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In a follow-up to research showing that psilocybin, a substance contained in "sacred mushrooms," produces substantial spiritual effects, a Johns Hopkins team reports that those beneficial effects appear to last more than a year.

By studying how people think about three different types of abstract entities—a corporation, a robot and a God—we can better understand how people think about the mind.

A cool article in Newsweek yesterday. There have been many doubters when it comes to the power of meditation to transform people, but as the research continues to develop, we keep finding more and more evidence that this is the case.

The simplest way to explain his subject is to state that science has become a militant materialist philosophy that believes matter precedes mind. Some scientists have even called consciousness “a disease of matter,” as if it were an interloper in a senseless universe.

Learn about the basic software of your mind and you will develop moral humility.

When you grab a cold beverage out of the cooler this summer, what is really going on between your brain, your eyes and your hands?

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