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Introduction and invitation

Below (under the heading, "The post") is the working version of the main post in the Skeptiko forum thread, "Index of Skeptiko threads and related resources", which due to size has had to be split into multiple posts, starting here.

This post includes all threads from the "Critical Discussions", "Discuss the Show", "Consciousness & Science" and "Extended Consciousness & Spirituality" forums on Skeptiko as of approx April 2016 (and later for some forums). [i]Some[/i] threads from the "Other Stuff" forum have also been extracted.

You are invited to edit this post in good faith, shifting list items from the "Uncategorised" category into a more specific category, creating new categories as necessary, and/or adding other resources that you think would be useful to include in it. Feel free to edit anonymously, but also feel free to create an account under which to edit, preferably using the same username that you use on Skeptiko if you have an account there. From time to time, after changes have been made, I'll edit the contents of the post below into the Skeptiko thread.

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The post

Table of contents

→Media: Books

→Journals

→Media: Films

→Media: Television series

→Media: Radio shows

→Media: Podcasts/Videocasts

→Media: Blogs

→Media: Forums

→Media: Websites

→[Resources] threads

Containing forum not included, for ease of browsing.

→Parapsychology, psi and the paranormal

→Parapsychology: Precognition and premonition

→Parapsychology: Precognitive dreams

→Parapsychology: Presentiment

→Parapsychology: Psychics

→Parapsychology: Psychic vision

→Parapsychology: Remote viewing

→Parapsychology: Sensing stares

→Parapsychology: Telepathy

→Parapsychology: Telepathy: The Ganzfeld experiments

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

→Parapsychology: Psychokinesis

→Parapsychology: Paranormal photographs

→Parapsychology: Psychokinesis: Spoon bending

→Angels

→Parapsychology: Apparitions, dreams and visions of the dying and recently dead

→Parapsychology: Ghosts, poltergeists and other discarnates

→Parapsychology: Hearing voices

→Parapsychology: Instrumental transcommunication (ITC), electronic voice phenomenon (EVP) and phone calls from the dead (PCFTD)

→Parapsychology: Mediumship / spirit communication / after-death communication / channelling

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

→Parapsychology: Reincarnation and past-life regression

→Parapsychology: Resurrection

→Parapsychology: Terminal lucidity

→Parapsychology: Visions, esp. end of life dreams and visions (ELDV)

→Parapsychology: Anomalous speech/language/accent

→Bigfoot

→Crop circles

→Parapsychology: Dreaming, especially lucid dreaming

→Savants, geniuses, and the gifted

→Parapsychology: Synchronicity

→UFOs, alien encounters and extraterrestrial life

→Miscellaneous psi/psychic/paranormal phenomena

→Parapsychology: Criticisms of / skeptical explanations for

→Parapsychology: Skeptical explanations for: Cold reading

→Parapsychology: Speculations on nature of and mechanisms for psi

→Parapsychology: Super-psi

→Parapsychology: The (in)compatibility of psi and physics

→Parapsychology: Skeptiko experiments investigating psi

→Opportunities to participate in external experiments

→Parapsychology: Techniques for inducing/enhancing psi

→Parapsychology: Technologies exploiting/facilitating/mimicking psi

→Parapsychology: Paranormally-inspired inventions/discoveries

→Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: Anna Breytenbach

→Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: Chico Xavier

  • Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:

→Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: Joe McMoneagle

→Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: Robbert Van Den Broeke

→Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: Uri Geller

→Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: William Buhlman

→Parapsychology: Institutes of research

→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: Esalen

→Paranormal: Institutes of research: Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE)

→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: The American Society For Psychical Research (ASPR)

→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: The Maimonides Dream Lab

→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: The Monroe Institute

→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: The Parapsychological Association (PA)

→Parapsychology: Institutes of Research : The Rhine Research Center

→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: The Society for Psychical Research (SPR)

→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: University of Virginia's Division of Perceptual Studies

→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in

→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Dean Radin

→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Jim Tucker

→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Julie Beischel

→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Penny Sartori

→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Rupert Sheldrake

→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Rupert Sheldrake: Morphic resonance

→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Sam Parnia

→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Stephen Braude

→Parapsychology: Authors/bloggers/speakers

→Parapsychology: Evidential matters including burden of proof of

→Parapsychology: Research methodology of incl. statistics

→Parapsychology: 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?

