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Woo certainly can be fun. I just do not think it is real. The reason I think
enlightenment is real is it is the realisation that there is nothing more to
life than what one has already experienced all one's life. The search for
something beyond does not discover something beyond (tho
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
> >
> > Re "Woo seems to rejoice in them, and it often seems as if something
as mundane as evidence is not necessary to determine truth.":
>
> Thanks for your reply. I agree with what you're saying. The only
thing I don't rule out is that there may be
Judy & Emily, thanks for watching. I got video images are from Google. The
music is "Adagio for Strings," one of JFK's favorite pieces, broadcast on the
radio at the announcement of FDR's death and on TV at the announcement of JFK's
death. It's also on the soundtrack for the movie "Platoon." Jac
Re "Woo seems to rejoice in them, and it often seems as if something as mundane
as evidence is not necessary to determine truth.":
Thanks for your reply. I agree with what you're saying. The only thing I don't
rule out is that there may be some woo stuff going on (*just* possibly
telepathy?
Apparently everything on earth came from outer space, including the
carbon that makes life possible. Everything came from somewhere - you
can't create something out of nothing. If everything came from outer
space, it's not a stretch to think that these same elements could create
life elsewhere.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
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> The brain seems to have a model of the body stored somewhere, somehow.
Meditators sometimes experience this as seeing the body with eyes closed
during meditation, which is interesting because the image of the body
never includes the head, only the w
Re "I will prefer a non-woo explanation over a woo explanation because it is
more logically connected to well-established physics . . . ":
I prefer a non-woo theory also. And Occam's razor suggests we should always go
for the simplest explanation. But there's a lot of woo in physics: quantum
th
I think what she's trying to say is that the scientists left out The Woo
Factor. Cultists always need The Woo Factor.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
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> This seems like it may explain
out-of-my-body-into-somebody-else's-body experiences, but not just plain
old out-of-body experience
This seems like it may explain out-of-my-body-into-somebody-else's-body
experiences, but not just plain old out-of-body experiences.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
http://www.livescience.com/41128-out-of-body-experiences-explained.html
http://www.livescience.com/41128-out-of-b