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HOW ARE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES SIMILAR ACROSS CULTURES? 265. Real research into the question. Interview with religious scholar Dr. Gregory Shushan on the parallels between near-death experience accounts across cultures. Click here to listen on YouTube

I wonder if he hid under the covers and repeated his mantra: "Anything that can happen does...anything that can happen does..."

Robert Anton Wilson might have put it best:

& to answer the question: Of course experience matters. Even materialists base their entire false-edifice of "objectivity" on a subjective experience of the world as a narrowly-defined Newtonian billiard-ball table (as Alex put it). Experience provides the impetus to do anything & everything--...

Nice work Vortex. That's going to be a sick dialogue once it happens. Chomping at the bit to edit it already...

Agreed, well put. While I think it's rather non-opaque, at the same time it can easily be dismissed/overlooked by people who -- like the most recent episode of Skeptiko w/ Jack Hunter focused on -- deny their experience. And I think I'm more forgiving of the content because I found authors...

I have to disagree w/ you & Don a bit here. Certainly there is a highly subjective element to all this, but I feel Castaneda's perspective/advice stays quite true to shamanic tradition/teachings, and is therefore "sophisticated" enough. Complexity does not = superior. I think Castenada's is a...

Psychic tribes. Anthropology's surprising finding. 264. Way out there. Alex Tsakiris of Skeptiko interviews Anthropologist Jack Hunter on Paranthropology and the significance of cross-cultural spirit communication for parapsychology. Click here to listen on YouTube

I didn't :) but I still agree that you drone on pretty well.

Fair is fair. We all know you're the main attraction. I concede.

Michael -- Maybe it's sort of weird/sick, but I derive a certain pleasure from having had a hand in creating something that confused you enough to drive you to question/investigate further/deeper. Really appreciate you listening once, let alone twice! I choose to think it was the hypnotic...

Here's an interesting article that synthesizes a number of passages from ASOI: http://www.zengardner.com/active-side-infinity/

I'll let Don answer the majority of your questions himself, but just wanted to mention The Active Side of Infinity, which was Castaneda's last book (pretty sure) before he passed. Maybe it's just the fact that I'm stumbling upon it at a time in my life when it seems particularly applicable...

Saw this mentioned in another thread, but figured I'd give it a home of its own: http://thesyncbook.com/?pagename=42minutes&ep=163 12.16.14 Episode 163: Alex Tsakiris Why Science Is Wrong Visit: www.skeptiko.com Topics: Science, Consciousness, Emergent Properties, Body Schema, Quantum...

:) Amazing. Remember guys, "[hit] the walls and [work] the middle"

When you manage to pull that off, would you mind writing me up a step-by-step manual?

Crowley & "Sex Magick" http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeV/Unleashing_the_Beast.htm http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-Equinox-Vol-Magick/dp/1578635713 When we talk about "sacred sex", really we're talking about a moment when the "self" dissolves into the "All" during orgasm. The question is, how...

Here's another classic video from Tom/Borderlands (& the mad-engineer Eric Dollard) on Longitudinal Waves (sometimes referred to in the "Free Energy" literature as "Scalar Waves"). I think this topic is important to understanding the dynamics of certain "paranormal" phenomenon/effects...

No. 4 posted this past Friday 1-2-15. Synchromystic/Psychonaut Bill Klaus & Author/former Skeptiko guest Dr. Donald DeGracia. Happy New Year! http://thesyncbook.com/?pagename=pentamental&ep=4 Part 1 - SET & Setting w/ Bill Klaus: Topics: Bee Arthur, Poker, Making Reads, Sync, Authority...

Sci -- No you didn't miss anything. We've been going a different direction w/ the transcripts, as you may have noticed, so stuff gets left out. It just so happens that Rebecca's follow-up, while certainly interesting/worthwhile, would have stretched that particular topic out to a point where...