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Practicing my connections to my parallel lives ~ a brief visit with Gooseberry


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Valmar, 2024-08-13, 02:17 PM

After last night, where I had a brief moment where I felt a soft, gentle energy coming through my third eye, I decided to test it out again, focusing on that warm feeling.

I noticed that there was a visual sensation of rising up from beneath ocean waves, towards the surface, it fading in and out as

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Ayahuasca ~ a rather unexpected journey into (yet another) parallel life


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Valmar, 2024-08-12, 03:49 AM

The possibilities never seem to end... the inexplicability also never seems to end. Not entirely sure what to make of this set of experiences, but I may as well... dump into words, so I can think about it, along with sharing it, for whatever it's worth.

During my Ayahuasca journey last night / th

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Abiogenic undirected OOL now even more unlikely


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nbtruthman, 2024-08-11, 12:18 AM

The undirected neo-Darwinian "evolution" of the first living organism has just become even very much more unlikely than it was before. 

A new study (described at https://evolutionnews.org/2024/08/that-i...600-genes/) has shown that the Last Universal C

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There now is ongoing psychical research into physical mediumship phenomena


Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    1 Replies

nbtruthman, 2024-08-07, 04:27 PM

Several very interesting articles just came out in the current issue just published of the journal of the Society for Scientific Exploration, Vol. 38 No. 2 (July 2024), at https://journalofscientificexploration.o...ex.php/jse. The articles/papers and the following authors' comments (in the public

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New Sam Parnia book!


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    31 Replies

LotusFlower, 2024-08-06, 04:06 PM

I got my copy on Kindle. Pretty interesting so far.

My skeptic brother (who doesn't believe in NDEs or religion) said that he would rather be caught reading porn than a book about NDEs, and that if he was caught reading an NDE book he'd immediately throw it and grab the nearest porn magazine.


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Ecstatic Naturalism


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Sci, 2024-08-05, 06:20 PM

The broad horizons of Ecstatic Naturalism

Asher Walden, PhD

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Dr. Walden introduces Ecstatic Naturalism, a metaphysics similar to Idealism but less committed to mind as we know it. While pro

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Interspecies Communication with Davis Brimberg


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    1 Replies

Sci, 2024-08-04, 04:15 PM



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[color=#131313]Davis K. Brimberg, PhD, is a clinical psychologist. She has worked with an animal rescue organization and has become certified as an owl handler. She has also studied dance and theater extensively as an ado

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“Physical stuff” can’t do this and that - a false Dichotomy


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sbu, 2024-08-04, 08:28 AM

As stated in another thread there’s no proof for the existence of “physical stuff” (whatever that is) or even an objective reality.

https://medium.com/machine-cognition/obj...24b494d6af

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This century-old revelation has pr

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Both materialists and non-materialists are saying this article proves their point


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LotusFlower, 2024-08-04, 06:04 AM

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical...r-AA1hvJXy

I noticed some materialists are saying that this proves consciousness/emotions is just a brain created phenomenon 

But then I also noticed some n

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A new confirmation of the operation of ID in the Cambrian Explosion


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nbtruthman, 2024-08-02, 06:50 PM

A new article in bbc news at https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgxqdygpn09o explains how X-ray analysis has now revealed details of a tiny 520-million-year-old beginning arthropod, from the early Cambrian period. These anatomical details include a primitive nervous system and blood circulation syste

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