Tagged with neuroscience

The ideological fixation on the physical brain will eventually yield to a transpersonal, nonlocal dimension of consciousness. When this happens within neuroscience, the Source will be recognized and we will wonder how we could have been so blind. (more)

There is a slow shift in our view of the nature of consciousness. It's occurring in incremental stages, its main bulk still writhing below the surface of frothing rhetoric and opinionated debate, but a Newsweek cover story on a Near Death Experience marks an important change in the public discussion. (more)

Savants show us that it is possible to access transpersonal aspects of consciousness that are currently denied in conventional science. Are the occasional strobe-like bursts of insight, creativity, and epiphany that some people experience reminders of what we are capable of? (more)

Our reasoning abilities are not enough to create a more habitable, peaceful, and sustainable world. To experience enlightenment and learn to interact with the cosmic web, we must begin by healing that part of our bodies that allows us to dream a new world into being: our prefrontal cortex. (more)

Surveys suggest that between ten and twenty percent of the population has had an out of body experience. Do our souls really drift away from our bodies? Are our brains playing tricks on us? (more)

If you ask most people what makes them who they are, chances are you'll get an answer that has to do with the self, the personality -- perhaps even the "soul." Yet if you look closely at the personality (or mind, or heart, or soul), you discover that it isn't there. (more)