Jewels Made From Diamonds or Plastic?
Whenever we have been furnished with tar baby ostensibly stuffed with jewels, and warned that it will be dishonourable and irreverent to disembowel it and…
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It’s Happening Now The new psycho-spiritual paradigm
The Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists was founded just over 10 years ago by a number of Network…
Mind and Neurons: Consciousness and the Brain in the 21st Century
The nature of consciousness has become a hot topic in the last fifteen years. For nearly 30 years, Larry Dossey has been exploring the outer…
Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science
We are a group of internationally known scientists, from a variety of scientific fields (biology, neuroscience, psychology, medicine, psychiatry), who participated in an international summit…
Spirit and Brain in the Emergence of the Complete Human Being on Earth
It remains controversial to this day the precise point in the evolutionary chain leading from apes to modern man at which the first men, the…
Homeopathy: The therapy that dare not speak its name?
According to modern pharmacology, there can be no biochemical basis for homeopathy because substances diluted out of existence should not have any effects, let alone…
The Cosmological Constant
The universe owes its existence, not to reality, (of which we know precious little), but to human imagination and mathematical equations. Only through the medium…
Reflections on the Reception of Unconventional Claims in Science
As a sociologist of science I remain outside of the controversies surrounding unconventional claims in science. My commitment is to the judicial process within the…
Seeking for whom the bell tolls: Exploring mind-matter interactions on a global scale
Is there a global mind? Could it be detected quantitatively? In an empirical approach to this question, over the last decade a half-dozen researchers have…