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News Briefs 01-07-2014

Proof that Grailers are ahead of the curve: the news headlines today read like a summary of books we’ve released in recent years…

Quote of the Day:

All your beliefs, they’re just that. They’re nothing. They’re how you were taught and raised. That doesn’t make ’em real.

Bill Hicks

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  1. Shannon Taggart
    Shannon got a particularly vicious response from the boingboing commentators. I think, though, it’s partly the article’s fault. She is, after all, not really shooting ghosts; she’s shooting the spiritualist community in Lily Dale. She also photographs the voudon community in Brooklyn, and does both with curiosity, open-mindedness, and respect. But if this brings more attention to her work, well, that’s good.

    1. The Pilot
      The “pilot wave” idea has always been attractive, but doesn’t it open up a ‘nuther kettle of fish? In the double slit experiment has anyone yet tried shooting other photons perpendicular to the photons being aimed at the slits and screen? I mean, if every particle has a pilot wave then space must be a seething foam of interfering pilot waves. Do the pilot waves not interfere with each other? Imagine the complexity of their interactions and trying to figure all the slightly altered paths and waveforms that accrue from interference!

      And wouldn’t neutrinos have pilot waves? Essentially, there is nowhere that is free of pilot waves, and there is nowhere free of pilot waves interfering with each other.

  2. NDE Research
    Loving the new research being done by Dr. Steven Laureys. He seems very level-headed, neither a skeptic nor a believer, always a good sign.

    It’s research like this from respected scientists that completely disprove the statement that NDE researchers are on par with astrologers (*cough cough* Pigliucci *cough cough* Graziano).

    But are NDE’s scientific proof of life after death? (As of the moment) No. Are they a genuine mystery that could shed light on the nature of consciousness? Hell, yes! And so any action to negate further research is just unscientific.

    (Edited: Quick question, are the OBE’s described by NDEr’s and people like Graham Nichols experiential-ly the same as those talked about in the Sleep Paralysis article?)

    1. RedWalker – IMO, if NDE and
      RedWalker – IMO, if NDE and Lucid Dreaming both are taken at face value as accurate descriptions of the experiences, then the difference lies in the verifiability of the experience. Meaning an OBE is a real experience that occurs in soul form/spirit, consciousness disassociated from the physical body and has verifiable elements. By contrast Lucid dreaming may seem similar and as real, but potentially is a different creature entirely in that it is a dream/hallucination directed consciously by you without any verifiable elements.

      I used to lucid dream regularly through my teens and twenties and although many of my memories of the lucid dreams are as vivid as real memories, the dreams were still – dreams – entire fabrications of my mind.

      People who have NDE’s presumably witness verifiable events in ERs and elsewhere, so are not dreaming.

      The one OBE I had, did not have any verifiable elements, but was different than a lucid dream in many ways – one of which I never went to sleep, rather entered it straight from a waking state… Other opinions?…

      1. Agreed!
        I agree that what makes Lucid Dreaming OBEs different from NDE OBEs is the veridical aspects. I was just curious if the experience themselves are different and we are just calling them the same thing (like calling an apple and orange both an apple). I was wondering if someone has had both experiences and could say if there was any experiential difference between the two.

        And awesome experience! Pray you tell more?

  3. Facebook . . .
    I only follow some retailers and other businesses I frequent to keep up with sales and special offers so my e-mailbox isn’t crammed with spam about these.

    Our family and my friends no longer stay in touch using any social media. We stopped doing that awhile ago. In fact, I closed all my other social media/sharing site accounts.

    So, whatever Facebook was doing it had no impact on me because I never post anything on Facebook . . . ever. I’m just a passive viewer of commercial posts of particular interest to me. I never even glance over at the unsolicited ads Facebook posts.

    Interesting experiment, but I wonder how many Facebook users might be people like me who use it as a convenience but never use it as a tool to communicate with family and friends or even the world at large.

    1. I have an FB account only so
      I have an FB account only so that I may view other FB pages since I am sometimes directed to them for one reason or another. Otherwise, I hardly touch it. Ever since FB started wiping accounts that dared to implicate Israel or Mossad in the 9/11 false flag attack I have sworn off ever being a regular FB user. Any social media organ that is that heavily censored is useless to me.

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