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Re: Consciousness [Re: Diploid]
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Diploid said:
The area in question is called the Angular Gyrus. It's located in the parietal lobe (top-back) of the brain near where the sense of balance is processed. The AG is larger in hominids than in other primates. It's involved in language processing and particularly with the comprehension of metaphors. People with injury to the AG are unable to interpret metaphors and can only comprehend the literal meaning of the words while all other language skills remain unaffected.
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The relationship to OOBs was first found while treating a woman for epilepsy. To localize the source of the patient's seizures, doctors at the University Hospitals of Geneva and Lausanne in Switzerland implanted electrodes in the patient's brain. With the patient awake, they probed her brain to map the pathology.
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Stimulation of the AG caused various sensations including "sinking into the bed", "falling from a height", "seeing myself lying in bed from above", "floating", and all the other sensations people who claim OOBs report.
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It's believed that electrical stimulation of the AG causes these sensations because it disrupts the ability of the brain to make sense of balance and the sense of touch.
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This was reported in the journal Nature in 2002.


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This is very interesting information, thanks for putting this up....!  :thumbup:  I just have a basic fold out chart here, but it shows the Angular Gyrus somewhat in line with the eyes and the inner ears....   
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Diploid said:
Do you not realize that if the military had the slightest inkling that these powers were for real, it would be the most heavily funded area of research since the Manhattan Project because these types of powers would instantly trump every other weapon humans have ever invented?
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Imagine being able to look inside your enemy's most secret military facilities without them even knowing.


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Military, weapons, spying....?  I knew Randi's $1,000,000 had a hefty yet "discreet" price tag....    :smirk:
(my own "imagined" conspiracy theories aside.... :rolleyes: )


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Re: Consciousness [Re: eMotionALLmotion]
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They ditched the project because they learned, just like Hitler did, that you can't use astral projection and psychic powers for evil (control & manipulation through fear) and destruction and get away with it unscathed.

It's like when they tried to make "super-warriors" by dosing them with insane amounts of LSD. Yeah.. that's gonna happen :lol:

"it's hard to kill the enemy when you're on MDMA"


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Re: Consciousness [Re: Shroomism]
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They ditched the project because they learned, just like Hitler did, that you can't use astral projection and psychic powers for evil and destruction and get away with it unscathed.

That's convenient.

How about using it for good, like stopping terrorists or finding Bin Laden? The government can't use magic powers for this either?

Meanwhile Randi's prize remains unclaimed for 40 years and counting, and all the mystics just keep on talking but never demonstrating.


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Republican Values:

1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

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Re: Consciousness [Re: Diploid]
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:yawn:

I'm a terrorist according to the government. And how do you know they didn't use a psychic to find Bin Laden in his little hole? Were you there?


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Re: Consciousness [Re: Shroomism]
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And how do you know they didn't use a psychic to find Bin Laden in his little hole?

*yawn*

Mystical types used this argument when the military couldn't find Sadam too. Then they found him. Can't you at least come up with an original conspiracy theory?

What about Randi's prize? How about Swami's? Didn't you agree to demonstrate to Swami? How long has it been since your promise? Are you ever going to keep your word or are you all talk and no demonstration too?


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Republican Values:

1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

Edited by Diploid (05/30/05 03:39 AM)

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Re: Consciousness [Re: Diploid]
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What did I agree to demonstrate to Swami?
I don't claim to be a master psychic, I'm just a soul in a human body experiencing life and learning through evolution. Don't you be absurd. What about Randi's prize?


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Re: Consciousness [Re: Shroomism]
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You claimed in the recent telepathy thread the following:

and it works best in my experience with someone you are close with. I did this with my good friend at we had an 8 out of 10 success rate.

Please give ma a cogent answer as to why you will not go win the Randi Foundation's million dollars. An 8 out of 10 success rate is more than enough to win easily. It costs you nothing to try; they will even provide you with a local contact for the pre-test so you don't even have to travel. How much easier can this be if you are the real McCoy?

I'll chance a guess at the reason you won't apply. You have no such powers and like all other mystics before you, can only talk about your powers but you cannot demonstrate them.

Talk is cheap, and that's all mystics ever do.  :syringe:


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Republican Values:

1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

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Re: Consciousness [Re: Diploid]
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:blah:

That's one in a million crazy experiences I've had. I felt like sharing it. I don't sit here and talk about them all day. Nor do I feel like making an effort to prove myself to you or Randi. Nor is said friend even in the same country as me right now. If you or Randi want to come travel with me, I'd be obliged to take you along and you see what you may see. But I don't sit around practicing telepathy all day, when I have the time to do that I'll be sure to let you know. I was sharing one profound experience I had, not claiming I am a master telepath.


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Re: Consciousness [Re: Shroomism]
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That's one in a million crazy experiences I've had.

A one-off event that cannot be distinguished from what would happen anyway given random chance is not mystical.

Nor do I feel like making an effort to prove myself to you or Randi.

Not even to get rich? Alright.

when I have the time to do that

Eh, if you were rich, you'd have more free time. But somehow you prefer to be poor than demonstrate all the various powers you claim just once.

You were very matter-of-fact about your telepathy in that thread. You're backpedaling now that I called your bluff.


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Republican Values:

1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

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Re: Consciousness [Re: Diploid]
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Shroomism and I just got finished smoking a doob, and coherently discussing what a dick you are for doubting his skills in the astral plane..


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My Unitarian Jihad Name is: The Shotgun of Sweet Reason

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Re: Consciousness [Re: Diploid]
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I'm doing no backpedaling, I only move forward. I am still matter of fact about my telepathic experiences. They are very personal and intimate communications through direct subconscious links. Do I call it mystical? No, I call it natural.

