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Table of contents

• Books (and reviews of them) on parapsychology, the paranormal, consciousness, spirituality, etc [includes some external links]
• Parapsychology: the science of psi
  • Categories of:
    • Precognition
      • Precognitive dreams
    • Presentiment
    • Telepathy
      • The Ganzfeld experiments
      • Telepathic dogs (predicting their owner's return)
    • Psychokinesis
      • Spoon bending
    • Remote viewing
    • Psychic vision
    • Synchronicity
    • Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and Out of Body Experiences (OBEs/OOBEs)
    • Lucid dreaming
    • Mediumship / spirit communication / psychics
    • Ghosts and poltergeists
    • Reincarnation
    • Resurrection
    • Miscellaneous psi/psychic/paranormal phenomena
  • Criticisms of
  • Speculations on nature of and mechanisms for
  • Prominent adepts at psi
    • Uri Geller
  • Researchers in
    • Dean Radin
    • Rupert Sheldrake
      • Morphic resonance
  • Evidential matters including burden of proof of
  • Research methodology of incl. statistics
  • Variability of psi
• Paradigm change and post-materialism. Is the paradigm changing? Is a new "consciousness culture" (or "revolution") emerging? If so, what is it like? What, generally, are the implications of psi and parapsychology, especially for science? What will a post-materialist paradigm and science look like?
• UFOs, alien encounters and extraterrestrial life
• Hallucinogens/psychedelics
• (Pseudo-)skepticism
  • Prominent figures in
    • James Randi
      • James Randi's Million Dollar Challenge
    • Massimo Pigliucci
    • Michael Shermer
    • Sam Harris
    • Susan Blackmore
  • Harrassment by
  • Deception, duplicity and suppression by
  • Coopting of Wikipedia by
• Philosophy (metaphysics, ontology, ethics) incl. scientific syntheses
  • Reasoning about reality: why are we here, and what is the (nature of the) metaphysical system in which we are incarnated?
  • Synthetic/big-picture thinkers/thinking about metaphysics, science and the paranormal
  • Epistemology
  • Origins / primary explanations (Why something instead of nothing?)
  • Meaning in life
  • Life after death
  • (Concepts of) God
  • Atheism
  • Ontology
    • Monistic ontologies
      • Neutral monism
      • Idealism
      • Materialism/physicalism incl. consequences and waning of
    • (Anti-)Realism
  • Philosophy of mind / theories of consciousness
    • Integrated Information Theory
    • The filter theory of consciousness
    • Panpsychism
  • Evil (the existence/nature of)
  • Memory
  • Relationship of philosophy to science
  • Philosophy of science
  • Free will and determinism
  • Time
  • Intelligence
  • Imagination
  • Thought, reason, intuition and belief
  • Information/mathematics/Platonism
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, the singularity and transhumanism
  • Morality
    • Non-human rights (animal and plant rights)
• Mainstream science/scholarship: corruption in, and criticisms/distrust of
• Spirituality, healing/therapy, magic and related practices
  • Meditation
  • Complementary/alternative medicine
    • Homeopathy
  • Spirituality and (versus?) science
• Religion
  • Christianity
  • Buddhism
• The divide between those who accept psi etc and those who reject it
  • Nomenclature (what to call those on either side of the divide)
  • Debates on psi, spirituality, materialism, atheism, etc.
• Other (controversial) science
  • Physics, esp. quantum mechanics and its interpretations/implications
  • Evolution versus intelligent design (plus Creationism)
  • Climate change (esp. arguments for/against)
  • Neuroscience
  • Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) / genetic engineering (GE)
  • Vaccines
  • HIV/AIDS
  • The health risks of saturated fat / cholesterol
  • Crop circles
• Politics
  • Differences between liberals and conservatives
  • Gun control
  • New world order / global elites / shadow government / conspiracy
    • 9/11
• Miscellaneous
  • Mental "illness"
  • Optical illusions
  • Consciousness/intelligence/traits in non-human life
  • Flat Earth theory

Books (and reviews of them) on parapsychology, the paranormal, consciousness, spirituality, etc

• Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century by Michael Gross [external link, to Amazon eBook].
• Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality by Dean Radin [external link, to Amazon]
• Crimes of Reason by Braude
• Arouet's (incomplete) analysis of Chapter IV of Phantasms
• The sequel to Irreducible Mind...
• The Stargate Conspiracy?
• Mental Radio by Upton Sinclair [Resources]

Parapsychology: the science of psi

• Podcast threads:
  • Movies: Is Red Lights the worst movie about parapsychology every made? |299|
  • Former psychic spy claims parapsychology is off course. Suffers from Stockholm Syndrome |296|
  • 264. JACK HUNTER ON PARANTHROPOLOGY, PARAPSCYHOLOGY AND SPIRIT COMMUNICATION
  • 216. DR. DEAN RADIN URGES SCIENCE TO EXAMINE THE SUPERNORMAL
  • 192. DR. SAM HARRIS ON PARAPSYCHOLOGY, PSI AND THE “BACKWATER” OF SCIENCE
  • 191. DR. VICTOR STENGER SLAMS PARAPSYCHOLOGY, CALLS DR. STANLEY KRIPPNER CHARLATAN
• The Science of Parapsychology video thread [Resources]
• Is Parapsychology supportive of Religion?
• The Real Science behind paranormal phenomena
• Do psi phenomena violate any of the known laws of physics?
• Parapsychology: Science or Pseudoscience?
• Why do the skeptics say there is no replication?
• Psychology & Parapsychology in Crisis (Video)
• Once a hoaxer always a hoaxer?
• The problem with the current approach to research
• Johann and Maaneli's recommendations for parapsychology research
• PA Conference abstracts
• Nobel Winning Physicist's Support for Psi [Resources]
• Dean Radin's Case For Psi
• Why is paranormal research ignored?

Parapsychology: Precognition

• New precognition study supports skeptical view
• Was Bem's "Feeling the Future" paper exploratory?
• Studies of Precognition - Bem, Libet, maybe more
• New Bem replication
• Meta-feeling the future

Parapsychology: Precognitive dreams

• Podcast threads:
  • 282. CAN YOUR DREAMS PREDICT DEATH? NEW EVIDENCE, SURPRISING RESULT.
• What it is like to find precognition examples in a dream journal
• Mozaic
• JREF discusses 182. Andrew Paquette Brings Statistical Rigor to Psi Experiences

Parapsychology: Presentiment

• Presentiment Paper Discussion
• Presentiment-type experiments and a question
• A couple of papers that replicate the presentiment experiment

Parapsychology: Telepathy

• Podcast threads:
  • 257. DR. DIANE POWELL FINDS TELEPATHY AMONG AUTISTIC SAVANT CHILDREN
• Sony Telepathy Research?
• Five year old Ramses Sanguino examined by doctors after mother claims he is telepathic
• Phantasms of the Living: Chapter IV, General Criticism of the Evidence for Spontaneous Telepathy

Parapsychology: Telepathy: The Ganzfeld experiments

• Ganzfeld Experiments: Suggestions please.
• Covert Ganzfeld Experiment (2007, 32%, n=120)
• Revitalized Ganzfeld Thread
• The Ganzfeld Methodology: A Joint Effort in Understanding

Parapsychology: Telepathic dogs (predicting their owner's return)

• Jaytee / Pam Smart original german documentary

Parapsychology: Psychokinesis

• Mind-Matter Interaction at Distance: Effects on a Random Event Generator (REG)

Parapsychology: Psychokinesis: Spoon bending

• Spoon bending video

Parapsychology: Synchronicity

• Podcast threads:
  • He may have unraveled the secret of synchronicity. Will science prove him right?|306|
  • 178. WHAT DOES SCIENCE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT SYNCHRONICITY? NEW RESEARCH. SURPRISING RESULTS.

