Thanks to over 27 year’s research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory and the company Psyleron, we can now own a lamp that reads our minds.

According to a recent study by UCLA psychologists, looking at a photo, holding the hand or even just thinking of a loved one will reduce pain. The study which appeared in the November 2009 issue of the Journal Psychological Science, involved 25 women who received a moderately painful heat stimulus on their forearms while they looked at either a photo of their loved one, a stranger or a chair

Silver bullets aren’t only the Lone Ranger’s calling card, “a symbol of justice, law and order,” and an effective way to kill a vampire, but according to a recent press release by The University of New Hampshire: a powerful antimicrobial.

It’s strange to see a statue of Gandhi set in small but lush landscape in Union Square Park in NYC, its even stranger to think that Gandhi got his start as a teacher and spiritual leader through his connection with the Theosophists.

University researchers, examined the letter correspondence of 16 famous writers, performers, politicians and scientists, including Einstein, Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Ernest Hemingway, and found that the 16 individuals sent letters randomly following a circadian cycle.

According to a report in today's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center found that training in mindfulness meditation and communication alleviated psychological distress and burnout experienced by physicians.

This year, CBS' 60 minutes reported that scientists are coming close to “reading minds” with fMRI scans. It’s only a matter of time, science will catch up and realize, the ability to "read minds" is an innate human skill that ancient metaphysicians have documented for thousands of years and practiced without expensive equipment.

J. David Smith, Ph.D., a comparative psychologist at the University at Buffalo who has conducted extensive studies in animal cognition, says there is growing evidence that animals share functional parallels with human conscious metacognition -- that is, they may share human's ability to reflect upon, monitor or regulate their states of mind.

We start to notice the New Age Movement started to rely less and less on the turn of the century’s “faith in the Divine” as it moved more towards the Human Potential Movement’s “self-realization and narcissism” to a “quantum leap” right into science’s lap.

Millions of people have panic attacks at some time in their lives. The numbers are closer to 40 million people a year in the USA alone. What is a panic attack and what are the symptoms? You may have been in the supermarket, your friend’s wedding, in an airplane or at an interview. Out of the blue, you’re suddenly having palpitations, sweating and have difficulty breathing, You feel you might faint, your mouth is dry and you can’t swallow, you feel something terrible is happening and you might die. You run out the door for your life.