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8/11/2011 8:47:52 AM
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While I was gone last week, Nightline ran a segment about out-of-body experiences and Bob Woodruff interviewed atheist superwoman Margaret Downey for a perspective that doesn’t involve the supernatural. She sets him straight about why those visions occur, politely counters … Continue reading →

From Friendly Atheist by @hemantsblog
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8/11/2011 7:00:09 AM
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Michael Shermer undergoes a personal test of the famed ‘God Helmet.’ Filed under: Michael Shermer, Psychology/Neuroscience Tagged: Michael Shermer, OOBE, Out of Body Experience, Paranormal, Science, Skeptic, Video, Videos, YouTube

From The Call of Troythulu
http://kestalusrealm.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/michael-shermer-out-of-body-experiment-repost/
10/9/2011 7:26:51 AM
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Hi All, I have already told you about an event coming up at the Dana Centre on November 25 considering the nature of out-of-body experiences. The chair for the evening will be Narender Ramnani and the speakers will be as follows: Chris French: Introduction to OBEs Henrik Ehrsson: OBE, Illusions of Body Ownership and the [...]

From The Skeptic: Blog
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10/9/2008 10:59:20 AM
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Recently it seems that there’s a new scam out there.   For years, there have been various quacks out there saying that we need to “energize,” “detoxify” or “rebalanced” our bodies, but now there are many who think the answer is to “alkalize” the body. To this end, a number of products have been pushed [...]

From Depleted Cranium
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3/5/2010 4:35:59 AM
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by Kevin Bridges Article ID: 1410 What do you think of when you hear the words “out of body experience”? Perhaps you imagine an ill-fated victim of a car accident, a spirit floating inside an ambulance looking down at EMTs as they try frantically to revive his broken, unconscious body. Explore the wilds of the Internet and you’ll [...]

From Digital Bits Skeptic
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4/18/2010 9:36:03 AM
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This is possibly the most important portion of the Introductory chapter.  Here, Jeffrey Long looks at the twelve most common aspects of a NDE, according to his research.  These are:

1.  Out-of-body experience (OBE):  Separation of consciousness from the physical body.
2.  Heightened senses.
3.  Intense and generally positive emotions or feelings.
4.  Passing into or through a tunnel.
5.  Encountering a mystical or bright light.
6.  Encountering other beings, either mystical beings or deceased relatives or friends.
7.  A sense of alteration of time or space.
8.  Life review.
9.  Encountering unworldly ("heavenly") realms.
10.  Encountering or learning special knowledge.
11.  Encountering a boundary or barrier.
12.  A return to the body, either voluntary or involuntary.

He goes into a bit of detail for each.

1.  [...]

From The Skeptical Society of St. Louis aggregator
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2/18/2010 10:06:00 AM
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Hi All, A reminder of tomorrow evening’s event at the Dana Centre, for which you are asked to pre-book. Full details at: http://www.danacentre.org.uk/events/2008/11/25/455 Speakers Chris French, psychologist, Goldsmiths College, London Ray Tallis, neurologist and philosopher, (formerly) University of Manchester Henrik Ehrsson, neuroscientist, Karolinska Institute, Sweden Nigel Wright, who has had an out-of-body experience Facilitator: Narender [...]

From The Skeptic: Blog
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11/25/2008 7:23:32 AM
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2/21/2011 2:38:15 PM
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The Amazing One describes a personal experience that many paranormal believers claim that skeptics simply cannot have much less admit to having…Now who is being more closed-minded in making that assertion? Filed under: James Randi Tagged: Caltech, James Randi, OBEs, Skeptic, Talk, Video

From The Call of Troythulu
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11/24/2010 4:08:21 AM
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Near-Death Experiences are Lucid Dreams, Experiment Finds – Yahoo! News. In a new exercise by a California organization that studies lucid dreaming, volunteers have been conditioned to dream near-death experiences, including the classic scenario of flying toward a light at the end of a tunnel. The researchers say their experiment demonstrates that these heavenly visions must be… more

From Skeptic.com
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3/20/2012 12:35:30 PM
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Anyone up for an outing to the Mind Body Wallet festival this time around? I caught the posters in time this year.

The event is on the last weekend in February and has a $10 entry.

I may or may not be here for it. I've put the word out in Wellington that I'm heading that way. If I get any takers on the backpacking thing then I'll be up there. So, I'm also looking for someone to step up and coordinate this should that happen.

