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Table of contents

Media (and reviews of them) on parapsychology, the paranormal, consciousness, spirituality, etc
[Resources] threads
Parapsychology, psi and the paranormal
- Categories of:
  - Extrasensory perception (ESP)
  - Psychokinesis
  - Phenomena suggestive of survival after death and/or spirits
  - Miscellaneous
- (The need for) Advocacy for
- Criticisms of / skeptical explanations for
  - Cold reading
- Speculations on nature of and mechanisms for psi
  - Super-psi
- The (in)compatibility of psi and physics
- Skeptiko (member) experiments investigating psi
- Opportunities to participate in external experiments/surveys
- Techniques for inducing/enhancing psi
- Technologies exploiting/facilitating/mimicking psi
- Paranormally-inspired inventions/discoveries
- In (science) fiction
- Prominent figures/groups in:
  - Prominent adepts at psi
  - Researchers in psi/paranormal phenomena
    - Institutes/groups
    - Authors/bloggers/speakers
  - 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?
- Other fringe phenomena/practices
  - Astrology
  - Magic, alchemy, tarot and the occult
  - Numerology
  - Hallucinogens/psychedelics
- (Pseudo-)skepticism
  - Prominent figures in
  - Harrassment by
  - Deception, duplicity and suppression by
  - Coopting of Wikipedia/TED by
- Proponents versus skeptics: (bridging?) the divide
  - Nomenclature (what to call those on either side of the divide)
  - Debates on psi, spirituality, materialism, atheism, etc.
- The nature of reality: metaphysics, ontology, and big-picture syntheses/speculations
  - 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 and knowledge
  - Logic
  - Miscellaneous metaphysics
  - Origins / primary explanations (Why something instead of nothing?)
  - Ontology
  - Philosophy (misc/general)
  - Time
  - Water
  - Outer space, the solar system and astronomy
- The nature of mind and consciousness
  - Theories of consciousness
  - Psychology
  - Hydrocephaly
  - Free will (versus hard determinism)
  - Intelligence
  - Imagination and creativity
  - Emotion
  - Thought, reason, argumentation, critical thinking, intuition, faith and belief
  - Communication
    - Grammar
    - Memes
  - Memory
  - Consciousness/intelligence/traits in/of non-human life
  - Optical/perceptual illusions and hallucinations
- Spirituality and religion
  - Meaning in life
  - Agape and spiritual/unconditional love
  - Theism, esp. concepts/proofs of God
  - Atheism
  - Religion (general)
  - Individual religions / spiritual paradigms
  - Mythology
  - Philosophy of religion
  - Religion/spirituality and (versus?) science
  - Spirituality: techniques and general
    - Spirituality, religion and sex
    - Meditation and mindfulness
  - The soul
  - The self
  - Auras
  - Mind-body-spirit holism
  - Life and death
- Health, healing and medicine
  - Spiritual and psychic healing/therapy modalities
  - Other complementary/alternative medicine
  - Diet
  - Psychotherapy
  - Big pharma
- Humans and society/culture
  - Morality
    - Non-human rights (animal and plant rights)
  - Relationship with/to non-humans incl. animals, plants and nature
  - Art (including music)
  - Love, romance, sex and relationships
  - Prejudice and discrimination: sexism, racism, etc
  - Paedophilia and child abuse
  - Education
  - Law and the legal system
  - Mental "illness"
  - Media bias and censorship
  - Civilisation
    - Threats to
  - Politics
  - History and methods of historical analysis
- Technology, including abstract
  - Information/mathematics/Platonism
  - Artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the singularity and transhumanism
  - Simulations / virtual realities
- Science
  - Relationship to philosophy
  - Philosophy of
  - Corruption in, and criticisms/distrust of
  - Areas of (esp. controversial)
- Miscellaneous
  - Wide-ranging discussions that are too varied to categorise more specifically.
  - Miscellaneous musings and speculations
- Skeptiko-specific
  - Critiques of
  - Personal experiences of members
  - Housekeeping
  - Alex Tsakiris
- Uncategorised threads to 2019-03-22
- Uncategorised threads to 2019-04-01
- Uncategorised threads to 2019-04-09
- Uncategorised threads to 2019-05-26
- Uncategorised threads to 2019-06-07
- Uncategorised threads to 2019-07-07
- Uncategorised threads to 2019-08-18
→Media: Books
→Media: Magazines
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - OMNI Magazine
→Media: Journals
- Direct links:
  - Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research
  - Journal of Scientific Exploration
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→Media: Films
- Podcast threads:
  - Why are so many movies going Gnostic? |315|
  - Documentary looks at old and new models of human consciousness |305|
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Investigation Into The Invisible World (the sole post links to a missing YouTube video, but presumably the title of the video is the same as that of the thread. This movie is reviewed here.)
  - The Story of God - Episode 1 Beyond Death
  - "Skeptiko NDE documentaries" comment thread
  - New Movie - Heaven Is for Real
- YouTube:
  - THE AFTERLIFE INVESTIGATIONS: The Scole Experiments - FEATURE
→Media: Television series
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Past-life TV documentary series
→Media: Radio shows
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Invisibilia
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - FREE and IANDS on Coast to Coast July 18 2015
  - Art Bell's Midnight in the Desert
→Media: Podcasts/Videocasts
- Direct links:
  - Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio hosted by Miguel Conner.
  - Auticulture: the Liminist
  - Buddha at the Gas Pump hosted by Rick and Irene Archer.
  - Forum Borealis
  - Hidden Experience
  - Mysterious Universe
  - Pentamental
  - Rune Soup hosted by Gordon White.
  - The Gray Escape with Natalie Gray
  - The Higherside Chats hosted by Greg Carlwood.
  - The Paracast
  - Where did the road go?
- "Discuss the Show" threads not linked to a show:
  - Alex Tsakiris | The Consciousness Quarantine, Skeptiko, & Data From ... (Alex on The Higherside Chats podcast)
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - The Mind v The Brain
  - Closer to Truth: How Much More to Physical Reality?
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- "Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:
  - A fascinating interview with Brian Josephson [on the Closer to Truth videocast]
→Media: Blogs
- Direct links:
  - Entangled Minds by Dean Radin [inactive since mid 2014; retired as of 07 July 2016]
  - Parnormalia by Robert McLuhan.
  - The Search For Life After Death: Exploring spirituality, science and faith by Jennifer Carter.
  - The Weiler Psi by Craig Weiler
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - New Afterlife/PSI blog - we should all support it, re Jennifer Carter's blog listed above, The Search for Life After Death.
  - Anyone know what happened to the Subversive Thinking Blog?
  - Parasociology blog
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
→Media: Forums
- Direct links:
  - EVP - ITC Research and Development Forums [Yuku]
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Interesting discussions at PsienceQuest
→Media: Websites
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→[Resources] threads
Containing forum not included, for ease of browsing.
→Parapsychology, psi and the paranormal
→Parapsychology: Precognition and premonition
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
→Parapsychology: Precognitive dreams
- See also:
- Podcast threads:
  - 282. CAN YOUR DREAMS PREDICT DEATH? NEW EVIDENCE, SURPRISING RESULT.
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
→Parapsychology: Presentiment
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Scientists show future events decide what happens in the past
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Precognition/Presentiment experiences
→Parapsychology: Psychics
- Podcast threads:
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Britain's Psychic Challenge
  - 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...
  - Are You Psychic?
  - Psychic predictions for 2015
  - Albert Einstein Endorsed a Popular Psychic in 1932?
  - The death of Robin Williams
  - Cold Reading techniques
  - A man in my neighborhood has gone missing
  - Malaysian flight - what do the psychics say?
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - How Psychic Abilities Aid Our Lives
  - Co-incidence or ESP?
→Parapsychology: Psychic vision
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Girl with X ray Eyes ( Natasha Demkina )
  - Dr. Richard Ireland
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - 20/20/20 Third Eye Vision
→Parapsychology: Remote viewing
- Organisations:
  - The Farsight Institute
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Military remote viewing and the reality of angels
→Parapsychology: Sensing stares
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Ability to Sense When Someone’s Staring at You Is Common, Studies Show
→Parapsychology: Telepathy
- Podcast threads:
  - 257. DR. DIANE POWELL FINDS TELEPATHY AMONG AUTISTIC SAVANT CHILDREN
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
→Parapsychology: Telepathy: The Ganzfeld experiments
