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Do you believe in magic? Seriously.

January 17, 2013 Nicholas C. DiDonato 0

No self-respecting defender of science would admit to believing in magic. Science has surpassed magic by providing real explanations. Yet, when put in the right […]

Review: Inside the Neolithic Mind

March 17, 2012 Won-Jae Hur 0

David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce’s Inside the Neolithic Mind (Thames & Hudson, 2005) claims to descend into the nebulous world of Neolithic people’s consciousness in […]

Book review: Science and the Spiritual Quest

July 15, 2011 Connor Wood 0

Nearly a decade and a half ago, an elite group of scientists gathered in Berkeley, California, to participate in a groundbreaking project called Science and […]

IN FOCUS: Meditation research (Part Two)

March 1, 2011 Connor Wood 0

There’s been a boom in interest in meditation recently – among laypersons and the scientific community alike. Neuroscientists, in particular, have begun using their training […]

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IN FOCUS: Meditation research

February 26, 2011 Connor Wood 0

You’ve probably noticed: research into meditation has been all over the news lately, from the New York Times to Scientific American. More and more serious […]

Review: Principles of Neurotheology

January 4, 2011 Connor Wod 0

One of the most fundamental quandaries in theology and philosophy is the pernicious difficulty of using the mind to examine itself. The trickiness of inverting […]

Prominent skeptic: Religion may be adaptive after all

September 18, 2010 Connor Wood 0

In the nine years since the radical Islamist terrorist attacks on the U.S. of September 11th, 2001, plenty of scholars and researchers have trained their […]

Bruya’s Effortless Attention

June 29, 2010 Nathaniel Barrett 0

Everyone has experiences of being “in the zone.” These usually occur while engaged in some challenging but enjoyable activity, like playing basketball or ballroom dancing. […]

Wallace’s Contemplative Science

December 21, 2009 Paul M. Butler 0

Buddhist scholar, B. Alan Wallace’s Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge (Columbia University Press, 2007) is an attractive read for anyone interested in neuroscience, […]

The Biocentric Universe

July 18, 2009 Derek Michaud 0

A recent article by Robert Lanza and Bob Berman suggests that rather than being the most complex results of essentially physical processes, life, and particularly […]

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