Tag: psychology
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The reasons some people dont stick with a meditation practice (and why others do).
This paper looked at factors affecting meditation persistence in a population of 953 people in the United States (via online surveys). The authors framed “persistence” within two categories: the number of lifetime practice sessions and current practice frequency. The authors of the paper found that people who were first exposed to a meditation practice through…
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Your brain is a radio.
Choose your stations carefully. The vast majority of people (including very smart neurobiologists and physicists) go about life thinking that consciousness is located (somewhere) in the brain. Your brain generates…you. But there is an increasing number* of people who think otherwise. That consciousness is non-local to the brain (this is sometimes referred to as ‘Mind…
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MK Ultra.
I first heard about MK Ultra when listening to a Joe Rogan podcast a couple of years back, and immediately threw it in my cognitive wastepaper basket as being yet another fringe conspiracy theory. Into the loony bin with you. But it turns out this improbable and implausible story is totally true. And it all…
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Things are not as they seem.
Take a look around you. Everything you see, hear and touch is only an illusion constructed in your head. Don’t believe me?
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