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Thread: Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against skeptical talking points
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OmniVersalNexus Wrote: (2021-02-05, 02:15 AM)
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So the relevant part starts at around 6:47 in the video.
She describes how every conscious property has a neural component to it, and that previous s...
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Thread: NDEs and DMT
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OmniVersalNexus Wrote: (2021-02-05, 01:28 AM)
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Found this article on Reality Sandwich. It's from a guy who, at least based on his very small YT channel, studies psychedelics, altered states of cons...
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Thread: Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against skeptical talking points
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OmniVersalNexus Wrote: (2021-02-04, 11:11 PM)
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Well yeah, I heard she referenced Blackmore, but she makes an argument for why she would rather believe that. That's the point I want to address becau...
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Thread: Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against skeptical talking points
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OmniVersalNexus Wrote: (2021-02-04, 10:22 PM)
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The argument made by the lady on the left in this video in response to someone asking about consciousness has been bothering me a bit. For context, sh...
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Thread: Aron Ra Interview
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| Isn't this just the classic 'renouncing' of a former belief ? I was convinced...but now I know better. And because I've had the experience (and you haven't) I'm in a much better position than you to k...
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Thread: Aron Ra Interview
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| Hi all,
I mentioned on the Patricia Churchland thread that I did an interview with arch internet Atheist Activist, Aron Ra on the subjects of Religion and Anomalous Experience.
I posted part 1 (on...
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Thread: Autoscopies as a Time Marker for the Occurrence of Near-Death Experiences
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Smaw Wrote: (2021-02-03, 06:36 AM)
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The paper also brings up an interesting switcheroo that I don't normally think of which is the fact that NDEs happen in non life threatening scenarios, but are a...
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Thread: The Battersea Poltergeist
Post: RE: The Battersea Poltergeist
| The BBC loves to play "Set 'em up to knock 'em down" with this kind of subject. Same with anything they consider outside the mainstream such as alternative history or alternative archaeology. The form...
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Thread: LSD Effects
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Darren_SeekingI Wrote: (2021-02-03, 03:14 PM)
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I have just come across this interesting new study, the article about which was post Jan 30th.
It essentially shows that LSD causes neuronal connectio...
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Thread: The Battersea Poltergeist
Post: The Battersea Poltergeist
| This is a BBC radio documentary, with some extensive use of dramatic reconstructions, regarding a poltergeist haunting in Battersea, London. At first I thought it might have been entirely fictional s...
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Thread: Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against skeptical talking points
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2021-02-03, 12:58 AM)
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He got his MD from Georgetown, but completed his post-degree requirements at Yale and continues to work there in some capacity.
AFAIK he hasn't direc...
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Thread: Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against skeptical talking points
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| I feel like it might be rude to start going over credentials. We're here for his arguments. Plus, I don't think Novella is an intentionally harmful or deceptive person, I just think he's got his own (...
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Thread: Autoscopies as a Time Marker for the Occurrence of Near-Death Experiences
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| A very good report I found ages ago that I'm suprised nobody posted here before. Basically throttles the life out of the reconstruction model even more, I think it'll need a miracle to make a comeback...
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Thread: Autoscopies as a Time Marker for the Occurrence of Near-Death Experiences
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| The experiences listed in the paper are interesting.
Cardiac arrest ID 14, male, 75 years old: Then I suddenly saw myself lying in bed, from the chest downwards, the nurse and another nurse as w...
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Thread: Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against skeptical talking points
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OmniVersalNexus Wrote: (2021-02-01, 09:49 PM)
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Well I skimmed his profile for stuff relevant to NDEs and I don't think so. Though to be fair, not having records on hand can be said for plenty of pe...
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Thread: Autoscopies as a Time Marker for the Occurrence of Near-Death Experiences
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| I had a look at that paper, Omni. Very good indeed ! Nahm and his friend have highlighted the important points of the matter (veridical OBE's during NDE's) in (new?) unique terms which I rather like.
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Thread: Scientists shed light on how and why some people report "hearing the dead"
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OmniVersalNexus Wrote: (2021-02-02, 02:31 AM)
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Oh great, seems Novella decided to weigh in:
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/why-people-hear-the-dead/
Basically: ESP is nonsense......
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Thread: Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against skeptical talking points
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OmniVersalNexus Wrote: (2021-02-01, 11:30 PM)
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I suppose though at the end of the day, what has been bothering me are skeptics/atheists who remain a disbeliever in the continuation of consciousness...
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Thread: NDEs and DMT
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Will Wrote: (2021-02-01, 02:14 PM)
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What percentage of rats?
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Typoz Wrote: (2021-02-01, 03:41 PM)
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Really? what makes you think that?
I think we need to get our feet back on the ground a...
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Thread: Mega-thread for help with rebuttals against skeptical talking points
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OmniVersalNexus Wrote: (2021-02-01, 05:02 PM)
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Reading his bio alone indicated to me at least that he's someone with an egotistical superiority complex who for some reason has nothing better to do ...
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