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When Einstein Met Tagore: A Remarkable Meeting of Minds on the Edge of Science and Spirituality. On July 14, 1930, Albert Einstein welcomed into his home on the outskirts of Berlin the Indian philosopher, musician, and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Patti Smith describes feeling 'like a 7yo' as stage fright takes hold at Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize ceremony. Updated Media player: "Space" to play, "M" to mute, "left" and "right" to seek.

Patti Smith describes feeling 'like a 7yo' as stage fright takes hold at Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize ceremony

Error loading player: No playable sources found Video: Patti Smith on how she copes with death. (ABC News) Scientists say your “mind” isn’t confined to your brain, or even your body - Ideapod. Did you know that your mind and your brain aren’t the same thing?

Scientists say your “mind” isn’t confined to your brain, or even your body - Ideapod

According to scientists, the mind may be linked to the brain, but it can exist beyond it, and even beyond our bodies. If that feels like a big pill to swallow, don’t worry, there’s a perfectly good explanation surrounding why scientists think this way. So, what is a “mind?” Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer.

No matter how hard they try, brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain – or copies of words, pictures, grammatical rules or any other kinds of environmental stimuli.

Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer

The human brain isn’t really empty, of course. But it does not contain most of the things people think it does – not even simple things such as ‘memories’. Our shoddy thinking about the brain has deep historical roots, but the invention of computers in the 1940s got us especially confused. What It Means To ‘Sense’ A Situation Vs Just Thinking About It – Collective Evolution. We're creating a positive news network.

What It Means To ‘Sense’ A Situation Vs Just Thinking About It – Collective Evolution

We need your help. This article focuses on the difference between sensing rather than thinking about or understanding messages in our lives. What difference does it make if we meet a person and sense what the person says instead of understanding it? Will we perceive the message differently? My answer is a clear YES. We are Going to Die, and That Makes Us the Lucky Ones. This is Why. New Research Proves Humans Have A Magnetic Sixth Sense. Everything in this universe is fundamentally made of energy.

New Research Proves Humans Have A Magnetic Sixth Sense

The atoms that make up physicality, at the core, are vibrating geometries that are energetic structures. So is it possible to detect electromagnetic fields around the Earth? This is an inherent ability animals like birds have, which help them navigate while flying. They align themselves with the Earth’s magnetic field which allows them to understand the difference between north, south, east and west. If this ability is present in animals, why couldn’t it be in humans? Physicists Prove Classical Music Inhabits Separate Realm, Inaccessible To Humans. GENEVA—Physicists affiliated with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) released a report Wednesday revealing that classical music exists in a field of reality entirely removed from the four-dimensional spacetime inhabited by human beings.

Physicists Prove Classical Music Inhabits Separate Realm, Inaccessible To Humans

Scientists were performing a routine search for fifth-dimensional activity using the Large Hadron Collider, the immense particle accelerator famous for proving the existence of the Higgs Boson, when they came across the entire corpus of Western classical music from 9th-century plainchant to Nico Muhly. How Do Human Beings Perceive Reality and What Does it Matter? We are an infant race of seven billion separated by different belief systems of how the planet operates.

How Do Human Beings Perceive Reality and What Does it Matter?

Imagine a race united in their knowing rather than divided by their belief systems. At the same time we all perceive our physical reality to be the same. By simply perceiving ‘how the world is’, we are simultaneously creating it. Recent findings within quantum physics and mainstream science are just starting to understanding that consciousness and how we perceive reality are directly responsible for creating our reality.

The typical perception is go to school, get a job, and participate in daily activities such as sports, movies, drinking and more. Sensation and Perception, Fourth Edition. Imagining the Tenth Dimension part 1 of 2. How Women Perceive Men with Beards. Another World (2014) (trailer) ANOTHER WORLD is a feature documentary about the journey of mankind to discover who we truly are, challenging the modern view of the world and reconsidering the world view and value systems of ancient societies such as the indigenous Americans.

Another World (2014) (trailer)

It is a quest through science and consciousness, individual and planetary, exploring our relationships with ourselves, the world around us and the universe as a whole. Science and Nonduality. In this article standup philosopher Tim Freke articulates the nature of ‘paralogical’ thinking, which is the foundation of the philosophy and practices he shares to guide people to a ‘deep awake’ state.

Science and Nonduality

The need for paralogical thinking arises from an important insight. Study showing that humans have some psychic powers caps Daryl Bem's career. It took eight years and nine experiments with more 1,000 participants, but the results offer evidence that humans have some ability to anticipate the future.

Study showing that humans have some psychic powers caps Daryl Bem's career

TO UNDERSTAND IS TO PERCEIVE PATTERNS. Who is the Man with the Name that Rhymes? TO UNDERSTAND IS TO PERCEIVE PATTERNS - The Art of Wonderment.