Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication with Lucid Dreamers in Breakthrough

Re:Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication with Lucid Dre... by dvfjsdhgfv on Saturday February 20, 2021 @09:28AM (#26204298)

There is another great book on the subject, The Yoga of Dream and Natural Light my Namkhai Norbu and Michael Katz. It's kinda fascinating that a thousand years ago Tibetans were exploring this fascinating subject in depth - with precise methods, scriptures and so on - while at the same time in Europe theologians were debating how many devils could be fit on the tip of a needle.

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Re:Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication with Lucid Dre... by wittyreference on Saturday February 20, 2021 @10:05AM (#26204591)

The latter was a debate about materialism, and whether the divine had any physical component (in which case there was a finite number of angels on a pin), or did not (and therefore infinite), with consequences for the debates about whether divinity is a falsifiable hypothesis.

Intelligent people were having intelligent debates.

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Re:Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication with Lucid Dre... by JKCalhoun on Saturday February 20, 2021 @09:39AM (#26204384)

It's as though even the European theologians were embarrassed and were simply trolling with thought experiments like that.

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Re:Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication with Lucid Dre... by lurquer on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:21AM (#26211301)

Your comment is akin to saying “it’s so embarrassing that Plato was having thought experiments about spelunking.”

Your comment — and the one to which it responds — is cringeworthy.

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