Direct Observation of Atoms through Clairvoyance

Direct Observation of Atoms through Clairvoyance
In August, 1895, a small group of Theosophists [1] gathered for a weekend in Box Hill, Surrey, to escape “malevolent thought-forms”[N2 p. 49]. There, and at a subsequent meeting on a sloping bank beside the Finchley Road on Hampstead Heath, they exercised clairvoyant powers to achieve direct...
November 18th, 2009 | Extended Mind | Read More

Psi-verts and psychic piracy: The future of parapsychology?

Psi-verts and psychic piracy: The future of parapsychology?
I woke up this morning with a psychic advert left lingering in my dreaming mind. It was some kind of oneiric flyer for a new type of yoga, it even had a telephone number on it to call. This fanciful hypnopompic intrusion brought me back to the idea that if science can identify techniques for reliably...
October 28th, 2009 | Extended Mind | Read More

Starting to make SENS

Starting to make SENS
A book review of Aubrey de Grey’s Ending Aging, by Eddie Germino Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a man who hates seeing people suffer and die from old age. In fact, he has such contempt for it that he considers the aging process itself to be just another disease (albeit a very complex one) like AIDS or malaria…..
September 29th, 2009 | Extended Mind | Read More

SIXTH SENSE OR NONSENSE?

SIXTH SENSE OR NONSENSE?
From Shift Magazine, by Marilyn Schlitz Psychic phenomena (“psi” for short) are controversial from a scientific perspective because they imply a perceptual capacity that transcends the five known senses. This “sixth sense” seems to manifest differently according to need and context,...
August 18th, 2009 | Extended Mind | Read More

MENTAL RADIO REVIEW

Mental Radio Review I discovered this little 1930s book by accident whilst browsing the Sacret Texts website (given the book’s age, it’s legally available there in its entirely to read online). The title intrigued me, because I’ve recently been doing my own personal experiments into psychokinesis...
August 13th, 2009 | Extended Mind | Read More

THE SENSE OF BEING STARED AT

Its Implications for Theories of Vision Rupert Sheldrake For the purpose of this discussion, I am taking it for granted that the sense of being stared at is real. The weight of available evidence seems to support its fac- tual existence, as discussed in my earlier article in this issue of the Journal...
August 13th, 2009 | Extended Mind | Read More

MORPHIC RESONANCE AND MORPHIC FIELDS

by Rupert Sheldrake In the hypothesis of formative causation, discussed in detail in my books A NEW SCIENCE OF LIFE and THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST, I propose that memory is inherent in nature. Most of the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. My interest in evolutionary habits arose when I was...
August 13th, 2009 | Extended Mind | Read More

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
“The use of psychedelics to induce mood change, combined with cutting edge technologies, such as PET scanning, is helping to map brain states and improve our understanding of neurochemistry, brain anatomy and mood states…
August 7th, 2009 | Extended Mind | Read More
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