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Category: Consciousness and Human Nature
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Models of Mind & Consciousness |
What are the most useful ways to understand the human mind? What insights can be gained from the various maps of the mind that have been created through the ages?
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Brain Function |
What do we know about how the various parts of the brain interact to shape consciousness and behavior?
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Genetic Programming & Evolutionary Psychology |
What is actually written in the human genome and how does it affect or control our lives?
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Brain Chemistry |
What is the role of brain chemistry in consciousness, behavior and emotion? What impact will the new science of molecular psychology have on the human potential?
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Brain Imaging |
What can we learn from the new technologies that allow us to peer inside a living mind?
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Bio Fields & Subtle Energies |
Can science confirm the existence or influence of the subtle fields described by non-western models?
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The Unconscious Mind |
What is the nature and role of unconscious processes in our lives?
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Personality Typing Systems |
Is there scientific basis for the validity or usefulness of astrology, the enneagram, birth order and other personality models?
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Spiritual Aspects of Human Nature |
What is the meaning of spirituality and the sacred?
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Perception and Reality |
What is real? What is unreal? And how do we know the difference? Is reality what we see with our eyes or what we see with our brain? How do our beliefs affect our reality? What is the role of belief and expectation in perception? How can our beliefs affect our body? How does perception affect the way things are measured? Does our mind really create our body What evidence is there to support this?
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