Tag: consciousness
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Demonic Possession vs Mental Illness: The Argument That Never Ended
For thousands of years, madness meant possession. Then psychiatry relabelled the symptoms and offered drugs that work. Both models have saved lives and both…
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How Jesus Cast Out Demons: The Method, and the Signs
The Capernaum crowd was not astonished that a demon left. Exorcists were common. They were astonished that nothing was used. What his contemporaries needed,…
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The Mandela Effect: Seven Images That Made Strangers Agree
A room full of strangers remembered a death that never happened. Then somebody tested it properly: forty famous images, seven that produce the same…
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Dreams That Predict the Future: The Records Kept in Advance
A psychiatrist went to Aberfan in 1966 and came back asking how many people had seen it coming. What his Premonitions Bureau found, what…
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Sleep Paralysis: Why Every Culture Describes the Same Demon
Chest pressure, total immobility, and a malevolent presence by the bed – recorded identically in Old English, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish and Brazilian tradition. One…
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Lucid Dreaming: The Message Sent From Inside a Dream
In 1975 a sleeping man moved his eyes in a pre-agreed pattern and proved lucid dreaming is real. What the brain does during it,…
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Near-Death Experiences: The Brain Spikes, It Does Not Fade
EEG flatlines 20 seconds after cardiac arrest. So why do 10-20% of survivors report structured, vivid experiences – and why does the dying brain…
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DMT: The Molecule Your Neurons Make for No Known Reason
The brain does synthesise DMT. The measured amounts are orders of magnitude too low to do anything. Both facts are true, and the second…
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The Pineal Gland: The Eye That Went Inside
Some lizards have a real third eye with a lens and a retina, and it is an extension of the pineal. What the human…