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This is why the Cause in the Kalam is PERSONAL


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    1 Replies

Brian, 2023-06-16, 10:38 AM

This is why the Cause in the Kalam is PERSONAL.  Even Alex O'Connor (CosmicSkeptic) understands this.




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Can Science Find God? feat. Stephen Meyer and Michael Shermer


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    No Replies

Sci, 2023-06-15, 01:47 AM




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NDE describing seeing higher selves


Near-death experience (NDE) forum    5 Replies

Ninshub, 2023-06-15, 01:08 AM

Interesting account where the NDEr sees her still living husband and children "on the other side" (as their higher selves), as well as all of her other lives.

This wasn't a surprise to her, as it fit her own pre-existing beliefs. This is a person who appears to have already been an intuitive.



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Science Fiction and Ufology


UFO/UAP forum    3 Replies

Sci, 2023-06-14, 10:36 PM

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...It was 1974, and a twenty-seven-year-old Bertrand Méheust was rummaging through the library of his family’s loft when he came across an old science-fiction novel, Jean de la Hire’s Roue fulgurante (The Lightning Wheel). The cover featured a flying disc-shaped machine surrounded by a halo

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Some Bodily Malformations Attributed to Previous Lives


Reincarnation forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2023-06-14, 09:11 PM

Some Bodily Malformations Attributed to Previous Lives

Pasricha, Keil, Stevenson, Tucker

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Abstract- Bodily malformations that are unusually large or otherwise unusual
in shape or loca

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Old Souls by Tom Shroder


Reincarnation forum    13 Replies

Sci, 2023-06-14, 02:05 AM

Started reading this, figured I'd make a thread for the cases and my other thoughts.

The initial part of the book actually mentions Super Psi, which Shroder found amusing as an attempt to get around the idea of an afterlife. Also seems like part of what made Shroder take Stevenson seriously is ho

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Waiting for the Messiah: A Jewish-Buddhist Reflection on Fiddler on the Roof


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

Sci, 2023-06-13, 07:23 PM

Waiting for the Messiah: A Jewish-Buddhist Reflection on Fiddler on the Roof

Richard Oxenberg

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So begins the story of Tevya and his three daughters, immortalized in the popular Broadway musical, Fiddler on the Roof. Upon hearing this firs

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Hi everbody!


Member introductions    1 Replies

xman00, 2023-06-13, 08:26 AM

Hi! To put it simply I’m just a guy interested in the afterlife or the study thereof on the topic. I’m a junior in highschool now and have been (limitedly) been researching into this interesting world of science. It’s been a rocky road with mental health that led me into the community. For a while I

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Consciousness in the Aesthetic Imagination


Philosophy of mind forum    1 Replies

Sci, 2023-06-12, 10:55 PM

Consciousness in the Aesthetic Imagination

JF Martel

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What can art tell us about the nature of consciousness? The question is meaningless if it refers to the personal convictions of this or that poet o

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Modern existential despair and loneliness


General off-topic forum    16 Replies

nbtruthman, 2023-06-12, 12:09 AM

Michael Tymn has written in his blog a good summary analysis of one of the scourges of modern times, the spread of existential despair and loneliness into the masses of the population. This has been primarily spurred by three factors according to Tymn: (1) - pervasive materialist ideological teachin

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