http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=594&e=4&u=/nm/20050502/h l_nm/20050502elin017_dc Meditation calms the mind, lengthens life: study By Charnicia...
http://www.uscobm.com/ 1500 members 6 ministers Modifications include: Piercings, Implants, Scarification, branding, Tattoos Church doctrine The Church of Body...
Jim Holt: Of Two Minds New York Times Magazine, 5.5.8 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/magazine/08WWLN.html The human brain is mysterious -- and, in a way,...
"What Mikhail, I and our colleagues are suggesting is that a fundamental trait of higher primates, in particular apes and humans, is the ability to incorporate...
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4119 Once again, The Onion's humor strikes close to home for people who choose to believe weird things!...
... There are many philosophers that predicted this concept over 50 years ago, but most are the type of anti-science jargon-filled writers that scientists ...
Hey Robin The connection I was making, as a Buddhist transhumanist, was that these guys were noting that the self-concept was malleable enough to incorporate...
Ahh, excellent. I agree entirely, but I had never put this into a spiritual context. (That's why I'm here! Always something to learn!) Thanks for sharing...
On the theme of our recent discussion of the robot-arm experiment implications for trans-spirituality, I thought I'd share this exchange with Dale (and Robin...
... I like that a lot, but it doesn't argue for a discrete, continuous self, but for an ongoing process of self-imagination, that draws not only on your own...
"Kundalini and Qigong Psychosis" by Tan Kheng Khoo http://www.kktanhp.com/kundalini.htm [excerpts below] I have been teaching Buddhist meditation for about 23...
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bloom04/bloom04_index.html NATURAL-BORN DUALISTS [5.13.04] A Talk with Paul Bloom . . . Some scholars are confident that people...
... A strange claim indeed, since the belief in an immortal soul isn't in any way part of Judaism basics, and is never mentioned in the old testament...
Remi, As far as I know, you are correct about the historical beliefs of Judaism (in the Torah = Books of Moses and the rest of the Old Testament) and of Roman...
... wrote: -snip many good things- ... Why not simply state that we should care about our future selves and those they interact with because we *do* care about...
http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=7,1225,0,0,1,0 Stem Cell and Buddhism By Kim Tae-gyu, The Korea Times, May 24, 2005 Seoul, South Korea -- What is a...
http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=12,1249,0,0,1,0 Intergalactic Dharma by Shen Shi'an, The Buddhist Channel, May 27, 2005 Singapore -- Created by a...
Interesting although to be expected. On reflection the mind shifts beween the two possible views by itself in part because the attention is allowed to drift...
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/4 4477;jsessionid=aaa84L-cB-Bbfp Spin Central Dan Lloyd Brain Fiction: Self-Deception...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-1644788,00.html June 08, 2005 A case of mistaken identity crisis Matthew Syed People afflicted with multiple...
The most fascinating opportunities for research on human consciousness appear at those moments of transition between states. Two such moments, for example, are...
Thanks for your reply, 1Arcturus. I especially like that you mentioned the "noetic technology" described in John C. Wright's GOLDEN AGE trilogy, which is some...
... And "you" might gain a valuable perspective from which to operate more effectively, freer from the evolutionary and environmental clutter. ... And "you"...
... consciousness ... moments, for ... action ... awareness ... through ... Given the premise of the quoted article - can we trust our perceptions of such an...
Eugen said (near the end of the previous post): I want to see certain things done. This is the same of what most of us here want. This isn't happening nearly...
