The greatest question of all time may very well be, ‘what happens to us when we die?’ While many, individuals, religions and spiritual traditions have come to their own conclusions about the ever-lasting nature of the soul, it takes a great deal of faith to be certain about the after life. To the scientific mind, this won’t do, and the question looks a little more like, ‘what happens to human…
From Mermaids to Sirens, to Gods, Goddesses, Demons and Djinn, for millennia, tales of other worlds and the creatures that live therein have fascinated the imaginations of some of this planet’s greatest thinkers going all the way back to ancient Greece and beyond to Babylon. These stories of other worlds have sparked interest in “that which cannot be seen” since civilization began and this idea that there is still much…
The structures of the universe and the human brain are strikingly similar. In the Eastern spiritual discipline of Daoism, the human body has long been viewed as a small universe, as a microcosm. As billion-dollar investments are made in the United States and Europe to research brain functioning, the correlations between the brain and the universe continue to emerge. The two pictures below illustrate the similarities. The top picture shows…
The power of our thoughts seems sometimes almost limitless. Our thoughts are still a mystery to scientists but new studies promise interesting results that people of all ages can find useful in their daily lives. We have previously seen how our thoughts possess the immense power to change our reality. Our cognitive and physical abilities are in general limited, but our conceptions of the nature and extent of those limits…
Building on previous research that used FMRIs to digitalize what faces look like when imagined by the human mind, a team of researchers has done the same with EEG machines — a cheaper and more commonplace option. The Mind’s Eye Neuroscientists at the University of Toronto in Scarborough have established a new method of recreating images perceived by the human brain based on electroencephalography (EEG) readings. “When we see something,…
Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and co-founder of the World Science Festival, explains what we know about time travel so far. Following is a transcript of the video. Brian Greene: I’m Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and co-founder of the World Science Festival. It’s critical that you realize that there are two types of time travel, and they are radically different. Time travel to the…
Alien Worlds For the first time in history, astrophysicists have discovered planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. These extragalactic planets have masses between those of the Moon and Jupiter, and they fully confirm suspicions that our galaxy isn’t the only one to house planets. Scientists at the University of Oklahoma (OU) were responsible for the discovery of the extragalactic planets, which they detail in a study published in the journal…
While plants’ sensory processes are complex and mysterious, researchers recently took a major step towards elucidating them in a new study that mapped out the interactions of around 200 of the proteins involved. Plants may lack our facial features, but the fact that they don’t have eyes, ears, or noses has not stopped them from developing ways to see, hear, and smell potential threats around them. While plants’ sensory processes…
Edgar Cayce, known as the ‘Sleeping Prophet’ once stated, ‘The Earth is catching up with time’ but what does this mean? Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory is based on the premise that time is spiraling towards the singularity. Ian Xel Lungold believed that creation is speeding up because there’s less time. Are these three theories related? Cayce was born on a farm near Hopkinsville, Kentucky on March 18, 1877 where…