Category: News
Transcending the Brain – At least some cases of physical damage are associated with enriched consciousness or cognitive skill
Despite significant advances in neuroscience, consciousness remains a vexing mystery. Because the qualities of experience seem to be irreducible to physical parameters,1 a hypothesis that…
HRH Prince of Wales Address to the Going Beyond Medicine Conference
The theme was ‘Going Beyond Medicine’ and the programme focused on different ways of improving health and wellbeing from self-management, social prescribing, complementary therapies to…
Making it Darker
Vera de Chalambert, spiritual storyteller and Harvard-educated scholar of comparative religion offers a unique view of the recent US Presidential Election. Donald Trump’s election cannot…
The Self Does Not Die: 104 Cases of Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences
The Self Does Not Die: 104 Cases of Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences — Rudolf Smit, 2016 IANDS Conference Claims of paranormal phenomena/experiences during…
Spirituality in Psychiatry for Today’s World
Video produced by the RCPsych’s Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group:
Left brain stands guard while sleeping away from home
Away from home, people sleep with one ear open. In unfamiliar surroundings, part of the left hemisphere keeps watch while the rest of the brain…
New Study Shows Energy Healing Modality May Affect Gene Expression
IONS scientist Dr. Garret Yount, along with collaborator Dr. Dawson Church, is doing a series of exciting experiments on the effects of Emotion Freedom Techniques…
New Experiments Show Consciousness Affects Matter – Dean Radin Ph.D
Dean Radin speaks at the Science of Consciousness Conference in Tuscon 2016. Dean Radin Ph.D is chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS).