Mind Power News
Issue No. 153 / Sunday, December 31, 2006
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This Week, Part 2:
The Weirdest and Wildest News of 2006!

As promised, here is the rest of the most mind bending news of 2006. This week we have more very cool articles, including news about spiritual drugs, brilliant dreams, subliminal advertising, reincarnation, immortality and strange animals with strange powers. Links to all of these and more follow below.

Once again I'd like to thank you all for your continued support and wish you all the most beautiful and amazing 2007!

Cheers!
Andreas Ohrt,
Editor, Mind Power News

P.S. If you missed part 1 of the best of 2007 you can read it here...



NEUROSCIENTISTS FIND GOD IN MUSHROOMS
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the US have for the first time demonstrated that mystical experiences can be produced safely in the laboratory. Read more here...

TOP 10 MYSTERIES OF THE MIND
The brain is a befuddling organ, as are the very questions of life and death, consciousness, sleep, and much more. Here's a heads-up on what's known and what's not understood about your noggin. Read more here...

NASA STUDIES SAVANT'S AMAZING BRAIN
He knows 9,000 books off by heart; he can direct people around US cities from maps he has memorised years ago; and he has total recall of the dates of all major world events. Read more here...

10 DISTURBING TRENDS IN SUBLIMINAL ADVERTISING
Subliminal advertising has gone mainstream - fake news, mind control scripts, propaganda and stealth voicemail are in wide use by corporations, government bodies, and industry groups. Read more here...

PLANTS BEHAVE LIKE HUMANS
Australian gardener Don Burke and Australian National University chemistry Professor Ben Selinger, in reviewing research on plants over the past 10 years, have come to the conclusion that many plants have human qualities. Read more here...

THE PAST-LIFE MEMORIES OF CHILDREN
His book tries to verify statements from children who claim to have had past-life experiences. The work continues the research of Dr. Ian Stevenson, who began studying children's apparent past-life recollections 45 years ago. Read more here...

MEDITATION BUILDS UP THE BRAIN
They found that meditating actually increases the thickness of the cortex in areas involved in attention and sensory processing, such as the prefrontal cortex and the right anterior insula. Read more here...

USE YOUR MIND TO AGE FASTER OR SLOWER
Each time the person read more "age" words, they literally altered the way they walked down the hall. Speed slowed down considerably... even posture changes were noted. They literally began to "act old". Read more here...

TALKING BUDGIE PREDICTED HIS OWN DEATH
So what are budgies saying? "This is going to sound crazy, but they talk about spiritual things: God, the afterlife, a better world for them," Reynolds says. Read more here...



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MUSIC MAKES YOUR BRAIN HAPPY
Music activates the same parts of the brain and causes the same neurochemical cocktail as a lot of other pleasurable activities like orgasms or eating chocolate -- or if you're a gambler winning a bet or using drugs if you're a drug user. Read more here...

LAUGHTER CUTS MEDICAL BILLS BY 30%
"A laughing therapy has no side-effect, meaning it is an epoch-making treatment for clinical medicine... One day it won’t be a joke to see patients receive a prescription for a comedy video at a pharmacy for medical treatment." Read more here...

YOUR BRAIN SEES MORE THAN YOU THINK
Your brain sees and does more than you know, according to a new study that points to the mysterious workings of the unconscious mind. Read more here...

HEARING VOICES IN YOUR HEAD IS NORMAL
Contrary to traditional belief, hearing voices is not necessarily a symptom of mental illness... many who hear voices do not seek help and say the voices have a positive impact on their lives, comforting or inspiring them. Read more here...

THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS
Happiness seems to have almost magical properties. We have not got proof, but the science suggests it leads to long life, health, resilience and good performance. Read more here...

DAVID COPPERFIELD CLAIMS TO HAVE FOUND THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
"I've discovered a true phenomenon... You can take dead leaves, they come in contact with the water, they become full of life again. ... Bugs or insects that are near death, come in contact with the water, they'll fly away. It's an amazing thing, very, very exciting." Read more here...

IS GOD IN YOUR BRAIN?
Is God in your brain? Or, to put it in different terms, is an intense religious experience merely a neurological phenomenon? Could one artificially induce a spiritual event by stimulating specific areas of the brain? Read more here...

ARE SCIENTISTS AFRAID OF GHOSTS?
A hundred years ago, one of the most ambitious of research projects was launched, a study that linked scholars and mediums on three continents. Its purpose was to discover whether living humans could talk to dead ones. Read more here...
    

DOGS CAN PREDICT CANCER
The scientists said dogs’ extraordinary scenting ability can distinguish people with both early and late stage lung and breast cancers from healthy people. Read more here...

12 FAMOUS DREAMS OF CREATIVITY AND INVENTION
Throughout history, artists, inventors, writers and scientists have solved problems in their dreams. Brilliant Dreams has compiled a list of twelve famous discoveries and creativity in literature, science, music and even sports attributed to dreams. Read more here...



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