We are not our brain: How to break the spell of the neurosciences

By Riccardo Manzotti

What are we? A soul? An immaterial mind? A flow of energy? Are we our bodies or neural patterns in our brains?

Raising a New Generation of Super-Children

By Peta Morton

In a leafy, seemingly conventional corner of suburban Essex in southeast England ordinary children are learning in the most extraordinary of ways.

Emotional and Spiritual Maturity

With Gabor Maté and Adyashanti

In a rare meeting of minds, and a rare exploration of whether there is a predilection for spirituality, Gabor Mate asks Adyashanti to expand on passages from his recent book My Secret Is Silence.

Human Potential Is Infinite: A.H. Almaas

At his SAND18 appearance A.H. Almaas talks about the importance and mystery of being human, and of the great opportunity and potential of human beings.

What is a Healthy Mind? Daniel Siegel

Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…

Near-Death Experiences are Real: A Rebuttal

By Lynn K. Russell

Just as artists are driven to create, scientists need to prove that something is as it seems. Their mantra is, don’t tell me, show me through repeated tests that arrive at the same results every time.

Binaural Beats

By Alexandra Sheren

These days people have lost their connection with many powerful elements of energy and nature, sound being one of them—as a means of healing and brain entertainment.

It’s Time to Allow Vibration to Have its Way

By Greg Sipp

For well over a century, scientists have been wrestling with what quantum mechanics has been revealing to us about fundamental reality

The Hardest Problem: Decoding the puzzle of human consciousness

By Susan Blackmore

Might we humans be the only species on this planet to be truly conscious?

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Are We Just Another Primate?

With Robert Sapolsky

Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?

The Neurobiology of Love

By Shawn Radcliffe

For anyone who has watched a friend fall in love, Nietzsche’s words from Thus Spoke Zarathustra might…

Robert Lanza: Consciousness Is the Key to Understanding Reality

By Shawn Radcliffe

In order to understand the true nature of reality, science must first recognize the importance of consciousness, says Dr. Robert Lanza, a stem-cell biologist whose work has earned him high acclaim.

Math Has its Own Brain Region

By Josh Hrala

How did great mathematicians like Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein make the leap from understanding basic mathematical concepts to answering fundamental questions about the Universe?

The Brain-Heart Connection: Emotions, Feelings and Health

By Shawn Radcliffe

The heart is essential to our life, pumping oxygenated blood throughout our body. But it’s also the…

New Theory Says We Are All Multiple Personalities of a Cosmic Consciousness

By Shawn Radcliffe

From the comfortable seat of our bodies (and built-in brains), it’s easy to think that consciousness…

The Science of Happiness: Why complaining is literally killing you

By Steven Parton

Sometimes in life, all the experience and knowledge simmering around in that ol’ consciousness of ours...

Illusions and the Mind’s Reality

By Science and Nonduality

When it comes to the world around us, what we perceive is not always what is actually there.

The Flow of Time in a Timeless Universe

By Shawn Radcliffe

If you were to stand outside the universe—outside both space and time—and look at your life, you would see your birth, your death and every moment in between laid out as distinct points.

A New Theory of Consciousness: The Mind Exists as a Field Connected to the Brain

By Tara MacIsaac

Between quantum physics and neuroscience, a theory emerges of a mental field we each have, existing in another dimension and behaving in some ways like a black hole.

Consciousness isn't a Mystery—Matter is.

By Galen Strawson

It is precisely science that makes the key point shine most brightly: the point that there is a fundamental respect in which ultimate intrinsic nature of the stuff of the universe is unknown to us — except insofar as it is consciousness.

Consciousness Expanded by Psilocybin

By Science and Nonduality

Psychedelic drugs alter consciousness in a profound and novel way that increases the breadth and fluency of cognition. However, until recently, scientists were unable to offer an explanation for how the brain was altered to account for these effects.

Emotions Shape Our Physical Reality

By Shawn Radcliffe

In recent years scientists have been exploring the effects that stress and emotions have on our cells — in particular, on our chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA.

Where Does Pain Exist in the Mind?

By Shawn Radcliffe

We live in a reality generated by our brain. From the euphoria of falling in love to the beauty of a newly blossomed flower, what we experience with our senses is a representation of the world, not the world itself.