by Ashby Kinch | The Conversation In the Halloween season, American culture briefly participates in an ancient tradition of making the world of the dead visible to the living: Children dress as skeletons, teens go to horror movies and adults play the part of ghosts in haunted houses. But what if the dead played a more active, more participatory role in our daily lives? It might appear to be a…
by Melissa Chim | The Conversation Books have always had the power to cast a spell over their readers – figuratively. But one book that was quite popular from the 15th to 17th centuries, and infamously so, is literally about spells: what witches do, how do identify them, how to get them to confess, and how to bring them to swift punishment. As fear of witches reached a fever pitch…
Life After Life, the full documentary by Raymond Moody explores several case studies of those who have experienced physical death and then returned to their bodies. Dr. Moody first coined the term Near Death Experience or NDE in 1975 in his best-selling book also titled Life After Life. This extraordinary film illustrates the profound evidence that consciousness survives outside of the physical body and an afterlife exists. Be Sure to…
Most of us get caught up in the emotions of being a human and we forget where we all come from. When we are broken down we are nothing more than energy and that is where spirituality comes into play. No matter what we are doing or experiencing it all breaks down in the same way. When most people think of the end of the world they think of the…
Numbers are ancient, meaningful, and powerful. It was the Pythagoreans in the 6th century BC who were one of the first groups to popularize the idea that numbers are not merely mathematical symbols, but they actually carry spiritual significance. As Pythagoras was once quoted to have said, “Number is the ruler of forms and ideas and the cause of gods and daemons.” Thanks to Pythagoras, we have the system of…
Gregg Braden introduces us to a lost form of prayer that helps us move beyond the problems we are facing and become a part of the solution. This is something that is practiced by many indigenous cultures and is present within the lost Gospel of Thomas. From this, we gain a new model of creation where consciousness plays an active role in informing us through our own creations. Be Sure…
Science increasingly agrees with the poetry of direct human experience: we are more than the atoms and molecules that make up our bodies, but beings of light as well. Biophotons are emitted by the human body, can be released through mental intention, and may modulate fundamental processes within cell-to-cell communication and DNA. Nothing is more amazing than the highly improbable fact that we exist. We often ignore this fact, oblivious to…
By sunshyne49 Doctor Lloyd Rudy, a pioneer in the U.S in cardiac research, sits down for an interview where he is asked about a his experience involving Near Death Experiences. He describes an incident with a patient during surgery. He explains that the patient had “no way of knowing” the doctor had sticky notes posted on the monitor (they were posted well AFTER the operation had started), as well as…
Along with the opioid epidemic, we are in the midst of a benzodiazepine epidemic. This class of prescription drugs, which includes the extremely popular drug xanax, is primarily prescribed for anxiety, but is exceptionally prone to abuse, addiction, and were involved in almost 12,000 deaths a year. “These are highly addictive and potentially lethal drugs, and many people don’t know that,” lead author Dr. Anna Lembke of the Stanford University School…