Meditate Yourself Better The Buddhist monk and author Matthieu Ricard explains how meditation improves mind and body alike, and how altruism could transform economics. Neuro-Inspired Computers A newly developed organic transistor has opened the way to new generations of neuro-inspired computers, capable of responding in a manner similar to the nervous system of the human brain. Expanding Mind Transhumanism, technological psychedelia, and the Tao of being out of control: Erik Davis is chatting with RU Sirius, editor of h+ magazine. Wasson and the Psychedelic Revolution An essay by Carl A. P. Ruck, best known for his work in mythology and religion on the sacred role of entheogens, or psychoactive plants that induce an altered state of consciousness, as used in religious or shamanistic rituals.

Five Emotions You Never Knew You Had There are six emotions that we know everyone feels. But others may also be universal – and for good biological reasons. The Psychedelic Worldview and the 3D Experience Could Avatar be the first messenger of a new psychedelic wave ushered in by a new medium with psychedelic tendencies? Could it bring psychedelic values and ideas into mainstream thinking? An article by Ido Hartogsohn. An infinite eternal unchanging nothing that has always existed... Where did the universe come from? The theory appears to match observations, and the theoretical physics appear to hold back through time to within a tiny fraction of a second after the creation of the Big Bang. Beyond that the theory cannot explain how the Big Bang singularity came into existence. The Neural Advantage of Speaking 2 Languages The ability to speak a second language isn’t the only thing that distinguishes bilingual people from their monolingual counterparts—their brains work differently, too. Our understanding of the Universe is about to change... The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionise our understanding, from the minuscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe.

Astounding case of Rom Houben: 23 years in ‘coma’, but conscious all along! A leading European neurologist has said many cases of brain injury around the world are wrongly diagnosed as 'coma' after discovering that a car-crash victim thought to have ... How Galaxies Form: New Research Resolves Conflict in Theory For more than two decades, the cold dark matter theory has been used by cosmologists to explain how the smooth universe born in the big bang more than 13 billion years ago evolved into the filamentary, galaxy-rich cosmic web that we see today. What is an Altered State of Consciousness? Psychologist and researcher Ralph Metzner about human consciousness and its various altered states. Can You Find Consciousness In The Brain? Most neuroscientists, philosophers of the mind and science journalists feel the time is near when we will be able to explain...