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[color=#131313]Many who have had near-death experiences report a sort of soul body, which they perceive as a vessel for their self. Others speak of dissolving physicality, of a kind of merging. The dying process invariabl
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[color=#131313]A common theory to explain near-death experiences is that they are projections of the brain. The brain would create impressions based on religious or other expectations in order to make dying easier for the
Nima's lecture. The most interesting section of his mammoth lecture series beginning around time 39:30. 3 - 4 minutes of the most profound revelation... Delta (like a wormhole) connects positive and negative windings of his infinite cylinders (in Kinematical spacetime) that ARE NOT causally connect
Penington's lecture. Beginning around time @4:48, I love this section of his lecture, explaining his discovery... it's all there... in less than 60 seconds... and later it turned out that this was indeed the most important part of his discovery.
A new article has come out by researchers at the University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies (the same institution that has long supported research into reincarnation and NDEs), that takes a surprisingly mainstream materialist neurological position, seemingly perhaps because of pressure fr
Something that might be of interest here in Psience Quest.
Since 1982 the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) has provided a critical forum for sharing and publicising original research into conventional and unconventional topics (mostly unconventional). The SSE publishes a peer-reviewed journ
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I[color=#131313]n 1975, Raymond Moody coined the term near death experience in his classic book, Life After Life. For half a century, he has researched some of life’s greatest mysteries. As both a PhD in philosophy and an
Just having come to my attention has been very extensive and interesting documentation now available (including a long interview viewable on YouTube) on ‘Operation Saucer’, a Brazilian Military investigation into an extraordinary and somewhat frightening series of reported UFO encounters in 1977, wh
Was talking to a member of staff about Maldacena's AdS/CFT tin can theory, as an example of why event's are not really connected in the naive classical everyday way we are taught to understand the world. I mentioned I had come at these sorts of theories from a completely different direction... the p
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