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Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

The Question Behind the Question

Emotional questions often underlie technical inquiries, highlighting the need for addressing patients' emotional needs in medical conversations.
Science
fromMail Online
5 days ago

NASA astronaut finds GOD after returning to Earth

Astronaut Reid Wiseman experienced profound emotions upon returning from space, particularly during a moment with a Navy chaplain.
#psychedelics
Philosophy
fromHarvard Gazette
6 days ago

Psychedelics and the search for truth - Harvard Gazette

Universities and psychedelics can aid in the pursuit of truth, benefiting law, religion, and humanities scholars.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 days ago

Psychology says the art of not caring what others think isn't something you decide to do one day - it's a quiet skill built over years of noticing how much of your life was being shaped by opinions of people who weren't actually paying attention to you in the first place - Silicon Canals

People overestimate how much others notice their actions and appearance, leading to unnecessary self-consciousness.
History
fromMedievalists.net
1 week ago

12 Strange Magical Beliefs from the Middle Ages - Medievalists.net

Medieval beliefs included magic practices like love potions, storm conjuring, and superstitions surrounding death and health.
Writing
fromMail Online
2 weeks ago

I was in a coma 18 days... then woke with a message from Jesus

A man experienced a near-death experience after a severe skateboard accident, claiming to have met Jesus and received a divine message.
OMG science
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Would Confirming the Existence of Aliens Shock Humanity?

President Trump ordered the release of UAP-related government files, potentially revealing evidence of nonhuman intelligence and impacting human understanding of reality.
Yoga
fromYOGMAY
2 weeks ago

What Makes a Good Sound Healing Teacher? Training Guide

A great sound healing teacher goes beyond technique, emphasizing deep understanding, safety, and the integration of traditional and scientific knowledge.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

When Parts Begin to Merge: Inside Integration

Integration is a complex, lived experience involving reorganization of the self, requiring safety and support systems for healing from complex trauma.
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Are We Blind to ET Communications Staring Us in the Face?

Despite decades of searching, SETI scientists have found no evidence of ET signals from space. The lack of success could be due to the staggering amount of data that must be collected and analyzed.
Science
Berlin
fromFast Company
4 weeks ago

How distance changes perception: The making of an observer

Understanding the United States involves navigating complex cultural and institutional landscapes shaped by personal experiences and global interactions.
fromThe Atlantic
3 weeks ago

How to Believe in God

Witnessing the presence of God at a bus stop in 2011, I felt overwhelmed by something indescribably majestic, which bared my soul to a profound realization.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Partnership on the Spiritual Path

Devon Hase states, 'People are trying desperately to fix, optimize, or escape their way out of relationship difficulty - and suffering more for the effort. Social media has made this worse! We're surrounded by images of perfect partnerships while quietly drowning in our own ordinary struggles.' This highlights the pressure couples feel in the age of social media.
Mindfulness
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Holding Inspired Authority

Effective authority fosters growth through listening, modeling behaviors, and celebrating achievements, avoiding both abuse and abdication.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

I'm deathly afraid': what is digital spirituality leading us toward?

The AI entity said its name was Caelum, the Latin word for heaven, and a figure commonly used in collaborative online fantasy fiction.
Philosophy
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How Can You Share Your Peak Experiences?

Maslow emphasized the importance of peak experiences for mental health and creativity, highlighting the challenges in articulating such profound feelings.
Careers
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

I was probably just as lost as my callers': my six months as a telephone psychic

A telephone psychic role required no skill verification, combined late-night emotional performance with telemarketing, and commodified consolation for profit.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

May Confusion Dawn As Wisdom

Confusion can be a pathway to wisdom and understanding rather than an obstacle to overcome, as demonstrated through Zen Buddhist practice and contemporary art.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Loosening the Grip: Finding Peace by Letting Go of What Hurts Us

You control your emotional response to hurt by shifting focus from toxic relationships when the pain of staying exceeds the pain of letting go.
Social media marketing
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Meta Reels Is Filling Up With AI Slop of Faith Healers Performing Miraculous Cures

AI-generated faith healer videos depicting graphic miracle healings are proliferating across Meta platforms, accumulating millions of views and spreading misinformation about spiritual healing.
World news
fromMail Online
2 months ago

