Excerpt from a January 2008 item in the UK's The Daily Mail newspaper: In 1995, the US Congress asked two independent scientists to assess whether the $20 million that the government had spent on psychic research had produced anything of value. And the conclusions proved to be somewhat unexpected. Professor Jessica Utts, a statistician from the University of California, discovered that remote viewers were correct 34 per cent of the time, a figure way beyond what chance guessing would allow. She says: "Using the standards applied to any other area of science, you have to conclude that certain psychic phenomena, such as remote viewing, have been well established. "The results are not due to chance or flaws in the experiments." Of course, this doesn't wash with sceptical scientists. Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, refuses to believe in remote viewing. He says: "I agree that by the standards of any other area ...
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How does it feel to be Auto-Tuned Dean? Does the scientific part rejoice while the musician in you is horrified? ;)
Tor
There's an interesting article over at FQXi on future events reaching back to to shape the present.
http://fqxi.org/community/articles/display/156
I'm just interested on the link between this and Prof. Daryl Bem's paper on presentiment.
For Bem's experiments it's the mind reaching back, and that's a real measurement - then is that one specific data set in this whole vast "reaching back" effect in the universe at large? Is it proof?
It almost seems the universe is mind-like itself, as quantum theory sort of implies (information-based) and also self-sustaining, if Paul Davies is right.
Actually there is a conference on "time" going on now, sponsored by FQXi at:
http://fqxi.org/conference/2011
The Symphony of Time should be the opening theme!
Paul Davies is there as well as Prof. Bernard Carr. Perhaps he may discuss this idea as he has a great interest in both your field and of course is a cosmologist. Just a few thoughts.
Its a great piece of symphony. It really takes you through time.
I am a graduate student working in the field of neuroscience. I would love to go through more of these creative productions and know more about the philosophy.
Slightly off topic but...... I need help.
Who can tell me where I can read about what exists in the life beyond death?
Specifically, is it more of the same; do we perfect our life skills; do we hang around and wait and wait and wait?
Im looking for documented discussion on life beyond life.
Any helpers?
Cheers
Rosemary Breen
http://psychicrevolution.com/
There is a huge literature on NDEs and other after-death subjective experiences. There is a smaller but more objective literature on experimental tests of mediumship. But of course no living person knows for sure what, if anything, may persist after bodily death.
I'm not aware of any scientific studies of the afterlife but, for those who might be interested, there has been a lot written by mediums....
http://www.spiritwritings.com/library.html
Scroll down to the section on "Future Life in the Spirit World"
For example ...
Letters From a Living Dead Man
http://www.spiritwritings.com/LivingDeadMan.pdf
War Letters From a Living Dead Man
http://www.earthlypursuits.com/WLLDM/WLLDMan.htm
Last Letters From a Living Dead Man
http://www.spiritwritings.com/BarkerLastLetters.pdf
http://www.near-death.com/index.html
Had a dream with you in it last night. We were at some kind of retreat center and you offered insence at an altar. You sked me about Tich Nat Hanh and wether his teaching was Rinzai or Soto Zen... I said that Vietnamese zen was so different from traditional Japanese zen that it eas hard to say even though it techinacally speaking belongs to the Rinzai branch of zen...
Maybe I just miss seeing some new posting on your blog...
/sante
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0454D-7qF4&feature=related
(with favourable reference to Rupert Sheldrake near the end).