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Shared Death Research Project

By Paul Kieniewicz What follows is a letter from Raymond Moody describing an opportunity to contribute to a research project on shared death experiences. Please consider contributing.  What is a Shared Death Experience(SDE)?  Raymond Moody writes:In these experiences, bystanders who are close to a dying person experience many of the […]

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Seeking Wisdom

Seeking Wisdom – A Spiritual Manifesto Larry Culliford (SMN) University of Buckingham Press 2018, 124 pp., £7.99, p/b. Larry is a writer, physician and psychiatrist who was also one of the founding members of the Spirituality and Psychiatry special interest in the Royal College of Psychiatrists. In our time of […]

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Further evidence that our Universe may be a ‘cosmic hologram’

Just over a year ago, a joint research study by a coalition of teams from four universities in Canada, Italy and the UK revealed the first observational and cosmological scale evidence to support the premise of our Universe being a cosmic hologram. They did so by analysing irregularities in an […]

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Paradigm Explorer 2017 – 2 Preview

WHY DID BOHM COLLABORATE WITH KRISHNAMURTI? Some Reminiscences and Reflections David Edmund Moody This article is adapted from a talk the author gave in London on June 24 at the David Bohm/Ilya Prigogine centennial celebration conference.  It is based upon his recent book, An Uncommon Collaboration:  David Bohm and J. […]

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Touching for Pain Reduction

Why do lovers hold hands? Because it feels good, brings comfort? It may also be sexually arousing. A recent study published in the Proceeding of the National Academy of science demonstrates that the wave patterns of the lovers’ brains also synchronize, and can result in significant pain alleviation. The study […]

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Can the future affect the past?

Preposterous (def. Collins dictionary) adjective contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous. “a preposterous suggestion”           Synonym absurd, ridiculous, foolish, stupid, ludicrous, farcical, laughable, comical, risible, etc. The Latin origin of the word implies putting “the cart before the horse”.  That the future […]

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Sounds of Silence

  While the tendency in tourism recently has been to offer more activities and stimulation, for some time the Finish tourist bureau has been promoting silence as Finland’s most special natural resource. In Finland, you’re never far from silence. In a city it’s easy to get away into a natural […]

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Social Life among trees?

By Paul Kieniewicz I live in an ancient forest, and often wonder about the relationships between the trees. For the past 80 years nobody interfered with the forest’s growth. No large trees were removed, there was no pest control or forest management. One result was that the forest developed a […]

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Reach for the Stars

By Henryk Skolimowski (SMN) SMALL ASPIRATIONS                              A SMALL PERSON GREAT ASPIRATIONS                              A GREAT PERSON BE GREAT               REACH FOR THE STARS   If you do not reach for the stars You are not fully mature. Small concerns will never make you A great person, but only a fledgling. […]

Alef Trust MSc

  MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality & Transpersonal Psychology THE ALEF TRUST 2 Poulton Hall CourtyardWirralCH63 9LNUnited KingdomUK: +44-151-538-0426US/Canada: 1-757-828-7279 https://www.aleftrust.org Alef Trust is a non-profit, globally-conscious and community-oriented institution offering online transformational Graduate Programmes and Open Learning Courses for academic, professional and personal development. Alef Trust fosters holistic educational, community […]