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    Thread: Julie Beischel in Gwyneth Paltrow’s New Netflix Show
Post: RE: Julie Beischel in Gwyneth Paltrow’s New Netfli...

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - the Goop website has a Question and Answer session with Julie Beischel: https://goop.com/wellness/mindfulness/a-research-scientist-on-what-happens-to-the-brains-of...
Posted by Chris in Deathbed Visions, After-Death Communications, Mediumship , 2020-03-09, 11:27 AM
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    Thread: Do the Laws of Physics Rule Out the Paranormal?
Post: RE: Do the Laws of Physics Rule Out the Paranormal...

Looks like Annaka Harris - happens to be Sam Harris' wife - is also onboard the "Consciousness is a field" train -> Think of consciousness like spacetime—a fundamental field that’s everywhere. (htt...
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    Thread: The Two Dogmas of Materialism
Post: The Two Dogmas of Materialism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USzvxMNUFHI Quote: -- Materialism, as a philosophy of mind, is the thesis that consciousness and mind are entirely dependent on the brain, they could not exist ...
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    Thread: Kastrup: Idea of the World
Post: RE: Kastrup: Idea of the World

Chris Wrote: (2020-02-06, 07:29 AM) -- Courtesy of the Daily Grail - here's another new article by Kastrup, entitled "Consciousness Cannot Have Evolved," on the Institute of Arts and Ideas website: ...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Philosophical Discussions , 2020-02-14, 12:34 AM
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    Thread: Internal monologues: some people don't have them
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Quote: -- some people's thoughts are like sentences they "hear", and some people just have abstract non-verbal thoughts, and have to consciously verbalise them. -- I noticed at least one person...
Posted by Typoz in General Consciousness Science , 2020-02-08, 10:30 AM
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    Thread: Julie Beischel in Gwyneth Paltrow’s New Netflix Show
Post: RE: Julie Beischel in Gwyneth Paltrow’s New Netfli...

TheRaven Wrote: (2020-01-31, 07:37 PM) -- I was thinking the same thing. This show was going to be controversial from the start. People are going to attack it, even for the smallest of reasons. Not s...
Posted by Chris in Deathbed Visions, After-Death Communications, Mediumship , 2020-01-31, 08:34 PM
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    Thread: Have we evolved to construct reality?
Post: RE: Have we evolved to construct reality?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfMCn42RRfw
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    Thread: The Healing Power of Nature
Post: The Healing Power of Nature

The Healing Power of Nature (https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-healing-power-of-nature) Quote: -- ‘The longer the trip, the more healing occurs,’ says the geologist Peter Winn, who has been...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Spirituality , 2019-01-18, 09:56 PM
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    Thread: Terminal Lucidity: The Researchers Attempting to Prove Your Mind Lives On
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Typoz Wrote: (2019-01-17, 11:23 AM) -- I'm not sure why it should be news. When I first had experiences of telepathy and out-of-body experiences, it had no impact whatsoever on any ideas I had or di...
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    Thread: Terminal Lucidity: The Researchers Attempting to Prove Your Mind Lives On
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Kamarling Wrote: (2019-01-15, 09:42 PM) -- I'd be interested to know what our skeptics (aka atheists) think of this atheistic survivalist position. I must admit that it is news to me. -- I'm not su...
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    Thread: Terminal Lucidity: The Researchers Attempting to Prove Your Mind Lives On
Post: Terminal Lucidity: The Researchers Attempting to P...

Terminal Lucidity (https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/terminal-lucidity-the-researchers-attempting-to-prove-your-mind-lives-on-even-after-you-die) That this article exists in the publication that ...
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    Thread: Meat diets vs. vegetarianism
Post: RE: Meat diets vs. vegetarianism

Laird Wrote: (2019-01-15, 01:18 PM) -- Regarding "happy eggs", you might find the brief article The Dark Side of “Happy Eggs” (https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/theliberationist/2015/6/25/the-da...
Posted by Laird in Other Topics , 2019-01-15, 01:50 PM
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    Thread: Meat diets vs. vegetarianism
Post: RE: Meat diets vs. vegetarianism

Laird Wrote: (2019-01-15, 11:02 AM) -- There is no need to kill for food. -- Stan Woolley Wrote: (2019-01-15, 01:16 PM) -- Do you really believe this is true Laird? If we are being strict about thi...
Posted by Laird in Other Topics , 2019-01-15, 01:37 PM
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    Thread: The Revenge of Freud?
Post: The Revenge of Freud?

Therapy wars: The Revenge of Freud (https://getpocket.com/explore/item/therapy-wars-the-revenge-of-freud) Quote: -- Shedler’s subsequent research and writing has played a significant role in und...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in General Consciousness Science , 2019-01-11, 06:17 PM
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    Thread: Cyborgs Could Be Granted Human Rights
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I believe "Sophia Hanson", the Hanson Robotics creation, already has Saudi citizenship. I'm not sure whether that involves any human rights, though.
Posted by Chris in Other Topics , 2019-01-09, 12:31 PM
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    Thread: Visions of the Afterlife: article on the Lily Dale mediums
Post: Visions of the Afterlife: article on the Lily Dale...

Visions of the Afterlife (https://www.topic.com/visions-of-the-afterlife) Photographs by Ahndraya Parlato Words by Mira Ptacin For the mediums of the Lily Dale spiritualist community, the frontie...
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    Thread: What a skeptic learned from consulting psychics
Post: What a skeptic learned from consulting psychics

What a skeptic learned from consulting psychics— and astrologers, tarot readers, empaths and more (https://www.salon.com/2019/01/05/a-skeptic-consults-a-psychic-and-an-astrologer-tarot-reader-empaths-...
Posted by Ninshub in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2019-01-08, 02:42 AM
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    Thread: Are beauty, truth and goodness transcendentals?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGZLyR-mBj0
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Spirituality , 2019-01-07, 09:19 PM
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    Thread: Are beauty, truth and goodness transcendentals?
Post: RE: Are beauty, truth and goodness transcendentals...

TheRaven Wrote: (2019-01-07, 07:45 PM) -- Also, wouldn’t average facial features be subjective to a certain extent?  -- I've mentioned this several times in the past but keep coming back to it when...
Posted by Kamarling in Spirituality , 2019-01-07, 09:07 PM
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    Thread: Are beauty, truth and goodness transcendentals?
Post: RE: Are beauty, truth and goodness transcendentals...

TheRaven Wrote: (2019-01-06, 08:37 PM) -- This is called physical attraction. As an asexual, I find many people physically attracted, but I am not sexually attracted to them. -- Perhaps. But in my ow...
Posted by Ninshub in Spirituality , 2019-01-06, 08:43 PM
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