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Jun 20th, 2008 at 5:51am
 
Hello everybody,

My name is Piero, I am an "Italian from Glasgow", currently living in Switzerland. I am a medical doctor and a university lecturer, with a great interest in psychic research.

I have spent some time browsing this forum, and I must say I am humbled by the wealth of knowledge and experience available here. Also, I find the atmosphere quite pleasant, which is unfortunately not often the case in discussion forums dealing with controversial issues. I look forward to coming back time and again.

I would also like to share with you what in the title of the post I define as my very modest contribution to the promotion of psychical research. I have written a book, intended as a primer for the general, unaware public on basic parapsychology and in particular on the survival hypothesis. I am told that the book, written as a dialogue between myself and an open minded skeptic, is very readable and is well liked by an heterogeneous public. If you had a moment to have a look at it, I would love to have some feedbak from such a knowledgeable audience. The book is available - obviously for free - at http://www.openmindsite.com

Thank you very much in advance, and, as I said, I look forward to many returns to this forum.

Piero
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Reply #1 - Jun 20th, 2008 at 5:57am
 
Welcome!
I am looking forward to what you have to say.

Enjoy!
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Reply #2 - Jun 20th, 2008 at 10:21am
 
Many thanks, Dr. Piero!

I also hope you will return often and join in the fun!   Smiley
I've downloaded your book, and as soon as I can find where my computer hid it, I'll read it.  It's certainly a viewpoint that needs to get out to people.

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Reply #3 - Jun 20th, 2008 at 2:47pm
 
Welcome and thank you, Piero. I began reading the book this morning and find it pleasant and entertaining so far,  containing a nice overview of paranormal research. I appreciate that, not having read all of these studies myself. I will be reading the book in its entirety.

again, thank you very much, blink
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Reply #4 - Jun 21st, 2008 at 5:25am
 
Thanks everybody for the warm welcome. I've seen that many have downloaded my wee book, and I'm very excited. I am definitely looking forward to your comments.

Have a lovely week end.

Piero
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Reply #5 - Jun 21st, 2008 at 8:34am
 
Hi Piero, it's nice to see there's a few around capable of operating in the domains of both science and the more intuitive.

Well done on the book, that's a lot of work up front.

What you're doing is so important  - we need so urgently to stop refusing to admit into mind all except that which is 'objective', and as a result denying access to our deeper knowing and wisdom.

That's not to position objective, intellectual thought as useless, or to try to replace with a hysterical emotionality  - the opposite in fact. The game is actually to integrate right and left brain thinking - the head and the heart.

The pity though is that what was a thoroughly practical style of sense making used alongside creativity and intuition by the great Renaissance figures and those that came afterwards ('the age of reason') has become rigid dogma.

Dogma which has for selfish and egotistical reasons consistently sought to refuse the validity of any other means of knowing, and which has consequently blinded its proponents to the bigger picture in most situations. The ultimate tragedy is the way that most of those purporting to be rational have become stuck in their reality tunnels, and are wholly incapable of anything more than the regurgitation and rabid defence of the party line.

It's a very tough space you seem to be entering - it's as I found out the hard way so hard to not be disowned by science, academia, medicine or whatever your territory is if you even tacitly start to stray off rigid orthodoxy.

It seems to me Piero that it's about much more than the paranormal. It's about our ability to see what's actually going on around us, and to make wise decisions on how to act, and what to support.

To see for example the risks inherent in many of the global 'experiments' entailed in the roll out of technologies, or to understand what's needed in society to truly increase our gross national happiness - to relate to others through love.

Unless this becomes the norm, or if we instead continue as self interested individuals seeing only what our preconceptions drive us to see and trying to get ahead at the expense of each other we're going to destroy ourselves and the world.

We've already made much of life very tough going for ourselves with this thinking, and by the way we've stayed blind to what we are creating....
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Reply #6 - Jun 21st, 2008 at 11:12am
 
Lovely book. It is intriguing to me that I just picked up a copy of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche at the same time that you provided this e-book to this forum, Piero. What I mean is, I have had Rinpoche's book lying around and haven't read it, and had just begun it, after it was languishing for a few months beside my bed. Just this last week, actually.

This morning, as I resumed reading The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying...after reading (quickly, 1st read) your e-book...it has a kind of magic about it.

