Posts Tagged ‘neural activity’

Left in the Dark

Left in the Dark
While a student at Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and preparing a short dissertation entitled ‘The Genetic Manipulation of Plants’ the subconscious seeds of a revolutionary new theory were sown in Tony Wright’s mind. Over the next 20 years a mixture of scientific curiosity and radical self-experimentation...
November 17th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More

Happiness is a Skill to be Cultivated

Happiness is a Skill to be Cultivated
Renowned Buddhist monk, Matthieu Ricard, gives a lesson in how to learn and cultivate the skill of being happy. Matthieu Ricard quit his career as a cellular geneticist nearly 40 years ago to study Buddhism. He is the French translator for the Dalai Lama. Matthieu has authored seven books, including...
November 5th, 2009 | Health & Happiness | Read More

LSD and the Evolution of Consciousness

LSD and the Evolution of Consciousness
This essay, which tells the story of the inventor of LSD and his ‘problem child’s’ turbulent history, is taken from the soon-to-be published ‘Hofmann’s Elixir: LSD and the New Eleusis’. It is brainwaving.com’s first exclusive, and written by co-founder Amanda...
October 29th, 2009 | Altered States | 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

Scientists study possible health benefits of LSD and ecstacy

Scientists study possible health benefits of LSD and ecstacy
The Guardian newspaper reported to day on the growing number of people taking psychedelic drugs to help them cope with conditions such as chronic anxiety attacks, and the role The Beckley Foundation has played in this development. The fear that the growing use of LSD as a recreational drug in the 1960s,...
October 24th, 2009 | Altered States | Read More

Neanderthal Brains

Neanderthal Brains
Did we out-breed slow-maturing Neanderthals? by Debora MacKenzie Neanderthal women had just as much trouble in childbirth as modern women – and their kids took just as long to grow up. Christoph Zollikofer and colleagues at the University of Zürich, Switzerland, have done the first three-dimensional...
October 6th, 2009 | Evolution | Read More

Molecules of Emotion

Molecules of Emotion
“A far-flung network of information carried by . . . [provides] the molecular underpinnings of what we experience as feelings, sensations, thoughts, drives, perhaps even spirit or soul. ” By Candace Pert. From Shift Magazine: –CANDACE PERT Candace Pert’s research suggests that...
October 4th, 2009 | Health & Happiness | Read More

God in the Brain

God in the Brain
Jack Hitt, from Wired Magazine, describes a scientist’s attempts to translate the mystery of religious experience into a materialistic theory of brain activity. Michael Persinger has a vision – the Almighty isn’t dead, he’s an energy field. And your mind is an electromagnetic map...
October 1st, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More

The Conscious Heart

The Conscious Heart
Rollin McCraty reveals the discovery that neural activity within the heart appears to influence our conscious perception, cognition, and emotional processing, which suggests that the traditional role attributed to the heart as the seat of our deepest emotions may be true after all.
September 29th, 2009 | Science of the 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
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