Acoustic Archaeology Yielding Mind-Tripping Tricks
Recently uncovered sound effects include a clapping echo that sounds like a jungle bird.
THE GIST
Acoustic archaeology is an emerging field that melds acoustical analysis and old-fashioned bone-hunting.
Ancient people created fun house-like temples that featured scary sound effects.
Some of the sites...
December 14th, 2010 | Spirituality | Read More
Indian man ‘survives without food or water for decades’
A team of doctors in western India is carrying out a study on a hermit who claims to have survived without food and water for 70 years.
The holy man claims that he derives energy through meditation.
April 30th, 2010 | Spirituality | Read More
Mecca Diaries
Hajj is the world’s largest annual pilgrimage that takes place in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Last year VICE Founder Suroosh Alvi went with his family and shot footage with an old Handicam. His intention was never to make a VBS doc out of it, but lo and behold here it is…shaky camerawork and all. The next...
March 23rd, 2010 | Spirituality | Read More
The Shaman’s Renaissance
A new religion is spreading to Britain – its central sacrament the consumption of a hallucinogenic Class A drug. Here’s a report from the faith’s heartland in the rainforests of the Amazon
I am deep in the Amazon rainforest, anxiously losing my mind as the world begins to disintegrate....
February 1st, 2010 | Spirituality | 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
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
Cranial Compliance
Recent research of the Beckley Foundation with Prof. Yuri Moskalenko, world-recognized pioneer in cerebral circulation, has revealed that the loss of the elastic quality of the skull due to normal bone ossification processes results in a decrease of 8-10% in the supply of blood to the brain, due to the...
August 7th, 2009 | Spirituality | Read More