Parapsychology: Remote viewing

• Remote viewing redux
• Guy Lyon Playfair on Project Stargate
• My book on the US Govt Remote Viewing program
• Remote Viewing Videos on the CSL site

Parapsychology: Psychic vision

• Girl with X ray Eyes ( Natasha Demkina )
• Dr. Richard Ireland

Parapsychology: Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and Out of Body Experiences (OBEs/OOBEs)

• Podcast threads:
  • He claims to have traveled outside his body to bring back art… and much more |297|
  • NEW WEBSITE: Near-death experiences more than dreams, study says.
  • 281. DR. EVAN THOMPSON FINDS NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE EVIDENCE UNCONVINCING
  • 278. DR. MICHAEL NAHM ON TERMINAL LUCIDITY AND NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE
  • 276. DR. ALAN HUGENOT, IANDS AND THE FUTURE OF NDE RESEARCH
  • 265. DR. GREGORY SHUSHAN ON CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON OF NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES
  • 255. IAN MCCORMACK’S EXCLUSIVELY CHRISTIAN NEAR-DEATH EXPEIENCE
  • 254. HOWARD STORM TRANSFORMED BY NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE
  • 246. DR. MICHAEL GRAZIANO LIKENS NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE RESEARCH TO ASTROLOGY
  • 237. DR. PATRICIA CHURCHLAND SANDBAGGED BY NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE QUESTIONS
  • 187. GRAHAM NICHOLLS, OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES AREN’T ALL ABOUT ANGELS AND DEMONS
  • 190. DR. EBEN ALEXANDER ON THE MEDICAL MYSTERY OF NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE
  • 214. DR. SUZANNE GORDON LOOKS DEEPLY INTO NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE CASES
  • 215. VICTOR ZAMMIT GRILLS SKEPTICS WITH LAWYER’S EVIDENCE FOR NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE
  • 217. DR. GARY MARCUS SANDBAGGED BY NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE SCIENCE QUESTIONS
  • 218. STEVE MILLER, DOES NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE SCIENCE CONTRADICT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE?
  • 220. Esquire Proof of Heaven Expose Debunked, Dr. Eben Alexander Prevails
  • 165. Dr. Caroline Watt Defends, There Is Nothing Paranormal about Near-Death Experiences
• ***Skeptiko NDE Documentaries Thread*** - and other related
• Critical Review of NDE/OBE's...
• The science of OBE's (Cambridge Science Festival).
• Near Death in the ICU - Laurin Bellg, MD
• NDE's during dialysis
• Differing explanations of NDE's
• Veridical perception in OBE's
• Near Death Experience's of Maori...
• What exactly do you believe NDEs demonstrate?
• Understanding the NDE...
• Naloxone and NDEs
• Do NDE's Really Demonstrate Survival?
• Jeffrey_s NDE: challenges a monocorporeal world
• NDE's the problem ??
• New study linking brain activity to NDE's
• NDE's - Stairway To Heaven, or Highway To Hell?
• Deaf NDE's?
• That NDE's occur at all
• Johnathan Zap on NDEs
• NDES and OBES: dreams are the key
• Dr Lloyd Rudy veridical NDE OBE... Smithy's article now available.
• God Helmet results replicated
• Girl's NDE.. To hell and heaven and back
• NDE and the race problem: a retrospective, and some new thoughts
• Does anyone remember this particular NDE?
• Woman sees living reality and TV star Peter Andre during NDE. He says go back, it's not ur time
• Mirroed: Asphyxia-activated corticocardiac signaling accelerates onset of cardiac arrest.
• What's it like to be dead?
• The vast expanse of nothingness - A not so nice NDE
• AWARE Update - Peer Review Complete
• How can the blind see in NDE?
• Eban Alexander's New Book
• Pam Reynolds Question
• Recent paper on NDE memories
• What do people see in an nde/obe
• NDErs who witness events in other rooms....
• NDE contradictions
• NDE Panel this Friday at Rhine
• Top Ten NDE Myths
• Me as a devoted skeptic plead other skeptics to read this account if interested in nde
• 2005 NDE Documentary
• The Van Lommel Lancet NDE paper
• OOBEs, The Paranormal, and how both sides misunderstand the "proof" problem
• Building a viable (21st C) theory of OOBEs.
• Veridical OBE dreams
• Tunnel of light created by turning of head
• Are OBE's merely coma hallucinations?
• How to define/distinguish an OBE
• A Compelling Veridical OBE
• Lucid Dreaming and dream OBE's, and real OBE's
• Induced OBE's cause memory impairment when recalling experience
• I thought everyone had OBEs…
• 1/2 hour talk by Dr Penny Sartori
• Out-of-body research at the ASPR
• Out of Body Experiences - Celia Green
• Seizure related Out-of-Body Experiences
• Near death experience seems no more than brain's trick to me
• New rat study about consciousness after death
• Brain activity possible beyond flat EEG after all?
• Out of body experiences of a neurological origin
• 246. DR. MICHAEL GRAZIANO LIKENS NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE RESEARCH TO ASTROLOGY RESEARCH
• The Trouble with Colton Burpo
• Near Death Experiences and the 5th Dimensional Spatio-Temporal Perspective
• Salon - Near Death Experience, Explained
• How bad is this “mildly dangerous” cult? And what’s their connection to near-death experience scienc
• Are "hellish" transcendent states just as objectively real as "mystical" states?
• I have been seeing a lot more religious themed NDE stories. what do you guys think?
• The Immortality Project
• Flat EEG and Neural activity
• Electrocortical activity associated with subjective communication with the deceased
• DMT in Rat Brain? Implications?
• deception and confabulation...
• Brain Game show and paranormal, from towards the end of the second page onwards.

Parapsychology: Lucid dreaming

• New study on lucid dreams published.
• Lucid Dreaming and The Scientific Method

Parapsychology: Mediumship / spirit communication / psychics

• Podcast threads:
  • Psychic medium tested under tightest labratory conditions. Proven accurate. What will debunkers say
  • 284. Why police don’t use psychic detectives? Even though they are effective.
  • 264. JACK HUNTER ON PARANTHROPOLOGY, PARAPSCYHOLOGY AND SPIRIT COMMUNICATION
  • 259. LOYD AUERBACH ON THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIC SPYING
  • 238. WHY SKEPTICS ARE WRONG… ABOUT PSYCHICS & MEDIUMS
  • 204. DR. JULIE BEISCHEL’S RESEARCH ASKS — DOES A READING FROM A PSYCHIC MEDIUM HELP RELIEVE GRIEF?
  • 205. MICHAEL TYMN EXPLORES THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF PSYCHIC MEDIUMS
• Debate on British morning TV between Psychic and Magician, especially prior to page 3, after which the discussion turns to the metaphysical nature of reality.
• Interesting reading with a Non Believer
• Psychic Detectives...
• Beischel podcast...
• Are You Psychic?
• My experience with a medium. Feeling depressed
• Amy Allan from The Dead Files! What do we think of her?
• Little girl in communication with her deceased Grandma (Video)
• Psychic predictions for 2015
• A must read - How Martin Gardner Bamboozled the Skeptics
• With Friends Like This.......
• Albert Einstein Endorsed a Popular Psychic in 1932?
• Robert Todd Carroll criticizes Schwarz at skepdic.com
• The death of Robin Williams
• Crystal Apport Materialises in Medium's Eyeball (really?)
• Scole Experiments and the future of mediumship studies
• Felix Circle Papers
• Apport???
• Electrocortical activity associated with subjective communication with the deceased

