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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: John Jones
Date: Sep 19, 2008 19:26

Sean wrote:
> "turtoni" fastmail.net> wrote in message
> news:81d395a6-b282-4f15-a4ab-efc7f028a2b5@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> "Despite Grof's continued emphasis on the concept of "birth trauma" as
> a critical psychic experience, mainstream psychiatry has not accepted
> his concept (Grof, 1992). In fact, most professionals would argue that
> such a conceptualization of retained memory falls outside of the
> physiological potential of the newborn. "Despite the growing number of
> reports of memories of past lives, life in the womb, and the birth
> experience, there is no scientific evidence to substantiate these
> claims" (Mark L. Howe and Mary L. Courage, 2004; also see Spanos,
> 1996)."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Grof -
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Sean:
> Great, so that locks that option out of the array of possibilites.
> Excellent. Well done. You win. You're right. Can't argue with that.
>
>

How does it lock out these possibilities? There are no experiments,
period. The argument works both ways!!

Don't let me stop you having a good time though.
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