death Pseudosciences
Raymond Moody did not know he was opening Pandora's box when posting Life after life in 1975. No man had bad intentions. In this first attempt to seriously and objectively consider the phenomenon of near-death experiences (ECM-or English, NDE, Near Death Experiences ), followed by other books, collections of spiritual experiences that supposedly came to demonstrate the idea that consciousness survives physical death, to the delight of religious groups. But the fruit of these interests, plus books, was the creation of pseudo-real death, as if we were not already enough of dealing with life.
The testimony from ECM's awakened interest in the study of human consciousness, but unfortunately, not always from a scientific perspective. I will not say that science has to explain everything, but I think it should be the starting point, see how far, what science can tell us about the issue before embracing other approaches or methods whose efficacy has not been proven, and even, in many cases has been denied.
Conscientiology. It gives a general description, at the same priceless, Wikipedia: "Conscientiology is the science devoted to the study of consciousness in an integrated manner, considering all vehicles of manifestation (holosoma), the multiple dimensions (multidimensional) , the many lives (seriality), and the evolution consciential consciential based on the paradigm. " Pa piss and take no drop.
The Projectiology . If I have not misunderstood, has to do with the study of the ways in which human consciousness can be projected beyond the physical body, which would have to do with the so-called "astral projection" or, more technically, the OBE ( out-of-body experience ), so often referred to in many ECM's. It seems, therefore, a specific branch of the conscientiology that.
The words we owe to the character Waldo Vieira, who is fun to look for information on the web. There is consensus that the dentist, some pages will add physical training and some other will also added, and this is my favorite, as a medium in Brazil. His major works are Projections of Consciousness - Daily Out of Body Experiences Physical (1981), which presents the great pubic projectiology and treaties Projectiology: Panorama of Experiences, Out-of- Human Body (1986) and 700 Experiments conscientiology (1994). I would like to know how the hell is an experiment conscientiological of those. But it is not here, because the Conscienciopédia (the conscienciopédia!) Also reveals that a whopping 22 proposed theories and no less than 70 specialties Conscientiological. This is a whole world. This man can not be left alone with a pen and some paper or a computer equipped with word processor because I prepared it at a time ...
Not content with all that, he gathered a group of researchers and founded the International Institute Projectiology (IIP) in 1988, tremendous distribution in Latin America. Now part of all this pseudo-framing hundreds of professionals and stakeholders, physicists, doctors, everything. And here I am in Spain concerned about whether homeopathy takes a lot of publicity or if you sell too many rubber bracelets ... Is also invaluable this interview to an official of the institution, I invite you to browse for fun, where they try to explain that although their work is often confused with religion and its people attended events in the world of spiritualism, is what they do science and should not be confused. By the way, I also learned that there is a English Spiritist Federation that fabric. This of pseudoscience is more widespread and diversified than you thought, is a full-fledged terminal cancer ...
Finally, you mentioned that some of these issues goes also Institute of Noetic Sciences, created under the psiconeuroacupuntura , supposedly studying everything related to "the mind", whether physical or not, whether scientific or not. Has relationships with the bio-energy and alternative medicine. Will in the end, all rogues know each other, and, as they say, everything is at home. Related Entries
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The educational value of fiction
If anything I love the "scifi" is not so much by its scientific content, which but unfortunately also are often poorly treated, for its section ethical and philosophical when it is not a mere amalgam of visual effects and has some chicha, of course. Stories that raise things that make you think about different aspects of life need not be unique to this genre, but it is true that scifi and fiction in general have the peculiarity of paid a lot of interesting things can easily raise , plus you can integrate several genres into one: action, drama, fantasy, horror, adventure, comedy, precisely because it is a genre (fiction) that seems designed for this purpose.
Science Science Fiction and
Normally usually scifi have little science, and not just because often what we see on the screen is not set too well with the rules of physics, delighting geeks who like to find inconsistencies in scenes of scifi, but rather from a general point of view, precisely because while the mission of science is to explain the reality, the mission is to raise possibilities of fiction. Science deals with what it is. Science fiction plays with what might be. The imaginative component here override empiricism be required to science. However, I consider scifi vehicle for disseminating scientific indirect, in that, in the best part of scientific evidence inconclusive (hypotheses and theories) and plays with them asking, with varying degrees of success or likelihood, different opportunities. But here the interested viewer will hear the name of this or that theory and then will go to the Internet or wherever to more information and see what it actually is, and this is something positive. That is, science scifi reports of curiosity in those who have, of course. But it is an attractive element that can bring knowledge to the uninitiated a little more precise.
