The founder of the Transcendental Meditation technique, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, discusses the mechanics of the technique.
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What Is Kabbalah?
Kabbalah is the name of an occult philosophy and theosophy that developed among Jews in Babylonia, and later Italy, Provence, and Spain, between the sixth and thirteenth centuries A.D.
Consciousness Is Not Mysterious It’s just the brain describing itself—to itself.
When Isaac Newton was 17 years old, he performed a series of experiments with prisms and light beams. Within weeks he discovered the scientific explanation for color, invented the reflecting telescope, proposed the particle theory of light, and deduced that the human eye contained three receptor types corresponding to the three primary colors. Not bad for a teen. Continue reading Consciousness Is Not Mysterious It’s just the brain describing itself—to itself.
Do You Have A Letter ‘M’ On The Palm Of Your Hand?
Palmistry is an ancient art whose roots have been traced back several thousand years to India, where it was born from Hindu astrology and first mentioned in the Chinese book the I Ching. It quickly spread all over Asia and Europe, whereupon Aristotle took up an interest in it and passed the knowledge on to Alexander the Great. Continue reading Do You Have A Letter ‘M’ On The Palm Of Your Hand? This new, ‘complete’ tree of life shows how 2.3 million species are related
By Rachel Feltman
Scientists have released a new version of the tree of life, showing everything we know about how the living things of Earth are related to one another. With 2.3 million species and counting, it’s the most complete model of its kind — but there’s a lot more work to do.
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16 Easy Ways To Improve Your Focus
Americans have about an eight-second attention span.
That’s less than a goldfish.
But we can improve our powers of concentration by, for example, finding clever ways to eliminate distractions, hacking our workflows, or working on our mindsets.
Why We Should Embrace — Not Fear — the Biohacker Uprising
Dr. Steve Kurtz was making arrangements for his wife Hope’s funeral when the FBI burst in.
Kurtz, a professor of arts at the New York State University, was detained and interrogated for 22 hours as a bioterrorism suspect.
The previous day, Kurtz had dialed 911 in panic when Hope passed away in their home in Buffalo, NY. When the paramedics arrived, they were taken aback by dozens of petri dishes full of bacterial cultures casually strewn around the house. They thought I killed my wife with some sort of biochemical toxin, recalled Kurtz in an interviewwith the BBC.
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