Science

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• Biophysical Journal (opens in a new tab)

• Neurotheology: This Is Your Brain On Religion (opens in a new tab)

• Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe – with David Tong (opens in a new tab)

  According to our best theories of physics, the fundamental building blocks of matter are not particles, but continuous fluid-like substances known as ‘quantum fields’. David Tong explains what we know about these fields, and how they fit into our understanding of the Universe.

• Why Woo Woo Works: Science Behind Alternative Thinking. (opens in a new tab)

  David Hamilton. His background is chemistry and has he written several books on the mind-body connection and the science behind it. It is very well researched. One of Hamilton’s chapters discusses consciousness

• Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeons Journey into the Afterlife, by Eben Alexander. (opens in a new tab)

  This is particularly interesting because at the back of the book Eben Alexander explains why mainstream neuroscience is wrong in dismissing so-called unscientific theories of near death experiences.

• Nick Greaves (opens in a new tab)

• Lamarckian Inheritance (opens in a new tab)

• Rupert Sheldrake (opens in a new tab)

  Rupert Sheldrake in ‘A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance’ states that “The morphogenetic fields of all past systems become present to any subsequent similar system: the structures of past systems affect subsequent similar systems by a cumulative effect which acts across both time and space.” He qualifies his thesis by stating that this morphic resonance, for the sake of simplicity, takes place only from the past, and then uses his thesis to explain a large number of problems otherwise unanswered by current beliefs in the biological sciences, such as memory and the inheritance of form and inheritance. He proposed that various perceived phenomena, particularly biological ones, become more probable the more often they occur and that biological growth and behaviour thus becomes guided into patterns laid down by previous similar events. As a result, newly-acquired behaviours can be passed down the generations. It is a biological proposition akin to the Lamarckian inheritance theory.

• Anton Zeilinger in ‘The Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation’ (opens in a new tab)

  Anton Zeilinger in ‘The Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation’ and other works describes how he teleported a photon from one side of the Danube river 600 meters to the other side instantly, not limited by light speed via a process of quantum entanglement and over 143 kilometres between the Canary Islands. These experiments were inspired by John Bell’s inequality theorem which shows that instant connections over distance are possible mathematically.

• Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle (opens in a new tab)

  Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle states that all life, at every scale of organization – from single cells to the human brain, with its billions of neurons – is driven by the same universal imperative, which can be reduced to a mathematical function. It shows how the brain operates in a self-organisational way to counter the dispersive action of entropy (the measurement of degree of randomness – the increase in the disorganization within a system.). Such a principle is necessary if we are to achieve an explanation for the way in which rational thought and memory bring about order, an essential component of consciousness. According to The Second law of Thermodynamics the universe tends toward entropy, toward dissolution; but living things resist it. We wake up every morning nearly the same person that we were the day before, with clear separations between our cells and organs, and between us and the world without. To be alive, Friston says, is ‘to act in ways that reduce the gulf between your expectations and your sensory inputs’.

• Lynne McTaggart’s The Field (opens in a new tab)

  It incorporates a mechanism whereby the components of the brain act in such a way that reality, or the true state of a particular phenomenon under consideration in nature, is capable of being very precisely duplicated in holographic form by the brain. These holographic Images are created from interference patterns created by the firings and motions of connections between synapses, neurons, dendrites and any other elements of the brain’s cognitive abilities. How, and why these images are created to be near perfect replicas of reality, and not necessarily in just external representation, depends on a conjectured application of quantum entanglement. It is the groundwork for a new approach to understanding spiritual and mystical experiences

• Karl Pribram (opens in a new tab)

  Karl Pribram has conducted research into the functions of the brain’s limbic system, frontal lobes, temporal lobes, and their roles in decision making and emotion. His theory of memory and perception is the subject of numerous popular books, including Michael Talbot’s The Holographic Universe

• Scientific and Medical Network, The (opens in a new tab)

  The Scientific and Medical Network is a forum for transformative learning and change and part of a worldwide contemporary movement for spiritual emergence, bringing together scientists, doctors, psychologists, engineers, philosophers, complementary practitioners and other professionals in a spirit of open and critical enquiry to explore frontier issues at the interfaces between science, consciousness, wellbeing and spirituality.

• Galileo Commission (opens in a new tab)

  The Galileo Commission is to find ways to expand science so that it can accommodate and explore important human experiences and questions that science, in its present form, is unable to integrate.

• Science section of WIRED (opens in a new tab)

• International Neurophysical Society (opens in a new tab)

  Promoting the interdisciplinary study of brain-behavioural relationships throughout a lifespan and emphasises the applications of scientific knowledge.

• DNA Field and the Law of Resonance: Creating Reality through Conscious Thought  (opens in a new tab)

  Groundbreaking experiments on the influence of DNA on photons and on the interactions between emotions and DNA, Franckh explains how our thoughts, emotions, and beliefs, whether positive or negative, build a field of resonance around us. Through this quantum field our DNA is continuously communicating our unique vibration to those around us and receiving their unique oscillations in return. By focusing our intentions and removing negativity from our beliefs about ourselves, our past, and our future, we can use our DNA to communicate our thoughts and desires to the universe.

