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TV project on CIA remote viewing unit underway

From Transcendent TV & Media — by Steve Hammons Steve Hammons is the author of two novels about a U.S. Government and military joint-service research team investigating unusual phenomena. “Following on the heels of the release of the movie Men Who Stare at Goats, a new TV project about a CIA ‘remote viewing’ unit is in the works, [...]

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Leading Authority on Noetic Sciences Hails Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol as Eye-Opening for Mainstream Audiences

Press Release,  October 1, 2009, PRWeb:
“With website traffic increasing 640 percent in the two weeks since Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol was released, the Institute of Noetic Sciences will launch a multi-part teleseminar series from Washington D.C. as a field guide for readers and people just learning about noetic sciences to help them more deeply
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Experiments in Consciousness

Join Nobel Laureate Francis Crick as he explains new ideas and experiments in the fascinating field of human consciousness. Series: “Frontiers of Knowledge”

[5/1999] [Science] [Show ID: 4262. UCSDTV.
See this video on YouTube HERE.

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The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach

Acclaimed neuroscientist Christof Koch is renowned for his contributions to the quest for understanding the underlying mechanisms of consciousness. During a celebrated, sixteen-year collaboration with Francis Crick, he developed a pioneering account of the bases of visual perception, attention, and consciousness.

[8/2006] [Science] [Show ID: 11508]. UCTV
Also see this video on YouTube HERE.

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Life After Death: The Evidence

Life After Death: The Evidence author, Dinesh D’Souza, “… believes that the majority of us are consumed with wondering what will happen to us after death,” according to an article posted  by Cheryl Phillips to Huliq News November 2nd, 2009.
Phillips sites a recent article in Newsweek about Life After Death: The Evidence, by columnist Jerry Adler,
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What Is Noetic Science?

The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), a research partner of The Monroe Institute, defines itself as, “a nonprofit membership organization located in Northern California that conducts and sponsors leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness—including perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition. The Institute maintains a commitment to scientific rigor while exploring phenomena that
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Abraham-Hicks Addresses the Big Questions

Bob Monroe’s journeys led him from believing to knowing certain truths for himself, chief among them, “I am more than my physical body.” As an explorer, Bob encouraged everyone to ask big questions, investigate sources—physical and nonphysical; to “go find out for yourself.”
One source worthy of investigation is the Abraham-Hicks material, which addresses the big
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The Global Consciousness Project: Meaningful Correlations in Random Data

“What is the Nature of Global Consciousness?” To find the answer, an international, multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists, engineers, artists and others created The Global Consciousness Project: Meaningful Correlations in Random Data.
The Global Consciousness Project, also called the EGG Project, “collects data continuously from a global network of physical random number generators located in 65 host
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Computer Game Booted Brain

Is there value in gaming? ScienceNews contributor Laura Sanders finds,“Tetris players are not block heads: Playing the computer game boosted brain’s gray matter.” (Web edition : Friday, September 4th, 2009).
Excerpts from the article:
“Brain scans revealed that certain regions of gray matter — an information-processing mix of brain cells and capillaries — grew thicker in 15
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The Intention Experiment. Can your thoughts heal the world?

The Intention Experiment invites you to “Join the world’s largest mind-over-matter experiments.”
Lynne McTaggart’s website explains, “The Intention Experiment is a series of scientifically controlled, web-based experiments testing the power of intention to change the physical world. Thousands of volunteers from 30 countries around the world have participated in Intention Experiments thus far.”
McTaggart is the
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What the Bleep Do We Know – Down the Rabbit Hole

This from Shapeshift.net:
“Video: What the Bleep Do We Know – Down the Rabbit Hole. The extended Director’s Cut of the international hit What the BLEEP Do We Know!? includes new scientific findings that supplement the original movie, and goes more deeply into the concepts explored.
“In What the BLEEP – Down the Rabbit Hole, 95% of
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iCub the robot helps scientists understand humans

According to Lucien Libert’s September article in Reuters a 3′2″ vaguely human looking robot named iCub is being developed to be, “capable of learning, just like a human child.”
Research director Peter Ford Dominey explains that iCub, ” ‘… will be a huge tool for analytical philosophy and philosophy of mind,’  — in layman’s terms, building
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You Are Who You Are by Default

Check out this recent ScienceNews article, “You Are Who You Are by Default: It may be off when you’re on, but the brain network behind daydreams and a sense of self is no slacker,” By Tina Hesman Saey (July 18th, 2009; Vol.176 #2 (p. 16)).
According to Saey our brains are hooked on networking. “Networks are
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