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Posted by: Emma Yates Posted On: 09/28/04 Subject: Re: CB Radio Conversions? Message Posted: In Reply to: Re: CB Radio Conversions? posted by john - m0els on 02/02/03 If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some! -- Calvin cialis While it cannot be proved retrospectively that any experience of possession, conversion, revelation, or divine ecstasy was merely an epileptic discharge, we must ask how one differentiates "real transcendence" from neuropathies that produce the same extreme realness, profundity, ineffability, and sense of cosmic unity. When accounts of sudden religious conversions in TLEs [temporal-lobe epileptics] are laid alongside the epiphanous revelations of the religious tradition, the parallels are striking. The same is true of the recent spate of alleged UFO abductees. Parsimony alone argues against invoking spirits, demons, or extraterrestrials when natural causes will suffice. -- Barry L. Beyerstein, "Neuropathology and the Legacy of Spiritual Possession", The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII, No. 3, pg. 255 buy cialis Link: http:// |
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