Science confirms spiritual traditions

  Photons – those fundamental particles of light – have a slew of interesting properties, including the fact they don’t tend to crash into one another. That hasn’t stopped physicists from trying, though. University of Chicago physicists have come up with a new, highly flexible way to make…
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  The entrainment of theta brain waves with a commercially available device not only enhances theta wave activity, but also boosts memory performance. That’s according to new research from the Center for Neuroscience at the University of California, Davis, published in the journal Cognitive Neuroscience.…
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  Imagine pursuing to write your name so that it can be read in a mirror. Your brain has all of the visual information you need, and you’re a pro at writing your own name. Still, this task is very difficult for most people. That’s because it requires the brain to perform a mental transformation that it’s not…
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  The concept of “spiritual experience” is subjective, which makes it hard to study. One team of scientists, however, decided to look at what happens to the brain during a spiritual experience, independent of how you define what that is. The results offer some insight into the role spirituality might play in mental…
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  A man by the name of Alexander Marshack, in the 1960s found a piece of bone near the headwaters of the Nile. The bone was close to 30,000 years old. But its age however, was not the most interesting feature. What made this bone particularly unusual is that it had, at periodic intervals, notches carved into it as if to mark a…
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  The nature-versus-nurture argument of intelligence just got a lot more complicated with the discovery that the environment can modify the expression of a key gene in the brain, affecting intelligence far more than we previously thought. Such a finding may not come as a surprise if you remember that numerous genes…
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  In 1992, neuroscientist Richard Davidson traveled with a team of scientists into the Himalayan mountains, lugging hundreds of pounds of computers, EEG electrodes, and other modern lab equipment. Their mission: to study the uncanny ability of Tibetan yogis to control their minds. The research group was optimistic.…
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  By Cherie Dirksen In this article I’m going to suggest that we are, indeed, living in a construct matrix or hologram (keep in mind that these are just words to be used as ‘training wheels’ for the analogy or concept) and it may be entirely possible for us to transform our very own DNA. “What…
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In his writings on mandala symbolism, Carl Jung refers to the mandala as “the psychological expression of the totality of the self.” Within everyone’s psyche, to one degree or another, can be found a seed-center of the self, surrounded by a chaotic maelstrom of issues, fears, passions and countless other…
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  There are some “scientists” out there who believe that the conscience-body connection is complete pseudoscience. This is very strange, especially given the fact that countless peer-reviewed studies published by many reputable scientists and institutions have shown a direct connection between our conscience and our…
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