Why Getting Rid of Possessions Can Feel So Freeing
The materialist pursuit of happiness is like eating when you’re already full. You can eat as much as you like but it doesn’t really satisfy you.
View ArticleThe Strange Phenomenon of Addiction Release
A Personal Perspective: Released from cravings.
View ArticleWhy Do Near-Death Experiences and Psychedelics Have a Transformational Effect?
A new study has shown that both near-death experiences and psychedelics can have a life-changing effect. They both reveal a wider and more intense reality.
View ArticleThe Happiness of Not Thinking
Our culture overvalues thinking. Thought should be a tool that we can pick up when we need it and then set down again.
View ArticleThe Path of the Parent
Parenthood is often tiring and taxing, but it can be a path of personal development, helping us to develop traits like mindfulness and altruism.
View ArticleLooking at the World with New Eyes
A Personal Perspective: When our surroundings are familiar, we barely pay attention to them. But sometimes there is a shift, and we gain access to a more intense reality.
View ArticleA Transformation of Purpose: From Selfishness to Altruism
After traumatic life events, some people undergo a shift in purpose. The main purpose of their lives is no longer to accumulate success or possessions but to help others.
View ArticleWhy Some Scientists Resist the Evidence for Psi
Personal Perspective: Some scientists and academics adopt a "physicalist" worldview.
View ArticleWhy Strange Things Sometimes Occur as Someone Is Dying
Unusual experiences often occur around the time of death, including terminal lucidity, near-death experiences and transformation through facing death.
View ArticleWhy Unexplainable Events Are Common as Loved Ones Die
Many unusual experiences are reported by people who witness the deaths of others, or who are connected to a dying person, including spiritual experiences, and "crisis apparitions."
View ArticleWhy Some People Hand Their Lives Over to Cults
Why do some followers blindly worship cult leaders, gurus, and political leaders? The "abdication syndrome" may be so powerful that it becomes an altered state of consciousness.
View ArticleWhy People Rush to Engage in Heroic Altruism
Emergencies often feature acts of heroic altruism. Why do people impulsively risk their lives for others? Because we are interconnected through empathy.
View ArticleYou Can't Explain Human Experience in Purely Physical Terms
Does the soul exist? Re-enchanting the world with an old idea.
View ArticleWhen Empathy Switches Off
Serial killers and fascist dictators share a pattern of early childhood abuse and neglect, which switches off their empathy. But why do some emerge from trauma unscathed?
View ArticleInexplicable Communications
Although many mediums may be frauds, there are some unusual cases that have never been explained. Recent scientific studies show some support for the idea of mediumship.
View ArticleSelling Human Nature Short
Let’s teach psychology students about the positive aspects of human nature, rather than highlighting the negative. Early flawed theories and studies have "sold human nature short."
View ArticleWhy Do Psychopaths Crave Power?
Pyschopaths are drawn to power and wealth like moths to a flame because of their inner emptiness and incompleteness.
View ArticleThe Transcendent Creativity of The Beatles
The Beatles were—and are—so inspirational and popular because their intense "group flow" enabled them to transmit creativity at a powerful and transcendent level.
View ArticleIs It Possible to Foresee Death?
Some people appear to know in advance the date of their death. In near-death experiences, people may be told that it is "not your time yet." Is this an example of precognition?
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean to Be Spiritually Awakened?
Enlightenment or spiritual awakening can be investigated psychologically, and measured using this scale.
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