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→Parapsychology: Telepathic dogs (predicting their owner's return)
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Jaytee / Pam Smart original german documentary
→Parapsychology: Psychokinesis
- Podcast threads:
  - Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, The Long-Term Future of Parapsychology |349|
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Telekinesis as a spiritual journey
  - Telekinesis
- Books:
  - The PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter by Jeffrey Mishlove [Amazon Kindle edition]
→Parapsychology: Paranormal photographs
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - 10 Mysterious Photos
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Voices and Photos from the Dead?
→Parapsychology: Inducing sleep in others
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Watch This Guy Put Animals to Sleep by Hand Waves!
- "Other stuff" forum threads:
  - Kanzawa Sensei Chi Master Gets Animals to Sleep
→Parapsychology: Psychokinesis: Spoon bending
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Spoon bending video
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→Paranormal: Angels
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Are Angels Real ?
  - Military remote viewing and the reality of angels
→Parapsychology: Apparitions, dreams and visions, especially of the dying and recently dead, including shared-death experiences (SDEs)
- See also:
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Captain Bob Thread
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - I See Dead People: Dreams and Visions of the Dying | Dr. Christopher Kerr
  - Visitations and hallucinations
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
→Parapsychology: Ghosts, poltergeists and other discarnates
- See also:
  - Mediumship / spirit communication / after-death communication / channelling
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
→Parapsychology: Hearing voices
- See also:
  - Mental "illness"
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Psychics help psychiatrists understand the voices of psychosis
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - 'Voices in the Head' study published.
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - People Who Hear Voices
→Parapsychology: Instrumental transcommunication (ITC), electronic voice phenomenon (EVP) and phone calls from the dead (PCFTD)
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - EVP Analysis
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Forums:
  - EVP - ITC Research and Development Forums [Yuku]
- Books:
  - Phone Calls From the Dead by D. Scott Rogo and Raymond Bayless (1955) [Amazon]
→Parapsychology: Mediumship / spirit communication / after-death communication / channelling
- See also:
- Podcast threads:
- "Discuss the show" threads not linked to a show:
  - We Need Your Help -- NDE Skepticism
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Papers:
  - Anomalous information reception by research mediums demonstrated using a novel triple-blind protocol. Beischel, J., & Schwartz, G.E. (2007). EXPLORE: The Journal of Science & Healing, Vol. 3, pp. 23-27.
  - Contemporary methods used in laboratory-based mediumship research. Beischel, J. (2007/2008). Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 71, pp. 37-68.
  - Quantitative Analysis of Research Mediums’ Conscious Experiences during a Discarnate Reading versus a Control Task: A Pilot Study. Rock, A. J. & Beischel, J. (2008). Australian Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 157-179.
  - Thematic Analysis of Research Mediums' Experiences of Discarnate Communication. Rock, A. J., Beischel, J., & Schwartz, G.E. (2008). Journal of Scientiﬁc Exploration, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 179–192.
  - Psi vs. survival: A qualitative investigation of mediums' phenomenology comparing psychic readings and ostensible communication with the deceased. Rock, A. J., Beischel, J., & Cott, C. C. (2008/2009). Transpersonal Psychology Review, Vol. 13, pp. 76-89.
  - Addressing the survival vs. psi debate through process-focused mediumship research. Beischel, J., & Rock, A. J. (2009). Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 73, pp. 71-90.
  - Objective analyses of reported real-time audio instrumental transcommunication and matched control sessions: A pilot study. Boccuzzi, M., & Beischel, J. (2011). Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 25, pp. 215-235.
- Books:
  - Among Mediums: A Scientist's Quest for Answers by Julie Beischel PhD [Amazon Kindle version]
- Films:
  - THE AFTERLIFE INVESTIGATIONS: The Scole Experiments - FEATURE [YouTube]
→Parapsychology: Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and Out of Body Experiences (OBEs/OOBEs)
→Parapsychology: Reincarnation and past-life regression
→Parapsychology: Resurrection
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - 15 people reportedly dead for hours or days and coming back
  - People who have been dead for hours the revived
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Dead Man Comes to Life After Three Days in Mortuary
  - A New Indian NDE
→Parapsychology: Terminal lucidity
- Podcast threads:
  - 278. DR. MICHAEL NAHM ON TERMINAL LUCIDITY AND NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→Parapsychology: Visions, esp. end of life dreams and visions (ELDV)
- See also:
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - End of Life Dreams and Visions (ELDV)
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Famous Last Words
  - Death bed visions
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Books:
  - Death-Bed Visions - The Psychical Experiences of the Dying by Sir William Barrett
  - The Zeitoun events from the perspective of the MPI
→Parapsychology: Anomalous speech/language/accent
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Past life perhaps?
  - He Awoke Speaking an Unknown Language
→Paranormal: Bigfoot
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - The Bigfoot DNA: Real Science and a Skeptical Nightmare
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - The Sasquatch People
  - Binnall of America -- Adam Davies & John Carlson
→Paranormal: 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
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Sheldrake, McKenna and Abraham on crop circles
  - Voices and Photos from the Dead?
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Crop circles disappointment
→Parapsychology: Dreaming, especially lucid dreaming
→Levitation
- Podcast threads:
  - Can we believe eyewitnesses… did this 17th century monk levitate? |312|
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Why Levitation? by Michael Grosso
→Parapsychology: Savants, geniuses, and the gifted
- Podcast threads:
  - 257. DR. DIANE POWELL FINDS TELEPATHY AMONG AUTISTIC SAVANT CHILDREN
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - What is the relationship between genius, madness and psychic ability?
→Parapsychology: Synchronicity
- Podcast threads:
  - Christopher Knowles, Are Occult Symbols Present in Science? |365| (from about midway through page four onwards)
  - 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.
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Help me to understand my synchronicities.
  - Jung believed astrology to be an archetypal system that works through synchronicity.
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
→Paranormal: UFOs, alien encounters and extraterrestrial life
→Miscellaneous psi/psychic/paranormal phenomena
→(The need for) Advocacy for
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - the need for activism?
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Why can't the "Consciousness Community" get their act together?
→Parapsychology: Criticisms of / skeptical explanations for
- Podcast threads:
  - Dr. Michael Shermer on Near-Death Experience Science |379|
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→Parapsychology: Skeptical explanations for: Cold reading
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Psychic "shut eye"
→Parapsychology: Speculations on nature of and mechanisms for psi
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Suggestions for Alex's Book
→Parapsychology: Super-psi
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Super Psi vs Survival?
  - A few arguments against Super-Ψ
→Parapsychology: The (in)compatibility of psi and physics
- See also:
  - Religion/spirituality and (versus?) science
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - 1980 TV Segment on Physics & Paranormal
→Parapsychology: Skeptiko (member) experiments investigating psi
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Join the informal EYES experiment here on the forum
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
→Opportunities to participate in external experiments/surveys
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Have you had an Out-of-Body Experience? - Request for research participants
→Parapsychology: Techniques for inducing/enhancing psi
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
→Parapsychology: Technologies exploiting/facilitating/mimicking psi
- Podcast threads:
  - Jonathan Robinson, can technology help spiritual seekers? |320|
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies
  - How to Use a Ouija Board
