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It worked! Keep in mind that Jeffrey Schwartz is not particularly religious, as it says in the essay. And the mind down perspective is explained better in the article than I did it in my next to last post above. Kim

Rick, here's that article. And don't be misled by the source of the article. Apologists are advocates of a position, of course, but I did like this article. Hope the url works this time I try it. A Rational Argument for the Soul Kim

Hey, Rick. But Jeffrey Schwartz, a psychiatrist and professor at UCLA, has done extensive work on obsessive compulsive disorder, specializes in it. I remember back in the nineties reading his book Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive Compulsive Behavior. And this was no mere self help...

Hi, Rick. First of all, and Steve will correct me if I'm wrong, I don't see Steve necessarily trying in his post above to prove empirically the existence of the soul. He is relating personal experiences, feelings, intuitions, feelings of compassion and wonderment, of the courage of particular...

Great post above, Steve. Very heartfelt. I enjoyed the post on the link you provided. The comments after it are very interesting, too. In fact, the whole site looks like something worth exploring further, and I will. Kim

An interesting post, Spooky, but I do stand by my post above. Of course, I don't agree. I think there is a clear and ingrained antipathy on the part of some to be presented with contrary evidence, and that such presentation invokes a lot of condemnation, as is evidenced by your recent post of...

This is a great thread, and I've posted only once, about Rick Strassman's DMT, The Spirit Molecule. And I'm just throwing in my views, and I've wanted to stay out because I see some great posts going back and forth, and it is all so fascinating. Rick, I agree that reality as experienced by...

Hi, Mike. I'm sorry if you are angry. I don't know why. I've been a contributor to this thread since its genesis, and it's a good one. I do have quite contrary opinions than you do about all this "reverse engineering" of the brain, and all that "we can build a human brain and we can do it in...

Wow. What prompted my post above was just the happenstance of rereading Roger Penrose and after a bruising battle against one of my chess computers, just sort of reflecting on my mechanical opponent across the board from me (figuratively).;) WHHOOOAAAAHHHH, Nellie, I didn't mean an onslaught...

This has been an interesting thread that I've enjoyed and have posted on, and I've been thinking about it. It made me reread Roger Penrose's book The Emperor's New Mind and to reread his interview with Susan Blackmore in Conversations on Consciousness, a book I recommended on a thread about...

Well, yes, I am concerned about those comments, because if the forum is to be taken seriously, there has to be some individual restraint on what's posted. Little read forum, probably true. But we are here on it, and separating the signal from the noise is something that should be done before...

I am glad that those quotes I highlighted were acknowledged as "exaggerated." They were quite strident. And may I say, the tarp you mention, Rick, was not there to hold in the radiation.:) Of course, quite more sophisticated measures have been taken and are being taken to insure against the...

My post could have been made on the Fukushima thread, and I am certainly not discounting the gravity of the disaster, but many nations are working on the problem since it happened, and the three articles below quite ameliorate some of the predictions on that thread and this one. On this thread...

Steve, I don't know what your needs are exactly, but I've always had a PC desktop, but when I was wishing for something smaller for podcasts I asked my youngest son who lives at home going to college if I could use his "original iPad". He'd sort of put it aside and used his apple laptop for...

Spooky, though I can pontificate sometimes insufferably on all sorts of topics, I have no medical training whatsoever, and my co-user of melatonin, Steve, would no doubt tell you also to perhaps run the melatonin by your doctor or maybe your pharmacist (I did both) before you take it. I know...

Yes, Spooky and Steve, DMT is an intriguing substance. I've heard Rick Strassman on a couple of shows, and he's a very interesting and reputable scientist, a medical doctor/psychiatrist, and his book The Spirit Molecule tells all the details of his government approved experiments at the...

Steve, a great interview. Alex Tsakiris on Skeptiko has, as you no doubt know, a host of interviews on near death and death and implications surrounding them, and all sorts of consciousness and the brain topics. His guests are very interesting and have a wide range of views, so I recommend his...

I've been a loyal listener of The Paracast since its inception, and a member of the forum since 2006. So, I didn't just sign up. Nor did I sign up and start doing all that is alleged. I believe in civil discussion and debate, and I think I tried hard to engage in it over the course of several...

Hi, Pixel. Bob started this thread with a stated purpose. I've really enjoyed his videos. Actually, I don't need to go back in time to learn things from the past, from the people of the past. I think my posts have shown, and I do it every day, that I have plenty of their own primary sources I...

That one had me mesmerized, Bob. It was a real ballet, and not a word in it. Yes, great knowledge of all three of those things you mentioned. If I, personally, Kim, somehow was transported back in time, I'm ashamed to say that I really would have nothing to teach them. Very humbling. Kim