→Astrology

→Magic, alchemy and the occult

→Numerology

→Hallucinogens/psychedelics

→(Pseudo-)skepticism

→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Daniel Dennett

→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Derren Brown

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

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

→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Lawrence Krauss

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

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

→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Richard Dawkins

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

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

→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Harrassment by

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

→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Coopting of Wikipedia/TED by

→Proponents versus skeptics: (bridging?) the divide

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

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

→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

→Synthetic/big-picture thinkers: Bernardo Kastrup

→Synthetic/big-picture thinkers: David Bohm

→Synthetic/big-picture thinkers: Tom Campbell

→Epistemology

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

→Ontology

→Neutral monism

→Idealism/nondualism

→Materialism/physicalism incl. consequences, waning and refutations of

→Matter (what is it?)

→Dualism

→(Anti-)Realism

→Time

→The nature of mind and consciousness

→Integrated Information Theory (of consciousness)

→The filter theory of consciousness

→Orch-OR theory of consciousness

→Emergentism (as a theory of consciousness)

→Panpsychism

→Free will (versus hard determinism)

→Intelligence

→Imagination

→Thought, reason, intuition, faith and belief

→Communication

→Grammar

→Memory

→Consciousness/intelligence/traits in/of non-human life

→Optical/perceptual illusions and hallucinations

→Meaning in life

→Theism, esp. concepts/proofs of God

→Atheism

→Religion (general)

→Animism

→Religion: Buddhism

→Religion: Christianity

→Religion: Gnosticism

→Religion: Islam

→Religion: Paganism

→Shamanism

→Religion: Spiritualism

→Trickster

→Philosophy of religion

→Religion/spirituality and (versus?) science

→Spirituality: techniques and general

→Spirituality, religion and sex

→Meditation

→Spiritual and psychic healing/therapy modalities

→Other complementary/alternative medicine

→Homeopathy

→Psychotherapy/psychology

→Evil (the existence/nature of)

→Death and suicide

→Life after death

→Hell (the existence/nature of)

→Morality

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

→Art

→Love, romance, sex and relationships

→Mental "illness" and psychiatry

→Media bias and censorship

→History and methods of historical analysis

→Information/mathematics/Platonism

→Artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the singularity and transhumanism

→Simulations / virtual realities

→Science

→Science: Relationship to philosophy

→Science: Philosophy of

→Science: Corruption in, and criticisms/distrust of

→Physics, esp. quantum mechanics and its interpretations/implications

→Evolution versus intelligent design (plus Creationism)

→Evolutionary psychology

→Climate change

→Neuroscience

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

→Genetic engineering of humans

→Vaccines

→HIV/AIDS

→The health risks of saturated fat / cholesterol

→Politics

→Politics: Differences between liberals and conservatives

→Politics: Gun control

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

→Politics: 9/11

→Flat Earth theory

→Miscellaneous musings and speculations

→Skeptiko-specific

→Skeptiko: Critiques of

→Skeptiko: Personal experiences of members

→Skeptiko: Housekeeping

→Alex Tsakiris: Interviews of

→Alex Tsakiris: Critiques of

→Book: Why Science is Wrong... About Almost Everything

→Uncategorised threads

These threads are uncategorised either because it's hard to find a category in which to fit them, or because the discussions in them are wide-ranging and require multiple categorisations, but as-yet nobody has read through them to determine in which categories they should fit.

→Uncategorised threads to 2017-04-04

Empty threads

These threads are listed here only so that we can avoid (re)generating them due to their not appearing on this page if/when an automated tool is written to check for new forum threads not listed on this page.


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