Placebo Effect

“In recent years there has been a growing interest in alternative medicines, many of which employ mental or spiritual powers to heal the body. Now research into the biochemistry of placebos is showing that these remedies are not as wacky as they sound and that we are, indeed, capable of curing ourselves. In Suggestible You: […]

Psi Research Controversies

The best short summary of psi research that I’ve found is an article by Etzel Cardeña on “The Experimental Evidence for Parapsychological Phenomena: A Review.”[1] In his 2018 article he states, “no recent integration of current theories and evidence has been published.” Similar to other psi researchers, he concludes that the evidence for psi is […]

Plant Iq

“Thus Spoke the Plant” by Monica Gagliano, Ph.D. reports plants have memory, listen, and speak to humans–based on her lab experiments and work with shamans. Very interesting short book.

What is consciousness: Imants Baruss

Barušs, I. (1987). Metanalysis of definitions of consciousness. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 6(4), 321–329.‡ Barušs, I. (2008). Beliefs about consciousness and reality: Clarification of the confusion concerning consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15(10–11), 277–292.†

Recent Books about Consciousness

https://endpoints.elysiumhealth.com/best-science-books-of-summer-2019-c4db4cd77640 Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris What is consciousness? And why would any collection of matter in the universe possess it? These are the big questions at the center of Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, by Annaka Harris. Harris is the […]

Recent Analysis of the Universe

View at Medium.com The Universe is 31.5% matter (where 4.9% is normal matter and the rest is dark matter), 68.5% dark energy, with a Hubble expansion rate today of 67.4 km/s/Mpc. That latter figure has such small uncertainties on it (~1%) that it’s in tension with measurements from the cosmic distance ladder, which indicate a rate closer […]

Meditation’s effect on the brain

https://mindfulentrepreneurship.com/neuroscience-of-mindfulness-what-exactly-happens-to-your-brain-when-you-meditate-7d1ca47d9fca

Quantum Teleportation

Peace meditation 9-21-19 with app and RNGs

The HeartMath Institute and Global Coherence Initiative We will be joining communities around the world in mass meditation using the Global Coherence app. To create this peace wave, our hope is to synchronize together and radiate heart to the world on Sept. 21, 2019 at 12:00 noon at your location. The Global Coherence App created by HeartMath Institute connects people from […]

Being near a partner reduces pain

Stefan Duschek et al, “Dispositional empathy is associated with experimental pain reduction during provision of social support by romantic partners,” Scandinavian Journal of Pain, August 21, 2019, DOI: doi/10.1515/sjpain-2019-0025