Shifting Consciousness: Six Years with Yogis and Tibetan Buddhists
The data from parapsychological research is slowly becoming more accepted by the scientific community. The main sticking point is still a good theory into which psi fits. This is essentially the same sticking point for what has been called the “hard problem” in consciousness research – how can...
January 3rd, 2010 | Extended Mind | Read More
Education Increases Your Chances of Believing in ESP
Quantum physicist Dean Radin claims that there is a surprising correlation between education and the likelihood of you believing in telepathy and other para-psychological phenomena: the more educated you are the more likely you are to believe in ESP. However, according to Radin, the academic culture...
December 30th, 2009 | Extended Mind | Read More
What Happens When We Die?
Does evidence from the reports of near death experiences suggest that the human mind, or soul, is separate from and irreducible to the human body? If the answer is yes, then what consequences does this have for our understanding of reality, science, and religion?
The Human Consciousness Project is an...
December 27th, 2009 | Spirituality | Read More
Opening to the Infinite
“Three of the most mysterious things a person can experience are spiritual ecstasy, the ah–ha! moment of creative genius, and a verifiable “nonlocal awareness” event—what is often called a psychic event. Let me propose what I think a growing body of interdisciplinary research and a millennia...
December 18th, 2009 | Extended Mind | Read More
Rat Made Supersmart — Similar Boost Unsafe in Humans?
By modifying a single gene, scientists have made Hobbie-J the smartest rat in the world, a new study says.
A similar gene tweak might boost human brainpower too, but scientists warn that there is such a thing as being too smart for your own good.
Matt Kaplan for National Geographic News
For years...
December 16th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More
Enter the Jaguar
The monumental ruins of Chavín de Huantar, ten thousand feet up in the Cordillera Blanca of the Peruvian Andes, are, officially, a mystery. The vast, ruined granite and sandstone structures – cyclopean walls, huge sunken plazas and step pyramids – date from around 1000BC but, although they...
December 15th, 2009 | Altered States | Read More
Dannion Brinkley – Prophet or Profiteer?
In 1975, during a thunderstorm, Dannion Brinkley was talking on the telephone when a bolt of lightning hit the phone line, sending thousands of volts into his head and down through his body. Brinkley was thrown across the room, and later reported seeing his lifeless body spread prone, as his then-girlfriend...
December 10th, 2009 | Altered States | Read More
Feeling Go(o)d: The Physics of Emotion
Even before she was chief of brain biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health, Candace Pert made a breakthrough discovery that changed the way scientists understand the mind-body connection. She found the opiate receptor, the mechanism by which a class of chemicals (peptides) alters the mind and...
December 8th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More
Huxley on Drugs and Creativity
Aldous Huxley interviewed for The Paris Review (1960), reprinted in Moksha: Aldous Huxley’s Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience, edited by Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Palmer (Park Street Press, 1999)
Interviewers: Do you see any relation between the creative process...
November 30th, 2009 | Altered States | Read More
The Effects of Group Meditation on Crime
Effects of Group Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Preventing Violent Crime in Washington, DC: Results of the National Demonstration Project, June-July 1993
John S. Hagelin, Maxwell V. Rainforth, David W. Orme-Johnson, Kenneth L. Cavanaugh, Charles N. Alexander, Susan F. Shatkin, John...
November 19th, 2009 | Spirituality | Read More
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