• Microsoft Academic (opens in a new tab)

• ResearchGate (opens in a new tab)

  Google Scholar has even adopted the phrase “Stand on the shoulders of giants” on its home page, paraphrasing Isaac Newton. But most research also involves data collection or analysis, and locating that supporting data

• Knowledge Media Institute (opens in a new tab)

  The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is an innovation lab at The Open University who are helping to create new technologies, programmes and services that impact our world. KMi’s leading academics and researchers are knowledge engineers and data architects who collaborate with partners across higher education, local government, business and industry. 

• Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (opens in a new tab)

  BASE is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers.

• Institute of education sciences (opens in a new tab)

• OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system (opens in a new tab)

  Inspired by the ancient Library of Alexandria, OpenAlex is an index of hundreds of millions of interconnected entities across the global research system.

• Dr. Candace Pert (opens in a new tab)

  Dr. Candace Pert considers the emergence of Mind-Body Medicine as an area of legitimate scientific research. Her site inter alia features discovery of the opiate receptor and medicine and the role of the emotions in health and consciousness.

  The first neuropeptide to be identified was substance P, discovered by von Euler and Gaddum  in 1931. However, the chemical composition of substance P was not described until 1971, when Susan Leeman and her collaborators showed that substance P is a C‐terminal amidated, 11 amino‐acid residue peptide

• Science and Human Transformation (opens in a new tab)

  William Tiller in Science and Human Transformation: Subtle Energies, Intentionality and Consciousness reveals a framework for scientific description of nature and human evolvement. It shows people how to use their own intentionality to bring about beneficial changes… in their own bodies

• Transduction of the Geomagnetic Field (opens in a new tab)

  Professor Shinsuke Shimoto, Connie Wang, and Isaac Hilburn show that some human brains can pick up on rotations of geomagnetic-strength fields as evidenced by drops in alpha wave power following stimulus. See abstract on ‘Transduction of the Geomagnetic Field as Evidenced from 2 Alpha-band Activity in the Human Brain‘

• Dr Leaf on Neurocycle (opens in a new tab)

  Dr Leaf on Neurocycle, as well mind-management tools. Studies by Dr Leaf show how the brain can change with direct mind-management.

• Modification of DNA through remote Intention, The (opens in a new tab)

  The modification of DNA through remote Intention concludes that it is possible to interact at distance on the nucleus of cells – all the billions of cells in our bodies have DNA – whose activity depends on DNA.

• Modulation of DNA Confirmation by Heart-Focused Intention (opens in a new tab)

  It shows that there is an increase in heart coherence when people are instructed to generate feelings of love and appreciation.

• Andrew Newberg – Where Religion and Science Collide (opens in a new tab)

  Andrew Newberg in Principles of Neurotheology evaluates what happens in people’s brains in a deep spiritual practice like meditation or prayer. Scans show how religious practices, like meditation, can help shape a brain. He uses the advances in science such as functional brain imaging, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and genetics.  Scholarship should also engage with theological issues. –

  Thoughts produce chemical reactions in the brain that affect mood and, by extension, decisions. Nerve cells are ‘wired’ together from repetition. In corroboration of the proverb ‘like attracts like’, two things vibrating at the same frequency will be pulled together. With every repetition of a thought and of how it triggers an emotion a neural pathway is reinforced. These small changes, frequently enough repeated, lead to changes in how brains work.  Neuroplasticity is the ‘muscle building’ part of the brain; the things we do often we become stronger at, and what we don’t use fades away. That is the physical basis of why the repetition of a thought or an action over and over again increases its power.

• Explore your Mind (opens in a new tab)

  Explore your Mind has a range of in-depth discursive articles and lectures or how understanding how science affects our thinking.

• Federico Faggin (opens in a new tab)

  A theory of physics which posits that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of being.

• Professor David Albert – Quantum Mechanics and Experience (book) (opens in a new tab)

• Fred Alan Wolf (opens in a new tab)

  Fred Alan Wolf on what quantum physics tells us about the nature of reality

• JSTOR (opens in a new tab)

  JSTOR contains digitized back issues of academic journals books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals in the humanities and social sciences. It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals.

• Journal of Consciousness, The (opens in a new tab)

  The Journal of Consciousness publishes research papers and articles related to the study of the consciousness. Its aim is to provide a forum for the unbiased publication of investigation and exchange of ideas associated with the analysis of the physical and non-physical attributes and abilities of the consciousness, and to deepen our understanding of its multidimensional nature.

• Researchgate (opens in a new tab)

  Researchgate is for those who have detailed questions that cover a range of different specialisms. With 135+ million publication pages, 20+ million researchers and 1+ million questions, everyone ‘can access science’ on this website/

• Biophysical Journal (opens in a new tab)

  Biophysical Journal brings research to the biophysics community while promising scientific excellence, integrity, and transparency. It spans a wide range of subjects and disciplines that provide quantitative insight into fundamental problems at the molecular, cellular, systems, and whole-organism levels.

• Phenoscience Laboratories (opens in a new tab)

  Phenoscience Laboratories: The Emerging Field of Research on the Scientific Process served as a formative meeting for metascience as a discipline.

• World Science Festival, The (opens in a new tab)

  The World Science Festival is to cultivate a general public awareness informed by science

• Semantic Scholar (opens in a new tab)

  A research tool for scientific literature publishing abstracts on cutting edge scientific developments