Apparently meditation rather than being automatically a calming and otherwise beneficial practice is actually psychologically harmful to a significant percentage of those who practice it. This goes against a deeply engrained mindset that says medition is automatically beneficial spiritually and othe
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[color=#131313]We miss the time and energy mastery displayed by the High Incas when we approach the story of the Andes from a materialist perspective.
From the shores of Lake Titicaca, Gordon explores what the Inca Ki
The 1957 RB47 radar reflecting and IFF electronic signaling UFO case is a classic apparent nuts-and-bolts UFO vehicle encounter and has already been covered in this forum. It turns out that that there were several other high-profile UFO cases that year, that from their descriptions seem to be relate
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[color=#131313]Gary Gach is an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco. He is author of The Idiot's Guide to Buddhism as well as Pause, Breathe, Smile – Awakening Mindfulness When Meditation is Not Enoug
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[color=#131313]What counts as 'traditional' from a magical animist perspective? Where can we look for 'true' continuity and what can we learn from those who practice it?
Just thinking that for the extra-terrestrial vehicle hypothesis to be true the aliens, to prevent time travel if not the suggested impossibility of FTL in our universe, would have to go to another dimension and drop back into this one.
But then isn't [it] just simpler to think these entities, assum
A new article from Scientific American about the possibility of there being real interstellar probes or vehicles here on Earth, that potentially could be detected, and that they might presently be called UAPs. The article avoids even mentioning the other important issues regarding UAPs, such as thei
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of 9 books and over 100 scientific papers. A critic of what he sees as the scientific establishment’s dogmatic dedication to materialism, he is perhaps best known for his theory of “morphic
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[color=#131313]Randomness and luck, fate and providence. How do these facets of life relate to one another? Or is everything, actually, mechanically determined with synchronicities, say, being no more than coincidences? I
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