(2017-09-15, 06:49 AM)Titus Rivas Wrote: Ah, yes, you mentioned past life review, but I associated it with reincarnation rather than with the panoramic life review in NDEs. My error.clip-So, it's a matter of terminology again.
I agree that there are lots of situations in which a non-physical memory would answer a lot of questions. However, I would not call them psi situations, because psi for me implies ESP or psychokinesis. For instance, real memories of a previous life are paranormal, but they aren't psi phenomena, because for me that would imply they aren't real memories, but rather based on ESP.
Paranormal phenomena and psi phenomena aren't synonyms for me. Paranormal phenomena include any phenomena related to the mind or psyche, which can't be accomodated by physicalism, whereas psi phenomena are paranormal phenomena that can be reduced to ESP and PK. So, for me paranormal phenomena embrace psi phenomena + other phenomena such as real memories of a previous life, consciousness without cortical activity, real OBEs, etc. , that involve more than psi. Some parapsychologists would argue that parapsychology should only be interested in psi phenomena and ignore any other paranormal phenomena related to the mind or psyche.
So, it's a matter of terminology again.
Titus
Yes it is. I used psi as shorthand for "consciousness phenomenon" like- after death experiences, shared death experiences, reincarnation, mediumship, NDE, OBE, and others. It's tedious to try and list them all or carefully differentiate every time we mention them... If I were working on a paper to publish, I would take the time to categorize and sort them in more proper way.
