News Briefs 24-10-2011
Posted by Greg at 06:06, 24 Oct 2011- Real-life inception: U.S. Army looks to counteract nightmares with digital dreams.
- Forget keyboard and mouse - play Doom using your brain alone. That's nothing, I've been playing this game called 'Real Life' for years now with just my brain.
- Neuroscientists puzzled by normal brain communication in people lacking their corpus callosum.
- Surely by now we've outgrown the idea that we have a soul?
- The myriad ways in which supermarkets manipulate your choices without you even realising.
- Steve Jobs refused cancer treatment initially, opting instead for alternative medicine and Spiritualists.
- Thirteen urban legends and the strange Supernatural episodes they inspired.
- More evidence for pre-Clovis humans settling North America.
- Coming in 2012: Nick Redfern's book The Pyramids and the Pentagon, which investigates government agencies' "clandestine and profound interest in numerous archaeological, historical and religious puzzles."
- 1200 tourists gather at Abu Simbel to watch sun light up the inner sanctum.
- Human population growth in the 20th century "more bacterial than primate". And when you put that in perspective over the last 12,000 years….scary.
- Was William Shakespeare a fraud?
- Jeff Kripal explores the connection between religion, mysticism and superheroes in his book Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics and the Paranormal (Amazon.com).
- Beyond Drake's Equation: new views on the search for ET intelligence.
- Solve et Coagula - an optimistic look at how we can progress the study of paranormal and occult subjects.
- TV presenter Anderson Cooper spooked by his mother's mediumistic messages.
- Visit the Museum of Holy Souls in Purgatory, which collects objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in hell.
Quote of the Day:
If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.
C.S. Lewis
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6 April 2010
5 hours 17 min
don't tell Francis Bacon we're talking about him...but I do want to go see this movie
http://www.youtube.com/user/AnonymousMov...
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
12 April 2007
5 hours 30 min
That's nothing, I've been playing this game called 'Real Life' for years now with just my brain.
Psst Greg! figured out any cheat codes that help you get an extra life? :P
Man... I'd settle for learning how to downscale the difficulty level.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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@red_pill_junkie
30 April 2004
19 min 12 sec
Man... I'd settle for learning how to downscale the difficulty level.
Level up!
;)
Kind regards,
Greg
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You monkeys only think you're running things
@DailyGrail
12 April 2007
5 hours 30 min
Found this comment in the Danger Room's thread:
"Some doctor claims he can cure PTSD by recreating the trauma with VR
goggles (and smells or vibrations or actors). One or two people are
interviewed, saying it works, but if you look at the study you find that
around 3/4 dropped out before completing the program. (implying they
couldn't deal with the trauma of the treatment/experiment/bullshit)."
I agree with you and the comments of Dr. Andrew Leuchter. As a psychotherapist, getting someone to relive this kind of major trauma including things like rape until they're desensitized is ridiculous. That's like saying to a person who was raped, "Hey let's relive it again until you really enjoy it. It's nuts. The horrors of war are even more terrifying.
I've worked with people who have PTSD and it is possible to, acting as a catalyst, allow them to help themselves through these traumas, and it takes time. As for dreams, which in this case are nightmares, they too can be addressed at the same time and in a much different way. A nightmare is a dream that tells the dreamer there is something that must be taken care of NOW. It'll keep repeating itself until the PTSD is taken care of.
As a Dream Therapist, what you are seeing with these contraptions, are psychiatrists who know little or nothing about PTSD and especially about dreams.
Sadly, I've found a major problem with veterans. They don't want to have treatment while still in service as it will blemish their record and they don't want to have it after they retire as they are of the opinion that nobody can help them unless they've been through what they've been through.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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@red_pill_junkie
14 June 2006
13 weeks 6 days
As a play producer Shakespeare was ideally suited as a front for someone that wished (or needed to be) anonymous. I'm sure De Vere never assumed anyone would take Shakespeare that serious would he lay claim to it in a most serious way during his lifetime, after all when would he have had the time to write all that eloquent work, considering all the known activities and obligations he had. Not to mention, where is he supposed to get his inspiration from, it's clear to me that someone like De Vere is a much better candidate and had a valid reason to be and in some way remain anonymous as his peers would have snubbed him. In fact in a way he had the last laugh, as his peers did commend his work be it through applauding Shakespeare.
Obviously the good people of Stratford will never agree and nor will a lot of others as they've been indoctrinated to believe it, pity they haven't been trained to think for themselves.
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”. --Aristotle