Anyone interested in an outing to see what the other side believe in?

From Skeptics in the Pub NZ
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2/10/2011 10:17:00 AM
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Alex Lickerman is a physician at the University of Chicago who, until recently, was in charge of all primary care doctors at the hospital (he’s now head of student health).  He’s also a secular Buddhist who writes about medicine and matters “spiritual” at his website, “Happiness in this world.” (Alex also helped bring Sam Harris [...]

From Why Evolution Is True
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/why-out-of-body-and-near-death-experiences-dont-prove-god/
5/23/2011 2:32:59 AM
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For about the last 6 months I've been interested in alternate states of consciousnesses, in...

From JREF Forum
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10/20/2011 9:39:42 AM
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In today’s episode, I speak to Dr Rosemary Mardling from Monash University on the 3-body problem and the n-body problem. - What is the 3-body problem? How does it relate to astronomy? - How was it worked out in the early days? - What was Newton’s approach to the problem? - How does the 3-body [...]

From Brains Matter
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9/14/2011 9:22:25 PM
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Not the usual podcast on fallacies - but there was plenty of humbug to be hunted during our family outing to the “Mind, Body, Spirit Festival”.

From Hunting Humbug 101
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7/7/2009 9:06:22 AM
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I've been curious about something for a while, and it's only recently occured to me that I might...

From JREF Forum
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9/1/2010 8:55:50 PM
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A small non-profit project which I donate to, for more than a few years now, has been exploring the...

From JREF Forum
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12/12/2010 4:33:42 PM
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In Plato's Symposium, Diotima says that "if anyone's life is worth living and if anyone becomes...

From JREF Forum
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6/6/2011 7:37:38 PM
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This January I’m working on a project about gender and religion, and this last week I’ve been reading Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble. It’s been making me think about all sorts of assumptions that we hold and while I haven’t sorted out all my thoughts on the matter, I thought I’d just throw out some of [...]

From Teen Skepchick
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1/9/2012 7:04:34 AM
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I'm entirely a skeptic on pretty much any spiritual idea, but out-of-body experiences have been confusing me. There have been many stories of patients under the knife who are completely unconscious, but have been known to recall many events that happened during the surgery.

For example, I watched a Nat-Geo documentary about consciousness. There was a man undergoing heart surgery who said that he saw the surgery "from the ceiling" and that he was able to recall specific events that no unconscious person could know.

There are many other stories similar to this...

Thoughts?

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9/11/2011 10:15:08 AM
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On this week's show we discuss a news report that vitamin C may interfere with chemotherapy drugs' ability to fight cancer, a dog that can supposedly do math, and the announcement of a new study that will figure out if out of body experiences are more than just hallucinations.

Show notes (Available at ottawaskeptics.org):

Vitamin C + Chemotherapy
Original news report: link
Analysis by Oncologist David Gorski: link

Maggie the Counting Dog:
Video of the Dog Counting: link

Out of Body Study:
Original Press Release: link
CBC Coverage: link
BBC Coverage:

From The Reality Check
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1/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
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On this week's show we discuss a news report that vitamin C may interfere with chemotherapy drugs' ability to fight cancer, a dog that can supposedly do math, and the announcement of a new study that will figure out if out of body experiences are more than just hallucinations.

Show notes (Available at ottawaskeptics.org):

Vitamin C + Chemotherapy
Original news report: link
Analysis by Oncologist David Gorski: link

Maggie the Counting Dog:
Video of the Dog Counting: link

Out of Body Study:
Original Press Release: link
CBC Coverage: link
BBC Coverage:

From The Reality Check
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10/10/2008 4:32:00 AM
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I gave a public lecture on Tuesday night to the Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution and talked about  the separation of body and mind as a basis for belief in the supernatural. Most people are dualist in that they believe that the mind is not tethered to the body. We feel that we occupy [...]

From Bruce M. Hood
http://brucemhood.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/out-of-my-mind/
2/4/2010 9:58:26 PM
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Yes, I’m still around. This blog has been on something of an unofficial hiatus lately thanks to work progressing with gusto on my first novel (details here). But I’m going to do my best to keep A Sceptical I plodding ever onward, to keep my mind on the topics that interest me, if [...]

From A Sceptical I
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1/26/2010 1:44:36 AM
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