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Coming back after an NDE, to choose or not to choose


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    2 Replies

Bill37, 2024-06-05, 07:37 PM

I remember a story that I came across, maybe two years ago, I cannot recall where, about an individual who had an NDE, was told that it was not their time, came back, apparently talked about it or mentioned it briefly, and then died, (for good) , within half an hour later.

I was troubled by this

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Manichaeism: The Silk Road Religion


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    2 Replies

Sci, 2024-06-05, 05:47 PM



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Special thanks to Dr. Mattias Brand for co-writing this episode.

Bibliography

"MANICHEISM," Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, 2014, available at
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Some defence of substance dualism


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    34 Replies

sbu, 2024-06-05, 04:02 PM

Yesterday I read this blog post https://ian-wardell.blogspot.com/2024/03...e.html?m=1 which is in itself a defence of substance dualism against “Ralph Lewis's Arguments against an Afterlife” (posted on psychologytoday.com). Ralph partially bases his attack on sub

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The "Third Man" or helping spiritual entity syndrome


General paranormal phenomena forum    7 Replies

nbtruthman, 2024-06-04, 10:36 PM

There apparently exists something that has come to be called the "Third Man Syndrome", a name for what appears to be a perhaps more frequent than NDEs paranormal appearance of a helping being of some spiritual nature, precisely when the person is drastically in need of it. The following new article

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Discovery Institute doesn’t believe in nuts&bolts aliens


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    96 Replies

sbu, 2024-06-04, 08:37 PM

In two recent articles they make the same argument as I have made about the improbability of anything extrasolar flying around here:

https://mindmatters.ai/2024/06/interstel...r-destiny/

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Using Einstein’s special relativity formula for kinetic energy, and assuming a

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On the hostile social/psychological environment encountered by proponents


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    1 Replies

nbtruthman, 2024-06-04, 03:17 PM

An excellent new essay by Michael Tymn entitled Taking Your Toys With You At Death!, on the generally toxic materialist social environment that is still, after the accumulation of so much evidence, typically encountered by any psychical phenomena/afterlife proponent, and on the probable psychologica

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UFO/paranormal debunking resources (split from UFOs (and related) Multimedia Resources Thread)


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    3 Replies

Brian, 2024-06-03, 11:29 AM

Great video resource for paranormal and particularly UFO/UAP counter-evidence.

https://www.youtube.com/@TheSneezingMonkey/videos


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The social pay-off of Idealism


Philosophy of mind forum    No Replies

Sci, 2024-06-02, 06:17 PM

The social pay-off of Idealism

Prof. James Tartaglia, PhD

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Firstly, idealism has no commitment to gods or spirits, only to the existential primacy of conscious experience—or, a

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R.I.P. Skeptiko forum


General off-topic forum    23 Replies

Vortex, 2024-05-30, 05:13 PM

So, here is a bit of sad news: recently, Skeptiko forum has finally ceased to exist.

If you to skeptiko-forum.com now, you are redirected to Alex's new Substack blog https://whyaiquestion.substack.com/ instead.

Well, Skeptiko forum was in a decline lately, with less and less posts, let alone t

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Recent Sam Parnia video documentary on the dying process and NDEs


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

nbtruthman, 2024-05-29, 08:26 PM

A recent and outstanding documentary by the (Sam) Parnia Lab at NYU Langone Health has come to my attention, Parnia's first production.
The title is Rethinking Death: Exploring What Happens When We Die, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_18UdG4STHA . It has already been mentioned, back in January

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