Magic seems to be everywhere.

love, blink

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Reply #7 - Jun 21st, 2008 at 12:03pm
 
Greetings,

Regarding your fine contribution to the understanding of non-material realms of consciousness,  your book is a compelling and logical explanation of the subject.   Congratulations !  Cheesy  Yay!

Here are some of the reasons I like it ---
The range of expert testimonies that you present has not been previously available in one book.
Expert witnesses with professional credentials and interest are included side by side with the metaphysical explorers and experiencers themselves.
Your format makes it easy to see how they correlate with each other, all speaking of the same non-material reality.
The informal thread of dialog makes the information more accessible without distracting. The photo portraits of your quoted sources add reality and reassurance that these people are fully involved professionals with expert capabilities.

Best wishes,
Betson
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Reply #8 - Jun 21st, 2008 at 12:15pm
 
Likewise, I enjoyed the read.

I also work in clinical medicine, and it is a hard nut to crack. A new study shos that honey is MORE effective than cough syrup with dextromethorphan for children (over the counter brands), but the docs say they would never use it because they could not defend it on the witness stand if they get sued. Meditation lowers blood pressure and cholesterol levels, decreases frequency of migraines, and reduces risk for heart attacks, but I never hear anyone prescribe it. Prayer has been shown effective but the idea is laughed at.

More grist for my theory that clinical medicine is not at all about people getting better, just making money and getting them to come back over and over and over. And more, that people themselves do not want to get better, not really. Not enough to stop smoking, stop drinking Coca Cola and Mountain Dew, Starbucks, and such, and they would NEVER consider stopping the methamphetamine (Adderal, Provigil, Ritalin, etc) like drugs they took as children even though they are now in their 30's. Nope-- it seems like people want only drugs, drugs, drugs. If it is not in pill form, they don't want it, and they certainly do not want to be inconvenienced........ just my opinion.

So I really relate to your message. Welcome, and I look forward to your posts.

Thomas
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Reply #9 - Jun 21st, 2008 at 5:01pm
 
Hi again everybody. Thank you SO MUCH for your kind words - I really appreciate all you say. I would like to say a few words to Vajra in particular, although I have to keep it short as it's late at night and I am going for a mountaineering outing tomorrow morning. Vajra, the reasons I read so much and I ended up writing my little book is precisely that I have difficulties with the intuitive side of things. Probably, it's not for this life, if you see what I mean... My damned mind seems to be too rational... I'd rather sit and read and learn than sit and meditate, and that's disgraceful! I am having problems with the experiential side of things. I am still young (48, lol!!!) and I hope to be able to fix that at some stage, but I wrote what I wrote with people with me in mind - that is people who cant easily turn off their rational mind. Still, there's obviously much more to us than brain and reason! Love. P.
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Reply #10 - Jun 21st, 2008 at 5:03pm
 
...sorry, I meant "people like me in mind"
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Reply #11 - Jun 22nd, 2008 at 5:41am
 
Welcome Piero  Smiley

I just read: medical doctor.
OH OH - you`re in for it, from myself.
I will be hounding you for insight dear!

I will go to your site and read up on your info there.

However I do have a burning desire for a  first hand question.

Have you in your career field experienced a cross over of a human being?
If so, can you detail it (without naming names of course).

I have asked a "nurse" whom I personally know such a question and she was able to give me some very vivid information on the subject as to how the person reaches out for "someone" whom no one else in the room can see, or how the person spoke with the same etc.

Can you verify anything of that nature?

Hugs,
Nanner
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Reply #12 - Jun 25th, 2008 at 11:15am
 
Hiya Nanner,

I'm back from my fantastic climb on the alps, and I'm intrigued by your question.

First, you have to know that I have practiced very little clinical medicine in my life - I am a public health specialist, and I worked most of my career in the international humanitarian aid sector. There, you don't treat patients, you deal with the health of large populations from a management point of view (immunization, sanitation, epidemic control and all that...).

Second, I was never aware of "cross over human beings"... Can you point to some resources where I could learn more?

Finally, and this is for Vajra, just as I had written that it was not for this incarnation for me to dig into the experiential side of spirituality, well... during what at my modest level I consider "extreme mountaineering", over the last few days I have experienced mindfulness as I had never had before. And, I perhaps have found a cue to access a slightly different level of consciousness. I'll come back to this in the next fe days.

Love. Piero
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