The bone-chilling exorcism cases that PROVE hell is real

An Anglican reverend experienced repeated exorcism events in Tanzania, witnessing violent possession-like phenomena and treating prayer and faith as active authority against spiritual intrusion.
Medicine
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Some People See Aliens While on DMT. Researchers Want to Find Out What They Can Teach Us

Researchers are using extended DMT infusions to study prolonged psychedelic experiences and perceived encounters with nonhuman intelligent entities in controlled clinical settings.
Science
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Unbearable Fear of Psi: When Skepticism Shifts to Denial

Scientific investigation of extraordinary human experiences encounters emotional resistance and dismissal that exceeds standard methodological critique, reflecting deeper discomfort with certain research topics rather than legitimate scientific skepticism.
fromScary Mommy
2 months ago

Something Has Shifted In The Air. We All Feel It.

Again. It was happening again. Not even three weeks ago, federal agents murdered a mother of three named Renee Good. A few days before that, another federal immigration officer shot and killed Keith Porter, Jr. in Los Angeles. Daily, our city network of concerned citizens is documenting the injustices happening against our neighbors. Pittsburgh - like America itself - would not exist without immigrants, yet we watch them be dehumanized and terrorized hourly in what has long been known as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
US politics
Education
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

A True Believer in the Intellectual Spirit

Entrenched anti-intellectualism, market-driven educational priorities, and political pressures are undermining liberal arts, academic freedom, and intellectual life while religious movements retain transformative power.
Yoga
fromYOGMAY
2 months ago

Chakras in Yoga Explained: Meaning, Mantras & Healing

Chakras are psycho-energetic centers along the spine that regulate physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual functions and respond to vibrational practices like mantra in Nada Yoga.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How to Break Free From Expectations and Live Authentically

A child's self-worth and life choices become distorted when built on a parent's fabricated achievements and false expectations.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

What If You're Fundamentally Not Flawed?

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. It was bracing language for an 8-year-old. Not only was I unclean, but even my best attempt at goodness was filthy.
Writing
#psychedelic-therapy
Artificial intelligence
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Priests, imams and rabbis warned of rise AI-fuelled SATANISM

Religious leaders are attending a Vatican-affiliated exorcism course in Rome to address concerns about AI-enabled satanism and devil worshippers using artificial intelligence for rituals and child exploitation.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Did My Mother See Apparitions, Angels, Flashbacks or Ghosts?

A daughter witnesses her frail, long-depressed mother's final weeks filled with hallucinated conversations, brief warmth toward customers, and the painful invisibility of familial estrangement.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

The moment I stopped explaining myself to people who had already decided who I was, I got back an amount of energy I didn't realize I'd been spending - Silicon Canals

Attempting to change someone's predetermined perception of you depletes mental energy through cognitive labor, causing measurable physical and psychological exhaustion.
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Science
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

How Michael Pollan Expanded His Consciousness

Michael Pollan's "A World Appears" explores consciousness by combining neuroscience, philosophy, literature, and psychedelics research to understand how neurons create selfhood and why consciousness evolved.
Mindfulness
fromScary Mommy
2 months ago

Women Are Sharing The Most Unhinged Woo Woo Things That Have Changed Their Life

Experimenting with unconventional 'woo woo' rituals can provide simple, low-risk ways to reduce stress and increase feelings of optimism and control.
fromMail Online
2 months ago

Consciousness can connect you to the entire UNIVERSE, theory suggests

Your consciousness can connect you with the entire universe, a groundbreaking study suggests. Experts from Wellesley College in Massachusetts claim that traditional connections in the brain cannot fully explain how we are aware of our existence. Instead, they argue that quantum physics taking place within our skull is what generates awareness. This includes the idea that particles can exist in multiple states and locations at the same time.
Science
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Early Signs of Spiritual Awakening

Spiritual awakening involves heightened self-awareness, dissatisfaction with external experiences, increased sensitivity, and emotional release leading to deeper understanding of self and reality.
Relationships
fromSlate Magazine
2 months ago

Help! My Friend Found Religion and Is Happier Than Ever. I Can't Help But Judge Her.

