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This is an episode from Disappearing World inspired by Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard’s sociological study Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande (1937). You can access a PDF version of the book here.
Witchcraft is having a moment. Don’t get involved in the occult.
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Hard News: Friday Music: There's a lot…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
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I had a friend who used to like to talk about the Kansas City shuffle. The thing you need to remember about this particular instance of the scam is that while Kansas City is in Missouri, Koch Industries is headquartered in Wichita. It’s a joke of a certain sort for a mark of a certain kind.
http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/875321478849363968
http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/865173176854204416
http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/983662953894436864
Don’t get involved in witchcraft or the occult.
They’re not planning to keep it a secret forever.
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delve too far into finding out what being guillotined might feel like
I’m not sure how to approach that. Have a look at the video if you’re interested in learning about people’s experiences of veridical perception. It indirectly addresses the point I think you’re making.
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to ,
I wouldn’t go as far as calling it scientific evidence though.
Like many of the researchers in this field, Moody is a doctor, but the questions around how you collate personal experiences to create data are interesting ones. While Moody states that the information he’s collected isn’t offered as proof of a particular interpretation I think he’d say he’s collected important evidence.
There are some patient accounts of veridical perception provided in the book. NDE patients often report seeing their body from above and have described conversations and events that took place while they were unconscious or clinically dead and have given their doctors detailed accounts of the medical procedures that were used to revive them.
I’ve had a few near death experiences such as y’do at sea.
So I’m keeping an open mind about the after lifeI think that’s a pretty sensible stance.
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The near death experience is one of the most famous and compelling lines of evidence for the ongoing existence of the human spirit. Modern interest in the phenomenon was rekindled by Raymond Moody’s 1975 bestseller Life After Life. In the course of collating and summarising around 150 NDEs, Moody writes:
What has amazed me since the beginning of my interest are the great similarities in the reports despite the fact that they come from people of highly varied religious, social and educational backgrounds. (p.24)
Corroboration
The question naturally arises whether any evidence of the reality of near-death experiences be acquired independently of the descriptions of the experiences themselves. Many persons report being out of their bodies for extended periods and witnessing many events in the physical world during the interlude. Can any of these reports be checked out with other witnesses who were known to be present, or with later confirming events, and thus be corroborated?
In quite a few instances, the somewhat surprising answer to this question is, “yes”. Furthermore, the description of events witnessed while out of the body tend to check out fairly well. (p.64)
The book is available on digital loan from Auckland Public Libraries if you’re interested.
An extensive literature has developed around this subject and you can find a range of material in the usual places, but this is an 2016 IANDS conference presentation by Laurin Bellg, an ICU physician who has incorporated this aspect of her patients’ experiences into her practice.
This isn’t really a joke. Don’t get involved in the occult.
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There shouldn't be a Chinese military base in the South Pacific.
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Speaker: The crisis is all around us,…, in reply to FletcherB,
She repeatedly misled her board superiors by stating to them that a requested in advance and diarised meeting, just happened as a chance event?
I don't think we needed to lose Carol Hirschfeld's expertise.
There's something that's happened I can't tell you about. It'll come out in due course and we'll talk honesty and integrity again then.
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Speaker: The crisis is all around us,…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Thanks for the link - I hadn't known of Gordon Bick.
I don’t mean to understate the importance of the nexus between Government and the media but wonder whether the relationships of real influence are being submerged and trivial matters overplayed in this particular instance.