"Do humans have pheromones?" asks a review published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B today. Professor Tristram Wyatt from the University of Oxford says that if we want to find out we need to start from scratch. Pheromones are [...]
For example, raw speed in processing information appears to peak around age 18 or 19, then immediately starts to decline. Meanwhile, short-term memory continues to improve until around age 25, when it levels off and then begins to drop around [...]
"Being angry can have real physical effects on the body, and while we know it isn't the sole cause, this study shows us it can potentially trigger a heart attack in those people who already have heart disease," via Extreme [...]
Gurus play an integral role in daily life for many Indians, offering a pathway to enlightenment, and being the focus of such devotion can bring enormous riches - the spiritual enlightenment business worth about $35 billion a year in India. [...]
LOST IN TRANSLATION: Yoga culture, mass culture: A movement’s spiritual and ethical core has been subsumed by modern obsessions with sex, greed and physical criteria via Yoga spirituality subsumed by sex, greed and exercise mentality | Vancouver Sun.
One of the largest and most detailed studies to date on the experience of auditory hallucinations, commonly referred to as voice hearing, found that the majority of voice-hearers hear multiple voices with distinct character-like qualities, with many also experiencing physical [...]
He believes Bach’s mathematically exquisite baroque music is transcendent, sublime and, for lack of a better word, spiritual. via The spirituality of Bach – Sunday before Christmas in Vancouver | Vancouver Sun.
Although listening to music is common in all societies, the biological determinants of listening to music are largely unknown. According to a latest study, listening to classical music enhanced the activity of genes involved in dopamine secretion and transport, synaptic [...]
In Australia, anxiety is even more common than depression. In fact, about one in four of us suffer from it.The general belief is that stress or circumstances cause it. But, this might not necessarily be the case.Richard Friedman, a professor [...]
Why the love affair with music? It’s energizing and healing. And, to put it mystically, as Ludwig Van Beethoven did: “Music is the mediation between the spiritual and sensual life.” Music may be the most accessible and direct means by [...]