Ghosts and poltergeists

• Harry Martindale / Roman Soldiers York
• A geist who polternd?
• "Ghosts"

Parapsychology: Reincarnation

• Podcast threads:
  • 270. ASU PROF. LAWRENCE KRAUSS CALLS FOR DALAI LAMA TO STEP DOWN OVER REINCARNATION CLAIM
  • 239. DR. JIM TUCKER COMPILES DATABASE OF PAST LIFE MEMORIES
• Children's Past Life Memories
• A Skeptics thoughts on Ian Stevenson's work on Reincarnation
• Skeptic's immovable standpoint
• Sharada | Uttara Huddar - an Ian Stevenson Xenoglossy case. Do the analysis.
• Police captain Bob Snow and reincarnation
• Ian Stevenson vs. Champe Ransom
• Reincarnation

Parapsychology: Resurrection

• 15 people reportedly dead for hours or days and coming back
• People who have been dead for hours the revived

Miscellaneous psi/psychic/paranormal phenomena

• Awakening just minutes before a pre-set alarm...
• Anybody tried a psychomantium (mirror gazing)?
• Borderlands - "experiences in the wild unknown"
• 10 Mysterious Photos
• Clairvoyant Chemistry & Mystical Physics - Is there an Akashic Record or is it Something Else?
• Pigeons used gravity it would appear to navigate
• Terminal Lucidity
• Dogs Have ESP When They Poop and Pee
• Should scientists trust 'Gut Feelings'?

Parapsychology: Criticisms of

• Five hard to swallow facts about paranormal research

Parapsychology: Speculations on nature of and mechanisms for

• coherent interference
• Psi and hierarchical complexity of reality

Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: Uri Geller

• Do you think Alex could score an interview with Uri Geller?
• Uri Geller
• SRI Experiments with Uri Geller as video evidence
• Geller Poll as requested

Parapsychology: Researchers in: Dean Radin

• Dean Radin

Parapsychology: Researchers in: Rupert Sheldrake

• Podcast threads:
  • 196. RUPERT SHELDRAKE, TERRANCE MCKENNA AND RALPH ABRAHAM — A DIALOG THAT STILL MATTERS

Parapsychology: Researchers in: Rupert Sheldrake: Morphic resonance

• Sheldrake's recent morphic resonance talk (2013)

Parapsychology: Evidential matters including burden of proof of

• Discussion on Burden of Proof
• For Skeptics - What would you need as proof of psi?
• "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" and is this applied equally ?
• The nature of evidence
• Anecdotes and eyewitness testimony

Parapsychology: Research methodology of incl. statistics

• The Research Methodology Thread
• Basic resources for those interested in learning more about statistics and experimental design

Parapsychology: Variability of psi

• Podcast threads:
  • Men like to be right — Duh! Novel experiment demonstrates link with psychic abilities |288|
  • New research reveals surprising connection between environmental sensitivity and psychic phenomena |

Paradigm change and post-materialism

Is the paradigm changing? Is a new "consciousness culture" (or "revolution") emerging? If so, what is it like? What, generally, are the implications of psi and parapsychology, especially for science? What will a post-materialist paradigm and science look like?

• Podcast threads:
  • What does the end of materialism mean for political science? |294|
  • 280. KEN JORDAN OF REALITY SANDWICH ON CONSCIOUSNESS CULTURE
  • 277. FRANK HUGUENARD, BEYOND MIND=BRAIN
  • 266. RICK ARCHER, CAN CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE CULTURE?
• Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science
• A Breakthrough?
• Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science...
• The Beef With Science
• OK, so psi is true. Is it then also meaningful?
• Would proof of Psi substantially change Science?
• What does a "post-materialist" world look like...

UFOs, alien encounters and extraterrestrial life

• Podcast threads:
  • First comprehensive academic survey of alien contact experience. Please continue to ignore|308|
  • 260. MIAMI ATTORNEY REY HERNANDEZ SUPPORTS UFO CONTACTEES
  • 231. Dr. David Jacobs Dismisses Spiritual Alien Abduction Stories
  • 230. Dr. David Jacobs Claims Academia Has Abrogated Responsibility to Investigate Alien Contact
  • 228. Mary Rodwell Advocates for Alien Contactees
  • 179. WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE “FATHER OF STEALTH” TOLD HIS UFO SECRETS? HINT — IT’S ESP
  • 198. MIKE CLELLAND STRUGGLES TO UNDERSTAND CONTACT WITH ALIEN CONSCIOUSNESS
  • 212. CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST DR. JANET COLLI TREATS TRAUMA OF ALIEN CONTACT EXPERIENCE
• The Government and UFOs: A Historical Analysis
• UFO poll
• Accidental Awareness or Alien Abduction?
• Edgar Mitchell on ETs & Shadow Governments
• "The Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life by Professor Chandra "
• The Extra-Terrestrial Hypothesis

Hallucinogens/psychedelics

• Podcast threads:
  • 213. EARL LEE’S SHOCKING THEORY LINKS HALLUCINOGENIC MUSHROOMS TO CHRISTIAN BURIAL RITES
• Psychedelics & other mind altering substances -> Culture, Theology and Therapy [Resources]
• tem gwef tem gwef dr rr rr

(Pseudo-)skepticism

• Podcast threads:
  • 270. ASU PROF. LAWRENCE KRAUSS CALLS FOR DALAI LAMA TO STEP DOWN OVER REINCARNATION CLAIM
• Reflections on the skeptic and atheist movements - Massimo Pigliucci
• Skeptic's immovable standpoint
• Neuro-cognitive factors & paranormal beliefs dissertation
• Something from nothing.
• "Science" celebrity Brian Cox and interviewer do a classic pseudo-skeptical dance
• A must read - How Martin Gardner Bamboozled the Skeptics
• How come?
• Victor Zammit spoof
• For the true disbelievers, nothing would ever be enough.
• A talk fom TAM 2014
• The ODD : Obsessive Debunking Disorder... A serious Disease...
• The Unbelievers
• Arguing With Scepticvs - Is It Worth It?
• Spanking The Skeptics

(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: James Randi

• An Honest Liar
• James Randi, the documentary?
• Amazing Randi Telegraph (UK Newspaper) Article

(Pseudo-)skepticism: James Randi's Million Dollar Challenge

• James Randi's million dollar challenge finally terminated.

(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Massimo Pigliucci

• The Philosophy (so far) of Massimo Pigliucci

(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Michael Shermer

• Podcast threads:
  • 269. DR. MICHAEL SHERMER, SKEPTICAL SCIENCE REPORTING
  • 269. DR. MICHAEL SHERMER, SKEPTICAL SCIENCE REPORTING [links to a different thread than the above even though they share a title]
  • UPCOMMING INTERVIEW: DR. MICHAEL SHERMER, THE MORAL ARC
• Michael Shermer has a Paranormal Experience

(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Sam Harris

• Sam Harris is not an eliminativist

(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Susan Blackmore

• Uncut Interview with Susan Blackmore

(Pseudo-)skepticism: Harrassment by

• Goblin Face and email harassment, anyone know more about these people?
• Rational Wiki deletes essay criticizing Rational Wiki

(Pseudo-)skepticism: Deception, duplicity and suppression by

• Podcast threads:
  • 207. RUPERT SHELDRAKE CENSORED BY TED CONFERENCE’S ANONYMOUS SCIENTIFIC BOARD
• Sheldrake vs. Coyne, Round whatever.
• Starbaby, and other cases where skeptics employed questionable tactics [Resources]
• A list of skeptical lies?
• Leading Skeptic Brian Dunning Sentenced to 15 Months Prison for Fraud

(Pseudo-)skepticism: Coopting of Wikipedia by

• Podcast threads:
  • 236. ROME VIHARO, WIKIPEDIA, WE HAVE A PROBLEM
• 'Wikipedia, We Have a Problem' Podcast
• The Sheldrake Wikipedia Biography Discussion
• Wikipedia Wants to Delete My Page...

Reasoning about reality: why are we here, and what is the (nature of the) metaphysical system in which we are incarnated?

• Speculation on the Nature of Reality
• I Think I've Found An Answer
• Do the entities sending us messages sometimes lie?, especially from page 2 onwards.
• Gnosticism - The world is a vampire, sent to drain? Secret destroyers hold you up to the flames?
• Debate on British morning TV between Psychic and Magician, especially from page 3 onwards.
• Puzzling NDE questions, for about the first two pages - after that the discussion turns for a couple of pages to whether happiness is possible without suffering, and then permanently to consciousness, especially as explicable in terms of IIT and quantum mechanics.
• The Simple Experiment
• Why............would we do that??

Synthetic/big-picture thinkers/thinking about metaphysics, science and the paranormal

• David Bohm on Consciousness, QM, Paranormal, etc. [Resources]
• Whitehead's Science and the Modern World [Resources]
• The Cognitive Theoretical Model

Epistemology

• Practical Epistemology
• The limits of understanding
• Ockham's Razor
• Study on Liberals, Conservatives and their approaches to knowledge

Origins / primary explanations (Why something instead of nothing?)

• Something from nothing.
• Deepest Mystery

Meaning in life

• Podcast threads:
  • Meaning in life without meaning in the Universe
• Famous(?) Atheists answer: How does your life have meaning?

Life after death

• Podcast threads:
  • What would Oliver Sacks say about the afterlife now? |291|
  • 251. PATRICIA PEARSON, MAINSTREAM MEDIA JOURNALIST TACKLES SURVIVAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS
  • 243. SCOTT DE TAMBLE EXPLORES LIVES BETWEEN LIVES
  • 232. Greg Taylor Tells Readers, Don’t Worry There Probably is an Afterlife
  • 202. Scientific Evidence of Afterlife Overwhelming Says Chris Carter
• Afterlife Debate: Hitchen's, David Wolpe
• What facts would disprove the afterlife hypothesis?
• "Anatomy of the Soul?"
• Life after birth...
• What is your percentage of non-belief (or belief) in survival of consciousness?
• Kill the afterlife
• Dinosaurs in the afterlife
• Victor Zammit spoof
• A review of Is There an Afterlife?
• Carrol, Novella vs Alexander, Moody

(Concepts of) God

• Bach's God of Movement that isn't a God of Meaning
• Does Science Argue for or against God?
• Stephen Law's Critique of Karen Armstrong
• In Defence of Theology

Atheism

• "God is on the ropes: The brilliant new science "
• Caveman instincts may explain our belief in gods and ghosts
• Alex's view of Atheism
• Reflections on the skeptic and atheist movements - Massimo Pigliucci
• Is Atheism trendy?
• Religion for Atheists
• Will Misogyny Bring Down The Atheist Movement?
• At last: a thoughtful atheist
• Massimo's [and others] Critique(s) of the New Atheist Movement
• Unconscious conjunction fallacy makes atheists seem untrustworthy
• Agnosticism and A/theism

Neutral monism

• Neutral Monism & Nondualism [Resources]

Idealism

• Idealism [Resources]
• Kastrup: On why Idealism is superior to Physicalism and Micropsychism
• Physicist Chris Isham considers "Jungian" Idealism

Materialism/physicalism incl. consequences and waning of

• Podcast threads:
  • Materialistic science makes us feel less human. He thinks the arts can change that |304|
  • 274. DR. BERNARDO KASTRUP, WHY OUR CULTURE IS MATERIALISTIC
  • 271. DR. LARRY MALERBA, HOW MATERIALISM FAILS MEDICINE
  • 248. BERNARDO KASTRUP SAYS MATERIALISM IS BALONEY
  • 245. PETER RUSSELL, SCIENCE IGNORES CONSCIOUSNESS
  • 195. DR. MARIO BEAUREGARD SEES AN END TO THE ERA OF BIOLOGICAL ROBOTS
  • 221. Atheist John Loftus Explains Why He’s a Biological Robot
  • 186. DR. RICHARD GREGO FINDS MATERIALISM WANING AT THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
• Naturalism: The Philosophical Position that Denies Santa Claus
• Do Life and Living Forms Present a Problem for Materialism
• The Tyranny of Physicalism: You’re Either a God or a Goofball
• Not Materialistic Enough
• Materialism vs Materialism - the Definitive Thread
• The Materialism/Physicalism Con
• Deconstructing Dawkins - Richard Dawkins and The Fallacies of Mechanistic Science
• Dear believer in materialism, what makes you use this forum?
• Visions of the "Impossible"
• The Fall of Materialism
• Limitations of Mechanistic Assumption [Resources]
• Thread on Matter (Label Free)
• The Science Delusion - Curtis White
• What is matter nowadays?
• Conserns about some anti-materialist arguments
• Clifton's Empirical Case Against Materialism
• Materialism, Immaterialism, Logic [Resources]
• Materialism and Mechanisms
• Consciousness regained? Philosophical arguments for and against reductive physicalism
• IQOQI results lend support to Immaterialism? [Resources] [Physics & Consciousness]
• Why materialism is baloney
• Materialism (physicalism) is dead?
• What does it take to falsify materialism?

(Anti-)Realism

• Against Realism
• Are you a realist or an idealist?
• Physicists at ANU Experimentally Conclude (again) That Physical Reality Exists Only When Observed
• What is "real"?

