Category: Near Death Experience
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Is Future Psychical Research Merely ‘Reinventing the Wheel’?
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It was recently announced that the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) received a £2-million donation (approximately $2.65-million in U.S. currency) from Professor Yew-Kwang Ng, emeritus professor of economics at Monash University in Australia. It is apparently intended specifically for “survival research” and is believed to be the largest endowment ever…
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AI on the Certainty of Life After Death
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It has been suggested by various philosophers that having absolute certainty of consciousness surviving death is not in humanity’s best interest. To put it another way, some doubt on this concern is necessary for humanity to flourish. I was curious as to what Artificial Intelligence (AI) has to say on this matter…
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Your Memories Could Be Resurrected After You Die. We’re Just 20 Years From the First Test, Scientists Say.
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Could that let you live forever? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The idea that physical changes in the brain enable us to store memories has been around for thousands of years. More recently, scientists started thinking that it could be possible to preserve structures in the brain that contain memories and other…
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Your Consciousness May Be Able to Glimpse the Future—And One Scientist Is Testing That Claim
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A new experiment is probing lucid dreamers on their supposed ability to sense the future. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Ten days before Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, he confessed a disturbing dream to an aide. He was wandering through the White House when he suddenly heard people weeping.…
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Why it’s Important to Believe in an Afterlife
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Does it matter one way or another whether you believe in an afterlife? Maybe you believe it doesn’t. Or maybe you haven’t thought about it. I want to show why it should matter, and matter a lot. You might forward this message to your doubting friends. There is nothing more fearful than…
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Experimental Parapsychology
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This is a general overview of the attempts by scientists and scholars to apply experimental methods to claims of psychic experiences, from spiritualist séances in the second half of the nineteenth century to the statistical methods employed in present-day parapsychology. The Early Period The physicist William Crookes, FRS, investigated séances over…
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The 9 Most Convincing Parapsychology Studies Ever Conducted
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The existence of paranormal research suggests that even the most hardened of skeptics want to believe that “there are more things on heaven and earth that are dreamt of in their philosophies,” to paraphrase Shakespeare. However, accredited scientific research into the paranormal remains controversial. Even comprehensive and evidence-heavy studies are often still considered…
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Some Version of You Always Beats Death, According to This Scientific Theory
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This idea puts a morbid twist on quantum theory, suggesting that a copy of you may remain alive, no matter what. In the deadly game Russian roulette, a player loads a gun with a single bullet, spins the cylinder to randomize the bullet’s position, and turns the potentially lethal weapon…
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Rolf Explains How Trance Mediumship Works
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The best explanation that I have read as to how trance mediumship works came from Rolf Little (below) as communicated through the trance mediumship of Gladys Osborne Leonard to his mother, Nelly Little, after his death during World War I. As psychical researchers came to understand, very few spirits have…
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Scientists Have Proven It’s Possible to Bring a Dead Brain ‘Back to Life’—But There’s a Catch
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The implications of this research could redefine the boundary between life and death. About five years ago, Yale School of Medicine neuroscientist Zvonimir Vrselja, Ph.D., and his colleagues shocked the medical community with a groundbreaking experiment. They removed a slaughterhouse pig’s brain from its head and deprived it of oxygen at room…
