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Nope, there's a number of scientists who've stepped away from the materialist side of things and conducted research in different areas, much to the bemusement of the dogmatic system of which they are members of. They're sniggered at but still believe that there are huge amounts of human experience that can't be explained away through the internal mechanics of the mind.
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Okay? Choice they made I guess. Fair play. It's a pointless thing to argue.
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Your theory on the mushrooms and brain synapses leaves me somewhat cold
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The Stoned Ape theory? I never once mentioned it. Different thread in a different time. Who knows. Terrance McKenna could be right, he could be wrong.
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Originally Posted by setanta
doesn't explain how our ancestors buried their kin with tools and quite often in a fetal position. And I'm talking thousands of years ago here. That would lead me to believe that even in our primative form, we still acknowledged rebirth or a journey when death comes. That's very interesting to me.
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Why does it need explaining? Why is it interesting? We still have certain bizarre customs today, don't we? Customs don't nessacerily need to arise for any particular reason or have any particular logical backing up. They choose to believe in an afterlife and choose to do with the dead what they did. Some people believe David Koresh is the Christ reborn.
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And with near death experiences, patients were able to give detailed accounts of what was going on in the operating theatre while they we heavily sedated and close to death. They could see it all occuring. Mental. I believe that there's others forces at work beyond the merely physical and I applaud any scientists who try to study these areas.
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This is not an uncommon occurence. I believe unintended intra-operative awareness is what you are reffering to, and it is by no means a prerequisite to the spiritual. It's very interesting [and often terrifying] stuff all the same, if you fancy looking it up.