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Fasting-Style Diet Seems to Result in Dynamic Changes to Human Brains


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Sci, 2024-08-17, 04:48 PM

Fasting-Style Diet Seems to Result in Dynamic Changes to Human Brains

David Nield

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Researchers from China studied 25 volunteers classed as obese over a period of 62 days, durin

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Why Metaphysics Matters by Bonnitta Roy


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Valmar, 2024-08-17, 05:13 AM

https://integral-review.org/issues/vol_1...atters.pdf

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Why Metaphysics Matters

Bonnitta Roy

Abstract: A lively discussion about why metaphysics matters in our current M

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Bird and dragon ~ some parallel life insights


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Valmar, 2024-08-17, 02:19 AM

This from an older Ayahuasca experience before the one I currently posted, dated 2nd June, that I forgot to post about:

My other self, Gooseberry, was musing on some songs he'd been thinking about. I was quietly watching from the background of his mind, but gradually, he noticed something, and turn

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"Hidden consciousness" may be present in 25% of unresponsive patients


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Sci, 2024-08-17, 12:29 AM

"Hidden consciousness" may be present in 25% of unresponsive patients


by Michael Irving

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...Over the past few decades scientists have detected signs of “[url=https://newatlas.com/eeg-scan-consc

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Science Uprising


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Sci, 2024-08-16, 03:36 PM

New site, put out by the Discovery Institute.

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Well-known scientists have been preaching a materialistic worldview rather than presenting the public with all the evidence. We are here to change that. The objective scientific evidence does not prove

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Quantum Entanglement in Your Brain Is What Generates Consciousness[?]


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Sci, 2024-08-16, 02:39 PM

Quantum Entanglement in Your Brain Is What Generates Consciousness, Radical Study Suggests

Darren Orf

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The study, published this month in the journal [i][url=https://journals.aps.org/pre/a

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The Speed of Gravity: Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogue 84


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Sci, 2024-08-15, 11:37 PM



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[color=#131313]Isaac Newton is best known for his theory of gravity. And yet, the great scientist also insisted: "the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know.” In other words, notions like gravity, and force in

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Terminal lucidity occurs in children


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nbtruthman, 2024-08-15, 10:28 PM

It turns out that terminal lucidity also happens fairly often even with very young children, as described in a recent paper in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/abstract/...ic.10.aspx). 

From an article

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Art As Evocation – Phil Ford and JF Martel


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2024-08-13, 08:45 PM



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The dynamic duo behind Weird Studies, Phil Ford and J F Martel, join the show to explore the ways in which art is a form of evocation.

We look at:

  • Orson Welles as divine shamanic faker.
  • Hollywood’s va


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Understanding Hylozoism with Thomas Brophy


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Sci, 2024-08-13, 02:39 PM



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[color=#131313]Thomas Brophy, PhD, is president emeritus of the California Institute for Human Science. He also serves as president of the Society for Consciousness Studies. He is author of The Mechanism Demands a Mystici

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