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People initiated into a Buddhist dream yoga monastery spend a minimum of three years learning to master the art of lucid dreaming (or realizing within a dream that you are dreaming it) and applying it to Buddhist principles while lucidly aware in the dream state.
Have you ever thought about taking a workshop to enhance your intuition, deepen your meditation practice, or better understand yourself? In recent years, these types of personal development workshops have taken off, especially ones that promise to be transformational for participants, or cause long-lasting shifts in the way one experiences and relates to themselves and others.
In a previous article, we explored how breathwork can change us. What’s so fantastic about breathwork is how accessible it is. Anyone who breathes can practice breathwork! And you don’t need to pay for a 1-hour class to experience the benefits: just a few minutes of intentional breathing can already lift your mood.
It is not always clear what makes an ideal image stimulus for use in parapsychological experiments and applications. For example, in remote viewing (RV) research, many have speculated that beyond the contents of an image, certain important psychological properties such as numinosity, or the emotional or spiritual connection it can evoke, may be predictive of RV success or could explain some instances of displacement (i.e., perceiving correct impressions of the wrong image). These stimulus properties may have similar implications for other areas in parapsychology such as for Ganzfeld studies and presentiment research as well as for traditional psychological experimentation. Yet, aside from anecdotal reports and speculation, there have been few attempts to quantify and empirically validate which, if any, subjective dimensions of an image may be the most influential for participant’s perceptions and study outcomes.
From Outer Space to Inner Space traces two remarkable journeys―one through space and one through the mind. Together they fundamentally alter the way we understand the miracle and mystery of being, and ultimately reveal humankind’s role in its own destiny.
One of the unsolved puzzles in quantum mechanics is known as the “measurement problem.” The classic way to demonstrate this problem is with a double-slit optical system. In such systems a beam of photons, such as that produced by a laser, is directed to pass through two tiny slits. A camera on the other side of the slits captures how the photons behave after they go through the slits. If nothing is known about which of the two slits each photon goes through, then the pattern observed by the camera is alternating light and dark bands. This is what one would expect if photons behave like waves. Waves, like ripples in a pond, can interfere with each other and in so doing they produce a characteristic pattern of peaks and troughs (or in the case of photons, lighter and darker bands of illumination).
A new year can feel like a whole new beginning. An opportunity to reflect on our past and consider our future. For some, that may mean setting a new year’s resolution to save money or lose weight. Others may try to build new relationships or strengthen existing connections. However, some have found it difficult to maintain these ideas as the year stretches forward. It’s possible they may fall back into their old status quo.
Noetic sciences hold the potential to profoundly shift the material paradigm that has limited humanity for ages. An annual prize of $100,000 will be given to an individual or team whose research advances leading-edge science around consciousness. This new, visionary science prize provides an exciting opportunity to expand IONS global reach.
Many cultures around the globe and throughout the history of humanity have believed in a form of energy, called subtle energy. Subtle energy is different from electromagnetic energy, which is the energy we use to broadcast our favorite shows on TV, charge our cell phones, and power the rest of our world. It is believed that subtle energy can transfer between objects and people in a process called “energetic imprinting.”
What is time? Most of us think of it as some kind of flow of events from the past through the present and into the future. We remember the past, live in the present, and the future is unknown. Precognition, however, makes nonsense of that common definition, suggesting that the future can somehow be glimpsed in the now.