Dr. Eben Alexander on reincarnation and past lives

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interesting. I wonder how he figured this out

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https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S20596891#p20599182 I might just use this thread to dump excerpts of non materialistic arguments from various sources that fascinate me, like this one. cw: spicy, it's an image board, so some posts are... Not wholesome, lol. But there are a lot of decent ones from both sides

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https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... _Institute also interesting

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https://warosu.org/sci/thread/S10925303#p10927101 very fascinating

>>10927091
Yes we have. Here's just a few studies that came to mind:

Dream characters were shown to successfully draw or write, to name unknown words, to find rhyme words, and to make verses, however they performed poorly on arithmetic problems. The researchers concluded nothing contradicts them being conscious and that we should treat them as rational beings in lucid dream therapy.
>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2717365

The previous study was replicated by different researchers and they observed same results as before. This time they focused more so on arithmetic problem solving. Surprisingly dream characters are better at multiplication and division than addition and subtraction.
>https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2011-14179-007

Though dream characters tend to perform poorly on logical/mathematical tasks, they are surprisingly creative and can even provide plausible creative advice to the dreamer.
>https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2011-14177-005

an excerpt

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As a writer I've tried to actually use characters I devise to be intellectually dexterous at solving problems or managing business and effectively larp/roleplay as them in my own day to day dealings to see how it affects my proficiency. (One character in question is a minor character in a fantasy setting I am devising who manages a shanty and squalid town where business is cutthroat and merchants often have to employ bodyguards to engage in skirmishes and at worst assassinate other participants in the economy) The... Results are surprisingly amazing at times. Altars sure are a strange phenomenon. I attempt to experiment with subject matter tenuously related to the character's original expertise that is still relevant enough you'd expect good advice.

I am more often than not pleasantly surprised.