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Monsters and Mythical Creatures of Ancient Egypt
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In the Egyptian canon, it’s often difficult to distinguish monsters and mythical creatures from the gods themselves — for example, how do you classify the cat-headed goddess Bastet, or the jackal-headed god Anubis? Still, there are some figures that don’t quite rise to the level of actual deities, functioning instead as…
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What are some of the difficulties of scientific parapsychological research?
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Roger Mallett In this posting, I will use Extra-Sensory Perception [ESP] as an example to highlight some of the difficulties in relation to scientific research and laboratory investigations. There are two main concerns here, replicability and expectancy effects: There appears to be little scientific evidence which would suggest that ESP…
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Other Dimensions
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The idea of another dimension – or MORE than one other dimension – has been theorized for many years, and is a cornerstone of many religions. Indeed, even Albert Einstein speculated about the possibility of the existence of a parallel universe. A scientific article entitled “The Universe’s Unseen Dimensions,” released…
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Physicists probe the paranormal
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“The question of whether paranormal phenomena actually exist probably divides educated members of modern Western civilization as sharply as any other single issue. If it is true that the human brain can receive messages and control things in ways that cannot be explained normally, then this undermines the belief of…
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Can “possession” be explained without the concept of devils or demons taking control of people?
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There has been a suggestion that there may be a psychological element involved in the “possession” explanation of human beings, including dissociative identity disorder [DID] The `Psychology Today` website provides the following definition: `DID is a rare condition in which two or more distinct identities, or personality states are present…
