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Institute of Noetic Sciences. Buddhism and the Brain. Credit: Flickr user eschipul Over the last few decades many Buddhists and quite a few neuroscientists have examined Buddhism and neuroscience, with both groups reporting overlap.

Buddhism and the Brain

I’m sorry to say I have been privately dismissive. One hears this sort of thing all the time, from any religion, and I was sure in this case it would break down upon closer scrutiny. When a scientific discovery seems to support any religious teaching, you can expect members of that religion to become strict empiricists, telling themselves and the world that their belief is grounded in reality. They are always less happy to accept scientific data they feel contradicts their preconceived beliefs. But science isn’t supposed to care about preconceived notions. Despite my doubts, neurology and neuroscience do not appear to profoundly contradict Buddhist thought.

Buddhists say pretty much the same thing. Mr. Although I despaired, I comforted myself by looking at the overlying cortex. The next day Mr. The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, by Max Heindel - Topical Index. Topical Index The Topical Index is arranged with particular view to facilitate topical study, but at the same time alphabetical order has been adhered to as nearly as possible.

The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, by Max Heindel - Topical Index

We add an alphabetical list of the words indexed. Opposite each word in this list will be found a number, which refers to a page in the Index. On that page the word is grouped with others pertaining to the same topic. The student is particularly requested to note the arrangement of references. By diligent and intelligent use of this index the will be found a most complete and exhaustive reference library, and we recommend students to as much as the book. Turning Thoughts into Words. Brain-computer interfaces could someday provide a lifeline to “locked-in” patients, who are unable to talk or move but are aware and awake.

Turning Thoughts into Words

Many of these patients can communicate by blinking their eyes, but turning blinks into words is time-consuming and exhausting. Scientists in Utah have now demonstrated a way to determine which of 10 distinct words a person is thinking by recording the electrical activity from the surface of the brain. The new technique involves training algorithms to recognize specific brain signals picked up by an array of nonpenetrating electrodes placed over the language centers of the brain, says Spencer Kellis, one of the bioengineers who carried out the work at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City.

The approach used is known as electrocorticography (ECoG). The group was able to identify the words “yes,” “no,” “hot, “cold,” “thirsty,” “hungry,” “hello,” “goodbye,” “more,” and “less” with an accuracy of 48 percent. Downloading sixth dimensional sacred geometric codings from Sirius. « Synaptic Stimuli. External Stimuli : Fredrik Söderberg, Alchemy of Nine Dimensions by Barbara Hand Clow.

Downloading sixth dimensional sacred geometric codings from Sirius. « Synaptic Stimuli

Psychoactive Vaults. Raven's Tarot Site. Tarot of Marseilles. The Tarot of Marseilles (or Tarot of Marseille), also widely known by the French designation Tarot de Marseille, is one of the standard patterns for the design of tarot cards. It is a pattern from which many subsequent tarot decks derive. Origins[edit] Etymology[edit] The name Tarot de Marseille is not of particularly ancient vintage; it was coined at least as early as 1889 by the French occultist Papus (Gérard Encausse) in Chapter XI of his book le Tarot des bohémiens (Tarot of the Bohemians), and was popularized in the 1930s by the French cartomancer Paul Marteau, who used this collective name to refer to a variety of closely related designs that were being made in the city of Marseille in the south of France, a city that was a centre of playing card manufacture, and were (in earlier, contemporaneous, and later times) also made in other cities in France.

Article - THE SILENCE OF SOUNDS. I'M THE SHOPPER in our family, and I enjoy this role.

Article - THE SILENCE OF SOUNDS

But there is one thing that disturbs my weekly grocery trip: the grating sound of metal baskets and trolleys. In my early childhood I discovered that I have a modest talent for music, and all my life I have been sensitive to sound. In my undergraduate days, working on a degree in music composition, I took a course in 'ear training', which only made my problem with the soundscapes of daily life worse. The course that really 'ruined' my ears was the study of orchestration, when I learned to make fine distinctions in the sonorities of the various instruments of the orchestra.

It has been both a blessing and a curse to be so acutely aware of the sounds around me. Before university, I lived for thirteen years in a monastery, where an atmosphere of quiet was part of the rule. The word 'silence' apparently derives from a word that means 'to sit down'. The room in my house where I work tends to be cluttered. I play the piano for silence. SpaceCollective.