Some thoughts after a meditation session August 10, 2010. Observation reveals… My mind has scenario generators and there’s practically always one running, either as thoughts (verbal talk/words to myself) or imagery. The imagery is easy to see as I drift toward sleep, but, while less intense in terms of perceptibility, seem to be there all [...]
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While reviewing some correspondence with my friend and colleague, Etzel Cardena, Professor at Lund University in Sweden and now one of the leading investigators of altered states of consciousness, I found he had asked me to write a little about how I got into parapsychologial research. As I don’t know if what I wrote him [...]
My recent interview on the Buddhist Geeks web radio show (www.buddhistgeeks.com), noting scientific evidence for a Buddhist idea like reincarnation, has resulted in some spirited comments on their website. I think my response to these, dealing with the nature of science and whether there is really scientific evidence for something like reincarnation or whether science [...]
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I have been having a discussion with some parapsychologist colleagues about whether or not the existence of psi argues for a duality of existence in the world, a “spiritual” level or reality as I argue in my recent The End of Materialism book. Some argue that materialism will eventually explain psi, while I call that [...]
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An interesting development. A few weeks ago I found that my latest book, The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together, which has been out about a year, had been pirated and was available for free on the web from a pirating site. At one level, I took [...]
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A colleague wrote me, > I am on a Quixotic quest for a definition of the non-material. Seems like consciousness itself, everyone seems to recognize it when they see it but have no clue what it is?< I think some folks would find my response interesting….. That makes consciousness just like pornography, yes? What famous [...]
For the past week I have been reading a ms. (the current working title is Straight Talk) sent me by P. M. H. Atwater, what is to be her final (and very big!) book on her years of investigations of Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). Atwater is a leading independent scholar in this area, and I’ve enjoyed [...]
For years I’ve been part of a private discussion group of scientific parapsychologists, mostly experimentalists. Recently we heard from one of our members, Professor Brian Josephson, a Nobel prize winning physicist, that he and another physicist had been dis-invited from participation in a small physics conference this summer because the organizers learned he was interested [...]
Too many times I’m so busy producing new material that I forget to tell people that it exists. Since my aim is to communicate material that may interest people, that kind of defeats the purpose if they don’t know of it….. I’m also shy about seeming to “promote myself,” seems like an egotistical thing to [...]
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I don’t seem to be able to make this come up as a response to the comment about whether a person with unusual experiences can also study them as a scientist, so I’ll add it as a new post here… “Are you suggesting that even someone with anomalous perceptions can contribute to a scientific study [...]
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