For those interested, a couple of good places to eviscerate scientific inconsistencies are MalaCiencia and Physics at the Science Fiction .
Fiction and Philosophy
scifi or fiction in general, used correctly, are powerful tools through which we can raise a lot of things. We portray the society in which we live and we denounce it. This feature is not unique to this genre. A good drama can realistically rooted to the seat and cause us to rethink certain things, but by its very nature (fiction and alternative approach) I would say is their primary function.
For example, in the series Sliders ( Skip to inifinite ), a group of adventurers have and use technology through which they can slide between parallel Earths, in which each line of historical events has been different, generating results (companies and cultures) very different. With this pretext, scientifically hypothetical questions posed in Chapters different: In one chapter, entitled "The weaker sex," play with mischief to portray how society would be if they send the women instead of men in another war America lost Korea and the Sino-Soviet Empire swept the globe, depicting a U.S. under Soviet rule, while in another there are androids who experience human emotions through which poses the classic theme the essence of human nature. This theme is also found, with shades or from other perspectives, in other series as Caprica, Battlestar Galactica or chapters of the Stargate franchise . In another our travelers landing in a world decimated by infection because they did not discover penicillin. In another chapter pretty funny, scientists and intellectuals are the ones with fame and power and are more prized than the politicians and athletes, and people go crazy and ask for autographs when they see down the street to a scientist and all society is very intellectualized. In another suicide is institutionalized as a means of population control and is voluntary because it is internalized as a moral value and fully established and accepted with pride by the company. This theme also seen in an episode of Stargate . In other pseudoscience have won the war on science and the world is entirely mediated by magic: it's great when a character enters a phone booth to check the yellow pages and find ads that are all sorcerers, witches , healers, psychics, etc. In an invaluable chapter of Farscape using alien crew's own character as a vehicle for reporting earthling consumer society. And finally, I could talk hours of this, so there is inaugurated a new section on the blog to comment on interesting stories scifi and fiction in general.
Fiction and Psychology
Other series lovingly caring for the psychological aspect of the characters, showing more or less detail how it affects exposure to different existential and ethical problems. This is one of the highlights of reimagined Battlestar Galactica. Stargate Universe try to play too, with varying degrees of success, with these elements. In Farscape we can see the changing nature of its main characters, Crichton and Aeryn, the gradual strengthening of the character of the first and the development of greater human sensitivity in the second. We also found that in the case of Daniel Jackson and Teal'c on Stargate SG-1 or Spock in Star Trek . Nor can we forget the progressive transformation of Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars . In another vein, can also play scifi-invent chemical, biological or technological devices that directly or indirectly to the intellectual and emotional capacities of those who use, which influences their attitudes to life, ways understand the world, decision making, etc.
Finally, if you have something scifi and fiction in general is that they tend to make problems seem insignificant we are accustomed to in real life, to wipe out all differences and unite against enemies, objectives and ideals, enabling developing a more critical eye toward our environment. In almost all science fiction series real battles are fought to save entire planets, and we are here scandalized by the kiss of Sara Carbonero in the media. In many of the scifi stories must overcome all the cultural differences because only when entire planets are together there is some probability of victory, and while we are still here looking at your neighbor with a grudge that you return the hammer or casually watching how he beat up an immigrant. When I see science fiction, often just ashamed of how life on our planet and how we are human beings. I think seeing science fiction makes us want to be a little better.
If anything I love the "scifi" is not so much by its scientific content, which but unfortunately also are often poorly treated, for its section ethical and philosophical when it is not a mere amalgam of visual effects and has some chicha, of course. Stories that raise things that make you think about different aspects of life need not be unique to this genre, but it is true that scifi and fiction in general have the peculiarity of paid a lot of interesting things can easily raise , plus you can integrate several genres into one: action, drama, fantasy, horror, adventure, comedy, precisely because it is a genre (fiction) that seems designed for this purpose.
