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    Mod+ 250. DR. JEFFREY SCHWARTZ, SCIENCE’S INABILITY TO EXPLAIN PERSONHOOD

    I take it as a datum of everyday experience that I, me, my consciousness, and the "Witness" that manifests in meditative states, is itself alone and has no relation to brain-body except analogically. The brain is a three-pound skull organ. I am not. It's one thing to speculate that brain...
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    Mod+ 228. Mary Rodwell Advocates for Alien Contactees

    As I have stated several times, I'm fine with "liminal" territory, e.g., Carl Jung's "psychoid realm". My point is that those who claim to have been physically abducted and physically probed and physically taken in a physical craft to outer space, cannot expect to receive a scientific hearing...
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    Mod+ 228. Mary Rodwell Advocates for Alien Contactees

    David, thanks for your courteous and civil comments. I agree, with Carl Jung, that some paranormal events may occur in "the psychoid realm" - a veritable "twilight zone" between psyche and matter. Jung said that UFOs were deeply subjective and symbolic, as well as being "projection carriers" of...
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    Mod+ 228. Mary Rodwell Advocates for Alien Contactees

    I "expect" only that claimants who want people to believe their abduction experiences enter the only public forum that can verify physical alien abduction, and that forum is science. Science does not proceed from dreams, nightmares, delusions, fantasies, etc. Science proceeds from evidence...
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    Mod+ 228. Mary Rodwell Advocates for Alien Contactees

    First, I didn't "attack" Jules. I attacked Jules' line of reasoning. This is a discussion board. Your defense of Jules' continued ignoring of important points I raised does not speak well for you. Second, I don't need to do "research of my own" when the area of expertise is science. To my...
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    Mod+ 228. Mary Rodwell Advocates for Alien Contactees

    Sarcasm, first? Off to a great start, Reece. And you're off-topic enough that you can't see the issue: a claim of psychic experience can only be publicly shared if the psychic has the means to make the experience available to others (through trance, meditation, whatever). The other issue that...
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    Mod+ 228. Mary Rodwell Advocates for Alien Contactees

    I see you have not replied to any of my points. Instead you present your "loss to understand the purpose for [me] being here". Is that all you can come up with? I shouldn't dignify your comments with a reply, but to quote you, I'm here to explore. And when I say "explore", I mean scientifically...
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    Mod+ 228. Mary Rodwell Advocates for Alien Contactees

    Jules wrote: "I'm not sure Alex's stated purpose is as you state". On the contrary - toward the end of the 'cast, Alex asked the guest if she'd like to enter into a collaborative effort with "negativist" Dr. Jacobs - in order to put the debate on a more convivial status. Jules wrote: "And I...
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    Mod+ 228. Mary Rodwell Advocates for Alien Contactees

    I realize that Alex's stated purpose in this show was to get the "abduction is mosly good" people together with the "abduction is mostly bad" people. But I really do not believe that alien abduction itself has been established, thus for me the idea of making peace between the two parties is by...
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    What does a "post-materialist" world look like...

    I think it would be a new synthesis of naturalism and psychism. As long as our bodies are material and interact with material objects and processes, we will be materialists. But a post-materialist culture would also realize that soul/mind/psyche is, as Carl Jung said, the sine qua non of our...
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    Materialism (physicalism) is dead?

    soulatman, nice thoughts there. Thanks for sharing them :)
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    Materialism (physicalism) is dead?

    I don't think physicalism will be dead until matter, including the human body, disappears, if such a twist would ever be possible. Matter, and our experience of it, seems to be a "bedrock" fact. Yet so is our mental life, which perceives external matter as an object external to the psyche, and...
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    227. Your Help Needed Defining Rules of New Skeptiko Forum

    I can't add much to what everybody's been saying. Creating a "safe harbor" in order to facilitate civility between paranormalists and anti-paranormalists is, of course, a great idea. But what happens when the sea gets choppy? Free speech is free speech, sarcasm is sarcasm, and hate speech is...
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