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Explaining the near-death experience


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    17 Replies

Raimo, 2024-07-02, 03:50 PM

An exceptionally weak debunking article about NDEs:


Explaining the near-death experience


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Every few weeks, an attention seeker – er, truth seeker – raves to a media outlet about what they experienc

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Advanced Meditation Alters Consciousness and Our Basic Sense of Self


Consciousness science forum    3 Replies

Sci, 2024-07-01, 10:52 PM

Advanced Meditation Alters Consciousness and Our Basic Sense of Self

Matthew D. Sacchet & Judson A. Brewer

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...In the media and in academia, meditation is often s

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Imagination Is Closer To Truth Than You Think


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    No Replies

Sci, 2024-06-30, 08:50 PM



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[color=#131313]Natalia Vorontsova talks to Dr Tom Cheetham about active imagination, consciousness and life-changing experiences in the context of the philosophy and theology of Henry Corbin, Ibn Arabi and Surhawardi. Tom

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The first cell and "Time of the gaps"


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

Brian, 2024-06-30, 12:51 PM

An organic chemist speaks against the use of time as an excuse for the beginnings of life being random and purposeless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS2bZezJhmI


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Apparent paranormal events at recent family memorial service


Ghost, poltergeist, and spirit forum    4 Replies

nbtruthman, 2024-06-28, 05:49 PM

My wife is Japanese, and has an extended family of 5 sisters, brothers-in law, nieces and nephews and so on, several generations forming a considerable group. I very recently had the priviledge of attending the memorial service for the husband of one of my wife's 5 sisters. Virtually the entire exte

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Leading orthodox evolutionary biologist admits that ID is at the cutting edge


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    14 Replies

nbtruthman, 2024-06-26, 09:19 PM

Recently a leading orthodox evolutionary biologist conceded that the leading intelligent design proponent scientists and researchers in Discovery Institute such as Stephen Meyer and Michael Behe have legitimately found big, real, cracks in the neo-Darwinian theory and have made some excellent argume

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Whitehead, Teilhard, and Process Exo-Theology


UFO/UAP forum    No Replies

Sci, 2024-06-26, 08:14 PM



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[color=#131313]This talk was presented at a recent Whitehead and Teilhard conference at Villanova University, co-organized by the Center for Process Studies and the Center for Christogenesis on September 21-23, 2023. The

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Andrew Davis bite-sized Whitehead lectures


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    8 Replies

Sci, 2024-06-25, 01:59 AM

About 30 of these, will post 3 a day ->




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The revealing statistics of UFOs over the last 80 years


UFO/UAP forum    10 Replies

nbtruthman, 2024-06-24, 10:33 PM

I just ran across an interesting quite unbiased research paper dating from June 2021, on the statistics of the UFO phenomenon over the last 80 years, overall patterns that emerge from the available data, since the advent of the WWII "foo fighters". These statistics seem to indicate a great likelihoo

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How the Occult Transformed Philosophy & Spirituality


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2024-06-24, 06:36 PM



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[color=#131313]Following centuries where Platonic Forms and Ideas were taken to be eternally real, the middle ages saw a dramatic shift. And, by the mid-14th century, metaphysical categories were taken to be mere words, n

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