→Parapsychology: Paranormally-inspired inventions/discoveries
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Should scientists trust 'Gut Feelings'?
  - Clairvoyant Chemistry & Mystical Physics - Is there an Akashic Record or is it Something Else?
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Surfing the Subtle Planes of Reality (Ego Restricted)
→In (science) fiction
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Sci-Fi and Psi-fi?
  - Daryl Bem and Minority Report
→Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: Anna Breytenbach
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Documentary about animal communicator Anna Breytenbach
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Anna Breytenbach ( Animal whisperer)
→Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: Chico Xavier
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Chico Xavier
→Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: Felicia Parise
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - JSE articles about Felicia Parise
→Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: Jack Houck
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Jack Houck [Resources]
→Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: Joe McMoneagle
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Joe McMoneagle US Army Remote Viewer aka Psychic Spy 001
→Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: Nicolas Fraisse
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - This could be big (hit on target OBE)
→Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: Robbert Van Den Broeke
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - New Interview with Robbert Van Den Broeke
→Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: Ted Owens (the PK Man)
- Podcast threads:
  - Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, The Long-Term Future of Parapsychology |349|
- Books:
  - The PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter by Jeffrey Mishlove [Amazon Kindle edition]
→Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: Uri Geller
- Critical discussions forum threads:
→Parapsychology: Prominent adepts at psi: William Buhlman
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - William Buhlman [Resources]
→Parapsychology: Institutes of research
→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: Esalen
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Jack Hunter at Esalen
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Esalen Institute [Resources]
→Paranormal: Institutes of research: Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE)
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - FREE and IANDS on Coast to Coast July 18 2015
→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: The American Society For Psychical Research (ASPR)
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - What is the deal with the ASPR?
→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: The Farsight Institute
- Direct links:
  - The Farsight Institute
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Time-Cross Remote Viewing Sessions for July 2016 - and now August!
→Parapsychology: Institute of Noetic Sciences
- Podcast threads:
  - What Happened at the 2017 IONS Conference |361|
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - IONS 17th International Conference
→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - The Destruction of Transpersonal Psychology
→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: The International Academy of Consciousness
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Another OBE study (this May)
→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: The Maimonides Dream Lab
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - JSE articles about Felicia Parise
  - Transmitting Thought : The Maimonides Dream Lab
→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: The Monroe Institute
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - The Monroe Institute
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Monroe Institute OBE experiments
→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: The Parapsychological Association (PA)
- Direct links:
  - Website
  - Facebook page
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - 2015 PA/SPR Joint Convention Book of Abstracts
  - 2014 PA Conference and abstracts
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Parapsychological Association's new youtube channel
→Parapsychology: Institutes of Research: The Rhine Research Center
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Rhine Research Center
  - Rhine Research Center Fundraising Event
→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: The Society for Psychical Research (SPR)
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - 2015 PA/SPR Joint Convention Book of Abstracts
→Parapsychology: Institutes of research: The University of Virginia's Division of Perceptual Studies
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→Windbridge Research Center
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Windbridge Research Center
→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Robert Monroe and Other Explorers
→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Daryl Bem
- Podcast threads:
  - Michael Britt - The Psych Files - Dr. Daryl Bem and the Parapsychology PSYOP |328|
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Daryl Bem online experiment
→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Dean Radin
- Books
  - Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality by Dean Radin
- Blogs
  - Entangled Minds by Dean Radin [inactive since mid 2014]
- Podcast threads:
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Closer to the Truth interviews with Josephson and Wolf - discussions of (debates about) some of Dean's experiments begin about halfway down page one of the thread.
  - Psychic Robots - Psi Could Infuse A.I. Claims Dean Radin
  - New Radin's double-slit experiment presentation
  - Great new talk by Dean Radin
  - Dean Radin - Why is ESP So Intriguing?
  - New study from Beischel, Radin et al.
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Runesoup: TALKING PSI AND MAGIC WITH DR DEAN RADIN
- Papers:
  - Seeking psi in the casino. Radin, D. I. & Rebman, J. M. (1998). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol. 62, No. 850, pp. 193-219.
→Guy Lyon Playfair
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Guy Lyon Playfair (1935-2018)
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Guy Lyon Playfair on Project Stargate
→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Jeffrey Long
- Podcast threads:
  - Dr. Jeffrey Long’s, God and the Afterlife, Science & Spirituality Have Collided |327|
→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Jim Tucker
- Podcast threads:
  - 239. DR. JIM TUCKER COMPILES DATABASE OF PAST LIFE MEMORIES
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Books:
  - Return to life by Jim Tucker (2015)
→John Mack
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - John E. Mack speaks at IONS in 1995
  - A retrospective on John Mack by his stepdaughter
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - David Jacobs False Claims about John Mack During Skeptiko Interview
→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Julie Beischel
- See also:
  - "Papers" and "Books" under Mediumship / spirit communication / after-death communication / channelling.
- Podcast threads:
  - Dr. Julie Beischel Clearing Up Myths About Mediums |371|
  - 204. DR. JULIE BEISCHEL’S RESEARCH ASKS — DOES A READING FROM A PSYCHIC MEDIUM HELP RELIEVE GRIEF?
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Beischel podcast...
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Books:
  - Among Mediums: A Scientist's Quest for Answers by Julie Beischel PhD [Kindle edition]
→Loyd Auerbach
- Podcast threads:
  - 259. LOYD AUERBACH ON THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIC SPYING
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Loyd Auerbach Discusses Paranormal Misconceptions
  - Developing Your Intuition with Loyd Auerbach
→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Penny Sartori
- Podcast threads:
  - Dr. Penny Sartori, Are NDEs All Light and Love? |374|
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Near Death Experiences - interviews with Dr Penny Sartori and Dr Sam Parnia
→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Rupert Sheldrake
→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Rupert Sheldrake: Morphic resonance
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Sheldrake's recent morphic resonance talk (2013)
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Sam Parnia
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Parnia's results are in-he's a proponent now
  - Near Death Experiences - interviews with Dr Penny Sartori and Dr Sam Parnia
→Parapsychology: Individual researchers in: Stephen Braude
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Crimes of Reason by Braude
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Stephen Braude Interview
→Parapsychology: Authors/bloggers/speakers
- Podcast threads:
  - Dr. Jacques Vallée’s Diaries Reveal What Most Scientists Still Deny |359|
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - What's the problem with Chopra?
