Januar 2012
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Creative people daydream more, even while...
In 1966, my mentor and colleague, Jerome L. Singer , published his seminal book, Daydreaming: An Introduction to the Experimental Study of Inner Experience . Since then, the scientific study of daydreaming has taken off. A key theme that has emerged is the striking continuity between nightdreaming and daydreaming and the ability of creative people to harness this continuity. Neuroscience has...
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The Neuroscience Behind Near Death Experiences →
houseofmind:
So today I found a neuroscience review dealing with a far-out topic: the neuroscience underlying near death experiences (NDE) and other “paranormal” phenomena such as experiences seeing bright lights, meeting the dead or being convinced that you are dead.
According to Mobbs and Watt (2011), approximately 3% of Americans declare that they have had a near-death experience, which...
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Are you on my wavelength? →
You know how when you feel like you really connect with someone, you say you are on the same wavelength? When brain cells want to connect with each other, they synchronize their activity,” Colgin explains. “The cells literally tune into each other’s wavelength. We investigated how gamma waves in particular were involved in communication across cell groups in the hippocampus. What we found could...
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“This grasping of the whole is obviously the aim of science as well, but it is a...”
– Carl Jung // Synchronicity . An Acausal Connecting Principle
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Imprisoned by the past: Unhappy moods lead to a... →
psychotherapy:
Evidence suggests that mind wandering is a frequent accompaniment to an unhappy mood. Building on such work, two laboratory experiments used mood induction to assess whether the greater frequency of mind wandering in a low mood is also accompanied by a shift towards a focus on events from the past. Experiment 1 induced moods via video and induction of an unhappy mood was associated...
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“Now, why should the universe be constructed in such a way that atoms acquire the...”
– Marcus Chown, award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster, currently cosmology consultant for New Scientist magazine, The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms, Oxford University Press, 2001 (via amiquote)
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“Make no mistake about it — enlightenment is a destructive process. It has...”
– Adyashati (via metaconscious)
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Personality differences in men and women
Men and women have large differences in personality, according to a new study published Jan. 4 in the online journal PLoS ONE.
The existence of such differences, and their extent, has been a subject of much debate, but the authors of the new report, led by Marco Del Giudice of the University of Turin in Italy, describe a new method for measuring and analyzing personality differences that...
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Change in Perspective of the Self →
neuroticthought:
This is the particular aspect of meditation that most interests me. I recently posted that embodiment is a top down process. The ‘self’ is a very useful representation and according to Antonio Damasio may originate in the brain stem.
Probably the most insightful neuroimaging study to address the neural correlates of a change in perspective on the self is by Farb et al. (2007),...
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Mindful Meditation →
neuroticthought:
Here is the best up-to-date review on the research in meditation I’ve read so far. The authors lay out a framework for the different ways in which mindfulness meditation works. I highly recommend reading the entire thing (if you have access) though I’ll cover some of the main points here. I’ll also hold off on discussing the more spiritual aspect to the next post in hope of...
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