[setanta]

Originally Posted by InOne

Yeah indeed, bet they are nice though. Although some people have seen hell and stuff and totally changed their life.

Scare you shitless, wouldn't it?! I suppose any near death experience would do the trick anyway but to see something like that!

[InOne]

Originally Posted by setanta

Scare you shitless, wouldn't it?! I suppose any near death experience would do the trick anyway but to see something like that!

I wonder if experiences like that have any links with Schizophrenia

[setanta]

Originally Posted by InOne

I wonder if experiences like that have any links with Schizophrenia

I have no idea Joe, but sure when you're in a situation like that the mind is liable to do funny things to you.

[InOne]

Originally Posted by setanta

I have no idea Joe, but sure when you're in a situation like that the mind is liable to do funny things to you.

Indeed, the mind is a funny thing as it is.

[WOMBAI]

Originally Posted by lili

Post of the week.

Agreed!

[Stu]

Originally Posted by setanta

Well I've done holotropic breathwork and I was tripping like mad. It was just a beautiful sensation.

Lucky bastard! I would love to do that. And try out one of them sensory deprivation tank things. I tried Astral Projection/Sleep Paralysis but never got past being able to lift myself out of my body. I just sort of layed in a dream state buzzing all over.

I believe atheism is very empty too. The mind is an endlessly complex, emotional creature, and I don't believe it's purely the work of chemicals combining. Not that I disregard science, but I just see it as humans way of interpreting things. People assume because you can explain something scientifically that it must suddenly be lost of all spiritual meaning. That's bollocks. If you had told people thousands of years ago that we are all composed of billions of atoms, they would have regarded it as amazing. Now we just shrug our shoulders and go ''they're just atoms, they do such and such''.

Was an atom an atom before science stuck the finger out and said ''hey yo, this is an atom''.

Rant, I know, but I have a hard time explaining to people my views on this because they think you have to fall into either religion or science, like two sides in a war!

[InOne]

I just love the fact Science flourishes in ignorance, it does not claim to know the truth. But what you should know, theories are based on facts. So you really can't ever try to dispute evolution. No matter how much you think Dawkins and Hitchins are 'Agressive Atheists'

[arista]

[InOne]

A good book.