Philosophy of mind / theories of consciousness

• Podcast threads:
  • Documentary looks at old and new models of human consciousness |305|
  • Movies: Is Ex Machina ignoring the hard problem of consciousness? |300|
  • Why David Bentley Hart thinks choosing a tie reveals more about consciousness than near death experi
  • 201. CHAOS THEORY PIONEER RALPH ABRAHAM ON A NEW MODEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS
• Against Australian Zombies
• How the light gets out
• Free Consciousness Documentary Today Only (Nov 23, 2015)
• The Deeper You Go (Consciousness documentary update)
• David Bohm on Consciousness, QM, Paranormal, etc. [Resources]
• Is self-awareness axiomatic (self-evident) or illusory?
• Roger Penrose's new book about consciousness
• Consciousness Is Not Mysterious - It’s just the brain describing itself—to itself.
• Why was consciousness naturally selected?
• The Consciousness Myth - Galen Strawson.
• Network theory sheds new light on origins of consciousness
• The Holographic Brain - an interview with Karl Pribram
• The microbiome-brain connection
• David Albert: consciousness, science, mysticism...
• A swindle?
• Are We Really Conscious? Asks Michael Graziano.
• Extended Mind Thesis
• Smell Vibrations...
• Dennet Debunked?
• Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
• Is the Brain analogous to a Digital Computer? [Discussion]
• Consciousness and The Interface Theory of Perception
• Some big questions about consciousness
• Consciousness & the Brain: John Searle

Integrated Information Theory (of consciousness)

• Integrated Information Discussion Thread
• Puzzling NDE questions, from about page five, where the discussion turns especially to whether or not consciousness is explicable in terms of Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and quantum mechanics, with Neil arguing the positive case.

The filter theory of consciousness

• Criticism I heard regarding "filter-theory" of consciousness
• Consciousness and the brain as a filter - Some questions
• Matthew McConaughey ponders the brain/filter hyopthesis and other oddities in a new car ad
• Initial Evidence Brain is a Filter/Receiver?

Panpsychism

• Panpsychism - Strawson, Koch, and more! [Resources] [Panpsychism]
• New Galen Strawson paper.

Evil (the existence/nature of)

• Podcast threads:
  • Does evil really excist or not?
  • 203. OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE EXPERT ROBERT BRUCE ON OUR DEMON HAUNTED WORLD
• There is no evil...?
• I've met a lot of crazy people - but I have not met this
• The writings of Mark Booth (Jonathan Black): follow the link in the OP to get to the content on evil in the form of a (purportedly) true story.

Memory

• Memory without trace
• Scientists explain how memories stick together
• Breakthrough allows scientists to watch how molecules morph into memories (w/ video)

Relationship of philosophy to science

• Why physics needs philosophy: Tim Maudlin

Philosophy of religion

• Thomas Nagel's Review of Alvin Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies

Philosophy of science

• Science...
• Falsifiability ready for retirement?
• Where’s the Proof in Science? There Is None
• Peer review

Free will and determinism

• Free Will: The Confusion with Determinism
• The (in)coherence of hard determinism as an alternative to free will
• Free Will is an Illusion. So What?
• What Most People Fail to Understand about the Concept of Free Will
• Free will and science
• Daniel Dennett: Stop Telling People They Don't Have Free Will
• Quantum Theory and Free Will - Chris Fields, Henry Stapp & Donald Hoffman
• TSQM and Free Will
• So you think you have free will
• Materialist (and Mostly Materialist) Arguments for Free Will [Resources]
• Robert Doyle's Two Staged Free Will Model
• Peter Tse on the Neural Basis for Free Will
• Free Will, Consciousness and Information
• Is determinism logically unfalsifiable?

Time

• Time [Resources]
• Free book - Singular Universe & Reality of Time
• The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time
• It's Bullet Time

Intelligence

• The Arguments "For" and "Against" Creative Intelligence (Human or Divine)

Imagination

• The writings of Mark Booth (Jonathan Black)

Thought, reason, intuition and belief

• "Reflective thinking" vs the rest. Just for fun
• The Need to Believe?
• Henry Bauer and Nonsense vs. Dogmatism
• The Black Swan :
• Should scientists trust 'Gut Feelings'?
• Critical Thinking - Real or Marketing Term?
• How rational thought is often trumped by the necessity of belief

Information/mathematics/Platonism

• Platonism & Mathematics [Resources][Platonism]
• Information and Reality [Resources] [Information & Consciousness, QM, etc.]

Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, the singularity and transhumanism

• Discussion - Can we produce synthetic, non-organic sentience?
• (Article) Trying to simulate the human brain is a waste of energy
• A robot prepared for self-awareness
• State of Artificial Intelligence
• AI learns how to play Atari videogames...
• The Edge Annual Question.
• Quantum AI?
• Robots That Learn Through Repetition, Not Programming
• Christof Koch - What It Will Take for Computers to Be Conscious
• Transhumanism: The Search for Human 2.0
• Chatbot 'Eugene Goostman' passes the Turing test
• Turing Test passed for the first time?
• Could a robot have a soul?

Morality

• Does anybody have a cogent argument for retributive justice?
• The Is-Ought Fallacy Fallacy
• Morality: relative versus objective; is-ought problem
• Euthyphro dilemma - Why gods, if they exist, cannot be the arbiters of morality
• Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
• Manifest Complexity: A Foundational Ethic for Astrobiology?
• Eliminating suffering?
• Ethics and the Afterlife

Morality: Non-human rights (animal and plant rights)

• Veganism
• Should chimpanzees have legal rights?
• Should dogs be made citizens?
• "Why Animal Experimentation Doesn't Work"

Mainstream science/scholarship: corruption in, and criticisms/distrust of

• Podcast threads:
  • Why you, me, and our neighbors have a distrust of science and New York Times science journalists
  • 283. RESPECTED SCIENCE WRITER DONE WITH “UNSCIENTIFIC” STRING THEORY… WHAT’S NEXT WILL SURPRISE YOU.
  • 184. DR. RUPERT SHELDRAKE SETS SCIENCE FREE FROM DOGMA
• Veracity of History
• Why you, me, and our neighbors have a distrust of science and New York Times science journalists
• Official science: the grand illusion
• Science Fails
• Skepticism about science and medicine
• Scientists unknowingly tweak experiments, a discussion of p-hacking.
• The Retraction Wars: Is Science Broken?
• How Scientific Censorship Works
• Science Censorship: The "Invisible Evil"
• Would it be Different?
• The Inertia of Scientific Thought
• Examination of Sheldrakes claim the speed of light is not constant

Spirituality, healing/therapy, magic and related practices

• Podcast threads:
  • Should family therapy include your deceased great-great-grandmother? Epigenetics meets after-death c
  • He thinks chaos magic offers a better explanation than science. Of course, he’s right |309|
  • 279. SIMON GREEN ON PLANT MEDICINE AND PLANT SPIRITS
  • 272. PHILLIP COMELLA CAN SCIENCE LEAD TO SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION
  • 267. DR. JEFFERY MARTIN, CAN ENLIGHTENMENT BE TAUGHT?
  • UPCOMMING INTERVIEW: JEFFERY MARTIN ON ENLIGHTENMENT
  • UPCOMING INTERVIEW: RICK ARCHER SCIENCE AND NONDUALITY
  • 252. BERNADETTE DORAN ON ENERGY HEALING
  • 185. DR. WILLIAM BENGSTON’S HANDS ON HEALING RESEARCH IGNORED BY CANCER INDUSTRY
• Carl Jung's Red Book
• The way to end human suffering??
• Spirit releasement

Meditation

• Podcast threads:
  • 268. DAN HARRIS, DOES MEDITATION DEFY SCIENCE?
  • 206. RICK ARCHER FROM BUDDHA AT THE GAS PUMP ON MEDITATION AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICES

Complementary/alternative medicine

• Well... What's the harm?
• Testing whether magic works.

