Gratitude
Recent psychological research that suggests that people who regularly practice gratitude, forgiveness, and an appreciation of material blessings are more optimistic and happier than others.... posted on Jan 17 2004, 1,709 reads

Timeless
More than half of Americans believe in 'anomalous phenomena' like clairvoyance, unexplained coincidence, prayer healing and psychokinesis. Yet mainstream science remains unconvinced. After all, these anomalies appear to fly in the face of everything we know about how mind and matter interact. But that may be about to change. This year, Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, a professor of psychology at the Univer... posted on Jan 03 2004, 1,125 reads

Taking Risks to Blossom
In 1992, there were three schools with courses on spirituality and health, one of them at the George Washington University School of Medicine. Now, well over 65 percent of the medical schools have courses or topics related to spirituality and health.... posted on Dec 27 2003, 1,094 reads

Power of Genius
Matt Savage launched his jazz career by attempting to improve a Schubert sonata. His piano teacher told him that the G-sharp he just played was supposed to be a G-natural. "It sounds better my way," he protested. She replied that only when he wrote his own music could he take liberties with a score. Keen on taking liberties, he became a jazz composer. He released his fifth album this year, making ... posted on Dec 05 2003, 1,362 reads

According to researchers at Duke University Medical Center, cardiac patients who received prayer in addition to coronary treatment had better clinical outcomes than those treated with standard therapy alone. Their results further suggest that studying the therapeutic value of prayer and other noetic interventions appears feasible and warrants larger-scale, more definitive investigations. Noetic i... posted on Oct 17 2003, 694 reads

The author of the famous 'Autobiography of a Yogi', Paramhansa Yogananda, died on March 7, 1952. Conscious during his exit from the body at the time of physical death, his passing was marked by an extraordinary phenomenon. A notarized statement signed by the Director of Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Harry Rowe, testified: "No physical disintegration was visible in his body even twenty days after de... posted on Aug 30 2003, 958 reads

More than 300 million people worldwide are at risk of developing diabetes and the disease's economic impact in some hard-hit countries could be higher than that of the AIDS pandemic, diabetes experts warn.... posted on Aug 27 2003, 836 reads

It's common. Right as you pick up the phone, you tell the other person: "I was just thinking of you!" Are those just coincidences? Rupert Sheldrake and Pamela Smart decided to do some experiments on it and found that it's not quite so random. In fact, their study showed an above-chance success rate, implying that the callers could intuitively communicate with the callees!... posted on Aug 15 2003, 1,242 reads

Scientists have created a neuro-feedback system that dramatically improves the performance of musicians. Neurofeedback monitors brain activity through sensors attached to the scalp which filter out the brainwaves, which are then 'fed back' to the individual in the form of a video game displayed on a screen. The participant learns to control the game by altering particular aspects of their brain ... posted on Aug 09 2003, 2,563 reads

Happy people are three times less likely to get a cold, according to researchers who squirted cold virus up the noses of volunteers. Psychologist Sheldon Cohen and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, also found that the positive thinkers who do develop symptoms complain about them less.... posted on Aug 06 2003, 1,085 reads