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Did Edgar Mitchell work for the CIA?
  - Robert McLuhan is back, and online SPR's Psi Encyclopedia is following him
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
→Parapsychology: Evidential matters including burden of proof of
- Podcast threads:
  - 219. DR. STEPHEN LAW ON HOW SCIENCE HANDLES EXTRAORDINARY CLAIMS
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Article: Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?
→Parapsychology: Research methodology of incl. statistics
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Acceptance of Standard Psychological Principles vs. Parapsychology
→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 |
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Psi and Geography, Astronomy, other External Factors?
- Papers:
  - Seeking psi in the casino. Radin, D. I. & Rebman, J. M. (1998). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol. 62, No. 850, pp. 193-219.
→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
- Podcast threads:
  - Renay Oshop, Peer Reviewed Science Comes to Astrology |345|
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Astrology and Ψ
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - The Kolisko effect: Planets affecting Chemical Processes
  - Jung believed astrology to be an archetypal system that works through synchronicity.
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - On Astrology, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Stars
→Magic, alchemy, tarot and the occult
→Numerology
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - what does the occult mean in connection with '9/11' etc etc?
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Numerology
→Hallucinogens/psychedelics
→(Pseudo-)skepticism
→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Brian Cox
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - "Science" celebrity Brian Cox and interviewer do a classic pseudo-skeptical dance
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Large Hadron Collider disproves Ghosts?
  - Bernardo Kastrup Challenges Brian Cox
→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Daniel Dennett
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - The Illusionist (Daniel Dennett)
→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Derren Brown
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Derren Brown's simulated mediumship
→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: James Randi
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - An Honest Liar
  - James Randi, the documentary?
  - Amazing Randi Telegraph (UK Newspaper) Article
  - A case of psi right here on the Skeptiko forum?, from the last post on page 2 to somewhere in page 3, re James Randi's partner's identity theft.
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Ignorance Drives Science - But Not James Randi
→(Pseudo-)skepticism: James Randi's Million Dollar Challenge
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - James Randi's million dollar challenge finally terminated.
→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Lawrence Krauss
- Podcast threads:
  - 270. ASU PROF. LAWRENCE KRAUSS CALLS FOR DALAI LAMA TO STEP DOWN OVER REINCARNATION CLAIM
- "Discuss the Show" threads not linked to a show:
  - skeptiko-krauss-upcoming
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Atheists Sam Harris and Lawrence Krauss Discuss Consciousness
  - Chopra+ Kastrup response to Krauss
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Lawrence krauss on bill maher show Nde's
→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Massimo Pigliucci
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Reflections on the skeptic and atheist movements - Massimo Pigliucci
  - The Philosophy (so far) of Massimo Pigliucci
→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Michael Shermer
- Podcast threads:
- "Discuss the Show" threads not linked to a show:
  - My Upcoming Interview with Michael Shermer, Heavens on Earth
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: PZ Myers
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - PZ Meyers now happy to debate ndes
→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Richard Carrier
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Summarizing the Current Allegations Against Richard Carrier
→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Richard Dawkins
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Dawkins - something or nothing?
  - Deconstructing Dawkins - Richard Dawkins and The Fallacies of Mechanistic Science
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - The Cult of Richard Dawkins
  - Richard Dawkins has lost: meet the new new atheists
→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Sam Harris
- Podcast threads:
  - 192. DR. SAM HARRIS ON PARAPSYCHOLOGY, PSI AND THE “BACKWATER” OF SCIENCE
  - 189. SAM HARRIS WON’T DEBATE DR. EBEN ALEXANDER ON NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE SCIENCE
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Sam Harris, Free Will & Waking Up - a critique
  - Sam Harris is not an eliminativist
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Sean Carroll
- Podcast threads:
  - This prominent scientist says life is meaningless… and he’s serious |314|
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Sean Carroll on the Higgs
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Sean Carroll
→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Prominent figures in: Susan Blackmore
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Uncut Interview with Susan Blackmore
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Susan Blackmore's new book on OBE
  - Susan Blackmore -- Neutral Monist or Idealist?
→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Harrassment by
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - 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
→(Pseudo-)skepticism: Coopting of Wikipedia/TED by
- Podcast threads:
  - 236. ROME VIHARO, WIKIPEDIA, WE HAVE A PROBLEM
- "Discuss the Show" threads not linked to a show:
  - Wikipedia Wants to Delete My Page...
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→Proponents versus skeptics: (bridging?) the divide
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Do they really read each other's stuff?
  - A case of psi right here on the Skeptiko forum?, for the first page or two, in which malf satirises proponents of psi, and in doing so raises questions about the way in which proponents approach/treat "skeptics".
  - Eye for an Eye, in which Arouet encourages proponents and skeptics to try to see one another through one another's eyes.
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Assume the proponent is generally correct. Why then is this world is so skeptic friendly?
  - Scientific discussions b/w reductionist stream and "others"
→Nomenclature (what to call those on either side of the divide between those who accept psi etc and those who reject it)
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - 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
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Graham Hancock, Carlson, & Shermer on JRE
  - Can theories work without evidence?
  - 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.
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→Reasoning about reality: why are we here, and what is the (nature of the) metaphysical system in which we are incarnated?
- Podcast threads:
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Something we are kept from knowing
  - 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??
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - What if...
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
→Synthetic/big-picture thinkers/thinking about metaphysics, science and the paranormal
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Whitehead's Science and the Modern World [Resources]
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Jason Jorjani
  - Jason Reza Jorjani (interviewed by Jeffrey Mishlove on the topic of Zarathustra/Zoroaster)
  - Itzhak Bentov ~ From Atom To Cosmos
  - Henri Bergson - Free Will, Dualism, Evolution, Time, Mechanistic Fallacies, etc [Resources]
  - CONSCIOUSNESS AND HYPERSPACE with SAUL-PAUL SIRAG
  - Beyond Energy, Matter, Time and Space
  - Interview w/ Author Richard Merrick on Harmonic Perception, Consciousness, & Psychedelics
  - Interview with Idealist & Physicist Amit Goswami
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Great philosophy and (of) psychedelics resource. [Contains discussion of Alfred Whitehead's philosophy]
  - The Challenge of Rudolf Steiner
→Synthetic/big-picture thinkers: Abraham H. Maslow
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Peak Experiences
→Synthetic/big-picture thinkers: Bernardo Kastrup
- Podcast threads:
- "Discuss the Show" threads not linked to a show:
  - Need Help: Upcoming Interview w/ Bernardo Kastrup
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Kastrup: On why Idealism is superior to Physicalism and Micropsychism
  - Bernardo at the Gas Pump
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→Synthetic/big-picture thinkers: Brian Josephson
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Nobel Winning Physicist's Support for Psi [Resources]
