consciousness

The sight of her unconscious body on the operating table being subject to furious efforts by medical staff to save her life was Vicki Umipeg’s first experience of vision, as ...

Blind from birth, a 22-year-old woman experienced seeing herself for the first time—while on the operating table.

Scientists have expended prolific efforts searching for the elusive anatomical correlate of consciousness. Yet the origins of consciousness ...

What if our thoughts or observations could change the way something moves? Imagine if your consciousness could change ...

Venturing to the brink of death, many people have witnessed extraordinary occurrences, delving into the enigmatic realm of ...

“We hide from our own deepest identity when we postulate that consciousness is extinguished with the death of ...

A spiritual and scientific perspective on babies' consciousness, and how to communicate with and heal babies.

If the mind is just a function of the brain, it stands to reason that the worse the ...

Dr. Imants Barušs studies concepts often relegated as intangible or unscientific. One hears talk of human "energy fields," the ...

Dr. Robert Lanza, who was selected by Time magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential people, ...

An international study has found that about one in 10 patients, or 10 percent, of those who undergo ...

Two outstanding experiences created cracks in his armor of atheistic certainty and disrupted what he calls his "web ...

Meditation is becoming more common in the West. When Transcendental Meditation gained popularity in the '60s and '70s, ...

New research says when we die we know we are dead because our brains keep working and remain aware ...

NEW YORK—Are people shaped innately or are their outlooks on life shaped by their experiences, beginning from the ...

Is there life after death? When the body dies, does the brain die? Is that it? For years ...

People who spoke of thoughts influencing a person's health were once ridiculed. But the discovery of the placebo effect ...

Intuition can help people make decisions more quickly, accurately, and confidently, according to a study by researchers at ...

"Many of the outcomes from today's experiments are requiring weirder and weirder explanations," says Dr. William Tiller.

Gary Schwartz was raised without faith and steeped in science, but emerged a spiritual man.

What can we learn about the nature of consciousness from studying newborns, brain injured people, those in altered ...

Could we harness the power of intuition to make scientific discoveries? Great business decisions? Better personal choices?

Brain waves vibrate at different frequencies according to different states of mental alertness. Research has shown that at ...

Scientists have measured inspiration: brainwaves vibrating at some 40 hertz. What happens when we pump that up to ...

Is it just a coincidence that the weather is almost always fine at Princeton University's commencement? One Princeton ...

Do you believe that people can leave their bodies and float around as disincarnate consciousness? Do you believe ...

A free e-book published this month, "Consciousness Beyond the Body: Evidence and Reflections," gathers current scientific knowledge related ...