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Has the Bible been corrupted?


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Brian, 2024-06-22, 03:08 PM

The short answer is, "Not enough to make any difference."  A scholar explains.




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I had a recent shock which has changed me.


General off-topic forum    9 Replies

Brian, 2024-06-22, 12:04 PM

Earlier this week my mum was rushed into hospital having difficulty breathing.  She had low oxygen and potassium levels and needed to be on a ventilator.  She had something on her left lung and they were feeding her antibiotics and blood thinners.  My brother and his daughter sat with her throughout

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Rupert Sheldrake | Recent Panpsychism and its Problems


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    No Replies

Sci, 2024-06-21, 08:16 PM



Quote:Recording of a talk given at the Panpsychism: Problems and Prospects conference, hosted by the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism on Monday 19th June 2023.



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Do plants have minds?


Consciousness science forum    44 Replies

Sci, 2024-06-20, 08:46 PM

Do plants have minds?

Rachael Petersen

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In 2006, 30 years after The Secret Life of Plants, a bold group of scientists published an [url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16843034/]article

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Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds


Consciousness science forum    5 Replies

Sci, 2024-06-20, 08:09 PM

Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds

Pallab Ghosh

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Prof Chittka’s experiments showed that bees would modify their behaviour following a traumatic incident and seemed to be able to play, rolling small wooden

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Dreams and Visions of the Dying by Thanatos TV


Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    No Replies

Smaw, 2024-06-20, 01:29 PM

https://youtu.be/HgOId0hWfV4?si=DZ5CBhDvCWNgSiGa

Thanatos TV is probably one of my new favourite recently discovered youtube channels talking about near death and NDE phenomena. Good interviews, neutral perspective and this video in particular features one of my favourite speakers, Dr Christopher

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Evolutionary Theorists Stymied by the Human Mind


Consciousness science forum    2 Replies

Sci, 2024-06-18, 08:51 PM

Evolutionary Theorists Stymied by the Human Mind

Denyse O’Leary

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The little-noticed trend is that the historical evidence of humans thinking like humans keeps getting pushed back by many thou

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the Society for Psychical Research


General parapsychology    3 Replies

sbu, 2024-06-17, 02:05 PM

The Danish Society for Psychical Research was unfortunately shut down last year. It was more than 100 years old, and it’s a great shame. I was a member for a decade but canceled my membership because I didn’t find the quality of their journal and studies to be sufficiently high.

Now, I have disco

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Paranormal - The Village That Saw Aliens


UFO/UAP forum    9 Replies

Typoz, 2024-06-17, 08:58 AM

A new BBC TV series, four half-hour episodes about an event in Wales in 1977.

"An investigation has begun into a claim that something strange came out of the skies and landed in the Welsh village of Broad Haven, near Haverfordwest."


[url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00203l4/

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Five Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of UFOs


UFO/UAP forum    22 Replies

Sci, 2024-06-15, 09:00 PM

Five Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of UFOs

J. Vallee

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Abstract

Scientific opinion has generally followed public opinion in the belief that unidentified flying objects either do not exist (t

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