Do I have the right to transcribe and publish a recording of a psychic reading (I was the client)? [more inside]
posted by arcticwoman on Nov 16, 2009 - 14 answers

Is lucid dreaming real, or fiction? Are its practitioners and advocates fringe scientists, spiritualists or charlatans? (or all three in mixed proportion) [more inside]
posted by Potomac Avenue on Sep 23, 2009 - 43 answers

Every time my (Sikh) yoga teacher talks of enlightenment this and infinite wisdom that and cosmic love the other (ie often), I have to turn a mental blind eye because I don't know what these things are and they kinda defy definition and as such I don't think I ever will know. And part of me feels alienated by this - here is this teacher and this class; the teacher claims to know of these mystical things, and the class (I'm guessing) is divided into (a) those who pretend to also know of these things, and (b) those who know they don't but wish they did. From a distance this seems absurd. Am I missing something, (perhaps something awesome)?
posted by forallmankind on Aug 1, 2009 - 39 answers

paper due tomorrow filter: I need some ideas about how to discuss Skepticism, G.E. Moore's "Proof of an external world," and Rene Descarte's "Meditations on first philosophy." [more inside]
posted by tylerfulltilt on Feb 17, 2009 - 20 answers

Here's a little video in Arabic of a kid that is playing a game of Pairs. The only thing is that he finds pairs without seeing them beforehand, he take one and just find the other one just by overlooking the chips and never misses. [more inside]
posted by zouhair on Jan 17, 2009 - 6 answers

Brain Training Games like Brain Age are a big hit lately -- Do you think they actually improve cognition? [more inside]
posted by phylum sinter on Sep 6, 2008 - 9 answers

I just finished The Psychic Mafia by M Lamar Keene. Though poorly written, it has some great material on the tricks employed by mediums and some enjoyable lurid anecdotes. However, I was really annoyed by the last two chapters where Keene gives his supposed reasons for coming clean. They're incredibly self-serving and read like the script for a fifth rate B movie about a huckster who finds redemption. Does anybody know if the real story of why he fessed up has ever been told?
posted by Lentrohamsanin on Jun 13, 2008 - 1 answer

Is there someplace that a hopeless romantic can go to find true love? [more inside]
posted by hadjiboy on Apr 22, 2008 - 33 answers

I need help putting together reading material for a philosophy course. [more inside]
posted by oddman on Jul 11, 2007 - 29 answers

Does anyone have access to a subscription to the British Journal for the History of Philosophy (1996 article) that I could borrow / Request a PDF from? [more inside]
posted by takeyourmedicine on Oct 31, 2006 - 33 answers

Is Brain Respiration yet another New Age-y hoax, or what? (+) [more inside]
posted by mono blanco on Dec 7, 2004 - 7 answers