Science Science Fiction and
Normally usually scifi have little science, and not just because often what we see on the screen is not set too well with the rules of physics, delighting geeks who like to find inconsistencies in scenes of scifi, but rather from a general point of view, precisely because while the mission of science is to explain the reality, the mission is to raise possibilities of fiction. Science deals with what it is. Science fiction plays with what might be. The imaginative component here override empiricism be required to science. However, I consider scifi vehicle for disseminating scientific indirect, in that, in the best part of scientific evidence inconclusive (hypotheses and theories) and plays with them asking, with varying degrees of success or likelihood, different opportunities. But here the interested viewer will hear the name of this or that theory and then will go to the Internet or wherever to more information and see what it actually is, and this is something positive. That is, science scifi reports of curiosity in those who have, of course. But it is an attractive element that can bring knowledge to the uninitiated a little more precise.
For those interested, a couple of good places to eviscerate scientific inconsistencies are MalaCiencia and Physics at the Science Fiction .
Fiction and Philosophy
scifi or fiction in general, used correctly, are powerful tools through which we can raise a lot of things. We portray the society in which we live and we denounce it. This feature is not unique to this genre. A good drama can realistically rooted to the seat and cause us to rethink certain things, but by its very nature (fiction and alternative approach) I would say is their primary function.
For example, in the series Sliders ( Skip to inifinite ), a group of adventurers have and use technology through which they can slide between parallel Earths, in which each line of historical events has been different, generating results (companies and cultures) very different. With this pretext, scientifically hypothetical questions posed in Chapters different: In one chapter, entitled "The weaker sex," play with mischief to portray how society would be if they send the women instead of men in another war America lost Korea and the Sino-Soviet Empire swept the globe, depicting a U.S. under Soviet rule, while in another there are androids who experience human emotions through which poses the classic theme the essence of human nature. This theme is also found, with shades or from other perspectives, in other series as Caprica, Battlestar Galactica or chapters of the Stargate franchise . In another our travelers landing in a world decimated by infection because they did not discover penicillin. In another chapter pretty funny, scientists and intellectuals are the ones with fame and power and are more prized than the politicians and athletes, and people go crazy and ask for autographs when they see down the street to a scientist and all society is very intellectualized. In another suicide is institutionalized as a means of population control and is voluntary because it is internalized as a moral value and fully established and accepted with pride by the company. This theme also seen in an episode of Stargate . In other pseudoscience have won the war on science and the world is entirely mediated by magic: it's great when a character enters a phone booth to check the yellow pages and find ads that are all sorcerers, witches , healers, psychics, etc. In an invaluable chapter of Farscape using alien crew's own character as a vehicle for reporting earthling consumer society. And finally, I could talk hours of this, so there is inaugurated a new section on the blog to comment on interesting stories scifi and fiction in general.
Fiction and Psychology
Other series lovingly caring for the psychological aspect of the characters, showing more or less detail how it affects exposure to different existential and ethical problems. This is one of the highlights of reimagined Battlestar Galactica. Stargate Universe try to play too, with varying degrees of success, with these elements. In Farscape we can see the changing nature of its main characters, Crichton and Aeryn, the gradual strengthening of the character of the first and the development of greater human sensitivity in the second. We also found that in the case of Daniel Jackson and Teal'c on Stargate SG-1 or Spock in Star Trek . Nor can we forget the progressive transformation of Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars . In another vein, can also play scifi-invent chemical, biological or technological devices that directly or indirectly to the intellectual and emotional capacities of those who use, which influences their attitudes to life, ways understand the world, decision making, etc.
Finally, if you have something scifi and fiction in general is that they tend to make problems seem insignificant we are accustomed to in real life, to wipe out all differences and unite against enemies, objectives and ideals, enabling developing a more critical eye toward our environment. In almost all science fiction series real battles are fought to save entire planets, and we are here scandalized by the kiss of Sara Carbonero in the media. In many of the scifi stories must overcome all the cultural differences because only when entire planets are together there is some probability of victory, and while we are still here looking at your neighbor with a grudge that you return the hammer or casually watching how he beat up an immigrant. When I see science fiction, often just ashamed of how life on our planet and how we are human beings. I think seeing science fiction makes us want to be a little better.
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