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Podcast Episode: Buddhist Geeks: The Mystery of the Mind: Ten Zen Questions (Seriously Buddhist, Seriously GeekyInterview with Susan Blackmore on her book, 10 Zen Questions
Al Wood
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When a woman becomes a religious dynastyI first heard tales of the remarkable princess Chokyi Dronma – famed for her daring exploits, cultural and social innovation, and unusual powers – during long evenings spent in the Tibetan monastery of Samding over a decade ago. The monks told me how she had miraculously founded the monastery ...
Marian Meg Phillips
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Brain Waves Surge Moments Before Death: Discovery NewsPhotos -- A study of seven terminally ill patients found identical surges in brain activity moments before death, providing what may be physiological evidence of "out of body" experiences reported by people who survive near-death ordeals . Doctors at George Washington University Medical ...
Nova Spivack
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The Buddy System: How Medical Data Revealed Secret to Health and HappinessThe Buddy System: How Medical Data Revealed Secret to Health and Happiness A revolution in the science of social networks began with a stash of old papers found in a storeroom in Framingham, Massachusetts. They were the personal records of 5,124 male and female subjects from the Framingham ...
Nova Spivack
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Stairway to the Mind: The Controversial New Science of ConsciousnessAnother book on the subject is Consciousness Explained Better: Towards an Integral Understanding of the Multifaceted Nature of Consciousness, just out. Amazon link: http://tiny.cc/Vg4WX Haven't read this one, and don't know how credible Allan Combs is. I'm about to embark on a fairly serious ...Sam theClam added 7 weeks ago
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Is time an illusion? - physics-math - 19 January 2008 - New ScientistI can't believe there are no comments on this article! This is one of my favorite articles. Ever!Margaret Hallenbeck added 7 weeks ago
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32The Buddy System: How Medical Data Revealed Secret to Health and HappinessThis is one of the most important things I've read this year. Not because I didn't know this intuitively, but because these researchers actually have proved it. It's a big paradigm shift -- and this is only the very tip of it. Ideas, opinions, sentiment etc. also travel through social networks ...Nova Spivack added 7 weeks ago
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32Stairway to the Mind: The Controversial New Science of ConsciousnessI just bought this and will be reading it soon.Nova Spivack added 5 months ago
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