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What happens when you combine mindblowing psychedelics with a sensory deprivation tank? A look at the film ALTERED STATES.

Official ALTERED STATES movie trailer:

Plot Summary: A scientist takes drugs inside a sensory deprivation chamber, has crazy intense psychedelic trips, then genetically regresses into a primordial pre-human, ultimately regressing into the void of existence itself.

The story revolves around a young scientist named Eddie Jessup, whose interest in his work overshadows everything else, including not […]

Brain Electrodes Help Man Speak Again

I recently came across this article titled “Brain Electrodes Help Man Speak Again” at Forbes.
In sum, this guy has been a vegetable for 6 years until doctors stimulated his brain with electrodes. Now, he’s able to talk, express emotion, watch movies, and eat on his own without a tube.
Basically…
it sounds like he’s become a person […]

Skeptics Penn and Teller on Near Death Experiences, Dreams, Out of Body Experiences

This is a great 7 minute video connecting dreams, near death experiences, and out of body experiences.
It comes from Penn & Teller’s popular show, kindly known as Bullshit.
(That should give you a hint about what sort of opinion they have about NDE and OBE.)
If that puts you off, at least check it out the centrifuge […]

Wearing the God-Helmet for Out of Body Experiences and Alien Abductions

This is a fascinating 6 minute video into the research of Michael Persinger, inventor of the “God Helmet.” His research into out of body experiences, alien abductions, ghosts, and other “paranormal” phenomenon is predicated on the idea that these experience take place in the brain i.e. they’re an illusion and do not take place […]

The Death of Lucid Dreaming

Will virtual reality mean the death of lucid dreaming?
Recently I saw the movie eXistenZ by David Cronenburg. It’s about a fully-encompassing virtual reality game, where of course, something screwy happens and you begin to question what’s real and what’s not.
To play, you have to surgically install a “bio-port” at the base of the spine that […]

Joe Griffin Responds To My Questions on the Expectation Fulfilment Theory of Dreaming

Earlier this month I wrote about the Expectation Fulfilment Theory of Dreaming by Joe Griffin. In my post I posed some hypothetical interview questions that I’d like to ask Joe Griffin. Much to my delight, he’s responded to them!
And so I present to you a very short but interesting interview with Joe Griffin.
Is there […]


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