“Our perceptions of what we see, hear, feel, and so on depends to a great extent on our expectation. In a certain sense, what we perceive is what we expect.” Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D., Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming As we go through our...
Pushing The Boundaries Of Belief. There is one area where evidence of the placebo effect would provide extremely compelling evidence of its existence and effectiveness—surgery. It is common knowledge in medicine that a placebo has no effect on surgery, whose...
In a truly mind-boggling set of experiments, discussed in an article in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine in 2004, Dr Rollin McCraty from the Heartmath Institute—a leading-edge research centre for the scientific study of heart coherence and its...
Benjamin Libet, Professor Emeritus of Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, has devoted 30 years to researching the processes that occur in our conscious and sub-conscious minds. He came to one of his most fundamental discoveries through a rather...
Of all the wonders of the world, among the most wondrous is the human mind. The power of the mind is awe-inspiring, we tend to think of its seemingly extraordinary capacities as miraculous. We have all heard stories about the nearly unbelievable powers of the mind:...
When you wake up in the morning and become conscious of who you are, you witness the most mysterious phenomena in the world; Human Consciousness. No-one knows what makes a human being conscious, it is a complete mystery. The mainstream assumption is that...
