Some claim their scientific study of extrasensory perception (ESP) overturns the worldview of science. Should we take these startling pronouncements seriously? If so, what...
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If ESP can claim some kind of truth, the implications would be profound. The confirmation of any ESP, no matter how minor, would challenge the materialism-physicalism...
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Transpersonal psychology is the claim that our mental well-being relates, in some sense, to nonphysical interactions of some kind. Transpersonal psychology assumes the...
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Parapsychologists are sure ESP is real. Skeptics are sure it is not. But if ESP is real, must explaining ESP go beyond physical laws, into unknown non-physical realms?...
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Just suppose that immortal souls exist. Would we feel any differently now? How would it feel after our body disappears? Would we be aware, cognizant of our individual...
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What would it be like to live forever? Immortality is the promise of most religions, thwarting the looming fateful finality of death. Everything in science screams...
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Do we survive bodily death? Can our personal awareness transcend physical decay and dissolution? There are no bigger questions and there is no shortage of answers. Religions...
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Death is the ultimate defeat. No matter how many successes we have, we are all doomed to suffer the final failure. But some claim that death is not final. How can they do so?...
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Is there a soul? Is there an afterlife? The two questions are likely related. No soul, no afterlife. Is there any evidence for either? Any argument? However, the two...
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Physically, humans and animals seem similar. Mentally, humans seem so superior. What’s so special about human nature? Language? Culture? Compare brain structures and...
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Think back 5, 10, 20 years—50 if you’re old enough. Physically, you are completely different. Mentally, you feel pretty much the same. Decades roll by and every...
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What makes one a person or a self? If he or she sees, hears, thinks and feels, is that a person or a self? How can separate perceptions bind together into a coherent mental...
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