Homeopathy

• The Dr. Malerba Interview and Alex's surprising skepticism, although for some pages the thread covers other topics than homeopathy, such as statins and oncology.
• You Don’t Believe this crap, Do You?
• Homeopathy, Why people want to Believe

Spirituality and (versus?) science

• The thing about "science and spirituality"
• Deepest Mystery

Religion

See also: Philosophy of religion

• Children from religious homes less tolerant, meaner than kids from secular homes.
• Trouble Brewing in Europe

Religion: Christianity

See also: Philosophy of religion

• Podcast threads:
  • What divides Christians and non-believers|290|
  • Is the Bible a political con job? This scholar says the proof is right in front of us |289|
  • 275. MARK VERNON, IS CHRISTIANITY WORTH SAVING?
  • 255. IAN MCCORMACK’S EXCLUSIVELY CHRISTIAN NEAR-DEATH EXPEIENCE
  • 241. JOSEPH ATWILL RESPONDS TO CAESAR’S MESSIAH CRITICS
  • 199. CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN CHRIS WHITE DEBUNKS ANCIENT ALIEN THEORIES
  • 218. STEVE MILLER, DOES NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE SCIENCE CONTRADICT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE?
  • Acharya S. Interview by Alex Tsakiris on Skeptiko #226
  • 213. EARL LEE’S SHOCKING THEORY LINKS HALLUCINOGENIC MUSHROOMS TO CHRISTIAN BURIAL RITES
• Who cares about the saints?
• Pascal's wager refuted... or not
• Thomas Nagel's Review of Alvin Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies

Religion: Buddhism

• Podcast threads:
  • This Atheist has revolutionized Buddhism. Does the latest consciousness science agree with his belie
  • 270. ASU PROF. LAWRENCE KRAUSS CALLS FOR DALAI LAMA TO STEP DOWN OVER REINCARNATION CLAIM

The divide between those who accept psi etc and those who reject it

• Do they really read each other's stuff?

Nomenclature (what to call those on either side of the divide between those who accept psi etc and those who reject it)

• Acceptable scientific discussions.
• Are you a skeptic or a proponent?
• Brain Game show and paranormal, for the first page and a half or so, after which the discussion turns to NDEs.

Debates on psi, spirituality, materialism, atheism, etc.

• Podcast threads:
  • 183. THE THINKING ATHEIST BACKS DOWN FROM SCIENCE DEBATE
  • 189. SAM HARRIS WON’T DEBATE DR. EBEN ALEXANDER ON NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE SCIENCE
• Afterlife Debate: Hitchen's, David Wolpe
• Sheldrake/Shermer Debate: Comment
• A debate between a skeptic and me.
• Sheldrake/blakemore debate
• Alex vs. Dillahunty commentary thread
• Carrol, Novella vs Alexander, Moody
• Logical consistency, a wide-ranging debate amongst Skeptiko members.
• You Don’t Believe this crap, Do You?, another wide-ranging debate amongst Skeptiko members, albeit focussed on homeopathy.

Physics, esp. quantum mechanics and its interpretations/implications

• Podcast threads:
  • 193. DR. DARYL BEM ON THE QUANTUM THEORY SECRET PSYCHOLOGISTS NEED TO KNOW
• David Bohm on Consciousness, QM, Paranormal, etc. [Resources]
• A different picture of quantum surrealism
• Physics for Dummies [Resources]
• Experimental loophole-free violation of a Bell inequality using entangled electron spins...
• Dean Radin's Double Slit Experiments
• Quantum tunneling mystery solved?
• Study claims classical physics is also "weird"
• The Reality of Quantum Weirdness
• Bell's Theorem, Determinism, Causality, Non-Locality, Realism
• Interpretations of QM
• Another set of scientists get close to the actuality
• 2014 Lecture on Quantum Biology by Johnjoe McFadden
• When parallel worlds collide … quantum mechanics is born
• Quantum entanglement made tangible
• Living in a Quantum World.
• Quantum Biology lecture/debate
• Experiment makes Schrodinger's cat choose
• Dark Matter found?
• Examination of Sheldrakes claim the speed of light is not constant
• `God Particle Could Destroy the Universe´, - warns Stephen Hawking
• The Feynman Lectures [Resources]
• Measure for Measure: Quantum Physics and Reality
• Quantum mechanics needs no consciousness (and the other way around)
• Prof. Moriarty hates Quantum woo ?
• Entanglement and Observing Wave Functions
• What are Colbeck and Renner saying about the Wave Function & "Realism"?
• Do the Multiverses of Science Preclude Absurdity? [Resources]
• Retrocausality
• Quantum physics woo...?

Evolution versus intelligent design (plus Creationism)

• Life - It's arrival, it's evolution, and so on [Resources][Biology][Evolution]
• New Intelligent Design Documentary
• The astonishing language written on microtubules, amazing evidence of design
• Quantum Biology and Evolution
• Intelligent Design Movement: Science or Pseudoscience?
• Stephen Meyer debates...
• Evolution and Physiology: a new synthesis
• New Bill Nye video
• "Creation Biology"
• "Don't you dare point out that they're not wearing any clothes"
• The evolution? of plants - part I
• The evolution? of plants - part II
• Walking fish reveal how our ancestors evolved onto land
• Intelligent design
• ‘Evolutionary Misfit’ Finds Its Way Into the Family Tree
• C&D evolution thread
• Ken Ham Challenges Pat Robertson To A Debate On Young Earth Creationism
• Review of Stephen Meyer's "Darwin's Doubt"
• Evolution offshoot
• Studies show memories in offspring may be impacted by parental experiences
• Darwin's Doubt (Continued)

Climate change

• Podcast threads:
  • He thought his beliefs about global warming were based on science. Science proved him wrong |310|
  • 234. GLOBAL WARMING, CLIMATE CHANGE AND OUR ILLUSION OF CONTROL
• A statisically balanced climate debate commentary & video
• Climate Change podcast discussion

Neuroscience

• Things a Neuroscientist Thinks Most People Don't Know About the Brain
• New stuff in neuroscience
• Neurons in human skin perform advanced calculations...
• Tallis: What Neuroscience Cannot Tell us about Ourselves
• Neuro-cognitive factors & paranormal beliefs dissertation
• How does the brain create a map of the space surrounding us?
• Yet another person without brain
• (The)History of Neuroscience
• Inside the Teenage Brain (podcast)
• Inside the Brain (true stories) Podcast
• Consciousness on/off switch?
• New stuff in neuroscience
• Do brain connections help shape religious beliefs?
• Electrical stimulation of brain alters dreams, study finds
• A Neuroscientist Uncovers A Dark Secret
• Positive, negative thinkers' brains revealed
• "Brain Science turns to Skepticism"
• Deja Vu and neurology
• Researchers discover protein's PC7 critical role in the brain

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) / genetic engineering (GE)

• The fraud surrounding GMOs

Vaccines

• Podcast threads:
  • Why CDC whistleblower revelations about vaccines and autism never made headlines, and what that mean

HIV/AIDS

• Podcast threads:
  • 273. DR. HENRY BAUER, DOGMATIC SCIENCE WRONG ABOUT HIV-AIDS CONNECTION

The health risks of saturated fat / cholesterol

• Saturated Fat discussion for David

Crop circles

• Podcast threads:
  • How I got duped by crop circle science. Nancy Talbott vs. Matt Williams
  • 253. SUZANNE TAYLOR, THE SCIENTIFIC MYSTERY OF CROP CIRCLES

Politics: Differences between liberals and conservatives

• Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
• Study on Liberals, Conservatives and their approaches to knowledge

Politics: Gun control

• As A Self Identified ' Skeptic ' or ' Proponent ', How Do You Feel About Gun Control?

