experience

A question has been bugging me lately. I am an agnostic/atheist, and don't really believe in a soul or an afterlife. But if there is no soul, I wonder why I have this subjective experience. I think the brain is probably what is having this experience, but what part of the brain? Are the atoms...

I'm very much enjoying myself in these forums -- for the most part, I've found responses here much more intelligent and reasonable than in most other forums. I've enjoyed a number of my exchanges, both with those who've agreed with my points, and with those who've disagreed. Some of the...

Consciousness is a social experience A child’s symbolic action world is built from the outside in. We are sad because we cry; we do not cry because we are sad. I took a night course in acting and this is something I was taught. We were told to perform the action to induce the feeling. Only...

A member on another forum I frequent posted this. Apparently this person was an "ex-Christian" but had the following experience that has reaffirmed her faith, so to speak. I thought I'd post it to see what you guys thought of it. How would you guys explain it? Sleep paralysis? The power of...

It was a few years ago - somewhere between 1993 - 1995, but it was the wierdest thing (in the "paranormal" sense) that ever happened to me. My daughter and I were discussing movies, and she started describing a movie we had both seen at one time or another, set mostly in the Sydney Opera...

Essay #1: “Defining Your American Experience” YEEEAAAAAHHHH, what an experience! I have experienced the US for nearly twenty seven years. Born and bread, completely cultivated, and transmission-received from the culture, baby. I recall my Humanities teacher at Grand Junction High School...

I just wrote this for a small essay assignment in English. He wanted us to write on our "American Experience" and if we wanted a less ambiguous topic, he told us "tough" but I thought this was entertaining and brief enough to share. Enjoy. Essay #1: “Defining Your American Experience”...

Scientists seek to understand how 'the brain' causes human experience. Firstly, this is evidence supporting my claim that science views the [experienced] world-of-things as real-in-themselves. ... This is an error, of course, because nothing within experience is actually real. The distinction...

If I ask you - with regards to circumstances or any conceptual enquiry - how you feel now, or what you observe/sense now, or what you think now; only one conclusion is certain (assuming you comprehend the question and have the ability to process it): Your answer will be singular. This is...

Reading the article on mirages, I got remembering... Back when I was about 18, I thought I saw what was called the green flash phenomena, only (memory being unreliable as I was just waking up at the time) it wasn't exactly as described. The way I saw it was that I was just waking up and...

I just wanted to note that I had a pretty good day over there. I think there are some reasonable people. There are some jerks but then there are some here also. I'm not fond of the ham fisted rhetoric and the appeal to simply follow my instinct but overall it was fine. And I made my...

I got myself a traditional Chinese massage the other day by a 'Qi' master, and: Five minutes in a got a sick feeling in my stomach, like I wanted to throw up. Ten minutes in I got dizzy and light headed to the point that if I had of been standing I would have fallen over, so I had to ask him...

Hi all, I know (or used to know) two people quite well who joined cults some years ago. They are different cults and the two didn't know each other, but were quite similar in a lot of ways, and the cults they joined are similar in a lot of ways. They've both been in the cults for some years...

This is a modest but true story. Make of it what you wish. My mother was terminally ill from heart disease and was very near death. She was quite afraid of dying. The mother of my brother's girlfriend at the time (now his wife) allegedly had some psychic ability and was asked by my brother if...

OK, you've read the subject line but I'm not making any claims (I'm an atheist/skeptic, just like you). So here's my observation, looking for a rational explaination. It's August 1968, and I'm standing on a beach at a sub-tropical latitude around 10:00 pm on a moonless, clear night with a very...

Here's some information about the person leading the emergency operations for the federal government. You guessed it, it's a political appointee and he has no education or experience with emergency management. Mike Brown most recent job as "Judges and Stewards Commissioner" for the...

Good evening. I was just wondering if anyone was planning on attending these shows. I already bought tickets. Sounds like a fun night. Lucky for me I live pretty close. JPK

You really have to have that "aha!" moment for yourself. That moment when you really realise that your internal feelings of pararnormality are not to be relied on - that wishing doesn't work. Someone related an anecdote where a teacher was dowsing for a water pipe under the school oval, and got...

Ok, not really, but it was strange. Seventeen years ago I had a very close friend who was killed in a car accident. We were both teenagers at the time. Yesterday several times I had thoughts about him out of the blue, which isn't a common occurance. It wasn't until I was in bed trying to go...

Came across this, it's a bit dated, but thought it might be an interesting read. Could be a physiological explanation for out of body experiences. Not sure whether to post it in the medical topic though. http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/09/19/coolsc.outofbody/index.html I know that...

I posted this on a woo woo board, and I thought I'd bring it over here and share it with you good people... just for poops and giggles: I lived in a haunted house for two years. At least, they told me it was haunted. The history of the house was about as good as you're going to see for...

Some time in 2002, I was resting on my bed in my army camp, about to sleep and somehow there was a numb sensation all over me, and suddenly I found out that I couldn't move my face and it was as if some unknown force was threatening to rip the left side of my face apart from my mouth to my...

I was thinking about Rouser2's assertion that medical students got experience with patients who were knocked out. But I kept thinking about that, and I don't recall anything of the sort. An Anecdotal tale: When I was in the hospital for various chemotherapy treatments, very often the...

I'm not sure how it is with these professional magicians. What's going on here? a) He seriously believes he had contact with the next world b) He's just pattering like a magician and an entertainer c) He's BS-ing us as a celebrity who wants attention d) He's been misrepresented and misquoted...

When I was in my mid-20ties, I went home for lunch one day, stayed longer than I should have, which necessitated me running (literally) back to the office full-speed for a 1pm meeting. As I was running, I was transported back in time for a few minutes & I became not a 25 year old running back...

I live a few miles from Marsden and it is a local joke that the inhabitants there are rather too interested in sheep than is quite proper (I’m putting that politely). Seriously, the thing cries out for academic research. Assuming it is true (i.e. >= 1 sheep has been observed to slide or roll...

In a post to an NDE discussion board, I summarized the materialist viewpoint in the simplest language I could think of. I said, "I think everything is made of something." Among the replies I got was this: "What is the chemical formula of music? What is the molecular weight of the color red...

I have been participating in several threads on the Rapture Ready BB this week and I have compiled some observations to share. Under the name Fleetwood the three main threads in which I have contributed are two on church/state issues, http://rr-bb.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=123972...

I have gone through some severe changes in the last few years. Here is my story, and my experience with God: God: Hello my child. Humphreys: Hello? Who is that? God: I am your creator. I am God. I haven't been seeing much of you, have I? Humphreys: Errr, no sorry about that. I have been...

Hey all, Long time visitor, but I think this is only my second or third post. Generally I'm a skeptic on most matters, although I will say that one UFO story that has always kept my interest is the Travis Walton "Fire in the Sky" incident. After researching on the internet many times, I have...