Tag: philosophy
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Inerview with Titus Rivas
Titus Rivas is a writer, philosopher and researcher with a particular interest in near-death experiences and other related anomalous phenomena. In this interview, he discusses his views on NDEs and cases of the reincarnation type (CORT) as well as responding to critiques of some of the more famous NDE cases including: For most contemporary materialists…
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Music of the hemispheres.
I have been thinking about this video a lot today. Lucy is a 13-year-old girl who lives in the UK. She has autism, and severe learning difficulties and is blind after being born with cancerous tumours in her eyes. You are about to watch her play Chopin’s Nocturne Op.9 No.1 Wow.What is going on here?……just…
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Things are not as they seem.
Take a look around you. Everything you see, hear and touch is only an illusion constructed in your head.Don’t believe me? Read on…. “Take a simple object; something right at hand: a pen.Hold it in your hand; look at it; tap it on the desktop, and listen to the sound. Now, consider your experience of…
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Book review: Why Materialism is Baloney
Why Materialism is Baloney is a book about the philosophical hypothesis of analytical idealism. Most of us have been brought up to believe that the world we inhabit is made up of matter. From snickers bars to the Milky Way, everything is made up of bits of material stuff that are in turn made up of…
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Book review: The Grand Delusion
This is an excellent read for anyone interested in digging a little deeper into this consensus reality of ours. It is written by Stephen Hagen, Rōshi, a Zen teacher and author. But don’t be put off, this book is not about Zen Buddhism, instead, it is an exploration of the thing that Zen is pointing…
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Is reality like your computer desktop?
Donald Hoffman is a psychologist, philosopher and professor at the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California. He is also author of a book: The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes. Professor Hoffman is another scientist who is exploring the possibility that the consensus reality we take for granted as…
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