The strange world of felt presences
From www.theguardian.com - March 9, 2015
What links polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, sleep paralysis, and hearing voices?

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Some thoughts on supernatural agency beliefs
From www.cognitionandculture.net - December 10, 2013
International Cognition and Culture Institute
Should we account for belief in supernatural agents in terms of benefits it might provide to the human believers? Or is it just a by-product of the human cognitive architecture? Perhaps neither. A different perspective, no longer human-centric, shines through in an observation like “admittedly, the Argument from Design must have been quite convincing before Darwin”. We can go farther in this direction. 

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The Death of “Near Death”: Even If Heaven Is Real, You Aren’t Seeing It
From blogs.scientificamerican.com - February 6, 2013 
The surprising consistency of heavenly visions during a “near death experience” (or NDE) indicates for many that an afterlife awaits us. Skeptics point to the curious tendency for Heaven to conform to human desires, or for Heaven’s fleeting visage to be so dependent on culture or time period.

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