Posts Tagged ‘telepathy’
Time tangled up in Quantum…

Why is it that psychologists still abhor parapsychology with all this stuff going on in physics?
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Physicists describe method to observe timelike entanglement
January 24, 2011 by Lisa Zyga (PhysOrg.com) –
< More information: S. Jay Olson and Timothy C. Ralph. “Extraction...
January 25th, 2011 | Extended Mind | Read More
The Anti-Psychic’s Challenge

Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world’s psychics: Prove what you do is real, and I’ll give you a million dollars. (No takers yet.)
July 20th, 2010 | Extended Mind | Read More
‘THE FRUITFUL MATRIX OF GHOSTS’

THE PSYCHIC INVESTIGATIONS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
“A lady once asked me whether I believed in ghosts and apparitions. I answered with truth and simplicity: No, madam! I have seen far too many myself.” (1)
© Mike Jay
This exchange, recorded by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1809, was more than just...
May 4th, 2010 | Extended Mind | Read More
Amanda Feilding’s Talk at the Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century Conference in San Jose

It’s great to be here today, with so many companeros, on this eve of the 16th of April, the day 67 years ago, when Albert Hoffman accidentally experienced his first LSD-trip, which launched the thousand ships on which we now sail.
I set up the Beckley Foundation in 1998 for the purpose of scientifically...
April 25th, 2010 | Science of the Mind | Read More
Have we cracked the DMT Puzzle?

James Kent attempts to tie a knot in the meme of autonomous elves and other DMT entities.
“Snippets of the Psyche” revealed in DMT space, by James Kent
The comments in this article are adapted from Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason, by James Kent.
The following...
April 7th, 2010 | Altered States | Read More
Prayer: A Challenge for Science

Since ancient times, a strong and pervasive belief in the efficacy of prayer–for the living and the dead–reinforces the notion that consciousness is not limited to the physical body. Not only do traditions throughout the world share a belief that prayers may in some way help (or invoke help from)...
March 11th, 2010 | Extended Mind | Read More
BREAKPOINT: terrorists vs. transhumanists

Former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke’s BREAKPOINT novel, set in the year 2012, is based on emerging technologies. “Globegrid,” a high-speed global network, links supercomputers worldwide. Combined with advanced AI software, it promises to reverse-engineer the brain, revolutionize...
February 17th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More
The Men Who Really Stare At Goats

Three years in the making, Jon Ronson’s “Crazy Rulers of the World” explores the apparent madness at the heart of US military intelligence. With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Jon Ronson examines the extraordinary and plain bizarre national secrets at the core...
February 11th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
Shifting Consciousness: Six Years with Yogis and Tibetan Buddhists

The data from parapsychological research is slowly becoming more accepted by the scientific community. The main sticking point is still a good theory into which psi fits. This is essentially the same sticking point for what has been called the “hard problem” in consciousness research – how can...
January 3rd, 2010 | Extended Mind | Read More
Education Increases Your Chances of Believing in ESP

Quantum physicist Dean Radin claims that there is a surprising correlation between education and the likelihood of you believing in telepathy and other para-psychological phenomena: the more educated you are the more likely you are to believe in ESP. However, according to Radin, the academic culture...
December 30th, 2009 | Extended Mind | Read More