However, when I first began experiencing them it was so intense and the experience were of other people's deaths. I did even wonder if I was responsible for the deaths at some point, — Jack Cummins
So, do you think it is all about seeing imaginary patterns? — Jack Cummins
sees life more in terms of vibrations and energies. — Jack Cummins
By the way, and this is where ESP, if real, will make a huge imapct, does anyone have any idea on which currently existing theories, scientific or non-scientific, will be ovrerturned if we get our hands on conclusive evidence for psyhic abilities? — TheMadFool
I am certainly not wishing to start a debate that becomes nasty. — Jack Cummins
Really, I think that there is some big rift between those who subscribe to materialism and those who look for spiritual systems of thought. — Jack Cummins
I don't know why people get nasty with others in such discussions. — Jack Cummins
Materialism as now understood. Maybe it can be extended to accommodate such notions, but I can’t see how. But this is why the discussion of these topics is a taboo - it threatens the general consensus about the nature of reality according to science.
I recall reading an article some years back about research in remote viewing, which is a standard PSI test. One of the sceptics quoted in this article said that the indicators for remote viewing were strong enough to rate a positive in any other field of research. But, he said, ‘extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ - which is frequently trotted out in respect of anything claimed to be evidence for such.
Consequently, this subject area is very heated and often very nasty, animated by gullible enthusiasts on one side and cynical naysayers on the other. Not a nice place. — Wayfarer
Delusion denotes persistent belief that a demonstable falsehood is true.What is a philosophical delusion?
I spent several years in the 1980s in a purple haze of hallucinogens such as LSD & mushrooms, to name two of the best known, that deconstructed the unity of my self-conscious identity and flirted a little too closely at the time with a schizoid-like break (-down? -through?) which finally scared me back from the (l)edge. Whatever I'd "perceived" in various altered states had not really fascinated me nearly as much as how memories of those "perceptions" assaulted – began to rewire – my ordinary conscious states. I'd become conditioned, I guess, to conceive of 'my self' in different tenses (i.e. a non-unitary past self – present self – future self simultaneously) rather than in the clinically schizoid manner of 'different personalities'. That was/has been quite liberating for me both philosophically and psychologically.So, I am asking people on the forum about their experience of the extrasensory and how such experiences can be explained, in the most critical but helpful way? — Jack Cummins
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