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Episode 29: Part 1—The Potential That Exists Beyond the Physical with Dr. Raymond Moody

Expanding on Consciousness

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The Meaning of Travel Narrative

In science and in many areas of life, nonsense is something is a placeholder. And that's where we are right now with these near-death experiences. They're placeholders, but think about this: Even though nonsense is meaningless, it may correspond in some way to extra linguistic reality. For example, I want to give you two nonsense words. These words are just made up to be nonsense by Wolfgang Köhler. The words are tekata and meloma. Now, knowing that they're just nonsense, which one is the meloma? Okay. So no wonder that when people have a profound experience, they're compelled to talk nonsense about it.

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