"Is there real science in the spiritualism of meditation? Jo Marchant meets a Nobel Prize-winner who thinks so."

"A house cat's bizarre antics may be more than just feline folly. The kitty may be seeing things that human eyes can't."

"Many accounts of solar eclipses include tales of animals behaving strangely: Birds fall silent. Bees return to the hive."

"In launching this blog, I am going back to some of the key ideas discussed in founding the Network over forty years ago. In those days, parapsychology was, as it is today, a disreputable field. Little had been published there. Doctors who practiced homeopathy did so in secret. Meditation was new, practiced among student groups or followers of the Maharishi. Biological energy fields? Nobody talked about them or knew what they were. Well, not exactly nobody. There was the Wrekin Trust, the Attingham Educational Centre of Sir George Trevelyan. When the first meetings of “the Conspiracy” took place — that was how the founders called themselves, their thought was for establishing a safe place for dialogue on scientific topics such as parapsychology, energy fields, dowsing, higher modes of consciousness. The Network was a means for people with such interests to find each other."

Fasting can repair the immune system.

"Our view of the earliest flowers just bloomed. A new reconstruction, the most detailed to date, suggests the flowers were bisexual, with more than five female reproductive organs, or carpels, and more than 10 male reproductive organs, or stamen. "

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake will be presenting at our Beyond the Brain Conference in October.

"Scientists have long posited that solitude generates creativity, as evidenced by scores of artists, poets, and philosophers throughout the ages who produced their greatest works in seclusion from society."

"Our totally bogus case report swiftly passed muster, with only minor revisions requested."

"In this presentation, physician Larry Dossey will explore the possibility of survival by examining the inadequacy of a materialist approach to consciousness, which forbids the possibility of survival of mind."

"A new particle detected in the atom smasher at CERN has sent physicists scurrying back to revisit an experiment from more than 10 years ago."

"Psychologists have only begun to unravel the concept of “personality,” that all-important but nebulous feature of individual identity. Recent studies suggest that personality traits don’t simply affect your outlook on life, but the way you perceive reality."

"Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore enlists priests, rabbis and a Buddhist to test the effects of psychedelic drugs on religious experience"

What matter of matterless mind minds matter? What forces bind the former to the latter? Can man-made machines have man-like minds? What spills out of the kicked bucket? Is anybody tending the light at the end of the tunnel... or is it all an artefact of the hypoxic retina? Does consciousness surf the self-collapsing quantum wave? What does anaesthesia teach us about the mind? Is consciousness tied down in neural knots or is it a leaky field? What lessons can science learn from magick?

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Join the Scientific & Medical Network this October for an all-star assault on the big questions of existence. Featuring:

Dr RUPERT SHELDRAKE: Biologist & author of 10 books
"The Extended Mind: Experimental Evidence for Effects of Attention and Intention at a Distance"

Dr DEAN RADIN: Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences
"Magic 2.0: Towards a Resurrection of an Esoteric Legend"

Prof STUART HAMEROFF: Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona
"Is Consciousness Guiding the Universe?"

Dr CASSANDRA VIETEN: President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
"The Future of Consciousness Research"

Dr DIANE CORCORAN: President Emeritus of the International Association for Near-Death Studies
"Veterans and Near Death Experiences: How we can Facilitate their Recovery"

Prof CHRIS ROE: Director of the Centre for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes, University of Northampton
"Recent Advances in Parapsychological Research: Approaches to Accessing Unconscious Processes"

Dr PENNY SARTORI: Near-death researcher and lecturer, Swansea University
"The Transformative Power of Near Death Experiences"
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The interdisciplinary Beyond the Brain conferences were initiated with Willis Harman and Edgar Mitchell of the Institute of Noetic Sciences at St John’s College, Cambridge in 1995. Over the years we have covered a wide range of topics and this year we are taking a different approach by inviting four partners to join us and making the conference non-residential in London. On Friday evening, however, we will be holding the UK premiere of Member Amit Biswas’ award-winning film The Bridge.

Each partner has taken responsibility for one session covering their particular area of consciousness research. All our speakers are at their respective cutting edges and are constantly devising new and innovative research strategies to probe the nature of consciousness.

Attendees will have their minds stretched and their hearts warmed at this exciting landmark event and be able to network with like-minded people. This landmark conference is not to be missed, and we greatly look forward to your participation!

The interdisciplinary Beyond the Brain conferences were initiated with Willis Harman and Edgar Mitchell of the Institute of Noetic Sciences at St John’s College, Cambridge in 1995. Over the years we have covered a wide range of topics and this year we are taking a different approach by inviting four partners to join us and making the conference non-residential in London. On Friday evening, however, we will be holding the UK premiere of Member Amit Biswas’ award-winning film The Bridge.

Each partner has taken responsibility for one session covering their particular area of consciousness research. All our speakers are at their respective cutting edges and are constantly devising new and innovative research strategies to probe the nature of consciousness.

Attendees will have their minds stretched and their hearts warmed at this exciting landmark event and be able to network with like-minded people. This landmark conference is not to be missed, and we greatly look forward to your participation!

"Often brushed aside like a forgotten stepchild, a 64-year-old theory of quantum mechanics may now share the stage with its more well-regarded siblings. If it holds up, it might lend support to ideas that the universe is improbably interconnected across vast distances."

"By analyzing the lifespan of the longest-living individuals from the USA, the UK, France and Japan for each year since 1968, investigators found no evidence for such a limit, and if such a maximum exists, it has yet to be reached or identified."

“The system built up over the years to promote scientific advance has become one that narrow-minded people can use to block any advance that they deem unacceptable.”

‘Caesar’s Last Breath’ tells the stories of invisible gases

"New study of snail neurons suggests memories that trigger anxiety, PTSD could be 'erased' without affecting normal memory of past events"