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  1. Veyl

    Can you fake literally reading someone's mind?

    I believe you're talking about when the CIA wanted to reassign personnel from the project and shut down the program before coming up with a reason for why they had shut it down after the fact. Anyway, as for mentalism, there are plenty of ways to simulate reading someone's mind. The level of...
  2. Veyl

    Question about parapsychology and it's advancements.

    In applied psi, clairvoyance has been useful. Searching for missing people is one of the most obvious beneficial uses, though there are other potential uses (e.g., searching for narcotics). Psychic archaeology is essentially that faculty put into use for finding and examining historical sites...
  3. Veyl

    Does parapsychology study tulpas?

    Apologies, neglected to check this site for a while. As for your claims, they're not exactly substantiated. The closest I can see is the diversity of the range of phenomena (i.e, these may not be mechanistically related, and only grouped together for going against typically understood...
  4. Veyl

    Does parapsychology study tulpas?

    The existence is demonstrable; it is simply the explanations that are lacking. The discipline isn't predicated on the proposed causes for such phenomena, just the observations of them. Not quite sure why you're claiming that it's not a scientific discipline, given that. As for the quotation...
  5. Veyl

    Does parapsychology study tulpas?

    The first part would really be reliant on being able to differentiate between all the forms of extrasensory perception experimentally; outside of presentiment experiments for precognition, you'd be hard pressed adequately differentiate between the categories (experientially it's not like you...
  6. Veyl

    Soul coeternal with god ?

    I'm not sure if the soul possessing eternality as the incarnation of a God is exactly banal, but it does have a different character than just being eternal. There's also lots of weird sub-areas within this, such as monistic concepts that would seem to suggest something more impersonal, or...
  7. Veyl

    Soul coeternal with god ?

    Yeah, there are a fair amount of models of the uncreated soul, just isn't explicitly brought up that often. Good to hear your mention of the philosophers in any case, they are rarely represented in this area, outside of Plato.
  8. Veyl

    Does parapsychology study tulpas?

    Alright, those are fair points. Might have misunderstood the causation element in regards to tulpas falling under the category of parapsychology, actually. You are right in that that the object of study is the basis for any given field rather than models of mechanism. I can see tulpas largely...
  9. Veyl

    Does parapsychology study tulpas?

    Parapsychology isn't really an abstract concept, at least anymore than psychology or any other field is. Further parapsychology and "the paranormal" are not synonymous terms. In regards to assumptions, parapsychology doesn't really have any metaphysical commitments about the objects being...
  10. Veyl

    Does parapsychology study tulpas?

    I have never seen research or articles on the topic of tulpas in the literature of parapsychology (i.e., the science of psi phenomena). I think the closest would be surveys of "imaginary friends," amongst the population (though this was from the perspective of possible apparitional experiences...
  11. Veyl

    Apeirotheism?

    Good to see one. Qabalistic magic in practice. In cosmology, lean towards pluralism. The topic is interesting to me as I can't say I've wholeheartedly embraced the monistic leanings of said practice; sentiments and experience have led me to theopsychism. Might I ask of your praxis as well...
  12. Veyl

    Which religions do / do not have any decrees on / against masturbation?

    In Jainism, the only sexual activity permitted is intercourse between a married man and woman. This would imply that masturbation is banned, though I don't see it explicitly called out. It was nice to see Atum mentioned, in any case. Bachelor gods and autoeroticism is an interesting topic.
  13. Veyl

    Apeirotheism?

    Curious as to see if there are any apeirotheists on the forum, or those who would want to discuss it.
  14. Veyl

    Soul coeternal with god ?

    Hindus and Mormons come off of the top of the head in regards to that. Granted, the former also includes sects that identify the soul with God, if you're looking to isolate this into "pure" co-eternality of spirits with God. Otherwise, you could probably include eternality more generally with...
  15. Veyl

    Hinduism's Karma And Rebirth Cycle Refuted

    Actually these kinds of posts tend to be more enthralling. Right into the action, as it were.
  16. Veyl

    Adelaide Uni Occult Club Canned

    That's bizarre, usually magic clubs are approved pretty swiftly once someone bothers to make one. Even see them on the high school level, sometimes. Summoning Club
  17. Veyl

    The family: a proclamation to the world

    Families are acceptable as long as one knows their place. Their role should never eclipse that of liberation for individuals, and too much attention to them can embed the mind in the material world and its physical relationships. Nevertheless, the main questionable part of this is the idea of...
  18. Veyl

    Pope Francis and LGBT people

    I am rather surprised that you somehow interpreted my post as selfish. I made it quite clear that I would be hesitant to raise a child due to the responsibility it requires. You have to be willing to put aside your own concerns for another person, and not just do it because you want to be a...
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    Pope Francis and LGBT people

    I never claimed that your children are evil, in fact innately they are Good in the platonic sense. It's just that attachment to the biology of man - even labeling them as children - is something that binds one to the world. In fact, in that whole passage I was attempting to defend the dignity of...
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    Reincarnation/Past Lives

    Good to see a psi-encyclopedia article here. Honestly the weaknesses of the living-agent psi hypothesis are part of what makes the reincarnation hypothesis reasonable. Granted, empiricism aside, I think it's disquieting from a personal standpoint even if one accepts the eternality of the soul...
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