- "Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:
  - A fascinating interview with Brian Josephson
→Synthetic/big-picture thinkers: Chris Langan
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - The Cognitive Theoretical Model
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe
→Synthetic/big-picture thinkers: David Bohm
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - David Bohm on Consciousness, QM, Paranormal, etc. [Resources]
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - The Relevance of David Bohm
→Synthetic/big-picture thinkers: Robert Anton Wilson
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Robert Anton Wilson resources
→Synthetic/big-picture thinkers: Tom Campbell
- Video interviews:
  - Tom Campbell Interviewed by Joe Treacy [YouTube]
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Always Record Interviews Tom Campbell on his Big TOE
  - Thomas Campbell supports Sheldrake's 10 Dogmas of Science
→Epistemology and knowledge
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Gnosis, Doxa, and Episteme, or, What Kind of Knowledge Do You Mean?
→Logic
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Paraconsistent Logic and Its Potential for Usefulness
→Miscellaneous metaphysics
- Podcast threads:
  - Tim Freke on the Science of Evolving Souls |355|
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Show suggestion: Mark Anthony - Evidence of Eternity
  - The multiverse
→Origins / primary explanations (Why something instead of nothing?)
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - The Origins of the Universe: Why is There Something Rather than Nothing?
  - Modern science (materialism) won't take you there.
→Ontology
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - What's invisible? More than you think
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Your Map of Reality?
→Neutral monism
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Neutral Monism & Nondualism [Resources]
→Idealism/nondualism
- Podcast threads:
- "Discuss the Show" threads not linked to a show:
  - Need Help: Upcoming Interview w/ Bernardo Kastrup
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Criticizing the Oneness of Transcendental Idealism
  - Advaita (Nondualism) Moving Past Nihilism
→Transcendental materialism
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Stafford Betty and Transcendental Materialism
→Materialism/physicalism incl. consequences, waning and refutations of
→Matter (what is it?)
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Thread on Matter (Label Free)
  - What is matter nowadays?
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Unfolding the Subtle: Matter and Consciousness
  - What Do We Really Know About Matter?
→Dualism
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→(Anti-)Realism
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Papers:
  - An experimental test of non-local realism. Gröblacher, S. et al. (2007). Nature, Vol. 446, pp. 871-875. doi: 10.1038/nature05677
→Philosophy (misc/general)
- Podcast threads:
  - Jeff Riddle, Transcend Experience, Always in the Middle |384|
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Nagel's Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - How philosophy came to disdain the wisdom of oral cultures
  - Libertarianism, Objectivism and the Hard Problem
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Debate: Nihilism is an Illogical Philosophy
  - Gordon White: A Coherent Christmas Miracle
→Time
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Reincarnation into the past.
→Water
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Max Density of H2O @ 4 degrees Celsius.
→Outer space, the solar system and astronomy
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - What is The Sun
  - Is it REALLY just a coincidence?
→The nature of mind and consciousness
→Theories of consciousness
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→Integrated Information Theory (of consciousness)
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - 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.
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→The filter theory of consciousness
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Filter/Transmission Theory of Mind.
  - Dualism & Transmission/Filter Theories [Resources]
→Orch-OR theory of consciousness
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Orch-or
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→Emergentism (as a theory of consciousness)
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Taking emergence really seriously
  - Consciousness regained? Philosophical arguments for and against reductive physicalism
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - What Are Some Concise Ways To Convince People That Consciousness Is Not An Emergent Property?
  - Consciousness is a state of matter.
→Eliminativism
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - The Illusionist (Daniel Dennett)
→Panpsychism
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Panpsychism - Strawson, Koch, and more! [Resources] [Panpsychism]
  - New Galen Strawson paper.
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Consciousness as a State of Matter?
→Psychology
- See also:
  - Psychotherapy
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Carl Jung's Red Book
  - The Surprisingly Predictable Patterns of Random Choice
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
→Hydrocephaly
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - Man missing 90% of his brain
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Man living but missing 90 percent of his brain
→Free will (versus hard determinism)
→Intelligence
- See also:
- Podcast threads:
  - Dr. John Alexander, Warrior Monk — Reality Denied |373| (only a part of the discussion, with respect to racial variations in IQ)
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - The Arguments "For" and "Against" Creative Intelligence (Human or Divine)
→Imagination and creativity
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - The writings of Mark Booth (Jonathan Black)
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - what is the nature of creativity?
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
→Emotion
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Is This 10 Month Old Baby A True Empath? Watch Her Cry With Emotion When Her Mom Sings.
  - "Human emotions mapped for the first time, shows where we feel love, fear, and shame"
→Thought, reason, argumentation, critical thinking, intuition, faith and belief
→Communication
- Podcast threads:
  - Lisa Smartt, Linguist Explores What We Say Nearing Death |348|
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Anna Breytenbach ( Animal whisperer)
→Grammar
- Critical discussions forum threads:
  - English Grammar: Hypothetical Past
→Memes
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Meme Magick / Cult of Kek / Pepe the Frog
→Memory
→Consciousness/intelligence/traits in/of non-human life
→Optical/perceptual illusions and hallucinations
- Critical discussions forum threads:
→Meaning in life
- Podcast threads:
  - This prominent scientist says life is meaningless… and he’s serious |314|
- "Discuss the Show" threads not linked to a show:
  - Meaning in life without meaning in the Universe
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - The Unification of Physics: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
  - Raymond Moody explains why Nonsense isn't such a bad thing.
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
→Agape and spiritual/unconditional love
- See also:
  - Love, romance, sex and relationships
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Alex should talk to this Freke
  - No NDEr ever said "The best part of my review was reliving that time I won a debate on the internet.
→Theism, esp. concepts/proofs of God
→Atheism
- Podcast threads:
  - Jay Dyer, What’s the Endgame for Atheists? |352|
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Jessica Schab former 'crystal child' embraces the new atheists
  - Neo-Atheists Jump the Shark and mind-meld with the Alt-Right
→Religion (general)
- See also:
  - Philosophy of religion
- Podcast threads:
  - Dr. Dana Sawyer’s Biography of Spiritual Giant Houston Smith |335|
- Critical discussions forum threads:
- Consciousness & Science forum threads:
  - Religious leaders get high on magic mushrooms ingredient – for science
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
→Individual religions / spiritual paradigms
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - The Eleusinian Mysteries & Other Mystery Religions
→Animism
- Podcast threads:
  - Dr. Jack Hunter, Anthropology, Animism, Panpsychism and What’s Next|383|
  - Emma Restall Orr, It Took a Druid to Demolish Scientific Materialism |346|
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - Animism & Polytheism [Resources]
→Bahá'í
- Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
  - NDEs and our spiritual nature - the Baha'i view
→Buddhism
→Christianity
"Discuss the Show" threads not linked to a show:
- What's the end game for religious fundamentalists?
Critical discussions forum threads:
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- "Degrading Love" by TheraminTrees [VIDEO]
- Thoughts on the bible
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:

