1 in 5, thats a lot, do you have a source for that Tamrin?
It was said on a recent documentary. On Wikipedia, we read:
In surveys from Canada, China, England, Japan and Nigeria, 20% to 60% of individuals reported having experienced sleep paralysis at least once in their lifetime.[14][15] A study conducted by Sedaghat-Hamedani F. et al. has investigated the prevalence of sleep paralysis among Iranian medical students. 24.1% of students reported experiencing sleep paralysis at least once in their lifetime. The same result was reported among Japanese, Nigerian, Kuwaiti, Sudanese and American students.[16]
Many people who commonly enter sleep paralysis also suffer from narcolepsy.[17]
Fortunately, I have recognised them for what they are and have acted accordingly (got some rest) whereas Paul and yourself appear to seek them and latch onto and exaggerate them as evidence of having more abilities than your fellows.
;D I can't sing.
If I could prove that I am a better cook than you, and I probably am as I did it professionally at one time, would you feel equally put out? Or is it just this one particular area that disturbs you somewhat?
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
For a vast period of human evolution, self-consciousness, with its accentuation on individuality, separateness and selfishness, predominates in the character of man. The material earth rules the spiritual sun. Man is matter-blinded. The s .. e of the lower quaternary obscures the c .. s of the higher triad. This state of spiritual unconsciousness or death is symbolized in the traditional history by the period in which our Master is lost, his body being interred in a temporary grave.
At the Sign of the Square and Compasses, by Geoffrey Hodson.
Some say that to raise ourselves up from this spiritual unconsciousness one must learn to still the mind. Thus the need for meditation.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
If I could prove that I am a better cook than you, and I probably am as I did it professionally at one time, would you feel equally put out? Or is it just this one particular area that disturbs you somewhat?
Your ability as a cook can be proved: Your "special powers" cannot (consider Randi's reward). Judging from the posts deleted here which debunked much of your ****-ful nonsense, it seems I am not the one "put out" in this instance. What does disturb me as a Freemason is your publication of these pretentious, pathological phantasies under the banner of Freemasonry.
Perhaps we could keep to the topic of the thread. You can always start another thread if you think it worthwhile.
I repeat my question: "Does your 'attitude toward' reason (as expressed in the above quotes) extend to your work?" I do not mind if you answer it on this thread (to me, it seems to be appropriate in the context here of "Limits to Human Knowledge") or on another thread.