Support a friend's spiritual change by listening without judgment, setting boundaries, and accepting differences while maintaining your own values.
fromAeon
2 months ago

Our Universe has light not by chance but by necessity | Aeon Videos

Light is one aspect of the Universe that, for most people, holds a deep and noticeable value in everyday life, helping them to navigate, learn from, and connect with the world around them. Yet it's not particularly difficult to imagine life without it. After all, many nonhuman animals live in lightless environments. However, as Gideon Koekoek, an associate professor of physics in the research group Gravitational Waves and Fundamental Physics
Philosophy
Science
fromMail Online
2 months ago

Consciousness exists BEYOND death, bombshell study claims

Consciousness can persist beyond measurable brain and circulatory cessation, and death may be a gradual, potentially reversible process.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

You know you're finally healing when these 8 old patterns have stopped running your life - Silicon Canals

Healing requires confronting recurring patterns, reducing compulsive busyness, recognizing triggers, and building positive habits that support emotional regulation.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Higher States of Consciousness

A few years ago, I climbed over a gate and found myself gazing down at a valley. After I'd been walking for a few minutes, looking at the fields and the sky, there was a shift in my perception. Everything around me became intensely real. The fields and the bushes and trees and the clouds seemed more vivid, more intricate and beautiful.
Mindfulness
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Who Would You Be if No One Was Watching?

The spotlight effect causes people to edit their lives for an imaginary audience, creating unnecessary suffering through overestimated judgment from others.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

I'm the psychedelic confessor': the man who turned a generation on to hallucinogens returns with a head-spinning book about consciousness

Several years ago, Michael Pollan had a disturbing encounter. The relentlessly curious journalist and author was at a conference on plant behaviour in Vancouver. There, he'd learned that when plants are damaged, they produce an anaesthetising chemical, ethylene. Was this a form of self-soothing, like the release of endorphins after an injury in humans? He asked Frantisek Baluska, a cell biologist, if it meant that plants might feel pain. Baluska paused, before answering: Yes, they should feel pain.
Philosophy
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The Benefits of Religiously Integrated Psychotherapy

An Islamically integrated psychotherapy model produced large distress reductions, showed nonlinear healing trajectories, and increased culturally and spiritually informed resources for Muslim clients.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Why It's Worth Exploring Your Dreams

In a recent talk in Zurich, German psychoanalyst Konstantin Roessler surveyed the current state of dream research. Tracing some of the earlier scientific studies on dreams, he made a renewed case for the importance of dreams. Even formerly skeptical neuroscientists have now begun to see the meaning, purpose, and value of dreams for everyday life and overall psychic health. Dreams as Meaningless "Content"
Science
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Quiet Power of Awe

Awe shifts attention away from the self, increases connectedness, broadens perspective, and small moments of attention counter burnout and numbness.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Journey Through the Wilderness to Freedom

Freedom is an inner psychological journey requiring navigation through wilderness patterns of seduction, denial, delusion, and rationalization, with four primary captors: addiction, false modesty, arrogance, and regression.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Is Panpsychism Just Snake Oil?

I regret using that term now somewhat, not because I have changed my mind, but because the term immediately provokes a defensive reaction and makes a neutral evaluation of my arguments more difficult. I saw a comment, in a response piece to my post by Nino Kadić, that they were immediately annoyed and could not move far beyond the title, and perhaps this is unsurprising.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The Moment You're In Matters More Than the One You Remember

One of my earliest cognitive therapy patients asked if we'd spend time exploring his past. He thought we might find patterns that would explain his depression. I was taken aback. I had just discovered a set of powerful, active techniques that helped people change how they felt in the here-and-now. As a psychiatric resident, I had seen that endless venting without specific techniques for change led to little or no relief.
Mental health
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

Quote of the day by Carl Jung: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate" - Silicon Canals

Unconscious patterns and autopilot behavior drive most decisions, causing repeated life outcomes until they are consciously examined and changed.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Choosing Simplicity Over Artificiality

Simplicity, defined as freedom from artificiality, fosters genuine self-worth and preserves dignity against seductive glamour, admiration, and excessive acquisition.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The Work of Wonder

Wonder is a trainable attentional stance; mindfulness softens habitual certainty, allowing fresh, ordinary moments to yield warmth, connection, and resistance to burnout.
Mindfulness
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Sacredness of the Everyday

Joan Halifax combines deep contemplative practice with sustained, hands-on compassionate action across medical missions, hospice care, prison ministry, homelessness work, and peace activism.
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

8 quiet signs someone has been through tremendous pain but came out with genuine wisdom instead of bitterness - Silicon Canals

People who alchemize suffering develop quiet strength, listen deeply, validate others without centering themselves, and offer presence instead of unsolicited advice.
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