→Gnosticism

Podcasts:
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:

→Islam

Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Does this surprise you as much as it does me?

→Judaism

Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- This man who survived Auschwitz will finally get a bar mitzvah, a century late, at age 113

→Paganism

Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Margot Adler: Pioneering Pagan Activist, NPR Journalist Dies At 68
- Happy Summer Solstice!

→Scientology

Podcast threads:
- Jim Marrs is not a Scientologist |340|

→Shamanism

Podcast threads:
- Jan Van Ysslestyne, Why Shamans Don’t Do iPhones |395|
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Shamanic Science
- NDEs, Shamanism, Drugs, and the Mysteries
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:

→Spiritualism

Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- My Visit to a Spiritualist Church

→Trickster

Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- George Hanson "trickster and the paranormal" : A breakthrough
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Between Madness and Truth: What our inner trickster can teach us.
- Trickster Makes This World? [Resources]

→Yoga

See also:
- Yoga under Health, healing and medicine
Podcast threads:
- Steve Briggs, Meditation and Indian Yogis Lead to ET |397|
- Dr. Donald DeGracia, NIH Medical Scientist Talks Yoga and Consciousness |388|

→Zoroastrianism

Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Jason Reza Jorjani

→Mythology

Podcast threads:
- David Mathisen is changing the way we think about Hercules |337|
- Science and philosophy gave him something he never thought he’d find… respect for religion |312|
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Meme Magick / Cult of Kek / Pepe the Frog
- Bill Moyers & Joseph Campbell: Power of Myth

→Philosophy of religion

Critical discussions forum threads:
- Thomas Nagel's Review of Alvin Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies

→Religion/spirituality and (versus?) science

See also:
- The (in)compatibility of psi and physics
Podcast threads:
- 263. ALBERT LACHANCE AND REBECCA GOODWIN ON THE THIRD COVENANT
"Discuss the show" threads not linked to a show:
- Commentary on Alex's dialogue with Spyridon Kakos
- Platonic dialogue on Science Spirituality
Critical discussions forum threads:
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Ian Ramsey Centre [Resources]
- Buddhism & Quantum Physicists

→Spirituality: techniques and general

→Spirituality, religion and sex

See also:
- Love, romance, sex and relationships
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Sex
- Sex & The Sacred

→Meditation and mindfulness

Podcast threads:
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:

→The soul

See also:
Critical discussions forum threads:
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:

→The self

Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Interesting Kiloby Exercise

→Auras

Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Eileen Garrett and the aura

→Mind-body-spirit holism

Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- The hearts role in our lives

→Evil (the existence/nature of)

Podcast threads:
"Discuss the Show" threads not linked to a show:
- Does evil really excist or not?
Critical discussions forum threads:
- Science and demonic posession
- The End of All 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.
- Are you good or evil?
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:

→Pregnancy and birth

Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Birth and Pre-birth Memories... What is written about it ?

