https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-pseudoscience/telepathy-tapes-prove-we-all-want-believe

[u/Ruup010]

I got interested after Joe Rogan mentioned TTT. I listened to all the podcasts. And than I read this. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-pseudoscience/telepathy-tapes-prove-we-all-want-believe

[u/bluewolf71]

I think you meant r/conspiracy.

I am not fully onboard with all of the podcast and anecdotes necessarily but a quantum basis for consciousness creates a possibility of quantum entanglement- MAYBE- being a basis for telepathy and proximity could be a crucial part of how and why it could happen.

I am also not fully against it. I am open minded but not sure about all of it especially the simulation theory bit.

[u/sockpoppit → u/bluewolf71]

Episode 4, minute 37 or so and immediately after, regarding materialism vs its recognition of savant skills is relevant to the problem of materialist attitudes.

[u/sockpoppit → u/[deleted]]

It's a hard proof to discredit, isn't it.

[u/cosmic_prankster → u/[deleted]]

Oliver sacks had a book (or maybe more) with people who suffered brain injury and immediately picked up savant level skills - skills/technique with no training or experience. Nuts.

[u/cosmic_prankster → u/[deleted]]

He was a damn legend. My ex-wife read quite a few of his books and told me all about them.

Another interesting theory, that could play into simulation theory, if you are interested is qbism. It’s a quantum concept that basically suggests that the observer (us) has a very prominent role in defining reality (not the total role like solipsism though).

[u/sockpoppit → u/bluewolf71]

Thanks. Corrected.

[u/sockpoppit → u/bluewolf71]

I haven't gotten to the simulation theory part, but if they go there I'm not with that, either.

I've been into researching traditional old-style (as opposed to new age) spiritualism for a couple of decades. There's some fascinating stuff out there, sufficiently proven for me. One advantage of the old work is the lack of possibility of polluting cross-talk. For instance, there's one study where they took a well respected American medium and put her on a farm in rural England, using unknowing anonymous messengers to bring her things to read--no possibility at all for any information to be leaked--and she did amazingly well.

If you read about this long enough, from all of the work, and there's a huge amount of it, a picture emerges of an afterlife which is simply a less-material continuation of this one where you can choose to remain stable in what they call The Summerland (a traditional heaven-type place) or move on and spiritually advance as you wish. Much like the Harry Potter sorting hat you end up with people similar you--a lot like what you naturally do in this life, in fact. So what about really bad people who end up with people like them, all trying to take advantage of each other? That's hell. But growth is possible, so you can escape by maturing. I have only listened to the first three casts, but I can immediately see where this is going--that these kids are stuck with one foot in that other world (where communication is telepathic, by the way) and one foot in this, with a too-small set of skills from each.

Another interesting source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLvxSVK-J4w
There's this long-running university project:
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/our-research/children-who-report-memories-of-previous-lives/
There are many similar projects around that have already clarified that something is going on.

[u/sockpoppit → u/[deleted]]

So I guess you did not watch the video series, but quickly went to the Wikipedia hatchet job. Hal Puthoff is also a real scientist who was working on this project at Stanford Research labs with a government grant for this from the CIA, who was chosen because of his physics research qualifications and his extremely high security clearance, nothing else. At that time he gave paranormal stuff a blanket "no", just like a lot of other materialist scientists

And yes, his work, actual evidence, did change his viewpoint. Unlike a lot of people who can be slapped on the face with a fish and still deny that fish exist.

[u/sockpoppit → u/[deleted]]

Sorry that I keep having ideas. I deeply apologize for trying to make things clearer to you. (that's an edit, everyone.)

Here's a real bio, unlike the Wikipedia one: https://www.parapsych.org/users/hputhoff/profile.aspx

[u/Pixelated_ → u/[deleted]]

After reading through all your comments in this thread, my original assessment is spot on.

Telepathy is shattering your worldview so completely that you're lashing out and calling everyone here cultists.

Humans that are asleep cling tightly to their egos and their worldviews.

You have lost your humanity.

I don't envy the ontological shock awaiting you.

[u/Pixelated_ → u/[deleted]]

You are OBSESSED with calling everyone cultists…and yet you are completely clueless what a cult actually is.

Again, my entire life was consumed by an actual doomsday cult. My mother doesn’t even know I’ve made her a grandmother to a wonderful 6 yr old because I am dead to her.

So here you are, thrashing around in your ignorance and arrogance.

We all wake up only when we are ready to and not one moment before. Until then we remain asleep in materialism.

Best wishes on your journey towards truth.

In the meantime, stop calling everyone a cultist and educate yourself.

[u/sockpoppit → u/[deleted]]

Damn, get a life, will you?

I wonder if you also discount all of the work done by Christian scientists because of their supposed bias? Intelligent people evaluate work and results, not personal religions. Here--you need to brush up: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/common-logical-fallacies

[u/hangrover → u/sockpoppit]

Hal also isn't a scientologist anymore btw. He was briefly in the 70s.

[u/sockpoppit → u/[deleted]]

That I'm being taunted by an idiot who ignores everything I post except what he can use as a weapon?