The review on Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind by Graham Hancock included this old bromide: Before this, humankind had no art, no...
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mikebispham@...
mikebispham
Jan 2, 2006 9:35 am
Absolutely right Ambrose. Its never hard to pull Hancock up on points of detail of this kind. Though he's often worth reading for leads and ideas he's not...
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mikebispham@...
mikebispham
Jan 2, 2006 10:29 am
In a message dated 12/31/05 7:18:40 PM GMT Standard Time, ahawk@... writes: Mike asked: What objections might there have been, and might remain,...
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mikebispham@...
mikebispham
Jan 2, 2006 7:18 pm
Hi Gene, I keep spotting odds and ends that bring to mind your points below on the issues surrounding science and ethics. I think the way I wrote earlier...
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Eugene Johnson
anthropik9
Jan 3, 2006 3:59 am
--Hi Mike, Straw men? I think the points I have raised are more substantial than that, particularly the issue of a balanced and controlled use of science and...
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mikebispham@...
mikebispham
Jan 3, 2006 10:14 am
In a message dated 1/3/06 3:59:29 AM GMT Standard Time, eugenemj@... writes: "--Hi Mike, Straw men? I think the points I have raised are more...
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Daniel N. Washburn
danw888
Jan 3, 2006 2:07 pm
Amazon NeuroTheology list http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/1TGVU6C1FE9C6/104-9042791-6666329?%5Fencoding=UTF8 Neuropsychological Bases of...
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Daniel N. Washburn
danw888
Jan 3, 2006 2:27 pm
Here is a NeuroTheology list from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/1TGVU6C1FE9C6/104-9042791-6666329?%5Fencoding=UTF8 ...
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Daniel N. Washburn
danw888
Jan 3, 2006 2:46 pm
Here is a list on the Afterlife from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/20AI131QLH8US/104-9042791-6666329?%5Fencoding=UTF8 Round Trip ...
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Daniel N. Washburn
danw888
Jan 3, 2006 2:49 pm
Take a virtual tour of the West Virginia Hare Krishna Center -- splendors to rival the great cathedrals! http://www.palaceofgold.com/virtualtour.htm Dan...
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Daniel N. Washburn
danw888
Jan 3, 2006 2:54 pm
Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind (Paperback) Book Description Ring and Cooper explore evidence that even those blind from birth...
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mikebispham@...
mikebispham
Jan 3, 2006 8:12 pm
Hi Dan Rather a lot of food for the mind hereabouts, isn't there? : ) Thanks for the lists - just wish I had the time and money... If you, or anybody else,...
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mikebispham
Jan 3, 2006 8:21 pm
For UK residents (if there are any) Richard Dawkins will be presenting a two-parter beginning next monday on Channel 4 at 8.00. "Root of all Evil, 1; The God...
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mikebispham@...
mikebispham
Jan 3, 2006 8:29 pm
“"Darwin's meme: or the origin of culture by means of natural selection"” Event: Lecture Date: Monday, 13rd February 2006 Time: 6:30pm Venue: Darwin...
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IAMMYRIAH@...
Jan 4, 2006 7:19 pm
A must read on this topic and not listed here is 'Hello From Heaven' by Bill and Judy Guggenheim. Published in 1995. They researched over 2,000 people who...
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Daniel N. Washburn
danw888
Jan 5, 2006 1:12 am
Hi, Myriah Thanks for the ref. One that I have just read, and a very good one, is Afterlife Encounters by Diane Archangeli (?) She is a hospice counselor and...
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Daniel N. Washburn
danw888
Jan 5, 2006 1:13 am
Mike has objected to my use of the words 'scientific validation,' and I have objected to his use of 'belief' to characterize my understandings. Here is how I...
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mikebispham@...
mikebispham
Jan 5, 2006 10:06 am
Hi Dan, A very useful exercise. A few early thoughts A From a philosophical point of view I think everything held to _be_ about the world (and other...
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Ambrose Hawk
AmbroseHawk
Jan 6, 2006 5:12 pm
What amuses me about those "scientific" analyses on things like near death is that they overlook a key point. We know that the chemicals and hypoxia etc....
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Ambrose Hawk
AmbroseHawk
Jan 6, 2006 7:46 pm
Mike wrote: Completely untested proposition. (snip) Religious claims of all kinds of course reside in this category. -- Hardly. The rigors to which a claimed...
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Daniel N. Washburn
danw888
Jan 7, 2006 12:36 am
Good points, Ambrose When people talk about psychedelic drugs being able to produce mystical states, I think about the analogy with visual hallucinations....
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Eugene Johnson
anthropik9
Jan 7, 2006 2:18 am
--The (man) protests to much, I think.. People who constantly push a cause tend to leave me a little suspicious as to their real motivations. Why mount a...
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mikebispham@...
mikebispham
Jan 7, 2006 10:07 am
Hi All Feeling that a lot of the time my ways of thinking are discomforting to people here, and that most members of the list are largely driven by issues of...
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Eugene Johnson
anthropik9
Jan 8, 2006 7:36 pm
Mike, if you are still out there, hope you change your mind and continue to share your thoughts with us. I'm sorry that Mike has decided to "abandon the...
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Khem Caigan
khemcaigan
Jan 8, 2006 8:01 pm
... <SNIPS> ... Arguelles first book was _Charles Henry and the Formation of a Psychophysical Aesthetic_, published in 1972. Michael Moynihan Speaks With Jos...
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mikebispham@...
mikebispham
Jan 9, 2006 4:21 pm
Hi Gene, I didn't mean I'd be disappearing from this list, just that I wanted anther space to work in that would allow discussions of an objective nature to...
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mikebispham
Jan 10, 2006 6:50 am
... eSkeptic the email newsletter of the Skeptics Society Monday, January 9th, 2005 ISSN 15565696 ... To view this newsletter with graphics and formatting,...
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Daniel N. Washburn
danw888
Jan 10, 2006 1:48 pm
I got home from a long week-end in West Virginia (unfortunately not at the Golden Palace) to find Mike's 'new list' message on my machine. It certainly looks...
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mikebispham@...
mikebispham
Jan 10, 2006 4:44 pm
Well, Richard Dawkins' 1st programme (more-or-less faith vs reason) was great, and there's been some insightful comment in the press... but is anyone ...
