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Ancient Magic Rituals with Irving Finkel


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2024-05-07, 06:53 PM



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Irving Finkel, PhD, is Senior Assistant Keeper of ancient Mesopotamian script, languages, and cultures at the British Museum. He is the curator in charge of cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotam

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The monumental 1968 Minot ND USA B-52 airborne and ground UFO encounter


UFO/UAP forum    4 Replies

nbtruthman, 2024-05-07, 03:40 PM

I thought I would summarize this classic UFO case, which demonstrates that at least some UFOs are clearly and unequivocally "somebody else's hardware". It is one of the best encounters ever, and it needs to be covered here since it doesn't seem to have been discussed so far. I invite the skeptics to

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The enchanted vision


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

Sci, 2024-05-05, 11:18 PM

The enchanted vision

Mark Vernon

Quote:Love is much more than a mere emotion or moral ideal. It imbues the world itself and we should learn to move with its power

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Most ancient

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How the Pentagon is clearly and routinely outright lying about UFOs


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nbtruthman, 2024-05-04, 12:02 AM

An excellent expose on how in case by case detail the Pentagon in the last few years has been actually lying that UFOs always have natural explanations, at https://thehill.com/opinion/national-sec...bout-ufos/ :

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"...Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) described how hi

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What If Science Took The Paranormal Seriously? : The Super Humanities


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    No Replies

Sci, 2024-04-30, 04:35 PM



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[color=#131313]Essentia Foundation’s Hans Busstra interviews Prof. Jeffrey Kripal, PhD, who holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University in Houston, on his new book: ‘The Superhu

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Reincarnation cases from Japan


Reincarnation forum    2 Replies

nbtruthman, 2024-04-28, 10:52 PM

A new book has now come out concerning newly researched cases of reincarnation, in this instance from Japan.

The book is Katsugoro and Other Reincarnation Cases in Japan, by Ohkado Masayuki (White Crow Books, https://whitecrowbooks.com/books/page/ka..._in_japan/ )

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Reddit's latest NDE thread: claims of EEG being unreliable to detect activity


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LotusFlower, 2024-04-27, 08:40 PM

https://www.reddit.com/r/consciousness/c...ection_of/

Sam Parnia is being referred to as a "woo peddler"

People are remarking that NDEs are simply brain activity that the EEG didn't detect due to it being ancient technology and that the brain d

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Ontological Potentiae as a Basis for Psychic Capabilities


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

Sci, 2024-04-25, 02:40 PM



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[color=#131313]Summary: My recent book, Untying the Gordian Knot (UGK; Lexington Books 2020), proposes a new framework for rethinking the fundamental nature of reality; one that takes into account our best current underst

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Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?


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Brian, 2024-04-24, 08:47 PM

Very interesting discussion.




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After-Death Communications: New Cases That Bear on the Question of Survival


Afterlife contact forum (deathbed visions, ADC, mediumship)    8 Replies

Sci, 2024-04-24, 03:53 PM



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[color=#131313]Abstract:

A spontaneous After-Death Communication (ADC) occurs when a bereaved person unexpectedly perceives the deceased person. This may be through the senses of sight, hearing, smell, or touch, but ex

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