→Death and suicide

See also:
Podcast threads:
- Lisa Smartt, Linguist Explores What We Say Nearing Death |348|
Critical discussions forum threads:
- In new film The Discovery, the knowledge that heaven exists leads to an epidemic of suicides. The co
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Virtual reality and curing fear or death
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:

→Life after death

→Hell (the existence/nature of)

Critical discussions forum threads:
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Have You Heard This Dirty Joke? Yes 20 Minutes After Dying!
- Hell - Diving into the Lake of Darkness

→Health, healing and medicine

Critical discussions forum threads:
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Hacking your brain chemistry
"Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:
- Sinus Based Medicine-Talks about the psuedo scientific website "science" based medicine

→Spiritual and psychic healing/therapy modalities

Podcast threads:
Critical discussions forum threads:
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- How Healing States Affect the Brain

→Other complementary/alternative medicine

Critical discussions forum threads:
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Amid opioid epidemic, NFL player risks career to push for medical marijuana

→Homeopathy

Podcast threads:
- UPCOMING INTERVIEW: DR. LARRY MALERBA
Critical discussions forum threads:
- 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
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Homeopathy - beyond the ridicule

→Yoga

See also:
- Yoga under Spirituality and religion
Podcast threads:
- Dr. Richard Miller, not recommending yoga is medical malpractice for some patients |322|

→Hypnosis and hypnotic regression

Podcast threads:
- Jean Charles Chabot Interview by Alex Tsakiris on Skeptiko #222
"Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:
- Is Hypnosis Credible?

→Diet

Podcast threads:
- John Brisson, Fix Your Gut Health and Slide-rule Science |394|
- Jason Louv, A Strange Mix of Scientism and Magick |385| (from page nine).
Critical discussions forum threads:
- Saturated Fat discussion for David
"Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:
- The Diet Wars: Low Carb or Low Fat

→Psychotherapy

See also:
- Psychology
Podcast threads:
Critical discussions forum threads:
- Freud podcast
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Seeking advice regarding OCD and fear of negative psychic influences

→Big pharma

"Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:
- Examining Big Pharma influence on Medical Practice

→Humans and society/culture

Podcast threads:
- Evan Carmichael, Entrepreneurship and Truth-seeking |393|
Critical discussions forum threads:
- As a species, are we special, or not?
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Theory of Everybody: A platform cooperative
- The Weird's Relation to Society

→Morality

Podcast threads:
- Gordon White, Pieces of Eight: Part 2, Aleister Crowley, Opposite Day |333|
Critical discussions forum threads:
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Abortion
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- The Universe as a prison (from about the second page onwards)
- Simone Weil: Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation
- Thinking about morality....
- The Relationship of Morality and Spirituality
"Other stuff" forum threads:
- Morality: relative versus objective; is-ought problem
- Does anybody have a cogent argument for retributive justice?

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

Critical discussions forum threads:
"Other stuff" forum threads:
- Veganism
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- NDE Life Review and Eating Animals
- Treatment of living things like machines begins...

→Relationship with/to non-humans incl. animals, plants and nature

Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Humans and Nature/Animals

→Art (including music)

Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Art Meets Science and Spirituality
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:

→Love, romance, sex and relationships

See also:
- Spirituality, religion and sex
- Agape and spiritual/unconditional love
Critical discussions forum threads:
- Something to make you feel this world is real or not real
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Love Doesn’t Exist
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Sex
- Finding Your Paranormal Soulmate
- Sex & The Sacred
- Haustlöng – a Poem about Soul Retrieval (after the first post, discussion turns to unrequited love).

→Prejudice and discrimination: sexism, racism, etc

Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Misogyny in UFOlogy

→Paedophilia and child abuse

Podcast threads:
- Dr. Mariana Caplan — Does Yoga Work? |382|
- Pizzagate. Plus, Ex-FBI Undercover Agent Bob Hamer |357|

→Education

Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Maybe We Can Have Nice Things: American University Approves Minor in Consciousness
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- John Taylor Gatto Passed Away This Week
- The Challenge of Rudolf Steiner

→Law and the legal system

Critical discussions forum threads:
- Should chimpanzees have legal rights?
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Psychic crimes: should we change our law to recognize and prosecute intentional cursing and hexing?

→Mental "illness" and psychiatry

See also:
- Hearing voices
Critical discussions forum threads:
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:

→Media bias and censorship

Critical discussions forum threads:
- BBC moves to allow only establishment viewpoints on science
Consciousness & Science forum threads:

→Civilisation

Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Walter Russell
- Call For Papers! Int'l Jean Gebser Society's 44th Annual Conf.

→Civilisation: Threats to

Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Could Be Worse...

→Politics

Podcast threads:
- Michael Tsarion on Race, Jordan Peterson, and Why Conspiracy Work is Spiritual Work |372|
- Dr. Karen Jaenke, Consciousness Studies and Politics |353|
- Daniel Pinchbeck, How Soon is Now, Heavy-Handed Climate Apocalypse Stuff |343| - though there is much discussion of climate change in this thread, there is also a lot of debate about Communism, Marxism, the Scandinavian model etc.
- Robert Bonomo on how 9-11 Truthers defeated Hillary |336|
- 209. TALAT JONATHAN PHILLIPS CHRONICLES HIS TRANSFORMATION FROM POLITICAL ACTIVIST TO SPIRITUAL SEEK
Critical discussions forum threads:
- Korean Crisis
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Political Skeptics, what's their motivation?
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:

→Politics: Differences between liberals and conservatives

Critical discussions forum threads:
- Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
- Study on Liberals, Conservatives and their approaches to knowledge

→Politics: Gun control

Critical discussions forum threads:
- 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:
Critical discussions forum threads:
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:

→Politics: 9/11

Podcast threads:
- Michael Britt - The Psych Files - Dr. Daryl Bem and the Parapsychology PSYOP |328| (from about the middle of page four onwards).
- What science-as-we-know-it can learn for the 9/11 truth movement |295|
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- what does the occult mean in connection with '9/11' etc etc?

