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  1. Elessar

    Personal experiences with Synchronicity and reflections upon

    That's been my conclusion (pretty much) as well-it has happened several times in the past week where I get songs (in one case a 9 song sequence surrounding Tolkien's Beren and Luthien story) shuffling in accordance with what I was thinking or feeling. But not always.
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    The Left Hand Path -- Discuss

    I have been of two minds (natch) about that-self annihilation-in point of fact. Ken Wilber talks about the ascending vs. descending paths-evolution vs. involution. Perhaps they align with the two paths that you describe? I am personally not too crazy about pure ascent (which might be equated...
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    The Left Hand Path -- Discuss

    Hey Sam. I'll just point out that one possible sign of what you term the "Right Hand Path" might be a tendency to dichotomize everything. In other words if you are truly "Left Hand" you shouldn't get too attached to such dichotomies, as in assuming that Crowley's statement is "clearly"...
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    Personal experiences with Synchronicity and reflections upon

    You are not alone, Sam. My life is now pretty much a waking dream. These things happen to me literally multiple times a day, and, as you might infer from my avatar, often involve wildlife encounters (the very first one 24 years ago, involving a close encounter with a peregrine falcon 30...
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    As a species, are we special, or not?

    Not necessarily yes to the latter questions. I was mainly wondering on what grounds it can be argued that we are not.
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    As a species, are we special, or not?

    In this thread, Someone made the curious point that we are "nothing special" as a species. A viewpoint which I've seen before (usually from yes diehard materialists), and one which has utterly astonished me anytime I have seen it. [And deeply puzzled me too, in the same way that seeing "Take...
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    Mod+ 270. ASU PROF. LAWRENCE KRAUSS CALLS FOR DALAI LAMA TO STEP DOWN OVER REINCARNATION CLAIM

    Beside my point... What's not to understand? My point is very simple-we are an AMAZING species, likely one of a kind. Do you disagree with that, the first part at least? If so, why? In the face of all that we are, all that we have accomplished?
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    Mod+ 270. ASU PROF. LAWRENCE KRAUSS CALLS FOR DALAI LAMA TO STEP DOWN OVER REINCARNATION CLAIM

    I've seen many a materialist make this same exact claim...and frankly it's an utterly astonishing, as well as completely befudding, claim. We are likely the only intelligent technological species within 100,000,000+ light years, having created an immense number of accomplishments covering an...
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    Mod+ 269. DR. MICHAEL SHERMER, SKEPTICAL SCIENCE REPORTING

    Except that the skeptics/materialists abjectly refuse to acknowledge the bleak implications of their own philosophy. To a man (or woman). You simply NEVER see them discussing what living in such a spiritually dead and nihilistic universe would imply, would imply about their own personal lives...
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    Mod+ 269. DR. MICHAEL SHERMER, SKEPTICAL SCIENCE REPORTING

    The greatest trick materialism ever pulled was convincing the world a materialistic belief system didn't exist.
  11. Elessar

    Between Madness and Truth: What our inner trickster can teach us.

    Pity no responses. I had in fact just penned something in my journal today in very close alignment with the above sentiments. The contrasts between my younger and older students (I am tutor, teach all ages) in the ways described above are very very stark. The younger ones can be very...
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    Mod+ Members Discuss Their Personal Paranormal Experiences

    Aye to that. As my experience has demonstrated, there are tons of unscrupulous cold readers out there...
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    Mod+ Members Discuss Their Personal Paranormal Experiences

    I told the others, might as well the broad public. I've seen Egret Gal again these last two days, 2nd time just half an hour ago, both times outside my apartment complex. She must have eaten a dozen lizards yesterday (3 today as I watched). Yesterday she walked within 5 feet me, as if I...
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    Mod+ Members Discuss Their Personal Paranormal Experiences

    Not mine, exactly-and the matching myth in question is from a different culture... I will also note that your handle provides yet another eerie synch to the events/connection here. I will PM people if they really want to hear the whole thing.
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    Mod+ Members Discuss Their Personal Paranormal Experiences

    I'd post my story, but unfortunately to do it all full justice I would have to give all of the events in question proper context, and without that they will invariably lose their full impact, immediate as they have been for me. And to do that it would must needs become a full novel, where I...
  16. Elessar

    Birthmarks and Reincarnation

    I know exactly what you mean. It's the same with my niece-she is very very grounded for such a young child, a quality she definitely shares with my grandmother. I decided to upload the two pictures in question. Feel free to judge for yourself:
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    Birthmarks and Reincarnation

    I meant to add one more thing. I have a picture of my grandparents from years ago-Halloween night in fact, when I was 5. I am sitting between them, and my grandmother has my hand in hers. My (birth) mother (yes I'm adopted) sent me a pic of Daisy a couple of years ago. The posture of both of...
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    Birthmarks and Reincarnation

    I think I've met my paternal grandparents. I taught a boy several years ago who said some very spooky things to me, such as "Do you remember?" and "You owe me." [I didn't go to his funeral-I was 9.] He was a train engineer, and this boy was crazy about trains-his favorite show was Thomas the...
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    Michael Shermer has a Paranormal Experience

    Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
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