Color-coded maps of the brain show the semantic similarities during listening (top) and reading (bottom). (Image by Fatma Deniz) Too busy or lazy to read Melville’s Moby Dick or Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina? That’s OK. Whether you read the classics, or listen to them instead, the same cognitive and emotional parts… Continue reading
By Rupert Sheldrake The “scientific worldview” is immensely influential because the sciences have been so successful. Their achievements touch all our lives through technologies and through modern medicine. Our intellectual world has been transformed through an immense expansion of our knowledge, down into the most microscopic particles of matter and… Continue reading
(Editor’s Note: Dawson Church, PhD, is an award-winning author whose best-selling book The Genie in Your Genes (www.YourGeniusGene.com) has been hailed by reviewers as a breakthrough in our understanding of the link between emotions and genetics. His follow-up title Mind to Matter, (www.MindToMatter.club) reviews the science of peak mental states, and is… Continue reading
Shawn Achor is one of America’s leading experts on happiness, and his book The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life has been a major New York Times bestseller. Achor, also a professor at Harvard University, states early in his book about positive psychology, “What… Continue reading
Graphic and article courtesy of UC Irvine Perception is not objective reality. Case in point: The above image is stationary and flat…just try telling your brain that. In his new book, The Case Against Reality, University of California, Irvine cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman applies this concept to the whole of… Continue reading
(Editor’s Note: David Anderson is the author of an important new book, Overcoming the Threat to Our Future, about how mankind is threatening to destroy the earth and the species with its current behavior, and how we can overcome that threat. This summary of his key message was provided by… Continue reading
“Wholeness and the Implicate Order” is a profound, important book (Rutledge, 1980-83) by the late physicist and philosopher David Bohm, friend of Einstein, Oppenheimer and other great thinkers of the past century. Bohm’s vision of the wholeness of the universe, and the hidden (implicate) order that holds it together, is… Continue reading
The Wise Insights Forum team has studied reports of Near Death Experiences extensively. Many of these reports are available on YouTube. Some of the best were produced by French videographer Anthony Chene, who traveled across the U.S. to capture on video the Near Death Experiences of many actual people who… Continue reading
The Wise Insights Forum was created to share with the world wisdom and insights which are not widely known but are important to understand and to improve our thoughts and lives. Some key content areas include wisdom literature, brain and mind, decision-making, science and theories of the universe, spirit and… Continue reading