Politics: New world order / global elites / shadow government / conspiracy

• Podcast threads:
  • Dr. Alexander Wendt and James Corbett Clash Over Inevitable One World State |301|
• Edgar Mitchell on ETs & Shadow Governments

Politics: 9/11

• Podcast threads:
  • What science-as-we-know-it can learn for the 9/11 truth movement |295|

Mental "illness"

• They F*** You Up
• Goblin Face and email harassment, anyone know more about these people?

Optical illusions

• What color is this dress?
• Benham's Top...

Consciousness/intelligence/traits in non-human life

• Fruit Flies Show They May Be Self-Aware By Playing A Video Game
• Plant Intelligence?
• Bees detection of electric fields

Flat Earth theory

• Flat Earth (Serious discussion. Please, no mocking)

Remaining threads from the "Critical Discussions" forum to integrate into the above post

I used a script to pull all of the threads out of the CD forum; am slowly integrating them into the posts above - here is what remains to be integrated.

Uncategorised (from the "Critical Discussions Among Proponents and Skeptics" forum)

• Maybe can categorise under "History and methods of historical analysis"?
  • Carbon dating, dinosaurs and the shroud of Turin
  • Pyramid of Cheops - how it was built ! ?
  • Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare - and there is a treasure.
• Can we reasonably categorise these together under some sort of "Miscellaneous musings and speculations" category?
  • Fields, Probability Swarms, and Gravity
  • "Angels' Advocate": Day 4
  • Out of the Dark
  • The voice in my head
  • Your sense of 'space'...
  • Woman in a box - a thought experiment.
• Maybe can categorise under "Analyses/critiques of 'proponents' on, and host of, Skeptiko"?
  • The World View That Has No Name
  • Utopianism
  • How can Alex be so firm in his stance? Objectivity has gone out the window
• File under "Interviews of Alex"?
  • Conner Habib's 2013 interview with Alex Tsakiris
• Discard as too parochial?
  • Steve banned again?
  • New Rules for the Critical Discussions Forum
  • The title of this sub-forum is inaccurate and counter-productive
• Have looked at all of these, but not sure how to categorise them - anybody got any ideas? Feel free to post below using the same structure as the OP and I'll integrate your structure into the OP.
  • the need for activism?
  • Man in coma for 12 years, wakes up, and reports to have heard everything
  • As a species, are we special, or not?
  • At least 114 million English-language "scholarly" papers are on the web
  • What's invisible? More than you think
  • Psst - here's the thing
  • Dr Oz under attack
  • Magic In The Moonlight.
  • Subconscious Manipulators: Take Yourself Off Autopilot
  • The woman with 20+ personalities in one body
  • Humans May Have Ability to See Infrared Light, Sometimes
  • What's the problem with Chopra?
  • Ebola - is this normal?
  • The Distress of Waking Up Under Anesthesia
  • Watch this @$$hat put the final nail in the coffin for TED

  
  

• The remainder I haven't even looked at yet.
• Engineering Intelligence podcast
• Nagel's Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament
• Taking emergence really seriously
• "What you may not realise is that...."
• No fear conditioned epigenetic inheritance from mothers?
• Intellectual Fundamentalism (Bernardo's latest post)
• Scientists Find Hints for the Immortality of the Soul
• A question about the GCP
• Looking into people's eyes
• 10% Brain and Psi Silliness
• 249. Tim Freke On Soul Crushing Science
• Roko’s Basilisk
• Interesting ESP experiments.
• People can recall events during Anesthetia
• Religion is to God as Sci-fi is to Science
• Mayhew on Mescaline: still interesting more than 50 years later
• People with Schizophrenia believe in psi more than healthy folk
• Cognitive biases explain religious belief, paranormal belief, and belief in life’s purpose
• Population coding of affect across stimuli, modalities and individuals
• The Surprisingly Predictable Patterns of Random Choice
• Sheldrake interviewed by "The End of Science" author
• Bernardo at the Gas Pump
• Sean Carroll on the Higgs
• TED Talk with David Chalmers
• Resource Thread
• Lourdes, Medjugorje, Zeitoun, Fatima and other Big Things
• Turning consciousness on/off like a light switch
• Extra-Sensory Perception by J.B. Rhine
• Dean Radin's Bizarre Story
• BBC moves to allow only establishment viewpoints on science
• Review of Stephen Meyer's "Darwin's Doubt"
• How Magic Mushrooms Really 'Expand the Mind'
• Talk with Anton Zeilinger
• Breaking the "Literal Reality" addiction.
• "Reproducible Research"
• "You are not so smart": Maslow's Hammer
• Images - A Screwy World...
• New evidence surrounding the age of the world
• 247. ROY DAVIES EXPOSES CHARLES DARWIN’S PLAGIARISM
• The Ills of Science
• Why Steven Novella is wrong... again
• 244. RUSS BAKER, THE TAINT OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES
• Cold Reading techniques
• What Studies for Skeptiko Guests?
• My Trip to Sunday Assembly
• Eye condition makes man hallucinate tapestries and monks
• Astrology and Ψ
• More with rat brains
• No God in The Machine
• Chromosomes similar construction to electrical transformer..?
• Discuss...
• Researchers create highly detailed 3D model of an individual neural synapse (w/ Video)
• A case of psi right here on the Skeptiko forum?
• Reflections on the Peter Russell podcast (245)
• Patricia Pearson's book is out...
• More Peer-Review Failing
• End of Life Dreams and Visions (ELDV)
• Why do they persist in believing that ???
• Eye for an Eye
• Paranormal Podcasts
• Still Stuck on Stupid
• How Certain Are You That Psi Exists?
• Sheldrake vs UBC Ouija Experiment
• The Enigma of Survival
• Interesting paper on survival.
• Join the informal EYES experiment here on the forum
• Sensory perceptions of the deceased by the living...
• Captain Bob Thread
• Replacing the Current Illegitimate Skeptical Movement with Legitimate Proposals
• Discussion between myself and Scott Alexander
• Being a Creative Agnostic
• Control Group Out of Control?
• DECISION AUGMENTATION THEORY
• Interesting Article about skepticism
• Why Great Minds Can't Grasp Consciousness (A perspective)
• Mice Fear Men and Not Women - Big Problem For Research
• Which paranormal phenomena do you accept?
• Proving the Immaterial World
• Visual hallucinations evoked by direct electrical stimulation.
• Sir William Crookes
• Are there any paranormal phenomena AT ALL??
• Is Religion Dead?
• How the light gets out (consciousness)
• The scientific dictatorship
• Jeff Kripal article on the paranormal in the Chronicle of Higher Education
• User Signal to Noise Ratio and Banning
• Neuromorphic computing, simulating human brain
• The First Principles of D. Shropshire?
• A man in my neighborhood has gone missing
• real but unimportant?　
• Forum Investigation: Bengston's Mice Studies
• What does it mean: Open Minded
• Please some1 help me why there is a hobby to deceive
• Alex's book
• What research programs are you tracking?
• Examples of my sigils
• The brain: hydraulic or explosive?
• How ‘Cosmos’ Bungles the History of Religion and Science
• Malaysian flight - what do the psychics say?
• Mannerly Discussion
• Anybody heard of this site?
• 10 Signs The Global Elite Are Losing Control
• What did you do while the forum was down?
• The Chinese Room
• How do cells know what do without intelligence?
• Dr. Steven Novella's anti-psi screed
• PJ's thread on Linda's thread
• "The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day."
• I Love You, You Big Dummy
• A Thread on Bishop's Thread on My Thread on Linda's Thread
• Linda & The BMW Z3 Convertible
• Error 500 - Internal server error An internal server error has occured! Please try again later.
• Sheldrake vs UBC...
• Can dogs really tell the time?
• I want to believe
• Your Skull Contains the Universe?
• Patricia Churchland Podcast
• Google Images Reveal Triangular Structures on the Moon
• Exorcism and well-witnessed poltergeist activity
• Arguments for (an immaterial?) Platonic Reality
• Lucas's (and others) argument for non-random, non-computable originality
• Orch-or
• Interview and criticism with Michael Sudduth
• Why We Need Skeptics in the Skeptiko Forum
• National Geographic is a hokum in ESP experiments
• Stephen Hawking: "There are no Black Holes" redux
• Skeptics asked not to post
• Are you good or evil?
• Rational Wiki believes in time travel
• Scientists debate a new way of understanding flora
• Paranormal Abilities for Dummies
• Do materialist lay-people have anything interesting to offer?
• Cosmos documentary mini-series
• Freud podcast
• Decoding 'the Most Complex Object in the Universe'
• How Martin Gardner Bamboozled the Skeptics
• The perils of belief
• Is a Skeptic-Friendly Afterlife Possible?
• Moderation or Censorship. A "force for good" or a disturbing trend?
• world-views and agendas
• The difficulty with a consciousness essentialism
• Hunter Gatherer
• Simulations back up 'universe is a hologram' theory, physicists say