→Flat Earth theory

Critical discussions forum threads:
- Flat Earth (Serious discussion. Please, no mocking)

→Political correctness

Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Be Kind to Ghosts
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- The Inner Mammalian Institute.

→Environmental politics

See also:
- Climate change
Podcast threads:
- 258. JOHN MICHAEL GREER ON OUR MYTH OF PROGRESS

→History and methods of historical analysis

"Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:
- Were some ancient cultures much more advanced than we thought? Yes.
Critical discussions forum threads:
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Graham Hancock debates an "expert" who won't look at the evidence
- Dinosaurs and consciousness/the afterlife
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- The Nazis as occult masters? It’s a good story but not history

→Technology, including abstract

Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Santilli Telescope

→Information/mathematics/Platonism

"Discuss the Show" threads not linked to a show:
- 2000 YEARS OF SCIENCE IS OVERTURNED !!!!
Critical discussions forum threads:
- Platonism & Mathematics [Resources][Platonism]
- Information and Reality [Resources] [Information & Consciousness, QM, etc.]
Consciousness & Science forum threads:

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

→Simulations / virtual realities

Podcast threads:
- Kent Forbes, Does the Simulation Hypothesis Defeat Materialism |323|
Critical discussions forum threads:
- Something to make you feel this world is real or not real
Consciousness & Science forum threads:

→Science

See also:
- Paradigm change and post-materialism
Podcast threads:
- Jason Louv, A Strange Mix of Scientism and Magick |385|
Critical discussions forum threads:
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
"Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:

→Science: Relationship to philosophy

Critical discussions forum threads:
- Why physics needs philosophy: Tim Maudlin
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Science and metaphysics

→Science: Philosophy of

Podcast threads:
- 256. DR. DONALD DEGRACIA, WHAT IS SCIENCE?
Critical discussions forum threads:
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Should science accept laws happen for no reason at all?
- No God, No Laws?
"Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:

→Science: Corruption in, and criticisms/distrust of

→Areas of (esp. controversial)

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

→The Big Bang cosmology

"Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:
- The Big Bang Never Happened
- Big Bang Theory. Time. To Revise.

→Evolution versus intelligent design (plus Creationism)

→Evolutionary psychology

Critical discussions forum threads:
- Hunter Gatherer

→Climate change

→Neuroscience

→Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) / genetic engineering (GE) and related technologies

Critical discussions forum threads:
- Discussion - Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe? Should they be labeled?
- The fraud surrounding GMOs
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Sheeple 2.0

→Genetic engineering of humans

Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Question Regarding Human Enhancement/Neuroscience
- Big idea: You will transform your own biology

→Vaccines

Podcast threads:
- Why CDC whistleblower revelations about vaccines and autism never made headlines, and what that mean
Critical discussions forum threads:
- Fooled by Anti-Vaxxers?

→HIV/AIDS

Podcast threads:
- 273. DR. HENRY BAUER, DOGMATIC SCIENCE WRONG ABOUT HIV-AIDS CONNECTION
Critical discussions forum threads:
- Teaching happiness to men with HIV boosts their health

→Wide-ranging discussions that are too varied to categorise more specifically.

→Miscellaneous musings and speculations

Critical discussions forum threads:
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Precursor to the universe
"Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:
- Effects of a rolled up multiverse

→Skeptiko-specific

See also:
- Parapsychology: Skeptiko experiments investigating psi
Podcast threads:
- 200. A LOOK BACK AT 200 EPISODES OF SKEPTIKO
Critical discussions forum threads:
- Thanks to All.
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- The return of Paqart
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Happy Easter Mudbugs!

→Skeptiko: Critiques of

Critical discussions forum threads:

→Skeptiko: Personal experiences of members

Consciousness & Science forum threads:
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:

→Skeptiko: Housekeeping

Podcast threads:
- 229. The 5 Things You Need to Know About Skeptiko
- Defining Rules of New Skeptiko Forum by Alex Tsakiris on Skeptiko #227
"Discuss the show" threads not linked to a show:
Critical discussions forum threads:
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
"Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:

→Alex Tsakiris: Interviews of

"Discuss the show" threads not linked to a show:
Critical discussions forum threads:
- Conner Habib's 2013 interview with Alex Tsakiris
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Grimerica Talks to Alex Tsakiris
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- New interview with Alex
"Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:

→Alex Tsakiris: Critiques of

Critical discussions forum threads:
- How can Alex be so firm in his stance? Objectivity has gone out the window

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

Podcast threads:
- 261. WHY SCIENCE IS WRONG...ABOUT ALMOST EVERYTHING
"Discuss the show" threads not linked to a show:
- Help Me Pick a Cover For My Book
Critical discussions forum threads:
- Alex's book
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Suggestions for Alex's Book
"Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:

Uncategorised threads to 2019-03-22

Uncategorised threads to 2019-04-01

Podcast threads:
- Dr. Jeffery Martin, The Finders Course Works, Sorry Haters |406|
"Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:
- Biologists dont know what a species is: thus evolutionary theory is nonsense
- The Open Source Food Computer: Ideal platform for testing intentional healing *worldwide*?

Uncategorised threads to 2019-04-09

Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Can Science solve the mystery of free will?
- Bernardo Kastrup Doctoral Dissertation (2019) - Online Download

Uncategorised threads to 2019-05-26

Podcast threads:
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- An Inconsistency in Experiences
- If Extended Consciousness Went Mainstream Tomorrow, How Would the World Change?
"Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:

Uncategorised threads to 2019-06-07

Podcast threads:
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
- Patrizio E. Tressoldi's collected publications
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Schizophrenia or Spirit Possession, and interview with Mike Williamson
- Just a thought.

Uncategorised threads to 2019-07-07

Podcast threads:
Consciousness & Science forum threads:
Extended Consciousness & Spirituality forum threads:
- Experiences with the “11:11 phenomena.”
- Huge differences in NDE’s
"Why Science Is Wrong..." forum threads:
- NATO finds anti-science a threat to world security

Uncategorised threads to 2019-08-18

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