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I've worked in the field of mental health for nearly 40 years and have always been fascinated with the occasional cases of parents bringing young children in due to their concern that something was radically wrong with their child when the child has said things unexplainable by way of our...

I thought this was about pot. In the early 70's when I was a lad, Acapulco Gold was a name for 1 type of cannabis.:D earl

The Afterlife Investigations 3 - Dr. David Fontana | My Curious Brain Though this fellow died last Fall, only now heard of his death. I'd long been a fan of his-a respected psychologist, academic, and prolific author specializing in transpersonal psychology, spirituality, and psychic...

The latest from psychologist and researcher, Gary Schwartz, who has made a career of attempting to research the stuff that doesn't fit a materialist view: http://drgaryschwartz.com/files/QuickSiteImages/GES_Consciousness_and_Spirit_OXFORD_Handbook_11_25_10_pdf.pdf earl

As some of you may know, I'm pretty convinced that very young children often have a natural psychic awareness that in most cases fades with age. So, I can easily entertain the notion that not all of what they claim to see that adults do not is necessarily "only in their imagination." A...

Have a good one. earl

Just popped in long enough to recommend to I Brian (and/or perhaps the miscreants I'm addressing this to:)) that, if I Brian really wants a community or even to maintain the once highly thoughtful interchange that once took place here, the tone will have to change here. It's one thing to have...

I've mentioned before here that my wife is a physical empath. Empaths are folks who somehow tap into others' emotional or physical states and, consequently, feel what they feel. In my wife's case, that means for years she will experience some physical symptoms and ultimately discover that that...

I, Brian, would you please show a couple of our newest registrants the door?:p earl

Was just cruising the web and ran across this detailed teaching to Tibetan Buddhists by the Dalai Lama on a specific practice. Though perhaps one has to have some insider's knowledge of Tibetan Buddhism to grasp some of this, there is just so much detail there on many aspects of Tibetan Buddhist...

Earlier this week while attending a seemingly minor medical follow-up appointment, I shared with my doctor symptoms I've been having for several months. Much to my amazement, he ran an EKG and informed me I had had a heart attack of which I had not been aware some months ago. Now, in a few days...

In honor of my scientific fundamentalist debating foil Tao, thought I'd post this discussion of scientific fundamentalism by Allan Wallace- psychologist, consciousness researcher and Vajrayana practitioner: Netscape Search Fundamentalism comes in all varieties of belief systems.;) earl

The recent discussion of limitations of scientific inquiry into understanding consciousness with the particular case of NDE's got me to thinikg that a separate thread about NDE research's implications for understanding consciousness/mind might be interesting. This is a paper by a physician in...

Netscape Search, (see 2007 conference summary in evolutionary metaphysics section 'cause it doesn't seem to link directly). Found it interesting that the theoretical speculators of human potential at Esalen are now directly utilizing the theological term panentheism in their current thinking. Earl

24 hour internet radio station run by Zen Mountain Monastery featuring dharma talks and tunes.:) WZEN.org - Zen Radio earl

Just ran across a line from a Buddhist sutra related to the Buddha's teachings in which it was said that he said: "He who sees me, sees the Dhamma. He who sees the Dhamma, sees me." Immediately thought of Jesus' comment in John 14: "He who sees me, sees the Father." Draw your own comparative...

Since I figured it was time to plant some more discussion seeds here for the fun of it, thought I'd share my peculiar view on Jesus Christ and my take on a Christianity. From time to time here, we speak of gnosticism-be it of the Christian variety or other. As I understand gnosticism, it was...

Did you really want them to list your age?;):D earl

I see that since the switch to the new site, I've been stripped of an avatar. Much too colorless that way & others have kindly brought my attention to my colorless existence which I had not noted before. However, when I attempt to edit the avatar & restore it, all of the avatar choices in my CP...

I've probably overshared my beliefs about the practice of Christianity lately. So I probably won't jump into this thread too. But thought it might be interesting to start one re what distinguishes the "practice" of Christianity. Buddhism for instance has both a set of beliefs about their...