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    Academic paper

    With this pandemic of the corona virus, and the havoc it is producing in the entire world, it was a missed opportunity for those that are out to scientifically prove reincarnation, and who claim to have direct access to the astral realm. Especially those that claim to have a specific mission...
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    Music that resonates with your soul

    There are two that resonate for my soul. The first one is strictly an instrumental and a sort of vibration confirmation, and whose title relates to the second song's title, as the lyrics is a revelation of sort, as I have always resonated with Socrates/Plato, and considered myself a philosopher...
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    Academic paper

    I'm playing the devil's advocate again. And I'm throwing this out at large, aiming at all those who are determined to show to the skeptical world the scientific proof for reincarnation. Specifically, I'm aiming at those who also claim to have direct and frequent contact with spiritual guides...
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    Ian Stevenson page

    John, Man's imagination is like iron, which can be shaped into a sword, or a plowshare. And as far as https://4dforum.org/the-psychology-of-soul-harvesting/ it's definitely nonsense, as I agree with you, if I read it correctly. I would say that it's more like supernatural fiction, a work of a...
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    Back And Feeling Stuck

    If it's not just my wishful imagination playing with me, I can say that, from time to time, my favorite uncle has been contacting me from the other side, ever since he left this physical world 22 years ago. And today marks the tenth anniversary that I came to give it credence, seriously. Or...
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    Academic paper

    In my opinion, Dickens was a master at observing and also reading other previous great authors from many fields of expertise, to then adapt his observations from actual physical conditions as well as literature to his novels. If that is plagiarism, then we are all plagiarists, as I hinted before...
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    Academic paper

    Ouch! Watch were you are stepping. I think you may be right about what has been will be again. But then, one is apt to think that you are plagiarizing too! But, in my opinion, it has to be asked, have we not all been here before, and will be again, and again, and again,......and again? Is...
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    Academic paper

    It was not a statement of plagiarism, as it was a matter of corroboration that Dickens was familiar with Plato's writings. And this was to provide a possible source as to where Dickens may have gotten his ideas for writing some of his novels, if his ideas were indeed borrowed/suggested and not...
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    Academic paper

    Abstract: Throughout his canon, Dickens significantly adapts the writing on the wall from Daniel 5, often haunted by Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" wall in The Republic, to illustrate spectral "truths" requiring the reader's comparable intertextual interpretation. The shared components of what...
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    Academic paper

    Are NDE accounts, arguably, a better fit for Dickens' source in writing A Christmas Carol than a far-fetched, unsubstantiated, unfounded, uncorroborated, whimsical, claim of plagiarizing from Matthew F. Whittier? Because that is what we are commenting on, a claim, or rather, a part of the...
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    Academic paper

    I'm not quite certain that I understand your points, and how they relate to the researcher claiming that an established and renowned historical figure such as Dickens plagiarized from an obscure and nearly unknown, and definitely, not an accredited small town humorist. The point remains that...
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    Academic paper

    Academically speaking, I'm expressing my opinion on the opinion that has been put forth on plagiarism. Here, I'm only addressing your claim that Dickens plagiarized the Christmas Carol. I believe that you may have point. However, if it's a case of plagiarism, it seems that, perhaps, Dickens...
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    The problem with physical resemblance used as evidence for past lives.

    For those looking for clues into who they were in their past lives. No one will give us the benefit of the doubt, when it comes to reincarnation. Here is something that needs to be addressed by those which place a lot of weight on physical resemblance as being one of the major corroborative...
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    Is consciousness produced by the brain?

    The following link is one where a compromise if sought by two who are of opinions which are in 180 degrees opposition, and are seeking further understanding of what consciousness is to each of them. Further, they are attempting to find just where consciousness is, or from whence it comes from...
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    Is consciousness produced by the brain?

    Here is another link for a discussion on the nature of reality, and subjective and objective circumstances on Ultimate Reality.
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    Is consciousness produced by the brain?

    Are we aware that this argument is a matter of argument for others as well? Would it not suit the thread better if anyone putting forth thoughts or questions on the argument get familiar with the more conscious minds in the field? It is also a question where subjectivity and objectivity comes...
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    Is consciousness produced by the brain?

    An ocean of text? It was just a very tiny wave. And most of it was merely quoting Plato, someone who should be waded through, whether it's through old or new eyes. But then, earlier, you had giving me the impression that you had waded through Plato's work with much younger eyes. I agree that we...
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    Is consciousness produced by the brain?

    Does your "You" refer to me? Or are you referring to a collective "you"? Are we to assume that you have had only 4 short and quick, subjective, glimpses into a past life self all these many years of this current life of yours? Therefore I must also assume that you have reinforced your belief in...
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    Is consciousness produced by the brain?

    Perhaps it's an excuse, but it's not Plato, it's the "music." And philosophy is the highest musical expression for the LOVE of truth. I believe I'm posting to make a case for the soul as actually being the very "consciousness" of our more modern advocates of life after death. Deepak Chopra is...
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    Is consciousness produced by the brain?

    They must have brains, even if science does not recognize that they do. How else can one determine knowing where to go, when migrating? Besides, how can they use their eyes without knowing what they see? To know is to have brains, even if some have no eyes to see the logic of knowing. Obviously...
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