. You can get it here: http://www.whale.to/c/Prometheus Rising.pdf

Here is a small taste:

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My intro and hello


Member introductions    No Replies

Steve from ABQ, 2017-08-16, 08:26 PM

I'm a fairly long follower of Alex's podcast and signed up for Skeptiko Forum not long ago. Love NDE and OBE stories, consciousness research and the general history of religious/mystical experience of us humans. I like Chinese stuff like the I Ching, Taoism etc. Also like Kabbalah. Oh yeah, ancient

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