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New Thinking Aloud: Parapsychology in the UK with Chris Roe

Chris Roe describes the work of Robert Morris, the first person to hold the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, starting in 1985. As a result there are now hundreds of individuals who have conducted doctoral level research in parapsychology in the UK. He shares his own experiences as a student at Edinburgh. He also discusses the many problems that parapsychologists still face. He expects parapsychology to grow at a slow and steady pace in the UK.

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Short History of the Mind: Theory of Norms – David Harrison

The essay presents a theory of how the mind and consciousness have evolved. It assumes that a group of neurones can act as a unit structure which then replicates at higher levels in a fractal like form. David Harrison calls that unit structure a 'norm' because it describes behaviour in simple and complex organisms as well as social structures. It is shown in a simplified schematic form. That is sufficient to explain the nature of many psychological phenomena. This work is not meant to be academically rigorous. It is meant to be understandable to most people.

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After-Death Communications (ADCs) Website is LIVE

​ Thanks to a generous grant from a foundation, an ambitious multilingual project entitled 'Investigation of the phenomenology and impact of spontaneous and direct After-Death Communications (ADCs)' was conducted from February 2018 to January 2020. The second phase of the project started in February 2021 and will be completed in January 2024. By collecting information about how ADCs occur and unfold, and by analyzing their impact on individuals’ lives, we aim to make these results accessible to people who face the death of a loved one, as well as to anyone sensitized to the finite nature of human existence.

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Dr. Iain McGilchrist on The Future Scientist – 19th Jan

In sum, the whole enterprise seems to be committed to suppressing broad thinkers, promoting academics that look more like corporate managers, PR mavericks and professional fund-raisers and less like scholars, who are asked to inhibit their interest in philosophy, and to cast suspicion on their fertile imagination. Dogma and habit are inhibiting free inquiry. It is as if science as a whole is becoming less scientific.

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Spiritual Awakenings International Call for Papers

If you would like to be considered as a possible speaker at our Spiritual Awakenings International online Conference 2022, please send us your speaking proposal on topics related to any type of Spiritually Transformative Experiences or spiritual awakenings, by January 30, 2022.

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The Unbearable Fear of Psi: On Scientific Suppression in the 21st Century – Etzel Cardeña

This paper describes various examples of blatant attempts to suppress and censor parapsychology research and those who are doing it. The examples include raising false accusations, barring access to journals, suppressing papers and data, and ostracizing and persecuting scientists interested in the topic. The intensity of fear and vituperation caused by parapsychology research is disproportionate even to the possibility that the psi hypothesis could be completely wrong, so I speculate on the psychological reasons that may give rise to it.

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NDEs: The Early Years – A Personal History – Kenneth Ring

I figure that before I kick the bucket, I should take the time to set down something of my personal story of how I became one of the early pioneers to study NDEs and, not long after, to co-found IANDS, the International Association for Near-Death Studies. After all, I am one of the few who was there at the beginning and would like to take you back to those exciting days of high adventure at the outset of my life in NDEland. So, gather round, friends, sit a spell and I will tell you the tale of how it came to pass that I got involved with NDEs and how IANDS was born.

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Imaginal Inspirations with Jeffrey Mishlove

David Lorimer's guest today is Dr Jeffrey Mishlove, who is host and producer of the New Thinking Allowed channel on YouTube. He is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series that was shown throughout North America. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "Parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited, American university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the 1st Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.

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WHAT IS LIFE? #35 Tim Freke and George Ellis

Professor George Ellis and Tim Freke discuss whether some things are ‘evil as a matter of fact, the reality of ’downward causation’ and why determinism is wrong, whether numbers exist in an eternal Platonic realm, and what gives meaning to life...

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‘Zombie genes’ increase expression after death – Anna Wernick

A set of immune cell genes ramp up their expression in brain cells after death, a new study has revealed. While the onset of death is often defined as the time the heart stops beating, the body's cells do not all die immediately. Now, research from the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) suggests that important biological processes persist in the human brain for hours longer than previously thought.

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Imaginal Inspirations with Natalie Dyer

David Lorimer's guest today is Dr Natalie Dyer, PhD who spoke at the 2021 Beyond the Brain conference on universal love and who is a research scientist studying the therapeutic effects of integrative medicine and spiritual practices, including yoga, meditation, Reiki, psychedelics, and universal love.

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David Lorimer on Chasing Consciousness: Are our Scientific Assumptions Justified?

In this episode we’re going to be examining the assumptions of Western Science. All science is based on assumptions. In order to isolate systems in experiments and standardise measurements of the target data, other variables need to be pinned down so scientists can form precise mathematical models, that can then be repeated accurately in the peer review process. Today we’re going to look at these assumptions, and establish if they indeed have become standard, fixed and unquestioned as some critics claim.

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After Death Communications: Who have them and what impact do they have? – Jennifer Kim Penberthy

This excerpt from the IANDS 2021 Virtual Conference shows Dr. Jennifer Kim Pemberthy's presentation on an international survey on who is most likely to experience ADCs and what impact they have on their lives.

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The Metaverse is a Scam: We’re Being Herded into the Matrix – Mark Jeftovic

Belief that mind emerges from matter is this era’s geocentrism. As was the case with the now antiquated idea that the Earth was the center of the universe. The heliocentric cosmos was probably understood by certain civilizations thousands of years before Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for saying as much in the 17th century. So too, did the ancients understand that “All is mental”. The universe is vibration, probability, information, energy and conciousness first.

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Life-Form A Matters-Syncytium: DeepScience for Matter Correlates of Conscious States – Mukho, A.K.

The perspective developed in this paper calls for a DeepScience to show how the essence of the material science is interconnected with the essence of the Multiversity along the sub-quantum and sub-subquantum recess of nature involving presently non-observable several exotic states of matter, dark matter, neutrinos, operations of informationstates, operations of cognitive faculty such as mind, self, life-principle and consciousness. Investigation of this interdisciplinary terrain has translational value for next three century’s science.

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Consciousness – Janik Pilet

Consciousness is often considered as the prerogative of human beings, and as more or less synonymous with reflective and emotional intelligence, associated with a perception of oneself and the reality of the external world. But given the emergence of consciousness from life, is it not more reasonable to admit that it can take on a more nuanced meaning than a simple "all or nothing" alternative: conscious or non-conscious. It is therefore important to define very precisely the meaning in which this word will be used here to differentiate it from the notions of intelligence, thought, perception, morality, or feeling.

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Emergence of Homo spiritualis: Of Essential Requirements – Faith, Devotion and Love – Mukho, A.K.

On the landscape of human possibilities, consciousness-rooted futurologists predicts emergence of Homo spiritualis from the present Homo sapiens. On this passage, to tide over different grades of uncertainties cultivation of Faith, Devotion and Love is felt essential. The deep science in psychology, biology and neurology has been discussed while cultivating such qualities in life. The beneficial spin offs from such perspective are new ideas and several research questions addressing of which might help to extend the vertical depth and horizon of science.

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Efimov K-theory of Diamonds – Shanna Dobson

Motivated by Scholze and Fargues' geometrization of the local Langlands correspondence using perfectoid diamonds and Clausen and Scholze's work on the K-theory of adic spaces using condensed mathematics, we introduce the Efimov K-theory of diamonds. We propose a pro-diamond, a large stable (infinity,1)-category of diamonds D^{diamond}, diamond spectra and chromatic tower, and a localization sequence for diamond spectra.

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