Questions tagged [spirituality]
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Meditation - Is it just spiritual practice or something more?
Meditation is tightly associated with religious practices, but beside that it may be practiced for many other reasons, such as to increase calmness and physical relaxation, to improve psychological balance, to cope with illness, or to enhance…
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Do we lose 7 pounds when we die?
I often hear people claim that it is a fact that humans lose seven pounds when they die. Some people believe that this is 'proof' of the existence of the 'soul'. Is there any truth to this claim? I could understand a weight change after death but…
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Does the Charlie Charlie Challenge demon exist?
A strange new game is taking over Twitter, fuelled by speculation that its players can connect with a dead Mexican spirit known as Charlie.
I was surfing the internet and came across this, the internet's newest trend, also known as the Charlie…
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Do large groups performing Transcendental Meditation lead to city-wide reductions in crime?
A 1988 paper, Test of a Field Model of Consciousness and Social Change: The Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program and Decreased Urban Crime describes some studies of data from the '70s and found that the more people who attended group…
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Have Divine Particles spontaneously appeared in an Indian Ashram?
The Spiritual Research Foundation have some reports of a phenomenon that they have investigated:
Ms. Kalyani Gangan, who was there, recollects:
“On 5th July 2012 at 7.30 pm, I entered H.H. Dr. Athavale’s room. At that time He said, ‘I will not be…
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Did Konstantin Korotkov take a photograph of the life force leaving a dead body?
ADG (UK) - Alien Disclosure Group - published a story in September 2013:
The timing of astral disembodiment in which the spirit leaves the body has been captured by Russian scientist Konstantin Korotkov, who photographed a person at the moment of…
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Can blindfolded people read and see through extra sensory perception?
I recently learnt about a guru in India who claims to open the 'third eye' for his disciples through a training program (that costs $10,000).
Though this sounds clearly fake, I cannot decode the 'trick' that enables the children to read whatever is…
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Do dramatic cases of body shaking and trembling in religious settings have supernatural causes?
There are many examples of people experiencing dramatic body shaking and trembling in religious settings, such as the ones below:
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