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…It is important to note that taking these suggestions seriously is not the same as writing a blank super-psi cheque – that is, licensing the cavalier use of the super-psi hypothesis to explain everyday events. Indeed, defenders of the super-psi hypothesis would argue that if psi really is operating under…
…person is found in ancient Egyptian mythology and Aristotelian philosophy, and more recently has been proposed in the writings of modern neuroscientists such as Jonathan Edwards, who proposes that even biological single cells such as neurons are conscious.1Edwards (2005, 2006). Collective Mind or Consciousness The doctrine that one’s self is…
…cues, or in altered states such as meditation or dreaming.40Matlock (2019), 201-2, 205-6. Healing Matlock reasons that past-life memories remembered at any age likely express a need of some sort, writing, ‘With adults, this may be a need for resolution of emotional conflicts carried forward from the past, a kind…
…Hans Holzer was born in Vienna in 1902. His family fled to New York in 1938 when Austria was annexed to Germany. There he studied at Columbia University and also became captivated by show-business, writing musical sketches and reviews. He later claimed to have a PhD from the London College…
…York Times, he squared off against a doctor who insisted any weight loss was caused by perspiration from body warming due to the cessation of circulation. Writing in Snopes.com, D. Mikkelson concludes that MacDougall’s work was ‘extremely flawed and demonstrated nothing credible about the human soul or post-mortem weight loss.’…
…whether the characteristics of apparitions could be accounted for within a non-physical theory; he suggested that apparitions have some objective existence in the material world, and that they might to some extent reflect light waves.44Johnson (1961), 213-17. GNM Tyrrell, writing in the 1940s, looked to psychology to help understand apparitions….
…family had a pale mark in the same place.22Dalai Lama (1962), 31. In Japan, the marking substance usually is Sumi writing and drawing ink. This appears to be an old practice, mentioned as early as 1661. A mother marked the face of her deceased daughter with Sumi ink and her…