Would I like to be rich? Sure, so I could buy a nice laptop and an RV and a bunch of music equipment and a healing art studio and give a bunch of money to my family and people who need it. Do I actively seek out material possessions? No. That would be nice. But maybe I like being poor, maybe I need to experience it that way. Am I supposed to justify my existence to you? Maybe I will be rich someday. Rich in what way though?

I like my life. I have a lot of challenges that I face and thus learn from. I have a lot of friends and people who love me, who I love. If I were to take Randi's challenge, I would be damn sure I was prepared for it, by doing it a million times without fail, taping it, witnesses, etc. I don't go into something like that half-assed. I also don't have that kind of energy to expend, I have priorities in life, people to take care of, places to go. You say I'm making false claims about experiences you didn't experience, I say whatever. I mention a time I had an amazing experience with a very close friend and a telepathic bond, you tell me to prove it to the world. What if I told you about the times I was intimately close to a person I love and our souls merged into one, would you want me to prove that too?

Or how about when I take a shit, and have a divine revelation at the same time. Is that mystic?

Sorry for being sarcastic. I just don't understand why I'm supposed to center my life around proving randi wrong and getting a million dollars. If it happens, it happens. So be it. But what the fuck? I have enough things to worry about as it is. If he comes to my door I'll invite him in.


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Re: Consciousness [Re: Kalix]
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Shroomism and I just got finished smoking a doob, and coherently discussing what a dick you are for doubting his skills in the astral plane..

Ad hominems are the recourse of those who cannot refute my argument. You get frustrated that your position is untenable and so attack me rather than support your ideas. :shrug:


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Republican Values:

1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

Edited by Diploid (05/31/05 08:22 AM)

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Re: Consciousness [Re: Shroomism]
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I am still matter of fact about my telepathic experiences.

But you'd rather be poor and bitch about no free time than demonstrate them ONCE and get rich.

This does not makes sense. :rolleyes:

Do I actively seek out material possessions? No.

Then why not win the prize and donate it to a worthy charity? Perhaps to the Shroomery?

I have priorities in life, people to take care of,

You could take better care of them if you were rich. But noooo, you'd rather sit on the Shroomery and TALK about your non-powers rather than demonstrate them ONCE.

Let me repeat, it costs you nothing to demonstrate your power to the Randi Foundation. They will provide a local contact. There is no cost. You have everything to win and nothing to lose.

Still, you sit here and talk and talk and talk, but you will not demonstrate all that you talk about.

Sorry for being sarcastic. I just don't understand why I'm supposed to center my life around proving randi wrong and getting a million dollars.

Are you so selfish that you will not at least win the million so you can donate it to a needy and worthy charity?


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Republican Values:

1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

Edited by Diploid (05/30/05 03:37 AM)

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Re: Consciousness [Re: Diploid]
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Ok, fine, I give up. I seek the prize. I want to be rich.
Let me go find some aliens to go to Randi's house.
Where is my laborotory.


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Re: Consciousness [Re: Shroomism]
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Why don't you just admit you have no special powers? :shrug:


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Republican Values:

1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

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Re: Consciousness [Re: Diploid]
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I don't have any special powers.
Just what comes natural :shrug:

btw - I just looked.. and Randi's rules and limitations are lame.


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Re: Consciousness [Re: Shroomism]
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Randi's rules and limitations are lame.

*yawn*

The applicant and the foundation mutually agree in advance on the test protocol in writing. The only rules are that you cannot cheat. If you do what you said you were going to do, you go home with a million bucks. It's as simple as that.


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Republican Values:

1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

Edited by Diploid (05/30/05 03:52 AM)

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Re: Consciousness [Re: Diploid]
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Diploid said:
Shroomism and I just got finished smoking a doob, and coherently discussing what a dick you are for doubting his skills in the astral plane..

Ad hominems are the recourse of those who cannot refute my argument. You get frustrated that you position is untenable and so attack me rather than support your ideas. :shrug:


Any non-linear mode of thought is difficult to prove in a linear fashion, or scientifically. People who have had astral experiences, and linked to other people on a level higher than the material have difficulty explaining it to people who haven't, in any linear, scientific, or easily understandable terms... Novelty is  the easiest way to express that which does not exist on the same lowly plane as us..
  The unprovable truth still remains.. Humans have but one consciousness that is shared by all human beings. In everyday life most people only have ego-based perceptions of reality, but for some, easier than others, this boundary can be dissolved, and knowledge, communication, and love become a universally understood expression of humanity.


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Re: Consciousness [Re: Kalix]
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have difficulty explaining it to people who haven't

No skeptic, least of all me, cares in the least about your explanation of how it happens. How it happens is not relevant.

All I want to see is you doing what you say you can do. No mystic has ever once demonstrated what they say they can do.


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Republican Values:

1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

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Re: Consciousness [Re: Diploid]
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Quote:
- Applicant agrees that all data (photographic, recorded, written, etc.) gathered as a result of the testing may be used freely by the JREF.

- All of the applicant's expenses such as transportation, accommodation, materials, assistants, and/or all other costs for any persons or procedures incurred in pursuit of the reward, are the sole responsibility of the applicant. Neither the JREF nor JR will bear any of the costs.

- When entering into this challenge, the applicant surrenders any and all rights to legal action against Mr. Randi, against any persons peripherally involved, and against the James Randi Educational Foundation, as far as this may be done by established statutes.



Translation - we can manipulate the results all we want.. and you can't do anything about it. haha.


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