The very first line in this paper could be the issue XD
"Neuroscientists agree on the value of locating the source of consciousness within the brain."
https://t.co/vaALGxBawz
Rhea A White was a parapsychologist, librarian and bibliographer whose work ranged from ESP experiments to the development of the Exceptional Human Experience framework. She founded bibliographic services that helped preserve parapsychological research: https://t.co/OkbnXHm7Hz
"Placing great weight upon the failure of a given experimental scientist to obtain evidence of ESP is actually making the assumption that if ESP occurred, every experimental scientist who tries should be able to find it."
Joseph Gaither Pratt
"Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem
really intractable. Perhaps that is why current discussions of the problem give it little attention or get it obviously wrong"
~Thomas Nagel
Richet was explicit in rejecting premature conclusions. He did not claim that the survival of consciousness was proven, nor did he align himself with the spiritualist interpretations common in his era.
https://t.co/d6Yh5v7jlI
The Psi Enigma: When Anomalous Experiences Transcend the Everyday World, by Thomas Rabeyron, will be published 19 May by Routledge https://t.co/fPgmhEHk5M
A Russian man dreamed he was in an empty room, trying to pass through a wall. On it was a slogan “If you are brave, go through it.” His business associate Mr. Gorin then appeared, and he woke up.Later, he visited Gorin’s house and saw the exact same wall — but without the slogan
The Persistence of Ghosts: Real Ghost Encounters, Residual Hauntings, and the Theory Behind Why Spirits Persist, edited by Tim R. Swartz and Sean Casteel, was just published by Zontar Press.
Lost deep in a mine in West Virginia in 1927, Nick Yelchick falls asleep and dreams of his wife urging him to “follow me.” He awakens, sees his wife's face on the wall, and follows her for two hours until he finds safety. It turned out his wife had died while he was working.