Spirituality – International Society for Paranormal Research

What it Would Mean to Never Die

Cool Worlds: Quantum Immortality With Professor David Kippling My thoughts on this video come down to one idea: how do we know who we are? What constitutes identity? Why are we not, in some way, everyone else? If consciousness is the substrate of reality, as many physicists and philosophers have considered, then isn’t our “uniqueness”Continue reading “What it Would Mean to Never Die”

Is the Paranormal a New Religion? Peter Laws and the Spiritual Quest Culture

I rarely ask anyone to watch a video, but if you are interested in the paranormal, if you consider yourself to be on a spiritual quest, if you are neither religious nor atheistic but consider yourself spiritually inclined or fascinated by the supernatural, then please, watch the video below. In it, Peter Laws talks aboutContinue reading “Is the Paranormal a New Religion? Peter Laws and the Spiritual Quest Culture”

Time, Ghosts, and the Haunting of Corriganville

Corriganville Ranch/Park is hidden in the east hills around Simi Valley, in a gulley between mountain ranges. It was a movie ranch, a theme park, and finally a regional park. The opening of Disneyland in 1955 killed off the theme park, and fires, distance from Los Angeles, and complicated land negotiation deals prevented any furtherContinue reading “Time, Ghosts, and the Haunting of Corriganville”

We Know We Have Died . . . And Then What?

Sam Parnia via the AWARE study determined that there is electrical activity in the brain that suggests (how, I am not sure) that we are aware of our physical death for at least 20 seconds and possibly much longer after our hearts have stopped beating and our lungs have given up the ghost, so toContinue reading “We Know We Have Died . . . And Then What?”

The Weirdness of Quantum Immortality

I was reading Robert Lanza’s new book, The Grand Biocentric Design recently, focusing especially on his discussion of the Quantum Suicide paradox and Everett’s multiverse. Briefly, here is the thought experiment summarized: ”A man sits down before a gun, which is pointed at his head. This is no ordinary gun; it is rigged to a machine that measuresContinue reading “The Weirdness of Quantum Immortality”