Tag: science

Psychedelics inspired Biblical visions of the prophet Moses

May 18, 2010 | By | Reply More

Found : Psychedelics inspired Biblical visions of the prophet Moses High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week. Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, [...]

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Rapid acceleration in human evolution described | Health | Reuters

May 8, 2010 | By | Reply More

Found : Rapid acceleration in human evolution described | Health | Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Human evolution has been moving at breakneck speed in the past several thousand years, far from plodding along as some scientists had thought, researchers said on Monday. In fact, people today are genetically more different from people living 5,000 years [...]

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John Lilly, Ketamine and the Entities from ECCO

May 4, 2010 | By | Reply More

Found : John Lilly, Ketamine and the Entities from ECCO Later on, as the frequency of his use on K increased, Dr. Lilly began having contact with another alien intelligence agency, which he called (SSI), short for Solid State Intelligence. SSI was a supercomputer-like entity, much in the same techno-mystical vein as Philip K. Dick's [...]

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Science Fiction and Gnosticism

April 29, 2010 | By | Reply More

Found : Science Fiction and Gnosticism The gnostic religion, which flourished in the first through third centuries A.D., provides an excellent paradigm for the understanding of the type of religious awareness that much SF favors. The gnostics, regarded as heretics by the faction that became orthodox Christianity, were radical transcendentalists. They believed that man is [...]

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Male and Female brains, empathy and systematization

April 25, 2010 | By | Reply More

Found : Male and Female brains, empathy and systematization According to this theory, a person (whether male or female) has a particular "brain type". There are three common brain types: for some individuals, empathising is stronger than systemising. This is called the female brain, or a brain of type E. For other individuals, systemising is [...]

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Why I am Not a Postmodernist

April 21, 2010 | By | Reply More

Found : Why I am Not a Postmodernist Postmodernists complain that science is a cultural prejudice, and/or a tool invented by the current elite to maintain power, and/or only one "way of knowing" among many, with no special privilege. For postmodernists, science is "discourse", one system among many, maintained by a closed community as a [...]

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Perspectives on the structure of the superverse and implications for its transit and other means of exploitation

February 26, 2010 | By | Reply More

Found : Perspectives on the structure of the superverse and implications for its transit and other means of exploitation In early 2003 space appears to possibly be infinite in its depth and distance, even if mankind can only 'see' with his instruments out to as many lightyears as has been possible for light to travel [...]

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Predators 'drove human evolution'

February 10, 2010 | By | Reply More

Found : Predators ‘drove human evolution’ The popular view of our ancient ancestors as hunters who conquered all in their way is wrong, researchers have told a major US science conference. Instead, they argue, early humans were on the menu for predatory beasts. This may have driven humans to evolve increased levels of co-operation, according [...]

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Special K could be used to treat depression

February 1, 2010 | By | Reply More

Found : Special K could be used to treat depression LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists have unraveled how a horse tranquilizer and hallucinogenic night club drug known as "Special K" can ease depression, researchers said on Friday. Ketamine, which can also cause feelings of detachment, could pave the way for new treatments for people suffering from [...]

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Are We All Aliens? The New Case for Panspermia

January 29, 2010 | By | Reply More

Found : Are We All Aliens? The New Case for Panspermia Somewhat lost in the current panspermia revival is the intriguing flip-side of the "ubiquitous life" idea: If life could have come here from somewhere, why couldn't an Earth rock have been dislodged long ago, sending life to another planet or star system? "It is [...]

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