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Why Gödel believed in an afterlife


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    7 Replies

nbtruthman, 2024-01-03, 05:16 PM

An interesting article (https://aeon.co/essays/kurt-godel-his-mo...fter-death) just came out going into the reasons why Kurt Gödel, arguably and well accepted as the greatest or one of the greatest logicians and mathematicians of the twentieth century, was certain of an

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Paranthropology: Boulders in the Stream


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

Sci, 2024-01-02, 08:33 PM

Boulders in the Stream: The Lineage and Founding of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness

Stephan A. Schwartz

ABSTRACT

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The founding of what has become the Society for t

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Luke Ruehlman case


Reincarnation forum    6 Replies

Sci, 2024-01-02, 07:14 PM

In this [other] thread I noted Mark Sabbas, on his writings regarding reincarnation mentioned the Luke Ruehlman case. I'd actually never heard of this one b

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We’ll Live and We’ll Die and We’re Born Again


Reincarnation forum    No Replies

Sci, 2024-01-02, 06:48 PM

All by Mark Sabbas:

[url=https://nothingtodoubt.org/2018/11/29/well-live-and-well-die-and-were-born-again-analyzing-issues-of-religion-soul-reincarnation-and-the-search-for-true-spirituality-part-1-of-3/]We’ll Live and We’ll Die and We’re Born Again: Analyzing Issues of Religion, Soul, Reincarnatio

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The Egyptian Cat Goddess: In Search Of Bastet with Salima Ikram


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2023-12-31, 07:39 PM

Note that Curtis Ryan Woodside is the filmmaker and has posted this for free on his own Youtube Channel ->




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[color=#131313]Explore the ancient forgotten city of the cat, high up in the nile delta, Bubastis. A city tha

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Esoterica: Are Ghosts Really Demons?


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2023-12-31, 06:56 PM



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[color=#131313]With the dismissal of Purgatory, early Protestant theologians faced a metaphysical dilemma: How do ghosts and spirits fit into their new theological ecosystem? In 1569 Ludwig Lavater would publish De Spect

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Pavlo Mikheenko - Microtubules


Consciousness science forum    8 Replies

Max_B, 2023-12-31, 01:57 PM

Pavlo Mikheenko is a Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at The University of Oslo, Norway:

https://www.mn.uio.no/fysikk/english/peo...index.html

I've only just stumbled across him, and his work.

Recently, Mikheenko has been writing many papers on research he's undertaking on the -

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Join A World-First Scientific Investigation Into Sigil Magick With Dean Radin


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    No Replies

Sci, 2023-12-30, 03:30 PM



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[color=#131313]The one and only Dr Dean Radin, chief scientist at the Institute Of Noetic Sciences (IONS) drops by to introduce his fascinating new research project that YOU can be part of.

Check out our discussion an

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A plausible reason for the dearth of non-Western NDEs?


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    26 Replies

nbtruthman, 2023-12-29, 05:09 PM

A very interesting new article just came out investigating the general lack of Muslim (and to a lesser extent other non-Western) NDEs. I think the author comes up with by far the best explanation so far, actually one which I have generally subscribed to myself, responsible for the general great prev

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Closer to Truth: What is Causation?


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    4 Replies

Sci, 2023-12-29, 04:52 PM



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[color=#131313]Why does one thing ‘cause’ another thing? Is causation fundamental, primitive, real—not reducible to, or explainable by, anything else? Or is causation a human construct, derivative, artificial? At stake i

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