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POPSTowards a neuropsychology of religion: 'Doctrinal' rituals help create semantic memories of key concepts and emotional response through associative learning, while 'imagistic' rituals help create episodic memories of specific situations that may involve altered states of consciousness and the experience of other realities.
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POPS US superpower status is shaken I think we will survive and thrive, but what this shows is that the American people need to pay more attention to who we put in office at all levels. Having incompetent people in office for the last 2 White House terms has dramatically set us back.
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POPSAmerica Finally Getting Sick and Tired of Hearing About Barack Obama
They aren’t talking about the fact that it was Obama who first trotted out the race card by suggesting we’d all be scared into submission by Republican assertions that Obama didn’t “look like all those other guys on the dollar bills.” As even more complete picture of the candidate begins to emerge, the number of Americans expressing doubt about Obama increases. In the Illinois State Senate Obama sponsored bills to provide universal health care coverage, drastically increase welfare, handcuff the police and burden them with administrative overhead, make it more difficult and time consuming for law-abiding citizens to purchase lawfully-regulated firearms for self-defense and generally expand government, welfare, affirmative action and other entitlement programs. By all accounts, Ms. Hilton’s energy policy, is in fact, more comprehensive than Obama’s, which focuses almost exclusively on the development of petroleum alternatives, tune-ups and tire pressure checks.
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POPSIt's All About Obama Americans overwhelmingly find it a hopeful, optimistic sign that the country could elect an African-American president. But they rightly want to know what kind of leader he might be. They may well reject as cynical any maneuver to discourage close examination of him by suggesting any criticism is racially motivated. The candidate's self-centeredness has been on display before. Having effectively sewed up the Democratic nomination, he could have agreed to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations (states Hillary Clinton had carried). While reducing his lead by 50 to 55 delegates, it would not have altered the outcome. But Mr. Obama supported cutting these battleground-state delegations in half. At a time when magnanimity was called for, the candidate decided he'd strut. In a contest over who is willing to put principle above personal ambition and self-interest, John McCain, a war hero and a former POW, wins hands down.
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POPSAbsinthe: How does it alter the mind??? An interesting clip from Techoccult on experiments done with Absinthe (which is illegal in the US) and on what exactly causes altered states of consciousness in its imbibers...
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POPSBy the numbers.... ...., is the real story. Five years later and counting. I'm sure the Bush admin. can top these #'s with no sweat.
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POPSDepression Sources Mispresented by Media We've been taught this in every single Psychology course I've taken (nearly a dozen) and there's always some idiot who says, "But the Zoloft squiggle says it's a chemical imbalance!" Seriously, people. If Corona told you their beer would fix a chemical imbalance, would you believe them? One company is the same as the other. The job of advertisements is to SELL. I'm so glad to see all of this new unbiased data on anti-depressant effectiveness. Why on earth does the FDA let companies do their own testing? Ridiculous. </rant>
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POPSThrough Which Avenues is Contemplative Entering the Church? Contemplative Spirituality: A belief system that uses ancient mystical practices to induce altered states of consciousness (the silence) and is rooted in mysticism and the occult but often wrapped in Christian terminology. The premise of contemplative spirituality is pantheistic (God is all) and panentheistic (God is in all).
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POPSWestern Water Supplies Already Altered by Global Warming Currently water resources are allocated based on the idea that water flow in the future will be just like it was in the past, with some natural fluctuations. But the observations over the past 50 years and the predictions for the future now require a shift in the way water management is done.
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POPS5M + Illegals Post 2000 TakingYour $ andJobs Present 'illegals' should be treated humanely but sent home as is possible. Future mass immigration of all kinds HAS to be controlled.Especially illegal. It seems necessary that society cannot function well with too many rolling in in huge numbers.
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POPSThe acid test "It may be that we can use LSD to answer questions like: what is a religious experience? What is consciousness? What is sense of self? What stops us spending a whole afternoon looking at one leaf on a tree?" McGregor adds
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POPSPlanning for a Climate-Changed World hough the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded with 90 percent certainty that human activity is warming the planet--and spelled out the likelihood of consequences that include higher seas, droughts, and fiercer storms--the United States is committing scant resources to providing usable information to the people who respond to emergencies, plan for urban development, manage coastal areas, and make sure the crops keep growing and the reservoirs stay full. Equipping people to deal with climate change could mean simply giving state and local planners access to a wealth of existing information--such as calculations made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that could indicate how far inland storm surges would move if sea levels were higher.
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POPSAntarctic glacier history uncovered "Until now, scientists assumed glaciers were confined to the eastern part of Antarctica. Ivany`s team found evidence glaciers might have covered a larger area early during the transition."
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