What we know is that people have different capabilities, and it could be that that extends to people who are on the spectrum.

It could be that people with trauma, with ADD, with ADHD have a different ability to sense things.

The whole history of religions is filled with special people who perceive reality in a radically different way.

The reaction that we've gotten when we've tried to speak to scientists about it is vitriol

that they can't be associated with something like this because the data doesn't already exist.

I think science actually prevents these things from appearing.

You know, the whole act of measurement and the whole act of a laboratory and the whole act of experimentation

actually prevents the event from happening.

Explain that to us.

We don't know, Maim, because we're not allowed to study this in any kind of rigorous way, right?

If there's a metaphorical table, what the skeptic is doing is taking everything off

the table that he or she cannot explain. And then, oh, I can explain everything on the table,

but that's just because you just took everything off that you can't explain.

Hi, I'm Biallic. And I'm I'm Bialik.

And I'm Jonathan Cohen.

And welcome to a special MBB reacts.

This episode is going to touch on some topics such as telepathy, clairvoyance, psychic ability,

what it means to have a near-death experience. We're not simply going to talk about these things because they're fun and we want to convince you to believe things.

Jeffrey Kriple is the J. Newton Razor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University.

He hosts the Archives of the Impossible Collection and Conference series,

and he also co-directs the Center for Theory and Research at the Esselan Institute in Big Sur,

California. He is literally a scholar of why and how to have an open mind about things, how to frame

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