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Hak: I don't know how old you are, but you may remember reading the 1960's books written by Carlos Castaneda. In one of his adventures, Don Juan, the Indian sorcery tells him this very thing. The mind has been conditioned in what to "see" and what can be described as real. When someone catches...

S.R.L: I did not mean to make an ad hominem attack on McKenna. There is nothing wrong with being a word smith, and while I have not researched McKenna as deeply as I would like, I have listened to several of his lectures, and find that I agree with a large percentage of his insights into the...

Spookie: Welcome, and thanks for the great story. I have only seen one UFO myself, and at first thought it was Venus. For some reason I kept looking at it while I was driving west, and just when I was about to write it off as a planet, (which a lot of folks mistaken for a UFO), the darn thing...

very cool. Pb

Wow, I have never been much of a "ghost guy", but these stories are GREAT! Thanks, and rather than listening to some carnie act, or some hack author trying to hawk his or her book, I would love to listen to these kinds of stories from real people. Great fun and a real education into the human...

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a great educator. He is also a logical positivist. He uses ad hominem from a very passive aggressive approach to make fun of those who have seen things they have no explanation for. This includes people who have walked on the moon, and who have seen, quite literality...

I was going to leave this thread alone, as one has to learn when to walk away, but I got to respond to the last comment to Pair of Cats'. Did someone mention Dowsing in the realm of "woo woo"???? Interesting take. This is just why we need open minds. Great peer reviewed paper on dowsing: "The...

Yea, hak, same here. I read this and said, "What the hell does polemic mean"? Thanks for stretching my vocabulary Hotkafka! <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p>

What "bet"? Science has nothing to do with ethics other than rules like GLP, and animal cruelty laws that come from outside sources. I think your argument is a non-issue. Science is a great way to acquire knowledge, but one has to define what kind of knowledge we are talking about. I can...

Your question about what is the “best” form of knowledge is right out of the Richard Dawkins book. This is like asking “which is better, a humming bird, or a basket ball”. The two have no relation to each other. Science does nothing to answer questions on ethics. Science can just as easily...

I think you are missing the point. One cannot separate the human behavior and the scientific method, although we keep trying. The argument you are putting forward has once again, been around for thousands of years Pythagoras thought of mathematics as part of the perfect and eternal, while he...

Trained observer-no offense, but I take it, that you do not work in the physical sciences? Don't be that guy. Science is just a tool that uses deductive and inductive thinking in the form called "the scientific method" or "scientific methodology".　 Humans are humans, and I have found small...

Good post on the human reaction to the mind/brain issue. And there are some hypotheses out there that state that the "mind" is nothing more than tissues and chemical reactions on a very physical level. This debate, between the mind/brain, and western rationalism has been going on for hundreds of...

I Don’t know guys, all the above are very good view points, and this is what science is all about. The "nit-picking", is what we need to do. I don't know if anyone has followed the peer review process, but it makes what we do look very docile by comparison. I agree that we need to find out...

Once again, we are slipping into the realm of belief. The statement that J.C was once head of the most prestigious UFO research organization, and therefore his views are correct is called Appeal to authority, which is a common logical fallacy. It is assumed that the statement is correct because...

"In there lies the rub" as the bard would say. The idea that: "there hasn't been any real evidence for the belief that we are being visited", is the problem. As I have said in the past, I would estimate that there are about 1 percent, (while Blue Book and NSAS’s Condon Report puts the number...

No one is saying that the brain is "supernatural". I do however think that the AI folks are a long shot off understanding the human brain much less the mind. In my experience, (which is small, as my professional focus is in physical chemistry, and not bio-chemistry, however I have had the...

Wait, Wait, Wait.　 "A silicon chip used to replace the hippocampus"????? How would one "wire" this chip in? What would they use to connect to the presynaptic terminal? Would they flash weld a gold filament to a living cell? Last I heard, cells do not communicate by Boolean logic. I know that the...

One almost has to work in the federal government in order to understand its reality. While it is true that there were probably rogue administrative officers that got a bug up their butts, and did some wacky stuff like attempt to debunk UFO's or infiltrate a certain organization, this was by no...

[FONT=Calibri]Time for a reality check:I know James. Having been a neighbor of James C. in our little mountain valley of Bellvue, CO., I have to say from a personal viewpoint, that James is a stand-up guy, and have helped our community by getting it designated as a historical landmark to prevent...