"It's so much junk science anymore. Paul Stamets speaks on this topic far better than I have throughout this discussion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxn2LlBJDl0"
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Self-confirmed atheists volunteer for a "mystical experience"...
Started Sep 25, 2017 0 Replies 1 Like
After this event, over 70% no longer identified with atheism. The study suggests that "mystical experience" may be a metanoia, a conversion experience for atheists. This is a study that was published…Continue
Unholy? Atheists should embrace the science of religion
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“Belief-ologists” are revealing how religion works. Belittling their work does nothing to further the secularists’ cause, but learning from it might...…Continue
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Professor Sapolsky Explains the Origin of Religion Part 1/2
"More modern research has shown that Robert Sapolsky was simply mistaken to assume religion is a mental disorder, and its origins have more to do with what neuroscientists today are calling a "complete" mystical experience more so than…"
Self-confirmed atheists volunteer for a "mystical experience"...
After this event, over 70% no longer identified with atheism. The study suggests that "mystical experience" may be a metanoia, a conversion experience for atheists. This is a study that was published earlier this year, 2017. In the link below, Roland Griffiths elaborates more on this very interesting research.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bu3q3GMHfE#t=30m31See More
"It might. There was a study published this year, 2017, where self-confirmed atheists signed up for a "mystical experience" via psilocybin in a pill. Guess what happened to the atheists? After this event, over 70% of atheists no longer…"
"Read it, dismissed it, but I'll give it another try the next time I swallow a handful of shrooms. Might make more sense that way."
Unholy? Atheists should embrace the science of religion
“Belief-ologists” are revealing how religion works. Belittling their work does nothing to further the secularists’ cause, but learning from it might...IT IS just over a decade since Richard Dawkins lit the blue touchpaper with his book The God Delusion. It introduced much of the world to the so-called new atheism – a forceful rejection of religion based on the premise…See More
"To the text highlight in bold, I'm going to whole-heartedly disagree. I think that's the entire point of eastern philosophy; in Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, etc. That there is a fundamental underlying experience of what Hindus refer to as…"
"I agree. I mean, meditation experiences or psychedelic experience are simply, by themselves, just experiences. It's what you bring back from those experiences and make practical in the natural world/universe/multiverse that we share.
As for…"
"While it is true that the brain is "always doing chemistry," what these studies and speculations I'm referring to are highlighting is a very specific sort of chemistry the brain has the potential of doing that is unlike any other…"
"Well, this is precisely my point. That the "persuasive empirical descriptions" are one and the same with the so-called "drug-induced state." You see, because you produce these chemicals naturally. So, what I was attempting to…"
"I don't know if you've read Dr. Rick Strassman's book "DMT: The Spirit Molecule," but he makes a speculation there that what meditation may be is the induction of your body's natural endogenous N,N-DMT. So, the…"
"Even Richard Dawkins is what he calls a "De facto atheist" which means he believes it's highly unlikely that there is a God, and so lives under the assumption that God does not exist. However, what he doesn't say is "God…"
"Well, this is another area I'd like to understand of Hoffman's. I did read his original notion at EgoDeath.com, but Cyber Disciple seemed to suggest that he's slightly refined his perspective, but has it changed from what it…"
"I don't think we're specifically talking about the God of Abraham in this particular thread. It's worth pointing out that in most English-speaking countries, when people say the word "God" the most common notion is the God…"
"Matt Dillahunty has given an interesting answer to this question. He said the honest answer for an atheist of what they would accept as evidence would be "I don't know" which supposedly frustrates the hell out of theists, because they…"
"I saw that, too, Belle. Reg, you're separating yourself from "the universe." As Carl Sagan once said, "The cosmos is also within us. We're made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.""
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- At 5:02pm on August 26, 2013,
Strega said…
Jimmy, before you go too far with Brian, do recheck the bannable offences in the TA Guidelines. I don't want you to trip over number 4 by mistake.
Thanks
Strega
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