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  1. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ UPCOMING INTERVIEW: DR. LARRY MALERBA

    I was just thinking today about how people are naturally very suspicious of psychics who charge large amounts for their services, and are also suspicious of people who write books about NDEs, etc., because they think maybe they're just making things up for the money. But does anyone stop and...
  2. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 259. LOYD AUERBACH ON THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIC SPYING

    Enjoyed the interview, as always! Intrigued by the references to the "decline effect" and in particular the New Yorker article "The Truth Wears Off," I read the article online. There seemed to be a great deal of food for thought there, but I have to say I was deeply disappointed to discover...
  3. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 258. JOHN MICHAEL GREER ON OUR MYTH OF PROGRESS

    Can you explain some of the data you're referring to here? In what way do you see each American citizen producing less environmental damage than each citizen in a significantly poorer nation? Because I see us consuming much more energy and producing much more waste (toxic and otherwise) than...
  4. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 258. JOHN MICHAEL GREER ON OUR MYTH OF PROGRESS

    Totally with you. I don't see how anyone who truly cared about the environment could have ever thought biocarburants were a good solution, or even a solution at all. Again, totally with you on this. Also, I don't know a great deal about the manufacture of solar panels, but I suspect they don't...
  5. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 258. JOHN MICHAEL GREER ON OUR MYTH OF PROGRESS

    Rather than focusing on the biomass of a human being, I think it would be appropriate to consider the mass of all the things connected to an industrialized human's life: house, car, roads, stores, school, mono-cropped fields, power plant, sewage treatment facility, dead zones in rivers and...
  6. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 257. DR. DIANE POWELL FINDS TELEPATHY AMONG AUTISTIC SAVANT CHILDREN

    Right! So my question is, are these the methods that were used to come to this conclusion? And if these same methods are used to present more complex calculations to the same person, what happens then?
  7. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 257. DR. DIANE POWELL FINDS TELEPATHY AMONG AUTISTIC SAVANT CHILDREN

    My question is about what's going on when people claim that a presumed savant "can't do simple math." I assumed people were talking about math so simple that most people would know the answers without having to calculate: for instance, with a problem like 5 + 6. If a savant can't answer this...
  8. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 257. DR. DIANE POWELL FINDS TELEPATHY AMONG AUTISTIC SAVANT CHILDREN

    I'm confused by this, as it relates to Diane Powell's mind-reading hypothesis. Why wouldn't a mathematical "savant" who is actually reading minds be able to read off the answer to an addition problem involving small numbers as well as large ones? There may very well be a psi-compatible...
  9. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 256. DR. DONALD DEGRACIA, WHAT IS SCIENCE?

    Great interview, Alex! This is someone I feel like you could have ten interviews with and there would still be more to discuss. You kept the interview very close to the main themes of Skeptiko, as you should have, but I couldn't help wanting to hear him chase a few rabbits, too, to hear...
  10. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 255. IAN MCCORMACK’S EXCLUSIVELY CHRISTIAN NEAR-DEATH EXPEIENCE

    After reading this account of McCormack's NDE, I'm even more puzzled by his fundamentalist Christianity. There is little to nothing in the NDE itself that is explicitly Christian. The being within the light doesn't even identify himself as "God," let alone Jesus. The being doesn't quote any...
  11. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 249. TIM FREKE ON SOUL CRUSHING SCIENCE

    I have never understood this argument. While I do believe in a "Higher Power," I don't see why idealism would require that belief any more than materialism would. Why do we assume an exclusively mental world needs someone to order it while a purely material world doesn't? What the world is "made...
  12. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 249. TIM FREKE ON SOUL CRUSHING SCIENCE

    I second the James Carpenter idea!
  13. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 249. TIM FREKE ON SOUL CRUSHING SCIENCE

    I'm not sure what you mean by a "long standing, elaborately planned, and manufactured control system," but it seems to me like any intentional disguising of the truth has been the exception rather than the rule. I think false (or incomplete) views of reality are much more effectively and...
  14. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 249. TIM FREKE ON SOUL CRUSHING SCIENCE

    I, too, resonated with what Tim had to say on this. On a related note, I think all the science/religion/consciousness debates would be a lot friendlier and more interesting if we got better at living with cognitive dissonance. We want so badly to make sense of the world in some ultimate, final...
  15. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 249. TIM FREKE ON SOUL CRUSHING SCIENCE

    As someone who, though not a Christian, nevertheless goes to church and is surrounded by Christians on a pretty regular basis, I have to say I was interested in that part of the show and actually would have liked Freke to go into more detail, especially about the earliest letters of Paul and...
  16. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 248. BERNARDO KASTRUP SAYS MATERIALISM IS BALONEY

    I'm not sure that the problem of good-evil is different from the problem posed by these other dualities, except in that a great many people seem uncomfortable with the former, and determined to explain all apparent evil as good in disguise. All I wanted to point out is that it's really hard to...
  17. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 248. BERNARDO KASTRUP SAYS MATERIALISM IS BALONEY

    The point I was trying to make was not that the Problem of Evil is insoluble--I agree with you that it could be solved in the very way you outline--just that any method of solving it seems to have to appeal to another duality to take the place of the Good vs. Evil duality. Your solution gives us...
  18. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 248. BERNARDO KASTRUP SAYS MATERIALISM IS BALONEY

    I think I agree with you on that. And yet the duality remains: There is the "thing itself" which is neither good nor bad, and there is the thought about it, which contains a value judgment.
  19. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 248. BERNARDO KASTRUP SAYS MATERIALISM IS BALONEY

    It seems to me that any monistic (as opposed to dualistic) view of the world is going to be incomplete and unsatisfying. The intellect, I think, yearns for monism, yearns for that Theory of Everything, but reality continually stretches any version of monism to the breaking point, to the point...
  20. Sharon Rawlette

    Mod+ 246. DR. MICHAEL GRAZIANO LIKENS NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE RESEARCH TO ASTROLOGY

    I do think Graziano had at least one point that should be taken more seriously in our discussions of what exactly NDEs prove and how they do it. I think it may be a mistake for us to harp on the fact that NDEs show that people can have substantial conscious experiences without brain function...
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