This is a few years old, but I thought it was interesting and warranted more discussion than it got on Skeptiko: a back-and-forth between the Orch-OR crew and some of their critics.
We've all heard it said from time to time something along the following lines:
"The universe is so overwhelmingly huge, we are a speck of dust, a pale blue dot in the vast ocean of space", etc, and the conclusion many draw from this is often along the lines of "Therefore, our lives and indeed the
One trance physical medium who usually brings apports through the mouth. Is this a legit practice, or is it considered more or only legitimate if the apports are not coming through the physical medium's body?
There still seems to be a little research going on in the field of physical mediumship and PK, though apparently mostly not in the USA but in countries like Argentina and Brazil without as powerful fossilized anti-paranormal establishments. This paper is in the most recent issue of the Journal of th
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 ). 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
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
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