Philosophical Speculations

My (and my friend's) experience was on thc/cannabis so there's that. The substance definitely matters.

Here's another one: The self-sustaining-fear-loop. 1. I notice that my thoughts are causing my emotional response 2. I think "I hope I won't think any scary thoughts" 3. That, in itself is a scary thought. 4. I become fearful 5. I realize that I just trapped myself in a fear-loop 6. That, ...

AshvinP wrote: Rather, I think you honestly believe your meditation has been of the Imaginative sort when it most definitely wasn't.

How does one tell the difference?

The vague models that Dean Radin draws up in his book Real Magic hints at something similar to MAL being the unifying medium which makes magic (psi/ prayer/ ... ) possible. Regarding consciousness fields, unfortunately the results of the Global Consciousness Project could also be explained by Roger ...

One thing worth noticing is that the essence of what we consume/ eat / need, is Enthalpy , not energy. (We, as metabolizing entities radiate the same amount of energy as we ingest; but the entropy content is different; low entropy IN; high entropy OUT.) So, one might say that there's a transfer of o...

I think Eugene explained that pretty succinctly with the post above. If you're nitpicking about a book title which if interpreted a specific way contains a logical contradiction, then please go away. Can we talk about something else? Maybe about pragmatism, opportunity cost, and plausibility? Person...

Here's a quote:

Science has told us a lot about our minds and bodies, but in the end it’s just giving us more stories that we choose for subjective reasons

(See Q&A section) / John Horgan

Seems to me, that it's around this time in the discussion, that someone shoud come about and kick the water pitcher...
Isan

And there must be sentient humans who perceive them, but can never make any sense out of any of it. - My guess is that most of those humans would dismiss that number sequence as "impossible" claiming that there must be a design flaw in the machinery which produced it, and then go about th...

I know BK and others want to hit on this meme of materialistic science but, in fact, it would make no difference if science started with a idealistic premise. Science would be identical in either case. Just because you start from an idealistic premise doesn't suddenly make the supernatural possible...