Remaining threads from the "Discuss the Show" forum to incorporate into the above post

• Shedding light on our Sun, an interview with Gregory Sams
• UPCOMING INTERVIEW: DAN HARRIS, 10% HAPPIER
• 263. ALBERT LACHANCE AND REBECCA GOODWIN ON THE THIRD COVENANT
• 261. WHY SCIENCE IS WRONG...ABOUT ALMOST EVERYTHING
• 262. WILL STORR ON THE ENEMIES OF SCIENCE
• UPCOMING INTERVIEW: DR. LARRY MALERBA
• 258. JOHN MICHAEL GREER ON OUR MYTH OF PROGRESS
• 256. DR. DONALD DEGRACIA, WHAT IS SCIENCE?
• 250. DR. JEFFREY SCHWARTZ, SCIENCE’S INABILITY TO EXPLAIN PERSONHOOD
• 249. TIM FREKE ON SOUL CRUSHING SCIENCE
• 247. ROY DAVIES EXPOSES CHARLES DARWIN’S PLAGIARISM
• 244. RUSS BAKER, THE TAINT OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES
• 242. OLIVER HOCKENHULL, NEURONS TO NIRVANA
• 240. DR. DAVID LANE NOT SANDBAGGED — PATRICIA CHURCHLAND PART 2
• 235. DR. TODD DUFRESNE ON FREUD’S LOOMING SHADOW OF DECEPTION
• 233. MARY RODWELL WHICH EXTRAORDINARY HUMAN EXPERIENCES MATTER
• 229. The 5 Things You Need to Know About Skeptiko
• 185. Dr. William Bengston ignored by cancer industry
• Future Interviews
• 2000 YEARS OF SCIENCE IS OVERTURNED !!!!
• 208. DR. JULIA ASSANTE ON TECHNOLOGY TRAINING US TO TALK WITH SPIRITS
• 209. TALAT JONATHAN PHILLIPS CHRONICLES HIS TRANSFORMATION FROM POLITICAL ACTIVIST TO SPIRITUAL SEEK
• 210. MIGUEL CONNER EXPLORES GNOSTIC THEMES AND “RED PILL” ALIENATION
• 211. MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY’S ARDY SIXKILLER CLARKE COMPILES 1,000 ACCOUNTS OF AMERICAN INDIAN CON
• 219. DR. STEPHEN LAW ON HOW SCIENCE HANDLES EXTRAORDINARY CLAIMS
• skeptiko-krauss-upcoming
• Dr. John Searle Interview by Alex Tsakiris on Skeptiko #224
• Dr. Jimo Borjigin Interview by Alex Tsakiris on Skeptiko #223
• Jean Charles Chabot Interview by Alex Tsakiris on Skeptiko #222
• Kevin Williams Interview by Alex Tsakiris on Skeptiko #225
• Alex Tsakiris Interview on Mysterious Universe
• Alex Tsakiris Interview on Binnall of America
• Alex Tsakiris Interview on The Corbett Report
• Alex Tsakiris will be on Coast to Coast on Dec 25 2014!
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FORUM
• New Skeptiko Website
• Previous Episodes of Skeptiko
• Skeptiko website down
• 200. A LOOK BACK AT 200 EPISODES OF SKEPTIKO
• Defining Rules of New Skeptiko Forum by Alex Tsakiris on Skeptiko #227
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Resources for Julie Beischel's laboratory mediumship research remaining to be integrated into the above post

The following was seeded from the second post in the Skeptiko thread, ***Links, Sources and Resources***. It needs to be integrated into the main post above, and then the source thread can be deleted (we might want to also integrate the Tom Campbell interview which Steve includes in the third post in that thread).

Beischel, J., & Schwartz, G.E. (2007). Anomalous information reception by research mediums demonstrated using a novel triple-blind protocol. EXPLORE: The Journal of Science & Healing, 3, 23-27. http://www.windbridge.org/papers/BeischelEXPLORE2007vol3.pdf

Beischel, J. (2007/2008). Contemporary methods used in laboratory-based mediumship research. Journal of Parapsychology, 71, 37-68. http://www.windbridge.org/papers/JP71_2007-2008_Beischel_Methods.pdf

Rock, A. J. & Beischel, J. (2008). Quantitative Analysis of Research Mediums’ Conscious Experiences during a Discarnate Reading versus a Control Task: A Pilot Study. Australian Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 8, Number 2, pp. 157-179. http://thewhitecrow.webs.com/Quantitative Analysis of Research Mediums’.pdf

Rock, A. J., Beischel, J., & Schwartz, G.E. (2008). Thematic Analysis of Research Mediums' Experiences of Discarnate Communication. Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 179–192. Thematic analysis of research mediums' experiences of discarnate communication | Julie Beischel - Academia.edu

Rock, A. J., Beischel, J., & Cott, C. C. (2008/2009). Psi vs. survival: A qualitative investigation of mediums' phenomenology comparing psychic readings and ostensible communication with the deceased. Transpersonal Psychology Review, 13, 76-89. http://www.windbridge.org/papers/TPR13RockBeischelCott2009.pdf

Beischel, J., & Rock, A. J. (2009). Addressing the survival vs. psi debate through process-focused mediumship research. Journal of Parapsychology, 73, 71-90. http://www.windbridge.org/papers/JP73BeischelRock2009.pdf

Boccuzzi, M., & Beischel, J. (2011). Objective analyses of reported real-time audio instrumental transcommunication and matched control sessions: A pilot study. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 25, 215-235. http://www.windbridge.org/papers/BoccuzziBeischel2011JSE25ITC.pdf

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