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News Briefs 01-11-2011

By Jameskeon

Ghosts, vampires and zombies everywhere. It has just be one of those days.

  • What do organisms mean?
  • Believing in Cold Fusion and the E-Cat.
  • Man with schizophrenia has an OOBE in lab.
  • Vampire bacteria have potential as a living antibiotic.
  • Continent killer asteroid on potential collision course with Earth.
  • The lure of horror.
  • NDEs: a trick of the brain?
  • Rain clouds in the making.
  • Should we search for alien footprints right here on Earth?
  • Watch out for Niall Ferguson.
  • Sybil is one big psych-out.
  • Fossil feast for zombie worms.
  • Gradualism versus Catastrophism. Parts One and Two.
  • Analysts expand their horizon by going beyond father Freud.
  • The iceman autopsy.

Quote of the Day:

When someone asks you if you’re a God, you say YES!

Winston Zeddemore

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5 Comments

  1. Schizophrenia
    [quote] Park notes that similar explanations might also help other people with unusual experiences like out-of-body effects, since these could exacerbate the other symptoms of schizophrenia. “If it feels supernatural, that just feeds into the delusions,” she says.
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    Oh dear, oh dear. I just have to ask: who exactly is deluded?

  3. Near Death Experiences explained…
    I have to say I’m getting a little tired of “The Mystery of NDE’s solved at last” articles that seem to be coming out like every other month. Every single one of these articles seem treat NDE’s as if they’re the last speed bump for materialism – the last “supernatural” fly to be swat.

    Invariably, their explanations of NDE’s go something like this: “Well, if something vague or nondescript happens to this part of the brain, we MIGHT see effects that resemble NDE’s.” They also totally ignored verifiable out of body observations, NDE’s in completely brain dead patients, vision in blind-from-birth NDE’s and the extremely positive life changes associated with them.

    The fact that NDE’s can happen to people who are not in life threatening scenarios is thought to disprove the metaphysical implications of the phenomena is dead on arrival for me. If consciousness is fundamentally separate from the brain, I doubt there’s any law that says it can’t leave or visit the afterlife until the moment of death as reports OBE’s seam to demonstrate.

    1. Swat back

      I have to say I’m getting a little tired of “The Mystery of NDE’s solved at last” articles that seem to be coming out like every other month. Every single one of these articles seem treat NDE’s as if they’re the last speed bump for materialism – the last “supernatural” fly to be swat.

      There is a general trend right now that has so-called ‘experts’ explaining away every unknown imaginable… as if we had, somehow, reached a level of universal knowledge and understanding. UFOs, global warming, NDEs, ghosts/spirits, evolution… the headlines consistently apply absolutes; ‘Solved’, ‘Explained’, ‘Debunked’, ‘Fact’, etc.

      Of course, none of this really means very much because we’re getting nothing more than personal opinions based on the same evidence that is available to everyone else. It’s all in the presentation and the final perception.

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